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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: darkbluemurder on March 12, 2012, 04:28:10 PM
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Title says it all.
The guitarists that influenced me most are (in no particular order)
- as early influences: Eric Clapton, Michael Schenker, Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter, Dickey Betts, Duane Allman (for slide playing)
Of course there are many more I really like but these were the ones that made me want to play the guitar.
Cheer Stephan
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For me it was Yngwie Malmsteen. I like other guitarists now, who are a bigger influences to me this day. But with Yngwie, it was my transition from playing powerchords to actually soloing. learning his stuff as a beginner really gave me a workout, and gave the chops/technique to advance really fast. I probably advanced faster in that 1 year, as i have the last 5 years.
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Slash - for the image and persona
Angus and Malcolm Young - for the tone and groove
Billy Gibbons - for both of the above 8)
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Of course there are many more I really like but these were the ones that made me want to play the guitar.
On the same basis:
Ritchie Blackmore, Robin Trower, Michael Schenker, Leslie West, Rick Derringer, Roy Buchanan, Jimi Hendrix, Ronnie Montrose, Alex Lifeson, Rick Medlocke (usually forget to mention him!), Randy California (and him!), Carlos Santana.
Loads more too, of course, but I think those were the "first wave" of guitar heroes for me. Most of them are still my favourites today.
Never learned to play like any of them, though....
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Kurt Cobain early early early on.
Devon Williams of Osker
AJ Novello of Leeway
Paris Mayhew of Cro Mags
Dr Know of Bad Brains
Mike Dijan of Crown of Thornz
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Different guitarists for different reasons
For their sense of melody:
MichaeL Schenker
George Lynch
Gary Moore
Brian May
Mark Kendall
John Norum
Wolf Hoffman
For making me rock:
Paul Stanley & Ace Frehley
Rudolph Schenker & Matthias Jabs
Vinnie Vincent (for the riffs and songwriting rather than soloing)
Steve Clark and Pete Willis (Def Leppard's High n Dry is a masterpiece)
Bernie Marsden and Mickey Moody
Mick Mars (because he made simple work so well)
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Paul Kossoff
But I also like Billy Gibbons, Michael Schenker
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most of those 80s guys :lol:
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Come to think of it, Jake E. Lee was a huge inspiration. That guy had loads of talent. May people regard Randy Rhoads as Ozzy's greatest guitar player, and he was a great player, but Jake E. Lee just had something special. His note choices and riffs were just spectacular
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Jeff Beck (pre Strat)
Clapton (pre D & Dominoes)
Peter Green (pre acid trip)
Ritchie Blackmore (pre pixie hat & tights)
Paul Kossoff (pre 19th March 1976)
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Ritchie Blackmore - I'd be about 12 or 13, my older brother had a Purple compilation album and the second I heard Smoke on the water I knew what I wanted to do with my life.
Eric Clapton - never listen to him now but I did love some of his stuff.
Richard Thompson - because he's utterly stunning.
Jeff Beck - haters gonna hate. I love his tone, phrasing, every note the man plays is magical.
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Johnny Winter, Rory G, Frank Zappa and ...... Marc Bolan - I loved some of his simple phrases. Guitar playing has changed enormously since I started playing in 1974 and I understand why EVH, YJM, Paul Gilbert etc are so popular and influential. But I still like to hear players who's roots are in blues more than those with classical influences.
I took classical piano lessons for many years and ended up hating it so when I hear YJM (for example) I hear all those scales that I spent years playing over and over again. I got a copy of J Winter's Captured Live a couple of weeks ago after not hearing it for many years and it is still mindblowingly good. Not least because it bears no resemblance to classical music.
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I originally started playing guitar when I was 8 but quit soon after and picked it up again when I was about 13 or 14.
The 1st players that got me playing again were Ace Frehley, Slash and Brian May and those 3 are still in my top 5 list to this day along with Randy Rhoads and Gary Moore.
I like alot of players for different reasons but those 5 are my favourites.
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There's more ...
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits may not have been very street cred but some of his solos are sublime.
Andy Summers - for inspiring me to switch off the bloody distortion and play properly
Mike Oldfield - bit of an odd choice but as a kid I loved Tubular Bells and his guitar playing is seriously underrated
oh, and that Gilmour bloke as well I suppose
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I've just thought of something this exact minute. I have to say, my actual biggest influence, and the greatest respect goes out to Jason Becker. His story is such a story that gives you inspiration to succeed. He's absolutely a genious and such a guy which all guitar players should respect!
