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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Steve-Mr Pig 2U on December 17, 2005, 08:27:27 PM
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Over the years you have been playing, who you would you say has had the biggest impact and changed the way you look at your instrument and the way you play it?
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Joe Satriani - shows that melody is far more important than playing at 100mph, but that good technique can be applied to dramatic effect when apporpriate.
James Taylor - has written some of the most amazing songs ever with just an acoustic guitar. He's a genius and very under-rated IMO.
Adam Dutkiewitz from Killswitch Engage - his rhythm playing and composing in general (in my opinion of course) is just awesome. He's not a fan of flashy guitar solos either (On Eddie Van Halen - "just play the f**king song!"). There's a lot in what he says (and plays).
Eric Johnson - has taught me that if I get really good on guitar, it's probably best if I DON'T sing as well :lol:.
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John Lennon.
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Mine has to be.. Marcus Miller and Ryan Martine on Bass and Dimebag and Devin Towsend on guitar.
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G E O R G E
L Y N C H !!!
'INTO THE FIRE! I'M FALLING!!'
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Hendrix really influenced the way I see rhythm guitar and playing the guitar as a whole--that it doesn't have to be about rhythm verses lead, where you either strum a few chords or play single notes--you can incorporate both into your playing at once and make everything more intresting.
Robbin Ford switched me on to non-diatonic sounds in my lead playing. Before I had heard hiim I always played straight out of the major or minor scale in every song I played in. Now I know "every note is good, depending on its circumstances". You can make any note fit anywhere if you want to.
And then there're the Beatles! Where would modern songwriting be without them? These guys did crazy things with modulations and were so inventive with how they structured their songs, especially from about 1965 onwards.
Satriani gets an honourable mention for being a real landmark player for me when it comes to crazy lead guitar stuff.
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(a)Joe Satriani - shows that melody is far more important than playing at 100mph, but that good technique can be applied to dramatic effect when apporpriate.
(b) He's not a fan of flashy guitar solos either (On Eddie Van Halen - "just play the f**king song!"). There's a lot in what he says (and plays).
(c)Eric Johnson - has taught me that if I get really good on guitar, it's probably best if I DON'T sing as well :lol:.
(a) i'll wholeheartedly second that
(b) i love evh though :(
(c) :lol: EJ is an excellent player, though.
Live are actually a pretty big influence on me, songwriting-wise- shows you that a few simple chords can make excellent songs. AC/DC get an honourable mention for that too.
I'm a major fan of srv too, for bluesiness...
Metal: gotta be megadeth- heavy, but melodic. And friedman pwns! Pantera get an honourable mention.
gah, i have too many influences.
EDIT: i never liked the beatles, though- I prefer the stones. The stones even still sound edgy (even Chuck berry still sounds edgy, IMO), the beatles always sounded very "banal" and "safe" to me. Let the flaming commence! :twisted:
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Well, the first song that made me want to play guitar was Smooth by Santana, I bought the single and kept listening to the solo over and over :lol: So I guess I must be influenced by his playing..
Now 5 years (ish) on I like to think my playing is influenced by Pages, and also Slashes, as those are my two of my favourite guitarists. If other people think that is a different matter though :P
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dave murray, james hetfield
i'd go more in depth, but i cant find the words ATM
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Well I picked up a guitar when I was 10 because of Noel Gallagher :oops:
But who has changed the way I view the instrument the most? Variously, Pete Townshend, Nels Cline, Frank Zappa, John McLaughlin. Those were the players who at certain points in my life made me sit down with my guitar and think 'Now, how the hell can I do what he is doing?!?'
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Jimmy Page. He might have ripped off everyone else before him but he pulled it all together. When you're young you've never heard of Bert Jansch, Sonny Boy Williamson or Willie Dixon so you think he wrote the book. Page is a great place to start a musical journey.
Led Zeppelin have a bit of everything. There's few players that are a famous for their acoustic and electric playing.
Page has been a great influence on me. To quote Bad News, "I could play Stairway to Heaven when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't even write it until he was 21." And I could play Stairway to Heaven before I'd heard the original.
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Richard Thompson - especially early Fairport stuff always has got me going - not at all 'folkie', more 60s rock stuff, especially the first (Judy Dyble) album - just great melodic guitar.
Gary Moore - I picked up a guitar because of GM in the 80s - unfortunately I put it down again as my teenage ego and general lack of ability meant I got frustrated. I so regret stopping playing for 15 years as the satisfaction of making a new chord or learing a new lick is just great. GM also led me to Peter Green, who I love.
