Bruiser Brody Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 All the usual suspects for me...EVHAndy TimmonsTommy EmmanuelDimebaggageJimiRandySkolnickAndy LaRoque/Pete BlakkMonte MontgomeryStephen BennettIommiJames MurphyVai/Satch/Howe/Kotzen/Friedmann/Derek TaylorSRVJerry ReedDavid St.Hubbins/Nigel TufnelRoy ClarkWillie NelsonJames HetfieldJoe PassWarren HaynesZakk phony motorcycle gang leaderBeckok..i could go on but I'm stopping here!I'm influenced by anybody who plays with conviction no matter what style of music it is.
belgian Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 The old bluesguys did it for me, it looked so easy at first sight, now I know better.Names : Lightnin' Hopkins, T-bone Walker, the three Kings, John lee Hooker and some fifty others...
Crumbhorn Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 The guy that turned me around at the age of 13 was Rory Gallagher. I used to dig my dads stuff before I heard "Live in Europe". I bought the album on vinyl (second album I ever bought) and still have it in good condition. This guy spoke to me with his guitar. And I still love it now 35 years later. Class A++++++ stuff.
Crumbhorn Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 The guy that turned me around at the age of 13 was Rory Gallagher. I used to dig my dads stuff before I heard "Live in Europe". I bought the album on vinyl (second album I ever bought) and still have it in good condition. This guy spoke to me with his guitar. And I still love it now 35 years later. Class A++++++ stuff.
Brooks Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 Mike Pinera. Maybe the best live guitarist I ever saw. i saw mike w/ alice cooper ~81 (jr high). he did this cool solo using a straight razor's dull sidefor VH-esque tapping. then, he flipped it over and hackedup his strings and chunks of his guitar. metal!
belgian Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 The guy that turned me around at the age of 13 was Rory Gallagher. I used to dig my dads stuff before I heard "Live in Europe". I bought the album on vinyl (second album I ever bought) and still have it in good condition. This guy spoke to me with his guitar. And I still love it now 35 years later. Class A++++++ stuff. That album turned me on to mandolin too. I admit I am half a folkie...
Submariner85 Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 Ace FrehleyDave MustaineMarty FriedmanJames HetfieldKurt Vanderhoof - Metal ChurchMichael SchenkerMattias Jabs (spelling?)Wolf Hoffman
Jack C Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 Pete Townshend. He wasn't pretty and his (lead) playing wasn't flashy, but he was the coolest to ever hold a guitar. Awesome player, writer, singer, rockstar... Great tone, too.
silentman Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 (my mom was a particular fan of "The Snake"). Insert your own mother joke here, LOL
Stike Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 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.
DaveH Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 Here's just some of mine:- Mark Reale (I still haven't figured out how such a good player, who paid as any dues as he has, never made it *big*)- Ted Nugent- Billy Gibbons (early stuff)- Glen Tipton/KK Downing (earlier stuff)- Earle Johnson/Buddy Caine (Moxy was a big influence on me)- Alex Lifeson (early)- Frank Marino- Robin Trower- Kim Simmonds- Ritchie Blackmore- Roy Buchannan
mattb Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 My big brother Michael Murray. Incredible Jazz musician.
David B Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 KISS - The band as a whole. To this day their songs excite me more than anyone else.
ZR Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 There you go Dave....Mark Reale!!I was really into Riot back when they had Narita, Fire Down Under etc. Great rock songs.
MrGuitarguy Posted January 28, 2006 Author Posted January 28, 2006 There's to many to count -- but I will mention one who rarely gets mentioned:Relatively few people play guitarFewer still play wellFewer still play well and play fastFewer still play well and play fast and soloFewer still play well and play fast and solo and singFewer still play well and play fast and solo and sing wellFewer still play well and play fast and solo and sing well and writeFewer still play well and play fast and solo and sing well and write wellFewer still play well and play fast and solo and sing well and write well and produceAnd the fewest of all play well play fast and solo and sing well and write well and produce and make money at it!Mark KnopflerTape "Dire Straits" off Ovation Channel (it's on this month) for a look into his songwriting & playing style. The songwriting was the most interesting part of it to me. I'll second that.
martin-uk Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 I can't believe nobody's said this guy's name yet.......JEFF BECK!!!!"Cause we've ended as lover's" still stop's me in my track's today as much as the first time i heard it,so i would have to say Jeff!!!martin. Easy, mate....I did. Sorry KizRough week on the sick mate.martin.
bruce919 Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 Brad Gillis & Jeff Watson Eric ClaptonRobert CrayJoe SatrianiStevie RayGary Moore
Armitage Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 Ace Frehley gave me Rock and Roll, and the "I can do that!" rush that made me want to play.Rush, both Geddy and Alex, gave me the "one day, I'll be doing THAT!" excitment.The guys in Judas Priest gave me a musical direction to where I wanted to go.Gary Moore and Micheal Schenker inspired me to feel, and play what suits.Queensryche inpired me with technique and the tone I wanted. I still get a hard on with the tone on Empire.
atquinn Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 (my mom was a particular fan of "The Snake"). Insert your own mother joke here, LOL I was wondering when a comment Like that would show up; I'm dissapointed that it took so long -Austin
Matt Mattson Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 Re: Mark Knopfler -- the Dire Straits show I'm talking about is on tonight (Sat. Jan 28) on Ovation Channel, 9-10 pm EST re-run 1-2 am (10 pm in the Pacific). Has some great footage of his hand-work.
kurtsstuff Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 Well.....what really inspired me to play in the beginning was a Girl I had a crush on in junior high...hehe....but after that I found you can get alot of girls playing guitar so...she fell by the wayside...
kizanski Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 Sorry KizRough week on the sick mate.martin. That's ok - I was just messing with you.However, next time you will recieve a 10 yard penalty for "Excessive Formatting," as Nathan once ruled.
straightblues Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 There are a ton on record. But these are the guys that I saw live that really blew my mind:Rock:Eddie Van Hallen (at a backyard party around 1977)Lanny Cordola (local neighborhood shedder who made it with Guiffria, House of Lords, Bad Religion and Magdalen)Micheal Schenker with UFONiel Geraldo from Pat BenetarAngus YoungMark KnofflerBlues:Junior Watson (the best west coast jump blues player alive!)Albert King (he could make the guitar scream.)Johny Copeland (not to popular Texas bluseman but his live shows were outstanding.)John Lee Hooker. (he could make nothing sound great and carry a grove like nobody before or after him.)
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