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Ritchie Blackmore, Pat Travers, Billy Gibbons, Andy Summers, Jan Akkerman, SRV, Brian Setzer, lots of guys actually.
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Recently it's been a guy called Emil Werstler. Fantastic player who plays 'outside the box' and blends bits of jazz with the shreddy stuff.
I've also been listening to a lot of Slipknot recently which has influenced my song writing. But I seem to be influenced a lot by Marty Friedman and Jeff Loomis, not intentionally but I can definitely hear it even though I try to not sound like any one else.
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Tony Iommi, Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker, Brian Tatler, KK Downing, Pete Townshend
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John Sykes, George Lynch, Adrian Smith, Gary Moore, Matthias Jabs & Steve Harris.
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Gary Moore and Mark Knopfler, initially.
Knopfler for the melody and feel - particularly Brothers in Arms.
And Gary Moores Wild Frontier album really turned me on to "rock". Everything about that album still makes the fur rise.
After that - loads. Reeves Gabrels, Richard Thompson, Andy Summers, Satriani, Iommi...
Loads.
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I've got lots of favourites. But when I look at how I play now - what's actually in my playing - and considering who I was trying to learn from over the years, my main influences are probably as follows:
Lead-stuff (melodies, phrasing, tricks, picking/etc):
Ritchie Blackmore
Mark Knopfler
Hank Marvin
Eric Clapton
Riffing and general rockin and rollin:
Jimmy Page
Marc Bolan
Angus & Malcolm
Billy Gibbons
Tony Iommi
Keith Richards
Pete Townsend
All-round approach to everything (including all of the above and lead vocal/guitar duties):
Rory Gallagher
Stevie Ray Vaughan (less so, but there's no getting away from it!)
Jimi Hendrix
On the bass:
Paul McCartney
John Entwhistle
Martin Turner
Jack Bruce
(and I hate to admit this :lol:...) Sting (listening to him was how I figured out how to do bass/lead-vocal duties)
EDIT: A while back, I would have just answered "Rory Gallagher" and left it at that - but it's simply not true. That is who I concentrated on most over the years, but listening to my actual playing, he's only part of the influences that affected me.
I also would have added Brian May in the past - a huge favourite of mine, and I have knicked stuff from him - but unless I play Queen songs I can't really hear any Brian May in my playing (there is in my songwriting, occasionally). Added to that he has a completely different approach to attacking the guitar strings than I do.
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Early on it was Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Gary Moore, Jimi Hendrix, Bert Jansch, Davey Graham, Richard Thompson (in his Fairport Convention days), Angus Young, Bob Dylan . . . and also YJM as I love the Rising Force album for a year or so before going off it big time.
later I would add Peter Green, Eric Clapton, Albert King, Son House, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson
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It was Slash who made me pickup the guitar.
James Hetfield was a big influence in my early days of playing.
Malcolm Young was and still is a big influence on my rhythm guitar.
Other big influences on my playing and tone these days: Brian Setzer, Jim Heath and Poison Ivy.
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Angus, Clapton, Kossoff, Gibbons.
I love loads of other guitarists too, but they're the guys you'll hear in my playing.
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Knofler, angus and malcom, gary moor, kossoff, mick abrahams and martin barre (JTull), kerry livgren (Kansas prob spelt his name wrong) Neil schon, Joe Perry, Eddie van halen, steve rothery (marillion), andy summers, mike bloomfield, mr walsh, nils lofgren,peter buck , tom petty and mr cambell, slash, paul simon, even dylan and this is short list sure missed a few
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and mr Grohl of course
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Everyone.
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Morgan steinmeyer håkansson(marduk), mike scaccia(rigor mortis), Karl sanders(nile), scott hull(pig destroyer)
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Billy Strange
Bert Weedon (from my 'home town' of East Ham, London)
James Burton
Duane Eddy
Al Casey
:D
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Might be cause I am rather young, but my influences differ a bit from the general ones here.
Lot of the guys you named of course also had an influence on me too, but more in a way of shaping my general taste in music as in looking at what I wanne play and do on the guitar and how I approach it.