Bert Jansch and Davy Graham - the best acoustic players I have heard despite their advancing age (except Segovia that is, but that's a different instrument!). I have listened to Bert Jansch's Jack Orion for over 20 years now, and the guitar is so powerful, so clear and the single fingerstyle idea (known to all who've heard Led Zep songs like Going to California and Blackmountainside) that Bert develops throughout that album is so rythmic yet so lead in nature that it is just awseome.
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I dunno if I'm answering this question 'correctly' but my top 5 favourite guitarists are: (in no particular)
Slash
Brian May
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Gary Moore
Randy Rhoads
Although, the reason i started playing guitar again was because of Joe Perry, Ace Frehley and Slash (hence my LP addiction ;))
Hendrix is also 1 of my faves, and sometimes he's in my top 5 and sometimes he isn't :D
Although he's not in my 'top 5' I really like Rich Robinson from The Black Crowes too.
When I was younger, Dimebag Darrell was 1 of my favourite guitarists but I kinda got away from Metal as I got older and stopped listening to alot of his work :roll:
I'm sure there's alot more, but these are all I can think of at the minute.
Craig
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My influences are more "who made you pick an instrument up" rather than "I wanna play like...", although I should really start to look at various people's style's & especially their songwriting technique etc...
Bod's who are pretty good in my book...
Tony Iommi & Geezer Butler
Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson
Scott "Wino" Weinrich
Dave Wyndorf & Ed Mundell
Tom G & Martin Ain
Denis D'Amour
Gaz Jennings
Not exactly a "Top 5" I know, but hey... there's too many great players out there to narrow it down...
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Alexi Laiho was a huge influence for a while, he got me into learning how to sweep pick and using the harmonic minor scale (a big part in my sound now).
Recently Shawn Lane has been a big influence as well as John Petrucci, they got me into learning Modes and to be more musical and use different ideas than just using the same old scales.
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It's gotta be Hetfield. Guns n' Roses got me into rock music but Metallica made me want to pick up a guitar. Later on I got influenced by Malcolm Young and Brian Setzer. My sound and playing style has become a mix of those three.
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For me its the 3 big ones
Me, myself and I!
Nah just kidding, I think probably Jason Becker and Marty Friedman, I'm hugely into arpeggios and harmonised guitars.
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the second time around the music that inspired me to pick up the guitar again were Lynden David Hall and Curtis Mayfield. then Tom Morello in terms of rock guitar. it was probably Metallica the first time around, although I nearly switch to bass because of Cliff Burton.
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I used to listen to blues all the time, especially BB King. I think he showed me how to play all around the rhythm of a song, if you know what I mean, especially on the slower stuff where that approach works better. It's playing with feeling just through the rhythm of the notes I suppose.
Next to come along were Kyuss. Josh Homme introduced me to the mixolydian mode, my most favourite sounding bunch of notes on the guitar. As a whole my playing's more funky and surfy post Kyuss.
The most recent artist to have a noticeable impact on my playing style is Charlie Parker. Since listening to him I've been attempting to make all 12 available notes count when improvising over a fixed key, much like Searcher mentioned with Robben Ford above.
On that subject if someone, anyone, knows how to make a flat 2nd :shock: work in that way, please tell me how 'cos its driving me nuts! :lol:
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jimi hendrix is my biggest influence because he just tried so many things and made me realise that you shouldn't ever limit your playing.if you are always open minded you can then search for what you like and be confident that you are playing what you really want.he made me see that you can link lead and rhythm in a massively effective way.
srv is another. he was such a talented guy that when i heard him play i couldn't not be influeced by his stuff.
john squire(stone roses) is a big influence also, he is buy no means the best player in the world but his style is something that i've adapted within my playing without really noticing, i often find myself playing very squiresque type solos that you hear in the "second coming" album. i sometimes end up trying to not play like him
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Second Coming was so cool, yet so underrated!
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I'd say Tom Morello first got me realising how much groove their can be in a heavy riff.
Then Hendrix, Mustaine and Morello got me into bluesey soloing, something I can't get out of :(
Steve Vai and Marty Friedman got me into all the shred stuff.
And Mastodon got me into the whole technical metal thing.
I'd say my style is Morello meets Mustaine via Mastodon :D
Andy!
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My favourite guitarist have to be (no particular order):
Guthrie Govan
John Petrucci
Fredrik Thordendal
Jerry Cantrell
Pin
Muhammed Suicmez
Marty Friedman
Justin and Kaki King
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And you can play like them all too!
