I was trying to think of guitarists that use lots of pinch harmonics in lead playing.
Billy Gibbons
Brian May
Zakk Wylde
Satriani
Dimebag
Van Halen
honorable mention
Bruce Springsteen, he isn’t well known as a lead player but he seems to favor pinch harmonics when he does show off some lead playing such as in “Thundercrack”, “Ghost of Tom Joad” with Tom Morello, and any of the songs live like “Prove It All Night” that he extends to jam length.
Who else am I missing?
how you gonna leave out John Sykes?
Whitesnake had the biggest album of 1987 with a blonde guitarist with a wide vibrato who did lots of pinch harmonics…what did Ozzy come out with the next year??
2 many to mention
most other 80s heroes too. Jake E Lee, early Greg Howe etc
and dont forget Randy Rhoads
Top one I think of is George Lynch.
Richie Sambora also used them liberally
Mattias “IA” Eklundh!
Don’t forget Nuno Bettencourt, pinch-harmonic master and coiner of the term “chubber” for harmonics on low strings with comically-wide vibrato.
(I only wonder if the true story replaces “Ozzy” with “Sharon,” above.)