Slash (tone and feeling)
John Petrucci of Dream Theater (that versatility, technique and songwriting)
Jesper Strömblad and Bjorn Gelotte of In Flames (very big influence. So heavy, melodic and emotional)
Buckethead (did a lot of boring stuff, but can be Satriani with brains to me, very versatile and at times innovative too)
Justin Vernon of Bon Iver (simple, atmospheric and just working so well with the songs)
Joe Trohman and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy (amazing songwriting and just makes me wanne rock)
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (going beyond conventional sounds and scales)
Roine Stolt of The Flowerkings and Transatlantic (his general style is something I wanne learn)
Michael Poulson of Volbeat (the riffs he writes just rock in the right way)
These are the guys that make me wanne pickup a guitar, inspire me, influenced me and that I strife to play and sound like.
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Paul Kossoff, Bernard Butler, Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, James Hetfield, Billy Corgan, Pete Townshend. They have all inspired my playing in different ways. Most of my playing has been learned through playing these guys riffs over the years.
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At first it was Angus, without a doubt. He got me into playing in the first place.
Then it's kind of a mix of the Maiden boys as things started to get heavier, and now I'd say it's a mix of Nuno Bettencourt, Synyster Gates, Richie Sambora, and Steve Bartek of Oingo Boingo. I love players with a really unique quirk to their playing.
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Lots of metallica, back in the early days. Still trying to shake some hammetisms.
Now, mostly some pretty obscure (by this boards standards, mostly) metal (broadly speaking) guys.
Paul ryan (Origin),
Dallas Toler Wade and Karl Sanders (Nile),
Chris Feener (threat signal),
Adam Darski (aka nergal, behemoth),
Aaron Turner (Isis),
Mike Sullivan (Russian Circles)
The list goes on, you get the idea. Not really one for soloing, though I can and do sit and shred away I dont take it seriously or derive much satisfaction from it, its just for practice and out of habit. Writing and arranging riffs is what I really enjoy.
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No John Frusciante??????????????????
Man, he's so underrated.
My list:
John Frusciante, Rhandy Rhoads, Eric Clapton and Slash.
But mainly The Froosh and Rhandy Rhoads. The Froosh cos he's always been my favourite guitar player since the beginning and he is absolutely amazing and every time i plays it goes so deep inside of me and i laugh, scream, cry and smile all at the same time.
He inspired me to practise. The only thing that inspired me to play was jealousy of my brother and my dad playing well and that it was cool. Now i'm better than both of them. :D
Rhandy Rhoads cos in the the past few years I've really delved into 80s metal/Hard Rock territory and he just stands out from the rest so wildly and was so insanely talented and the melodies and riffs that he created were top notch. Such a good player. RIP.
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Every one I hear when I'm in the right mood.
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1. Robin Trower.
2. Maurycy "Mauser" Stefanowicz...his composing and style with UnSun.
Those two are tops for me and stand-out influences. There are many other guitarists of which I'm influenced, appreciate and enjoy too.
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I remember answering a similar thread a few years back and I would hope that my answers are consistent:
Eric, Jimi, B B King, T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins, Ron Wood (don't laugh!), George Harrison. Tons of others too but the missus is trying to get me to the DIY shop so will have to curtail this list.
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Hmm i gotta say Billie Joe Armstrong for getting me into rock music in the first place. If it wasn't for Green Day, i'd probably not be a gigging musician today, haha.
But other than that i gotta say Matt Bellamy by far!
Others gotta include: Jon Buckland (Coldplay), Synyster Gates and Jack White as the top people, with loads of other smaller influences as well
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For me it began with joe walsh / don felder through the Young brothers to EVH. I think that I then went back on myself and sought out Hendrix, Clapton, SRV, Page and West. There was always some Steely Dan in there. Even now I have a thing for Skunk Baxter and Larry Carlton. I should not forget to mention the wonderous Richard Thompson whose playing I can't live without
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For me it began with joe walsh / don felder through the Young brothers to EVH. I think that I then went back on myself and sought out Hendrix, Clapton, SRV, Page and West. There was always some Steely Dan in there. Even now I have a thing for Skunk Baxter and Larry Carlton. I should not forget to mention the wonderous Richard Thompson whose playing I can't live without
That's a good eclectic mix! :)
I don't listen to Steely Dan much - a bit too highbrow for me - but there's some wonderful playing on those records.
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For me it began with joe walsh / don felder
That is certainly unusual but a good choice. I believe it took me about 20 years to figure out the entry into the Hotel California solo.
Cheers Stephan
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I forgot to mention "The Dan" -Their various guitar players were an influence though sadly their fluency didn't rub off on me. Having said that, I did learn the "Kid Charlemagne" solos and nicked bits to shove in my own solos at moments that seemed appropriate.