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hummm there are many,but here are some in paticular,alltime favorites,and the past years influences:
Jake e Lee(Jake Williams,Chords you theoretically cannot do!)
Stevie Ray(Made me sit DOWN!,All with a pure tone!)
Iommi(The godfather,Satan blesses him)
David gilmore(purely Dynamic)
Randy Rhoads(Everytime i hear tribute,i rewind,and hear something new)
Alan Murphy(Go WEst,SFX,ANd the FEnder Hot Squad,Level 42,For those that don't know,this guy Was simply Phenominal,And was from LOndon,ENgland!He is decest Now,Form AIDS.
Of the afore mentioned,Alan Murphy,hands down!Hes like a blend between Jeff Beck,Larry Carlton,David Gilmore,and monsterous chops of Holdsworth!For you rookie,Buy Level 42,it will change your life,and the way you Play,it did me!
Recent Infuience:
Deven Townsend(head crusher!)
Rickey Medlocke(Blackfoot)
Warren Hayes(tone to die for)
Tim Mills(The best Ozzy Cover Band in the world,Period.JUst listen To Believer!Or Diary.IF Ozzy needed a new guitar Player,,,YEah,,,,BElieve It,MAd MAn Mills would strip Paint of the Walls!
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+1 on Level 42!
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And you can play like them all too!
cheers dude. much appreciated, but i really cant play anything like them!
however you have made me blush :oops:
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Mate, you shred like a mutha...
...teach me!
Andy!
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+1 on Level 42!
Hits a sweet spot,somewhere?Sometimes i cant imagine what he was thinking,,well i guess he probably was'nt thinking.I really didnt expect anyone to know Alan Murphy?HJM,,,,Dayuummm,you surprise me!
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Alexi Laiho - master of guitar pyrotechnics
James Hetfield - 'nother word for "downpicking"
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+1 on Level 42!
Hits a sweet spot,somewhere?Sometimes i cant imagine what he was thinking,,well i guess he probably was'nt thinking.I really didnt expect anyone to know Alan Murphy?HJM,,,,Dayuummm,you surprise me!
another +1 for Level 42
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Kiss
Queen
Geoge Lynch
Michael Schenker/UFO/MSG
Mark Kendall (Great WHite)
Scorpions
Def Leppard
Randy Rhoads
Marc Bolan
Whitesnake (old and new)
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my influences early on were:
lowell george
bill nelson
alvin lee
steve howe
a guy called mick davenport from a liverpool band called nutz (no-one ever really heard of them)
(oh, and for vibrato, paul kossoff of course) and later on, francis dunnery (remember It Bites??).
used to quite like dave hill from slade's overall tone too :)
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3 Unholy Guys.
It(Tony Särkka) guitarrist and founder of the Band Ophthalamia.
Lars Löfven, Guitarrist and founder of Defleshed.
Katatonia/Coroner/Sceptic/Tristitia.
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3 players who make me wanna pick up a guitar eveytime i hear them.
Jimmy Page
John Squire
Martin Trimble.
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Oh man, it has got to be;
Dimebag Darrell R.I.P.
Joe Satriani (a.k.a. God)
Steve Vai (Suave: defined)
Yngwie Malmsteen (Hairy Genius)
and Michael Angelo Batie.
Just watching G3 with Satche, Vai and Malmsteen makes me want to pick up a guitar and start tapping! :lol:
Also indyrock, _tom_, my friend Patrick and all the guys on the forum have played a part too...
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well, i wasn't going to reply to this thread at first, but i guess i have something different to say... so ;)
tony iommi was the reason i picked up the guitar in the first place, but lately i've not really been playing too much in his style.
pete townshend is for me everything a rhythm guitarist can aspire to be. the only band from the 60s i like at all. the 'live at leeds' album is simply amazing, all the licks and riffs he throws in there, and it seems that he came up with many of them on the spot.
brian tatler (diamond head) certainally gives me many ideas for riffs and chord progressions.. not to mention song arrangement. i guess he has been my biggest influence in that regard.
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Rob Smith (The Cure)
Alex Lifeson
James Hetfield
Julian Bream
John Williams
Alex Skolnick
Marty Friedman
Vai
Nile Rodgers
Robben Ford
John Frusciante
Yngwie
Jonny Marr
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Van Halen
That dude from saxon
Randy Rhoads
dick dale
dave navarro
tom morello
herman li
steve stevens
hendrix
guys from def leppard possibly
slash
steve stevens
yeah - loads of different influences. i'd like to be able to play it all!
UPDATE: FORGOT JERRY GARCIA.
