Various, Whitesnake, Angry Anderson, Forcefield, Tony Carey, Snowy White's Blues Agency, Poison, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Rick Wakeman, High'n Dry, Gary Moore

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.