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==Popular use== The Floyd Rose Tremolo rose to popularity in the early 1980s. Many popular artists quickly adopted the device, making it difficult to measure how much each individual artist contributed to that popularity. Most sources consider [[Eddie Van Halen]] a pioneer of Floyd Rose usage.<ref name="guitarist_interview_floydrose"/><ref name="alfreds">{{cite book |title=Alfred's Teach Yourself Guitar Repair & Maintenance: Everything You Need to Know to Start Working on Your Guitar |first=John |last=Carruthers |publisher=Alfred Publishing |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7390-3601-3 |page=57}}</ref> Other players frequently cited as influential Floyd Rose users are [[Steve Vai]],<ref name="guitarworld_stevevai"/><ref name="alfreds"/><ref name="gear-vault"/><ref name="everything">{{cite book |title=The Everything Rock & Blues Guitar Book: From Chords to Scales and Licks to Tricks, All You Need to Play Like the Greats |first=Marc |last=Schonbrun |edition=2nd |publisher=Everything Books |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-58062-883-9 |page=48}}</ref><ref name="dummies">{{cite book |title=Guitar For Dummies |first=Mark |last=Phillips |author2=Chappell, Jon |edition=2nd |publisher=For Dummies |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7645-9904-0 |page=306}}</ref> [[Joe Satriani]],<ref name="gear-vault">{{Cite web |title=History of Floyd Rose, the inventor of Floyd Rose Tremolo system |date=9 March 2009 |url=http://www.gear-vault.com/history-of-floyd-rose-inventor-of-floyd-rose-guitar-tremolo/}}</ref><ref name="dummies"/><ref name="guitarplayer_satriani">{{Cite web |url=http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/10-things-you/April-2010/112235 |title=10 Things You Gotta Do to Play Like Joe Satriani |author=Gress, Jesse |access-date=2010-09-22}}</ref> [[Kirk Hammett]],<ref name="gear-vault"/> [[Brad Gillis]],<ref name="alfreds"/> [[Tom Morello]],<ref name="stuff">{{cite book |title=Stuff! Good Guitar Players Should Know |first=Wolf |last=Marshall |publisher=Hal Leonard |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-4234-3008-7 |page=63}}</ref> [[Allan Holdsworth]],<ref name="everything"/> [[Dimebag Darrell]]<ref>[http://www.guitarworld.com/dimebag-darrell-reinventing-squeal Reinventing The Squeal]</ref> and [[Synyster Gates]]. [[Brad Whitford]] of [[Aerosmith]]<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/GuitarOneFeb2006Medium/page/n105/mode/2up?q=speedloader+floyd |title=Guitar One Magazine February 2006 |date=2006-02-01 |language=English}}</ref> and [[Alexander Julien]] of [[Vision Eternel]]<ref name="PostRockNationInterview" /> were noted users of the Floyd Rose SpeedLoader bridge.
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