UPDATE II: AND BRIAN MAY - POSSIBLY THE GREASTEST GUITAR PLAYER EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
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John Frusciante, Hendrix and Iommi
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everyone loves iommi. i love his name. HATE his style. can someone please explain what it is about him that makes him so great? he sounds like sludge
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Yngers
Marty Freidman
Page
John Squier
Slash
Julian Casablanca -The Strokes
Jeff Hanneman - Slayer
Andy Powell - Wishbone Ash
Martin Grech - Martin Grech
Mark Knofler
Hernan Li - Dragonforce
Nuno Bettencourt - Extreme
Malcolm Young
EVH
That'll do for now.
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When I was a kid, I spent years playing piano and trumpet. Bizarrely, what made me want to pick up a guitar was Mike Nesmith in the Monkees! I dunno, he just looked cool somehow. Later on, guys like Page and Slash .... Striking a pose with an LP was the way to rock paradise :)
But one of my biggest influences as a player is Jerry Garcia: too often over-worshipped in the US, too often under appreciated elsewhere. Improvisational playing in ensemble ("conversational" playing, maybe) just made such instant sense to me when I first heard the Dead. Back when I lived in Boston, I used to jam in a kind of "musical collective" (more than "band") that was totally improvisational (no songs, no rehearsals!) and trying to take that modal-based Coltraneish improv thing in a more heavy rock direction. I'm still dreaming of bring that "jam" thing into a heavier vibe ....
In that vein, I've got to confess the influence of Hawkwind's Dave Brock on my playing. Slashing away at power chords with droning one note wah solos also made too much sense to me. :oops: And I suppose I've got to put in another "thank you" to Iommi, master of taking simple things and turning them into monster riffs that just make you stand up and wave your fist in the air. There will always be part of me striving for that.
And since I also play bass: Lemmy! I started really listening to what basses do because of Lemmy. IMO, the bass solo in "Time We Left This World Today" on Hawkwind's Doremi Fasol Latido album is one of humanity's greatest achievements. :) Thereafter I gave a lot of heed to Geezer Butler and Allen Woody as well. Guys who tackle the bass like it was a guitar. 8)
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Jake E Lee - the stage presence, the blues licks.
George Lynch - Fast, tasty, melodic
Marty Friedman - Unusual exoticness
Zakk Wylde - Raw Rock Power
Yngwie Malmsteen - The fast and the classical.
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everyone loves iommi. i love his name. HATE his style. can someone please explain what it is about him that makes him so great? he sounds like sludge
:? He was a pioneer of the sounds we have today. Have you ever listened to any Sabbath?
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John Squire
Jack White
Malcolm Young
Jimmy Page
Ron Asheton
Ray Davies
James Williamson
John Butler
Matt Grumball
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Going from my early air guitar frenzy listening days, then by default it has to be these guys
Angus Young
K K Downing
Scott Gorham
John Sykes
Randy Roads
Paul Kossof
Steve Clark
Dave Murray
James Hetfield
Slash
To name the top 10
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Here's my list
Eddie Van Halen - I think almost everyone tried to play like him when I started back in the 80's
Randy Rhoads - My fav Ozzy guitarist ever and made me interested in music theory and discipline
Ty Tabor - He is the down tuning god as far as I'm concerned I love those massive riffs and really cool solos of his
Tom Morello - He's inovative, writes killer riffs and does it all with basic equipment
Vernon Reid - He has killer chops and he actually made really good use of all those big old racks they used in the 80's and 90's
Larry Lalonde - love his freaky minimalist playing in Primus he does an amazing job of not competing with Les Claypool
David Gilmour - His solo in Mother floors me everytime
Brian May - Great player Killer Queen and Brighton Rock still inspire me
Joe Satriani - The only guitar god from that blitz of guitar instrumentalist in the 80's that kept my interest
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Vernon Reid - He has killer chops and he actually made really good use of all those big old racks they used in the 80's and 90's
An unsung hero, or least unfairly forgotten! I keep hoping he'll come back into the limelight and blow evryone away :)
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Here's my list
David Gilmour - His solo in Mother floors me everytime
Somebody else who likes that one....I prefer it over the Comfortably Numb epic, although solo 1 in Numb is a close second....
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Here's my list
David Gilmour - His solo in Mother floors me everytime
Somebody else who likes that one....I prefer it over the Comfortably Numb epic, although solo 1 in Numb is a close second....
nah...what about 'Time'?!
