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Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot
American musician
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Greg Cohen
Greg Cohen
American musician
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Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman
American musician
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John Zorn
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
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Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori
Japanese drummer
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Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
band
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Masada
Masada
band
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Fred Maher
Fred Maher
American musician
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Death Ambient
Death Ambient
American experimental and ambient music trio
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William Winant
William Winant
American percussionist
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Jesse Harris
Jesse Harris
American musician
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Erik Friedlander
Erik Friedlander
American musician
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Trevor Dunn
Trevor Dunn
American bassist and composer
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Anton Fier
Anton Fier
American rock drummer and bandleader
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Jamie Saft
Jamie Saft
American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer
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Kenny Wollesen
Kenny Wollesen
American musician
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Mark Feldman
Mark Feldman
American violinist
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Richard Hell
Richard Hell
American actor and musician
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Julian Lage
Julian Lage
American musician
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Steven Bernstein
Steven Bernstein
American trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer and bandleader
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Cyro Baptista
Cyro Baptista
Brazilian musician
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Lou Reed
Lou Reed
American musician, recording artist, singer-songwriter (1942-2013)
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Painkiller
Painkiller
band
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John Medeski
John Medeski
American jazz keyboards player and composer
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Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
American musician
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Metal Machine Trio
Metal Machine Trio
American musical band
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
American rock band
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Bobby Previte
Bobby Previte
American drummer
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Uri Caine
Uri Caine
American pianist
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John Cale
John Cale
Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
Robert Quine
American guitarist

Robert Quine

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Robert Wolfe Quine (December 30, 1942 – May 31, 2004) was an American guitarist. A native of Akron, Ohio, Quine worked with a wide range of musicians, though he himself remained relatively unknown. Critic Mark Deming wrote of "Quine's eclectic style embraced influences from jazz, rock, and blues players of all stripes, and his thoughtful technique and uncompromising approach led to rewarding collaborations with a number of visionary musicians."

His collaborators included Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Lou Reed (notably on The Blue Mask), Brian Eno, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot, Marianne Faithfull (Strange Weather), Lloyd Cole, Matthew Sweet and Tom Waits.

Lester Bangs wrote that he was a "pivotal figure" and "the first guitarist to take the breakthroughs of early Lou Reed and James Williamson and work through them to a new, individual vocabulary, driven into odd places by obsessive attention to On the Corner-era Miles Davis." Quine was ranked 80th by Rolling Stone magazine's David Fricke in his list of "100 Greatest Guitarists".