Your greatest guitar influence?

[ronzo]

Who influenced you the most?

[La_Serpiente]

1. I don't play the guitar

but I like Eric Clapton

[bucknaked]

37. Pat Metheny

n/m

[HEyHEY]

2. Brent cooper

Plays for heuoves rancheros... awsmoe guitarist..he is accesable..that's what I dig..I've met him and have asked himguitar queries..I was gonna say dick dale... but..cooper is my man

[Lost4words]

3. Leo Kottke & John Cippolina n/t

[alphafemale]

4. Wild Stallions!!!!

LOL

[ronzo]

5. I'll fess up....

Clapton is the bottom line here.

edit: but, where do you pick it up along the way? Eddie, Jerry, Zappa, Page, and... Steve Gaines.

A long row...

[HEyHEY]

7. WILD STAlLIONS RULE!!! N/T

[Trajan]

6. I say this with the deepest reverence and respect ....

Clapton last had a real influence on the rock music scene with Layla, after which his guitar-god status waned, if only because he failed to MOVE that scene any longer ...

White Room, Sunshine OYL, Tales of Brave Ulysses, SCHWALBR(?), and Crossroads seem so long ago now ... He is of little impact since then, IMLTHO ...

Even if one used the same arguments against him: Page STILL rules the roost ....

NOT because he himself has an impact on the rock scene, but because his greateness as the exemplar of the rock guitar idiom is STILL recognized by up-and-coming players ....

Mention Clapton to a 20-something guitarist and you'll receive a few disinterested blinks ...

Mention Jimmy Page to that same crowd .... and the tones of reverence will freely flow out .... he is still having an impact on the fresh minds of new guitarists ....

I have had to dust off my LZ cds ..... and hand them over to my guitar-playing daughter so she could bring them to her guitar-playing friends: so they could communicate, as it were, with the Page-Muse ...

Not ONCE have they begged for Disraeli Gears ...

[ronzo]

8. awright.

When all your influences are boiled down, who do you favor in your style? Or your daughter's style? You can do a helluvalot worse than Jimmy Page.

[DemExpat]

9. Don't know all the guitarist's names

but my favorites have been Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
Poco
and Allman Brothers....

:yourock:

:D

DemEx

on edit: one more....love Stephen Stills' style...

[ronzo]

10. Who can second me on Preston Reed and Doug Smith?

Acoustic folks.....

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

32. LOL I can second you on Preston...

I produce a show annually of some of the best acoustic players. Preston has been on the bill several times as has Laurence Juber (former lead guitar player from Wings) and Nokie Edwards (lead guit of the Ventures)

WHile I am at it I HAVE to give kudos to Nokie since surf music made me want to pick up a guitar in the first place. WALK DON'T RUN was one of the first riffs I learned at the age of 8(played it rather poorly then, I do it some justice now). It is really weird to now be able to call up the guy that I regarded as an idol and shoot the shit with him and his wife.

[BeatleBoot]

11. Son House

Others would include...

Albert Collins
Lightnin' Hopkins
Robert Cray
Johnny Copeland
Bo Diddley


More recently...

Jack White (of the White Stripes - you gotta hear their version of Death Letter)

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

So many more...

By the way: Congratulations on Ms. Blanco's victory yesterday!

[joshdawg]

12. My age is showing here, but.....

Les Paul

[Dudley_DUright]

16. I just saw Les last month in New York

He can still put out some tasty licks at 88 years old. He also has a very hot backing band.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

33. Chester and Lester is still one of my all time fav albums

But Neck and Neck ain't too bad either.

[Dudley_DUright]

35. Hi NSMA

:hi: I knew you could not resist making an appearance in yet another guitar thread. :-)

[MaineDem]

13. Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Paul Simon

They were the ones who influenced me the most to learn to play.

[DrBB]

14. Alan Holdsworth, Frank Zappa

Used to memorize Frank's stuff in my youth. Hot Rats and Chunga's Revenge particularly. Holdsworth--well, one can only aspire.

For songwriting, though, much more Captain Beefheart via Frank Black than anything. "Walk the sand, with the crustaceons...."

[Dudley_DUright]

15. Stevie Ray

Jimmy Hendrix
Luther Allison
Buddy Guy
B.B. King
Eric Clapton
and others too numerous to mention

[DS1]

17. Dave Mustaine

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[GreatCaesarsGhost]

18. Django Reinhardt

a very mellow fellow

[LastKnight]

19. Hendrix, Morello, Page

yea im all over the map here...