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Hmmm....that was nearly there for me - the Wall stuff sounds more vocal and fluid imho
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i think kurt cobain has infulenced my style more than anything else. nirvana made me realise that its all about the song, if you cant sit down and play it with just an acoustic and a voice then it is'nt a good song in my book :)
lately thom york has got me into using simple and slightly stranger chords in new and interesting ways. oh and i have to admire jonney greenwood also, he manages to take the nice pretty songs thom writes and makes them damn evil. the muted stabs in creep always make me grin :D
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Vernon Reid - He has killer chops and he actually made really good use of all those big old racks they used in the 80's and 90's
An unsung hero, or least unfairly forgotten! I keep hoping he'll come back into the limelight and blow evryone away :)
I absolutely adore Reid's playing on the Living Colour stuff. I always go back and forth but Reid might be favorite guitar player ever.
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Hmmm....that was nearly there for me - the Wall stuff sounds more vocal and fluid imho
I know I mentioned Mother specifically, but I agree that The Wall is Gilmour's finest hour.
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Steve Jones
JJ Burnell (The Stranglers bass player but sounds great)
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Page
Dave Gilmour
All the Steely Dan guitarists like Larry Carleton, Skunk Baxter and Walter Becker
Pete Townshend
Rory Gallagher
Scott Ian
James Hetfield
Ty Tabor
John Sykes
Zakk Wylde
Eric Clapton
Eddie Van Halen
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Well my reason for picking it up was my hero, Jimmy Page, who I take alot of my acoustic technique from, however, besides making me want to start, he hasnt influenced my electric playing much (although I do add hybrid picking to my repertoire because of him, and I can play every Zep riff :D )
After that I got really into Tony Iommi and Randy Rhoads. I stole all of my fills and most of my solo techniques from learning Iommi.
My band-mates often comment on my playing style as "Letting Jimmy Page loose in Sabbath".
Dave Mustaine Influences me so much. He completely changed how I made riffs, changed the style of my fills, and I adapted a more "metal" style of playing (Strange, alternate picking, string skipping riffs). Mind you, my band isnt very metal, but many of the techniques and wierd chords are put in there. (a 3-7 stretch is wonderful, especially because my rhythm guitarist cant humanly do it, I like having big hands...)
The rest of my soloing technique (aka, whatever I didnt steal from Iommi) was taken off of listening to Cream, which besides soloing techniques also taught me how to listen to a song, figure out its key, play it without tabs.
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everyone loves iommi. i love his name. HATE his style. can someone please explain what it is about him that makes him so great? he sounds like sludge
:? He was a pioneer of the sounds we have today. Have you ever listened to any Sabbath?
yeah i have it all and its boring
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some of the early Sabbath stuff has aged better than others. I'm not really a fan of Ozzy's voice when he was in Sabbath, but sounded better when he went solo. Tony's riffs are awesome, but the early stuff can sound really dated compared with the Dio era songs - perhaps its the production because Randy and Zakk doing those songs sound much better (I haven't heard Sabbath when they reformed with Ozzy).
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The only thing I don't like about Iommi is his sound. He should get rid of that old rangemaster, IMHO. I just think he sounds too harsh and trebly.
(please don't kill me now)
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It's quite varied for me..
I like Hendrix/Page/Gilmour for the obvious reasons.
I like Frank Zappa becaues he was just so damn musical, and always surrounded himself with excellent musicians.
I like Dave Knudson (formerly of Botch, now in Minus the Bear) because he has an almost abstract playing style.
I like Tom Jenkinson (AKA Squarepusher), he makes some of the most sublime and/or insane electronic music, although he doesn't often use analog instruments, he sure can play them.
I could list more, but I can't think properly.
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well i havent reeli been influenced by anyone as such as im so young but i think the guitarists i admire the most are probably iommi, frusciante and maybe chad ginsburg a little too (the CKY guitarist). the way ginsburg structures his riffs is excellent- one half may be heavy and constant and then the other half might seem lighter and more spread out- its hard to explain but a good example is in the song "escape from hellview" which has a really long riff that has a perfect balance of variation and repetition. its a great song too, definately one to check out if youve never heard it.
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The three guitarists who made me wanna sit up and play were slash, zakk wylde and eddie van halen.
as i listened to more music, i tried to write stuff from early steve vai, malmsteen, and nuno bettencourt...But now however, over the past few months, i'm just alexi laiho all over, love the way he plays, how he writes, and i idolise the stuff he can do!!!!
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I love those kind of threads :lol:
Here's my list :
Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth - This guy made me what I am as a musician today, he opened my, at the time, very narrow minded musical taste. He is just the perfect player for me.
