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Wolf Hoffmann
Accept's guitarist since the band formed in Solingen, and the player who gave German heavy metal its precision. Hoffmann's riffing on 1982's Restless and Wild -- particularly the double-bass sprint of 'Fast as a Shark' -- is routinely cited as one of the starting points for speed and thrash metal. He is inseparable from the Flying V on stage and has never recorded with one: the studio guitar has always been a Stratocaster, run into a cranked Marshall through an original Dallas Rangemaster treble booster. A classically trained pianist's ear shows in his phrasing, and he has released two solo albums of heavy-metal arrangements of classical repertoire.
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