Jimi: speaks for himself, from his unassailalbe(sp?) seat at number one on all the 'greatest' lists

Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman): probably the only one i have to explain, but he is (in my opnion) THE most innovative metal guitarist. i havent heard his new acoustic solo project (Then Nightwatchman) but its bound to be good. also its hard to even come close to his level technical skill. that and the whole turntable scratching sound like thing he does on his ibanez is something ive never heard somone do so well or controlled. that, and the man has style, dammit.

Jimmy Page: do you really need an explination?

-LK

[bywho4who]

26. String Bender's Rule

I love my JACKSON it allows me to play all these styles you speak of here, Never played Ibanze like that i own Ibanze E/A .





:smoke: :hippie:

[SEAburb]

20. Randy Rhodes, Frank Zappa, Tony Mac Alpine //

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[mr blur]

21. Tom Verlaine

and Hendrix

I can't of course play like either of them, but that's the point, really.

[Howardx]

22. tony iommi

n/t

[Zuni]

24. He is a beast

I love Black Sabbath

[Zuni]

23. a whole lot of guitarists

I play riff-like rythym guitar more than solos. my favorites are Steve Cropper, keith richards, Albert King

[bywho4who]

25. I play six string & punish the tubb's& tin's as well

Most I would have to say Billy Gibbons Of ZZ-TOP I also like Robin Trower alot, As far as drums go I play jazz&Funk ,Willie Green of the Neville Brothers is my largest influence of late. .:bounce: This is a cool thread ronzo we can find out who playz amongst us




:smoke: :hippie:

[Zorro]

27. Fahey, Kottke, and Kaukonen

All extremely talented and admirable fingerpickers.

Fahey influenced me by his simple yet evocative tunes; Kottke by his virtuosity; and Kaukonen by his tasteful licks.

[mitchum]

28. John Fahey, Hubert Sumlin and John Coltrane

[Cooley Hurd]

29. Adrian Belew...

He goes were other guitarists fear to tread...

[bbernardini]

30. Zappa, Rundgren, Keneally, Fripp

Although I'm a keyboardist. :)

[Elidor]

31. a few

David Gilmour
Alex Lifeson
Mark Knopfler
Jimi Hendrix
Joe Walsh
Billy Gibbons
Adrian Belew
Paul Barrere (severely underrated)
Lindsey Buckingham (also severely underrated)
Robin Trower

As for the guitar gods of yesterday, it's nice to see no mention of Fast-fingered Eddie. What good is all that skill if all you do is jack off with it?

[guitar man]

34. Flash Terry

Flash is a local blues legend in these parts who has inspired just about every Tulsa guitar player.

Others include Steve Gaines,Ray Benson,Clapton,Buddy Guy,Freddie King......

[G_j]

36. Garcia

if you heard me play I guess it would be obvious, though I've been influenced by lots of people.

[Character Assassin]

38. Believe it or not, drummers.

My playing style is heavily, although not inordinately, rythmic-based, and I utilize time more than pitch to create melodic structures.

That, and the independence of motion that drummers must have in their limbs is quite applicable to the fingers.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

40. Google a guy by the name of

Ben Lacy He is from Kentucky and does jazz, chord melodies..plays a Brian Moore iguitar through a piazzo pick up...really incredible player...it will blow your mind.

[rbnyc]

39. Tie between Sterling Morrison and Kristin Hersh. (nt)

[Squeech]

41. Richard Thompson

His independence of fingers is such that he can chord on the lower strings and solo on the top strings at the same time.

Plus his hammer-on technique allows him to sound like a clarinet, or a bagpipe.

Other players I have found inspiring include Zappa, Jorma Kaukonen, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, Steve Hackett, Fred Frith, Tom Verlaine, Henry Kaiser-- a pretty mixed bag, I like to think.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

42. John Squire / Peter Buck / Kevin Shields / Bob Mould / Thurston Moore

[Whitacre D_WI]

43. Influences...

a much different question than simply "who do you like?"

I'd love to play like Richard Thompson or Tom Verlaine, but I can't. Oh well.

Guitarists who have influenced my style include John Fahey, Joey Santiago (not the most technically proficient, but neither am I, and he plays with passion), Jim Shepard, Chrissy Hynde (yes, as a guitarist), Bruce Gilbert, Mick Collins, and others.

[regularguy]

44. Jerry Garcia. Dickie Betts. Jeff Beck. The guy from PFunk.

Saxophonist/Composer Wayne Shorter is probably my biggest influence, and favorite musician.