Various, John Wetton, K. K. Downing, Derek Sherinian, Roye Albrighton, Ron Howden, Jerry Goodman, Mark Lindsay, Wayne Kramer, Joe Elliott, Huw Lloyd-Langton, Rick Wakeman, Carmine Appice, Knox, Dave Davies, Rat Scabies, The Raveonettes, The Sweet, Todd Rundgren, Carmine Appice, Iggy Pop, Pat Travers, Peter Noone, Peter Banks, Ginger Baker, Gretchen Wilson, Randy Bachman, Terry Reid, Mike Pinera, Brad Gillis, John Wesley, Donnie Van Zant, Don Barnes, Ted Turner, Ian Paice, Joe Lynn Turner, Leslie West

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.