I started playing around the same time MTV kicked up(they were playing music then) so a lot of the guys I liked were the guys I was seeing, Neilsen, Giraldo, Schon, Easton, EVH(live Fair Warning clips DAMN!), Gibbons, Setzer, and oddly enough I really dug the surfy,spaghetti western sounding stuff the guy from Adam and the Ants was doing. Spent most of high school with a bong, Exit Stage Left and All The Worlds A Stage with a fair amount of Floyd, Zep, and anything with a rippin' solo awful song or not. After that a healthy diet of the Young brothers, more Setzer, Horton Heat and other greasers from the past and present, The Supersuckers who showed me in the early 90's that rock n'roll could be fun again, and various rootsy twangy, surfy, honky tonkish stuff.