who are your influences?

[ihocky2]

The guy who inspired me to pick up the guitar is Chris Caffery. I am still learning a lot on how to play and don't have much of a style I am trying fit into yet, but some of the guitarists that I enjoy and would love to be able to play like are.

Chris Caffery
Criss Oliva
Alex Skolnik
Kirk Hammett
Yngwie Malmsteen
George Lynch
Slash
Angus Young
Billy Gibons
plus quite a lot more

[Robert Burns]

Jimi
Eddie
Al DiMeola
Johnny Winter
Ronny Montrose
Rick Derringer
George Lynch
Eric Johnson
Roy Clark!
Adrian Legg
Michael Hedges
Greg Howe
David Gilmore
Mark Farner GFR!!
Page
Shawn Lane
Michael Landau
George Benson
Steve Lynch
Glenn Tipton/KK Downing
Blues Saraceno
Eric Clapton
John Paul Jones
Noel Redding
Stu Hamm
Reb Beach
SRV
Marcel Coenen
Steve Vai
Satch
Slash
Mick Mars
John 5
Nancy Wilson
Ricky Skaggs
Gordon Lightfoot
Randy
Zakk
gary Moore
Pat Travers
John Norum
Jake E. Lee
John Sikes
Chris De Garmo
Billy Shehan
Dime
Christofer Parkening
Paco De Lucia
Jpe Walsh
Brett Garsed/TJ Helmerich
Jeff Healey
Robin Trower
Saxon! (whoever these 3 guys are!)
and im in awe of Jennifer Batten!

[dinky kustom]

ritchie kotzen
steve vai
satch
kirk hamster/ james hetfield
as for inspiration
friedman/becker
jeff loomis
john petrucci
plus the guys above.

[dinkyjacksonman]

Michael Schenker and Gary Moore.

[GryphonGuitar]

I have to say Michael Weikath of Helloween inspired me to take the guitar in my hands... But my world was forever changed when I heard Yngwie Malmsteen. He continues to amaze me even though I've gone past the shred-til-yer-dead phase.

[JC_Denton]

Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, and Jimi Hendrix made me pick up the guitar.

My main infuences now are

Erik Glass
Chad Coggin
Carl Verheyen
Brett Garsed
Tommy Emmanuel
Greg Howe
Frank Gambale
Scott Mishoe
Warren DeMartini
George Lynch
Allan Holdsworth
Jimmy Nolan

[craprapx2001]

Hetfield and Hammett made me pick up guit,
Influences change month by month/what im listening to, but the main ones are;
1.Lynch
2.Dime
3.Gilbert
4.Malmsteen
5.Loomis

RThere are many other's both those 5 are the most influential to my style

[Snake Doctor]

Could'nt tell you exactly who made me pick up the guitar, but these guys are my biggest influences:

Pat O'Brien
Jonas Bryssling,Jonas Karlsson (from Spawn of Possession, for the uninformed :P)
Alex Skolnick
James Murphy
Chuck Shuldiner
Joe Haley
Erik Rutan
Karl Sanders
Dallas Toler-Wade
Mikael Akerfeldt
Samoth

[paulbag]

Iommi, Aerosmith, Alex Lifeson, Rhoads, Vivian Campbell, Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Dimebag, Chuck Schuldiner...pretty much in that order...

[Boomdoggy]

SRV
Jimi
Clapton
Winter
Gary Moore
Tipton and Downing
Albert Collins
Albert King
Roy Buchanan
Gibbons
Buddy Guy
Zappa
I actually started listening to Jimi and Clapton before I started playing.I was already leaning towards playing.One day the DJ said "Here is a new song from Judas Priest".The song was "You got another thing Coming",I was begging my parents from that day on.
SRV is my fav.Unreal beyond belief.

[VoiceX3]

Hmmmmmm. Who first got me to pick up a guitar???? This one is easy. There are 2.

Ace Fucking Frehley and Randy Fucking Rhoads.
NO BOUT A DOUBT IT!!!!!!

As for my influences, well, since I'm a singer first I don't normally list these first....I usually start off with Geoff Tate and guys like Sebastian or Dio and maybe Phil Anselmo....but guitar playing influences.....

Randy Rhoads
Dimebag Darryl
Dave Mustaine
Warren DeMartini
Robin Crosby
Chris Poland
Marty Friedman
Jason Becker
Chris Caffery
Alex Skolnick
Jake E. Lee
Zakk Wylde
Chris DeGarmo
KK Downing
Glen Tipton
Dave Murray
Adrian Smith
John Sykes
Steve Vai
Yngwie Malmsteen
Tony Macalpine
Paul Gilbert
AND MANY MORE.....But not including EVH. (I'm just not a fan of the man)

[Ralph E.]

In The Beginning:

Ace Frehley, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford for their work on Kiss Destroyer and Kiss Alive and Toys In The Attic and Live Bootleg.

In The Middle:

Randy Rhoads. Still amazed when I listen to Tribute. I can remember listening to the King Biscuit Flower Hour for live Ozzy!

Thru The Dark Ages (the 90's till now):

Doug Aldrich. He has everything. Tone, Vibrato, Speed, Feel. In my mind the combination of everything you'd want in the ultimate guitar player. While everyone was avoiding guitar solos like the plague he was ripping out Bad Moon Rising and Burning Rain cd's thru the 90's, and then tore it up with Dio, and now with Whitesnake. Anyone hear the 4 new Whitesnake songs?

[thetroy]

Doug Aldrich. He has everything. Tone, Vibrato, Speed, Feel. In my mind the combination of everything you'd want in the ultimate guitar player. While everyone was avoiding guitar solos like the plague he was ripping out Bad Moon Rising and Burning Rain cd's thru the 90's, and then tore it up with Dio, and now with Whitesnake. Anyone hear the 4 new Whitesnake songs?

DUDE there are new Whitesnake songs?

[Endrik]

yeah duder, check out their new live album there's extra bonus tracks wich they made in the studio

[Endrik]

anyway what about other influences? there's many musicians/composers who have inspiered me more than most guitarists.

I'll start with...

Peter Gabriel
Miles Davis
Frank Zappa
Claude Debussy