Chuck Schuldiner from Death - He got me into the Technical Death thing back in the mid 90's and he still is a udge influence on my playing.
Steve Vai - He is the incarnation of GuitarGod, even if most of his recent stuffs don't blow me away, Passion and Warfare is still one of my top fav (For the love of god!!!!)
Fredrik Thordendal from Meshuggah - For his truely unique playing and use of ultra low tuned guitars, polymetric structure, non-pitched riffing, eery soloing, strange time signature, you name it :)
Luc Lemay from Gorguts - Another truely unique player, also one of the hardest to understand, mostly disonnant brutal progressive music full of crazy ideas.
Steve Digiorgio - Actualy he's a bass player, but his playing just blow me away, full of fretless 5 strings craziness, relativly rare in the metal genre.
Tony Iommi - yeaa yeaa i know, everyone loves him. I personnaly love his old style, the 4 1st Sabbath albums. This guy gave us metal! don't deny this!
Davide Tiso from Ephel Duath - The last album of his band had a udge impact on me. I was searching for something new in the extreme kind of music and found this. It's a jazz band pushing the thing into extreme territories with extreme vocals, purely progressive structure, low tuned clean/crunch effects totured guitars. Incredible!!!
Robert Fripp - Without this guy, certainly no modern prog rock/metal would have ever existed!
Erik Truffaz - Again not a guitar player but his music is just so good. His distorted/wah trumpet is so expressive and his jazz/trip hop/drum'n'bass style is so refined I can't help myself but grin everytime I hear it :)
Those are just some I could remember but there's many more :lol: like that guy from Mars Volta :)
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Steve Vai: The nut job himself gave me an insight into being totally over the top fluent yet melodic the other guitarist in my band constantly mocks me and goes "ooh your soooo vai" but i dont think it's a bad thing.
Joe Satriani: My first guitar hero, don't really listen to him much anymore but he's really got a fantastic touch!
Eddie Van Halen: nuff said!
John Petrucci: He works great in one of the most technically capable bands I've heard, solid rhythm work and a fantastic picking technique!
Zakk Wylde: Pure aggression and rock and roll to the bone, can't beat this guy for balls to the walls playing.
I've also got some other musical influences more out of the rock arena.
Chick Corea, Frank Zappa, Jaco Pastorious, Shawn Lane, Alan Holdsworth, Ai Di Meola, Steve Morse.. and Many More.
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Bands/Musicians that made me pick up the guitar:
Iron Maiden
Magnum
Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Overkill
Guitarists the inspire:
Steve Vai
Zakk Wylde
Joe Satriani
Marty Friedman
Jeff Martin (The Tea Party)
Gordon Giltrap
Jeff Healey
Muttley
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Hendrix - if you have to ask why you'll never know !!
Rory Gallagher - Just pure energy, honest music he always gave 110 % he was capable of many dynamics on guitar and managed to get loads of great tones out of his trusty strat with little use of pedals.......... wrote some great riffs/songs .................... oh yeah and an awsome soloist !
Nick Harper - for acoustic playing and songwriting, very original style, amazing technique and writes very original off beat songs.
Clifford Brown - Not a guitarist but a jazz trumpeter ! He sadly died at the age of 25 1956 but was fast becoming as highly regarded as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis etc. I use to play the trumpet before I took up the guitar but his music still influences me as a guitar player.
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Hendrix - if you have to ask why you'll never know !!
Rory Gallagher - Just pure energy, honest music he always gave 110 % he was capable of many dynamics on guitar and managed to get loads of great tones out of his trusty strat with little use of pedals.......... wrote some great riffs/songs .................... oh yeah and an awsome soloist !
Nick Harper - for acoustic playing and songwriting, very original style, amazing technique and writes very original off beat songs.
Clifford Brown - Not a guitarist but a jazz trumpeter ! He sadly died at the age of 25 1956 but was fast becoming as highly regarded as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis etc. I use to play the trumpet before I took up the guitar but his music still influences me as a guitar player.
Oh, you know Harper too? I've seen him live twice. He's bloody good, but I prefer the covers he does to his original material. I've never been keen on his lyrics, or what he does in the studio. Live, though, he's pretty fantastic.
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yeah, his own songs are vey much love it or hate it .......... friends that I have tried to turn onto his music either like it or can't stand it, particularly his vocal style....... !
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What KEEPS me playing/learning?
THIS forum!
Seriously, all you guys inspire with the chat and posts and clips.
All here are either hobbyists, in a band of some sort or have a record.
