Whats your guys biggest influence?
Mine are
1 Tom Morrello from Rage against the machine
2 Jimmy Page or Led Zeppelin fame
and
3 Dimebag Darrell from Pantera (RIP)
Brian May for his experimental stuff, with Alex Lifeson close behind for the huge size of his sound.
Best,
A :-)
"Be good at what you can do" - Fingerbanger"
I have always felt that it is better to do what is beautiful than what is 'right'" - Eliot Fisk
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john mayall, so many good musicians have come through the bluesbreakers..what about turning point as one of his many great albums! what will he produce next :?:
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In no particular order:
James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers (their earlier stuff, mostly)
Slash (yeah, yeah, stop whinging)
Kurt Cobain (ditto)
The Beatles and Green Day
There are probably better guys that I could name now that I have played for a while. But the three I listed below I listed because its the people that made me go.. WOW I wanna have something to do with music. Granted that only included singing up until the last year.
Axl Rose - Put that raw sound in my head
Jon Bon Jovi - Tried to mimic his bluesy rock sound
Bret Michaels - Picked up on accenting words for flavor from him
And for guitar
BB King
(Hum, maybe I need to increase my influenced list on the guitar playing side)
Geoo
“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” - David Russell (Scottish classical Guitarist. b.1942)
joni mitchell
john frusciante
Steve Hackett.
I may grow old, but I'll never grow up.
Ralph McTell, John Denver and the primary school teacher I had when I was about 8 (don't remember his name but I have fond memories of the class sing-a-longs).
And I don't care how square that makes me look!
Ok.....
Slash (Yep, add me to the padded room.....)
Gary Moore (I wanna sound like Gary.....)
Joe Satriani
Joe Bonamassa
John Frusciante
ani difranco, chris carrabba, damien rice, dylan
electrically, i'd say hendrix, the edge, frusciante
Jimmy Page
Ace Frehley
Alex Lifeson
George Harrison
"The only way I know that guarantees no mistakes is not to play and that's simply not an option". David Hodge
thats hard. so many influences.
Buck Owens, Jimmi Hendrix, Ry Cooder, Merle Travis
Ravi Shankar, Jerry Bird, Miles Davis, John Coltrane.
for starters.
David Hodge and Merle Haggard
Thinkin' bout the times we had
Some were good and some were bad
guitar fightin' the tv
i was thinkin bout you and me
john frusciante
Doesn't get enough props round here IMHO. The new RHCP album is first class.
A :-)
"Be good at what you can do" - Fingerbanger"
I have always felt that it is better to do what is beautiful than what is 'right'" - Eliot Fisk
Wedding music and guitar lessons in Essex. Listen at: http://www.rollmopmusic.co.uk