Which Guitarist Influenced You?

[mx_mx]

I know everyones gonna hate me, but tom delongue, but hes what turned me on to alot of different kinds of music, even though all his guitar stuff is easy and mostly power chords...

Yeah same for me. Blink got me into the guitar and music and general, even though they're not great players. Having said that, I can't even listen to the shit now.

 

[gvarko]

Memories

I can still remember like it was yesterday. I was watching a Journey concert live on MTV and seeing Neil Schon dig into his Les Paul was something that moved me to pick up the guitar.

It's strange because I never was into Journey, and still don't know what sparked my interest.

Overall I have been more influenced by Tony Iommi, he is my favorite guitar player of all time...

 

[David Katauskas]

About 20+ years ago, my cousins and I decided to camp-out for the night in my uncles RV that was parked in the driveway on the side of the house. We had a small radio that we had blaring on some rock station. During the course of the evening we heard 'Crazy Train' about 5 times...it was mesmerizing. That started it all for me. Unfortunately, I didn't know that Randy was really classically trained guitarist until much later...otherwise, I would have started down that path first.
Thanks Randy!

 

[brandrum]

even though I'm not really a guitar player, I couldn't tell ya who influences me....whoever it is, he must really suck.

 

[cephus]

Leslie West
Johnny Winter

My brother had alot of great late 60s early 70s rock festival albums and Leslie west playing "stormy monday" was one that I played over and over and over again. I think that if anyone listened to him and then immediately listened to me playing something with some air around it would call me a clone.

I just loved the rock and roll boogie of Johnny winter, and he gets extra points for his stuff with Muddy Waters.

I ate up alot of early angus and brian setzer. Beatles for songwriting. I also was a total SRV dork for a couple years back in the late 80s. I got over it, though.

the guys that influenced me were generally players who had the tone in their hands. Not technique guys as much as vibrato/phrasing guys. That's what I like anyway.

 

[james123]

I know everyones gonna hate me, but tom delongue, but hes what turned me on to alot of different kinds of music, even though all his guitar stuff is easy and mostly power chords...

I started playing guitar because of Tom Delonge like 2 years ago and learned the basics of guitar by learning Blink 182 songs but now I have moved on to other punk bands like Minor threat, Black flag , Refused , The Misfits etc.
Blink 182 was a intoduction into punk rock for me.

 

[mx_mx]

I started playing guitar because of Tom Delonge like 2 years ago and learned the basics of guitar by learning Blink 182 songs but now I have moved on to other punk bands like Minor threat, Black flag , Refused , The Misfits etc.
Blink 182 was a intoduction into punk rock for me.

Fisher Price: My First Punk Band

 

[jimballs]

Tom Morello - Rage Against the Machine
Page Hamilton - Helmet
Stephen Carpenter - Deftones

Friends from a long time ago that really got me into music. Now they are both accomplished musicians.
*Joe Grotto - Motherboar (www.motherboar.net)
*Jose Miranda - Highball (www.highballchicago.com)

 

[amra]

It was Randy Rhoads for me. In 1982, I was 12 years old, and one day , me and my best friend were sitting in his older brothers Trans Am (a pristine smokey and the bandit lookalike). We used to sit there an listen to the radio in his car, sitting in the driveway. The tape in the cassette deck was Blizzard of Oz. It blew my mind. That very instant, I made up my mind that I was going to learn how to play guitar, so I could play like that.


After getting married at 19, and then hocking my guitar to buy diapers or something a few years later, along came Zakk Wylde and Dimebag who again blew my mind and inspired me to pick up the guitar again.

 

[Crash ©]

And here's a guitarist that should be the greatest influence on a whole lotta young punks out there...

You sir.. Are da Man..!!!!

After getting married at 19, and then hocking my guitar to buy diapers or something a few years later,

 

[gcapel]

King Buzzo from Melvins
Kim Thiayl from Soundgarden
James Iha from Smashing Pumpkins
Grant Finch from PAW
Clint Black
David Gilmour
Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine
Robert Smith from the Cure
Interpol ....wow.

 

[espskully]

Kirk Hammett
James Hetfield
Stevie Ray Vaughan

 

[mx_mx]

Kirk Hammett
James Hetfield
Stevie Ray Vaughan

The one of you and Kirk looks like you're writing a friggin song together or something

 

[Tadpui]

Slash - my first guitar was an LP knockoff because it looked like Slash's guitar. G n R was the first rock band I really got into and Appetite for Destruction was my life blood during middle school.

Randy Rhoades - Tribute I wore out the tape, the CD and the tab book for that one. I knew every note by heart by the time I graduated high school.

Trey Anastasio - I take a lot of my tone from him, favoring the neck humbucker with a compressor for solos. I learned Stash, Divided Sky and a few others in college and still play them regularly.

 

[metalhead28]

For me it was a combination of Van Halen videos, and the opening riff from "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.

EVH was the coolest guy on the planet, and that Dire Straits riff was the pinnacle of rock guitar as far as I was concerned. I got that record just so I could listen to that riff over and over.

It was still a few years before I ever got a guitar, but the impact that stuff had on me never went away.

 

[espskully]

The one of you and Kirk looks like you're writing a friggin song together or something

He's getting songwriting advice from me.

 

[capnkid]

I don't know if it's just one.
There seemed to be one song from every band that had good guitar that inspired me.

Heart-"Barracuda"
Lynard Skynard- "S.H.A." "Mr. Saturday night Special"
Billy Gibbons-stuff
Neil Schon-stuff
Jim Croce0-stuff
The Cars-stuff
Buddy Holley-Stuff
Chuck Berry- everything
EVH-everything
SRV-everything
The Eagles-Stuff
Tesla-Stuff

There is so many.

 

[capnkid]

Steve Cropper.

 

[amra]

For me it was a combination of Van Halen videos, and the opening riff from "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.

EVH was the coolest guy on the planet, and that Dire Straits riff was the pinnacle of rock guitar as far as I was concerned. I got that record just so I could listen to that riff over and over.

It was still a few years before I ever got a guitar, but the impact that stuff had on me never went away.

HA!
That's funny, I wasn't going to claim "Money for Nothing" as being influential to me, because I could never figure that damn riff out - but I bought that tape, AND record and wore them both out. My cousin who lived with us at the time, used to get so freakin mad at me for listening to that song over and over again because it used to drive him crazy. There was another one on there called "one world" that I used to dig the guitar on, too.

Crash: Thanks, as it turned out getting married young was the right thing to do, even though it was kind of a 'shotgun wedding', if you get my drift..heheh. My wife and I are still married and happy 17 years later. I am 36, and I have a 16 year old son that is a better guitarist than I was at his age. Between him and I, we have 10 guitars, 4 amps, and a dozen stompboxes, and whats better, we share the same influences, and play the same kind of music and talk music and guitars 24/7.

 

[andydeedpoll]

Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead has and does have a lot of impact on my playing, and attempt at 'tone' ... mainly for lead stuff. for rhythm stuff, i've gotta say Thom Yorke has been more than enough inspiration.

too much Radiohead



Andy