I am learning guitar and it is not (as we know) easy. My influences are good catchy riffs (ala AC/DC) but when I tab them, well (and I am learning so NOT trying to sound ego at all) they are too easy. I love the grin factor being able to play Highway to Hell or Judas Priest "Living After Midnight" but my brain is wired as an engineer so I want so much more, all the skinny, how does it all work? LOL
SO, I can amuse myself and then get abit bored. Then I log onto here and get inspired by y'all!!!!!!!!!
Who do I aspire to be? After alot of reading/listening, ME. But I love the ethic of Randy RHodes. Even when recording "Blizzard of Oz" he took one of his breaks to go search out a guitar teacher to take a lesson! Now thats where I am coming from, NEVER stop learning.
I am trying to find songs between AC/DC simplicity (for the most part) and say Led Zep complexity, to further my practice/learning between lessons. The quest for knowledge continues.
You guys ROCK!!!!!!!!!!
Nick
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Dimebag, Eric Johnson and Metallica.
I love everything about Dimebags playing. Mean chops, awesome solos, huge riffage and then just some crazy wacked out stuff that doesn't sound like a human should have made it!! :twisted:
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And yet if you ever met Daryll (Dime) or Vinnie in person you would have never guessed he could do what he did!
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Just listening to Pantera now and I reckon Dime must have been one of the most "soulfull" shredders around. You listen to some of the tracks and he drops in some gut wrenching stuff that doesn't sound like he has sat there for days and days to fit in, I think there must have been some crazy recording sessions, cause he is just going crazy!
To use as a comparison, and this is in no way putting them down, You listen to most of the big shredders around at the time and there was a lot of over production and it just took the guts away.
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My Fiance grew up in Dallas and her best friend dated Vinne for awhile.
Both the brothers (Daryll esp.) just never grew up. I mean never got beyond the crazy teenager stage. Yet both were/are VERY respectful. Think the ultimate fan and ultimate jammer.
He never got big headed, oh he knew he was talented, just did'nt lose sight of "his" heroes.
Such a damn shame some folks (esp. here in US) are so crazy (esp. when firearms are so accessible!).
The Abbott house was a non-stop looney tunes place. Like a bad dorm/frat house.
They had time for eveybody and anybody and just never lost their enthusiasm for life and music.
Thats where his legacy will lie. The fact that every single person he met, he touched on some level or another in a positive and regularly humourus way.
Daryll "Dimebag" Abbott R.I.P.
Ya just know he's jamming with Dave Williams!
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Biggest musical influences:
-Oscar Peterson
-Jacques Loussier
-Franz Liszt
-Frederic Chopin
-John Petrucci
-Buckethead
-Jimmy Page
Made me pick up a guitar:
-Clapton
-Page
Got me interested in technique:
-Yngwie
-EVH
Oh, and TimmyPage06... a 3-7 stretch is NOTHING! I am 15 years old, and on a 25.5" I can comfortably do 3-9, but 3-10 is a stretch :)
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The human voice and the guitar,mainly as expressed in blues.That space inbetween notes, with the sound that sneaks up to take you away.
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Think the thing that made me pick a guitar up was Joe Satriani's Surfing with the Alien.
But after that it would have to be the great riffs by Morello that really got me into it.
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I can comfortably do 3-9, but 3-10 is a stretch :)
You managed Fri 17 Feb 2006 to Sat 10 Mar, 2007 without trouble...
More than anyone else, Jack white. Listen to the riff in screwdriver, two chords and some bends, but just outrageously good.
Dave Davies, just for the solo in all day and all night, I used to listen to it on repeat, and It still puts me into silly grin mode when I hear it.
The Young Brothers "Simple, Hard hitting blues riffs coupled with boogie beats and flailing solos, while the whole thing was screwed down tighter than a coffin lid" (c) Kerrang.
Jimi Hendrix. I remember hearing purple haze and listening to it on repeat for about 3 days. Just blew me away.
And when I started playing guitar, I bought led zep I-IV, physical graffiti and how the west was one. The first three tracks of how the westt was one are all masterclasses in riffage.
Nowadays
Keef, for being just so damn cool
Rory Gallagher
And Ive been getting more into punk recently, so Ron asheton (the Stooges), Johnny ramone, and Steve Jones (the pistols)
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Dave Murray made me first want to take up guitar...
Gary Holt/Rick Hunolt were the guitarists I most wanted to play like.
Trevor Peres - as much a songwriting & tonal influence as a playing one. Taught me that thick, sludgy riffs ground out at painfully slow pace can be as heavy as any thrash riffs.
