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Chris Dreja

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Christopher Walenty Dreja (born 11 November 1945 in Surbiton, Surrey) is an English musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist and bassist for The Yardbirds. [1]

32 relations: Acoustic guitar, Bass guitar, Birdland (The Yardbirds album), Blues, Blues rock, Box of Frogs, Electric guitar, England, Eric Clapton, Folk music, Guitar, Jeff Beck, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf, Keyboard instrument, Kingston upon Thames, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin (album), List of bass guitarists, List of rhythm guitarists, List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Paul Samwell-Smith, Photography, Poles, Rhythm guitar, Rock music, Roger the Engineer, Surbiton, Surrey, The Yardbirds, Top Topham.

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar).

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Birdland (The Yardbirds album)

Birdland is a studio album by English blues rock band The Yardbirds, released in 2003.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock.

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Box of Frogs

Box of Frogs was a band formed in 1983 by former members of The Yardbirds, who released their first album in 1984.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist.

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Jim McCarty

James Stanley McCarty (born 25 July 1943) is an English musician, best known as the drummer for the Yardbirds and Renaissance.

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Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Keith Relf

William Keith Relf (22 March 194314 May 1976) was an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist and harmonica player for the Yardbirds.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames, also known as Kingston, is an area in the southwest of Greater London, England, southwest of Charing Cross.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Led Zeppelin (album)

Led Zeppelin is the eponymous debut studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin.

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List of bass guitarists

This is a list of electric bass guitar players that have their own separate article in Wikipedia.

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List of rhythm guitarists

The following is a list of significant rhythm guitarists, arranged in ascending alphabetical order of last name.

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List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, established in 1983 and located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential musicians, bands, producers, and others that have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the area of rock and roll.

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Paul Samwell-Smith

Paul Samwell-Smith (born Paul Smith, 8 May 1943, in Richmond, Surrey) is best known as a founding member and bassist of the 1960s English band The Yardbirds, a group that spawned such noteworthy musicians as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page.

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Photography

Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Poles

The Poles (Polacy,; singular masculine: Polak, singular feminine: Polka), commonly referred to as the Polish people, are a nation and West Slavic ethnic group native to Poland in Central Europe who share a common ancestry, culture, history and are native speakers of the Polish language.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Roger the Engineer

Roger the Engineer (originally released in the UK as Yardbirds and in the US, Germany and France as Over Under Sideways Down) is an album by English rock band the Yardbirds.

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Surbiton

Surbiton is a suburban neighbourhood of south-west London within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (RBK) It is situated next to the River Thames, south west of Charing Cross and formerly part of the historic county of Surrey.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an English rock band, formed in London in 1963.

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Top Topham

Anthony "Top" Topham (born 3 July 1947, Southall, Middlesex) is an English musician and artist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dreja

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