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This could also mean three guitarists that had the most influence on your playing - rather than those you just like allot - even if it's only small influences.

 

First up for me is Derwood ... Gen X

 

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Second is John Mcgeoch ... Magazine - Siouxsie & the Banshees - PIL

 

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Third is Steve Jones - Sex Pistols

 

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Fourth is Daniel Ash - Bauhaus - Tones on Tail - Love & Rockets

 

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Fifth is Syd Barrett -

 

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Originally posted by TIKIROCKER

Oh my list was not mean't to be in order of preference - I rate them all equally for different things.

 

well.. mines half half.. ;)

 

syd barrett - well. i don't need to say anything about him.

 

jeff buckley - i really wish i could play like him.. it's a mystery (at least for me)

 

thom yorke - i love his feel for rythm... very unique.

 

matt ward - he played well tempered clavier by johann sebastian bach on guitar .. very very very nice! and he's just somewhere between 20-25 years old? toured with my morning jacket and bright eyes i think 2 years ago. i missed him twice to see him live :(

 

dave gilmour - i love his sound and his solos.

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I can't narrow em down to 5, so is it ok to do 10?

 

Daniel Ash

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Glenn Branca (he pretty much invented the style Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore play, although they added some other influences in)

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Andy Gill

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Joey Santiago

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Jim Reid

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Carlos Alomar

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Kevin Shields

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Jimmy Page

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Guy Picciotto

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Tom Verlaine

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Honorably mentions:

Fripp

Belew

Hendrix (He didn't really have a very big body of work for me to put him up there)

Bernard Sumner (he's similar to Ash, so I chose just one)

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Well the idea was to really narrow to the most important 5 ... otherwise we could stretch it to many many more ... I know I could easily list another 10 but I made sure to make the 5 listed the REALLy vital ones to my playing and ears. :thu:

 

Many listed above by others would be in my extended list.

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The ones with the most influence on my playing:

--Ty Tabor (King's X)

--Alex Lifeson (Rush)

--Jimmy Page

--Dickie Betts

--electric Neil Young

 

The interesting thing to me is that these are not necessarily my favorite players, but the ones I was most influenced by at certain times growing up. For example, I am a bigger Duane than Dickie fan, I just picked up more of Dickie's style naturally.

All of them were favorites of mine at one time, but not a one of them is something I listen to very often anymore. I NEVER need to listen to Rush or Zeppelin again.

 

The player with the most influence on me the last 10 years or so is probably Robert Fripp, but I'm either not good enough to pick up much from him or beyond sounding like anyone but myself. It's probably a bit of both really.

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Biggest Influence on my Playing, Tones, Technique, Composition and Rhythm:

 

Matte Henderson - www.mattehenderson.com

 

Influenced: Composition (Flow, Phrasing and Mood) - Production - Technique (legato, sweep picking, whammy bar usage and tapping especially) - Drum Programming - Synth Usage - Overal Tonality

 

 

Jagori Tanna - I Mother Earth

CDs - Dig - Scenery and Fish - Blue, Green, Orange - QSMD

 

Influenced: Base Tone - Solo Tone - Effects Usage - Rhythm and Solo Phrasing - Harmonic Usage - Technique (legato, slapping, popping, bending, delay tricks and harmonic usage)

 

 

Omard Rodruigez- Lopez - At the Drive-In

Vaya - Relationship of Command

 

Influenced: Base Tone - Chord Voicing - Effects Usage - Hook Sensabilites

 

 

Carlos Santana - Santana

Santana - Abraxus - III - Caravanserai - Love Devotion Surrender

 

Influenced: Solo Tone - Solo Phrasing - Bending

 

 

Mick Thompson - Slipknot

Self-titled - Iowa - Subliminal Verses

 

Influenced: Metal Tone - Rhythm and Riffage - Solo Technique - Hook Sensabilities

 

-TJK

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Originally posted by TIKIROCKER

Well the idea was to really narrow to the most important 5 ... otherwise we could stretch it to many many more ... I know I could easily list another 10 but I made sure to make the 5 listed the REALLy vital ones to my playing and ears.
:thu:

Many listed above by others would be in my extended list.

 

I can't narrow it down to 5 though. That is too hard. 10 is hard enough.

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