Justin Broadrick - more sludge :twisted: I particularly like (& copy) his use of dissonance & feedback...
Alex Lifeson - although I've always loved Rush, I'd never really considered Alex an influence until I made a concerted effort to learn a bunch of their songs a few years ago. Wow, it totally opened up the guitar for me - made me play chords, timings & fingerings I'd never have come across on my own. My playing had got a bit one-dimensional & learning those songs really got me out of a rut & rekindled my enthusiasm :)
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Well aside from the usual suspects (Jimmy, Jimi, Eric and Jeff) there's always been three players very, very close to my heart.
East Bay Ray. King of the "Wrong Gear". Back at that time, punk was all Marshalls and Gibson Juniors, and along he came with a Tele', a fender Deluxe and an Echoplex and just killed. The best punk Guitar Player, pretty much wrote the book on that alternative style, and never, never gets his due.
Tom Morello. Invention on legs. No innocent inanimate object has escaped this man's attention in the big riff hunt. Inspired me to fit kill switches to several of my guitars, work with a right hand slide and other such "extended" techniques. Can also shred like a mother when the notion takes him.
Johnny Greenwood. Just a sonic genius. Probably doesn't / can't play any of the usual guitar stuff, but has there ever been a more fitting solo than his battering session in the middle of "Paranoid Android".
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my main influences...... hmmmm
Bands:
Opeth
Pantera
Slayer
Black Sabbath
Mastodon
Testament
Metallica
Belphegor
Amon Amarth
Meshuggah
Sikth
Heavy Lord
Morbid Angel
Necrophagist
Black Label Society
Lamb Of God
Megadeth
Dimmu Borgir
Killswitch Engage
Abigail Williams (you HAVE to check this out, it's Epic Black Metal.... emphasis on the EPIC!)
and ANY other heavy music you can think of.....
Guitarists in particular:
HETFIELD
DIMEBAG
PIN & DAN WELLER
AKERFELDT & LINDGREN
KK & HANNEMAN
BRENT HINDS
MARK MORTON
IOMMI
ERIC PETERSON
and we're done.
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as I was reading these today (at work,no doubt..), it was cool to see the different influences..we have a wide age range on this forum...I started listing my influences and suddenly realized that there are a couple of guys who have basically taught me the art of guitar and music, and they do not get near the credit they deserve-Andy Aledort and Wolf MArshall-in the U.S., they have been transcribing songs and writing numerous music columns for "Guitar for the Practicing Musician", "Guitar World",etc..I bought my first issue in '83...spent hours figuring out tab and, in a few days, I was making a joyful noise,amen!...it had "Dee", "Black MAgic Woman", and "Holy Diver" transcribed, I believe-being LEFT HANDED, it was hard to get any help ..people look at you like the freak you are...I currently own issues from every year since, so I must give the credit where cred is due..I have always been glad that they preach transcribing yourself, so you can develop an ear-prob. THE most important lesson I ever followed...
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Peter Green (early / Fleetwood Mac era )
B.B.King
Robin Trower
Dave Gilmour
Snowy White
Bill Nelson ( Be-Bop Deluxe)
Brian Robertson
There are many more I could cite from the Rock genre, but I tend to like to hear/play slower, more soulful stuff.
That is not to say I don't sometimes enjoy Rock, ( I love to hear some Zakk Wylde / EVH / Michael Schenker ) - but the blues is just more my style.
:D
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i was give use your illusion II as a present from my dads mate who sold pirate cassets at bootfairs. i was bout 8 years old! man i loved that tape! then i got apetite for destruction on cd for christamas and i been hooked ever since!! 8)
ive on my third cd of apetite where they kept getting scratched where i listened to it so much!!!
so id have to say guns n roses are the best band eva. period :twisted:
but my other influences are acdc, led zepplin, queen, hendrix etc. all the legends really. theyre legends for a reason!!
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the main player that made me want to pick up the guitar was Angus, no contest. he's shaped the way I play more than anyone, same with my tone too.
other main influences are...
Townsend
Kossoff
Clapton (Bluesbreakers & Cream)
Hendrix
Duane Allman (every time I play slide guitar I think of him)
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Wel after almost a year, I'd have to say my influences and who made me want to pick up the guitar have changed. So now we'll look at...
Jimmy Page
Jimi Hendrix
Paul Gilbert
YJM
James Hetfield
Zakk Wylde
- most of the usual answers really but they do (or did) what I like and aspire to play like, so its good enough for me! The REALLY technical guys don't actually do much for me.
Andy!