Your personal guitar inspiration?

[Willie G. Moseley]

Jack Bruce

Lemmy

John Entwhistle

Greg Lake

John Wetton

Interesting that someone brought up Steve Morse's THE INTRODUCTION and "Cruise Missile"---I already knew what Morse and Rod Morgenstein were capable of, considering their Dixie Dregs gig (WHAT IF is one of the best rock instrumental albums ever), but Jerry Peek's romping bass on "Cruise Missile" was staggering...not an influence, however, as I listen to bassists who sing lead vocals as personal inspirations (Although in Lemmy's case, "sing" is a relative term...eh, wot?).

[seeker]

Jimi Hendrix

Robin Trower

Jimmy Page

Dave Brock

Fast Eddie Clark

Slash

John Petrucci

[tbabinec]

Jimi - great rhythm and melody chord player

Clapton - on Mayall's Beano album and Disraeli Gears

Peter Green - With Mayall and Fleetwood Mac

Jeff Beck - with Yardbirds and on Wired

Carlos Santana - Abraxas is a helluva guitar album after all these years

McLaughlin - Devotion, Inner Mounting Flame, his stuff with Miles and Tony Williams

Stevie Ray - Caught him in a hole in the wall in Chicago right before Texas Flood

Steve Cropper behind all the old Stax-Volt bands

Roy Buchanan-First two Polydor albums are especially awesome.

Nels Cline is doing great stuff with his various bands.

Lately, I can listen without end to Freddy King, vintage BB King, Hubert Sumlin

with Howlin Wolf, also Merle Haggard and Pete Anderson with Dwight Yoakum.

Someone said in this thread that "It's the song." Agreed.

[Matt Mattson]

John Mayall is on tonight as well (with Clapton). Show follows Dire Straits on Ovation Channel.

[Jason01]

I guess it would have to start with Ace Frehley and Randy Rhoads. My first two albums were kiss and blizzard of oz and I listened to them over and over and over (as kids do). Fast forward years down the road and Kurt Cobain enters the scene and pretty much single handedly wipes the music I like off the planet (yea I know, alot of it was crap at that point anyway). Me and a friend picked up the guitar around that time. For me it was to be able to go back to my musical beginning (the kiss and randy rhoads stuff) and the music through the 80's that I really liked. Queensryche was a huge influence, I've probably listened to Operation Mindcrime more than any other single CD I've ever owned although Zakk Wyldes book of shadows CD is getting up there.

Once I picked up the guitar I started learning to read tab through the guitar magazines (I didn't have any guitar teacher so this is about all I had to go on). One name kept popping up all over the place in them, Joe Satriani. I got hold of his "The Extremist" CD and that one completely changed my musical direction. It had incredible technique, incredible tone, incredible melodies and NOT ONE lyric. It was my first instrumental rock CD and its still the benchmark I compare all the rest to. I know he gets lumped into the shredder category and he can sure hold his own there but his playing is alot more blues based and has more flow to it for lack of a better word. As far as the people I've actually sat down and watched live that blew me away I went to a Neil Zaza clinic around '92 and was just floored. That guy could play faster than I could even comprehend, I still can't. I knew I'd never be a shredder after watching him play, I don't have the discipline or the time to sit for hours and hours with a metronome that it must take to develop that. I still love that stuff and its inspiring because I know its beyond my abilities even though I will probably never get there.

[martin-uk]

Sorry Kiz

Rough 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.

ROTFLMAO!! Cheer's kiz,alway's a pleasure.

martin.