Steve Lynch (born January 18, 1955) is an American hard rock and heavy metal guitarist, as well as an instructor for the Guitar Institute of Technology at the Musician’s Institute in Los Angeles. He decided to commit himself to music and mastering the guitar when Jimi Hendrix died in 1970.In addition to Hendrix, Lynch’s early musical influences came from late-1960s and early-1970s British musicians, such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and The Beatles.