Dr. Rock Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 For me: 1-AC/DC 2-Deep Purple 3-Motorhead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostindesert Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 The blues guys: young and old, black and white. Latin: Santana, Massada Gypsy Jazz: Django Reinhardt and the Rosenberg Trio The guy that started it al for me: Jimi Hendrix Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiggy Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 oasis mainly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midiman56 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 For me, Pete Townsend has always been a huge influence. In bith playing and in my writing over the years, I've always been a sucker for those enormous ringing chords and playing with a fast pick hand. MIDI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Norm Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 the Beatles... As simple as this ! I had my first guitar because of them, and always played ( and still ) a lot of their songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluelake07 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Freddie & The Dreamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpiPunk101 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 As much as im going to get bashed for this, I gotta say the bands that really influenced me to play guitar is Blink 182 mainly and Green day. Tom Delonge is my biggest influence by far. As simplistic as his stuff is, Im just a diehard Blink Fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Two Liverpool bands: THE BEATLES - you probably heard of them ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN - if you don't know them, the lead guitatist was the Robby Krieger of the 80s. Perfect leads, insane guitar breaks during live shows, awesome sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Well, if I had to name just a few: Beatles, (original) Byrds, Animals, Yardbirds, and..."Chicago" style blues, for the most part, I guess? But, there's been so many "influences!" A lot of the American musicians, that influenced the "British Invasion" (the first musical one, that is), would have to be considered, too. CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibplayer Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 As much as im going to get bashed for this' date=' I gotta say the bands that really influenced me to play guitar is Blink 182 mainly and Green day. Tom Delonge is my biggest influence by far. As simplistic as his stuff is, Im just a diehard Blink Fan [/quote'] Nobody should bash anybody for their musical tastes. I'd never heard of Blink 182 so I've just checked them out and they look pretty good to me. In forty years time I've no doubt there will be threads from old codgers about Green Day and Blink 182. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Nelson Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 For me: 1-AC/DC 2-Deep Purple 3-Motorhead For me it has to be The Banana Splits...especially their early stuff before Fleegle started abusing the Milk Bones and Snorky got strung out on peanuts.. Mr.Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarxBros Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 For me it has to be The Banana Splits...especially their early stuff before Fleegle started abusing the Milk Bones and Snorky got strung out on peanuts.. Mr.Nelson At least you didn't say HR Puffinstuff..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Which bands/artists defines your playing style. Neal Schon Randy Rhodes Brad Gillis EVH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Nelson Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 At least you didn't say HR Puffinstuff..... it entered my mind...though I was too embarrassed to say how much impact Josie And The *****cats had on my playing..or how my dream was to be the guitar player in Lancelot Link's "Evolution Revolution".... Mr.Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWANG Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Rick Nelson. all the early rockabilly guys. Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, Johnny Burnette and the Rock'n'Roll Trio. all the great early rockers. chuck berry, especially. I have to say them because they did the job on me to get started, to keep playing..wherever I went after that it's still always had that early period spirit and intent. Then the 60's guys.. typically the Beatles and Stones of course. See if you can find Bubble Puppy, or the Music Machine... and give 'em a listen. one hit wonders but ... something about those wierd off the wall bands really got me. Like, the 'Joiner Arkansas Junior High School Band'.. who had a hit called national city. yeah.. a rock n roll march! and of course, The Trashmen. TWANG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Lister Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 John & Tom Fogerty were the first guitarists to intrigue me, but the electric blues pioneers (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Hubert Sumlin, John Lee Hooker et al) have more influence. Even I find it a bit odd, but to me there is still something intoxicating about how Johnny Rivers does those Chuck Berry tunes. Has anyone else noticed the Johnny Rivers appeal? Hit every BLUE NOTE baaaby..., I'm going to play on:-" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloopy Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 For me it has to be The Banana Splits...especially their early stuff before Fleegle started abusing the Milk Bones and Snorky got strung out on peanuts.. Mr.Nelson Not big on the commercializm of Electric Mayhem, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timandbob Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Beatles (its what got me to buy my first guitar) James Taylor Paul Simon Eagles America (well, at least the harmonies, rather than the guitar playing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarxBros Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 dream was to be the guitar player in Lancelot Link's "Evolution Revolution".... Mr.Nelson LANCE!:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkEpTiKaL Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Electric: Hendrix, Clapton Acoustic: Antoine Dufour, Andy McKee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarxBros Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 On a serious note, and not to sound trendy but Django caught my ear as a small child long before rock and roll did. Here's a youtube I put together recently of Django doing his composition Nuages on electric guitar. You hear this tune a lot but it's usually the early acoustic recordings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corcoran Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 The Strokes Nick Valensi made me first pick up the geetar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Nelson Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 LANCE!:) well...I could have said all the usual Blues and Rock roots malarkey or come up with some really obscure group no one's even heard of...let's face it...Lance rocked and who was more "roots" than that? Mr.Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarxBros Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 well...I could have said all the usual Blues and Rock roots malarkey or come up with some really obscure group no one's even heard of...let's face it...Lance rocked and who was more "roots" than that? Mr.Nelson I hesitated to post a serious reply to this thread, but after some thought I decided to. It's too easy to spout off something to sound hip, but Django is/was a heavy influence on me, my playing style even when doing rock blues deteriorates into Djangoesque type runs...it's a real problem and I've never been able to really purge it from my various styles of playing. Some folks think it sounds cool, I think it's a rut I'm in that I can't seem to escape. Unfortunately as a young child I heard Django a lot and became hooked long before I was playing guitar or listening to rock, so it ended up stuck in my head.:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Nelson Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 On a serious note' date=' and not to sound trendy but Django caught my ear as a small child long before rock and roll did. Here's a youtube I put together recently of Django doing his composition Nuages on electric guitar. You hear this tune a lot but it's usually the early acoustic recordings. [/quote'] I have a recording of Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine doing "Nuages" (I have it on at this very moment) and their "Blues For Django" is also awesome and I went through that Coryell/McLaughlin/DiMeola/DeLucia thing in the 70's but I'm not going to say I can play like that...I can maybe fake it...for a bit...love listening to it though.. Mr.Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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