who are your influences?

[Drazden]

Hendrix. When I started playing, I wanted to sound like Hendrix.

Now that I've been playing for a while, I want to sound like Hendrix on speed

Other than Jimi, my other sources of inspiration for guitar work include:
Jag Tanna from I Mother Earth (great tone, great tasteful playing)
Jake E. Lee (a freakin' monster!)
EVH (duh)
Satch
Kirk Hammett/James Hetfield

[cheese0tron]

ace frehley made me pick up the guitar when i was 9 i use to run around the house with a ace suit i made with card board and tin foil while listening to kiss alive 2 fun times.

but my main influences are
randy rhoads
alexi laiho
vivian campbell
rowan robertson

[tooslowhand]

I picked up the guitar after seeing my first concert which was AC/DC. My influences... Angus Young, Randy Rhoads, Chris Holmes, Tony Iommi (not in any particular order)

[loki: god of chaos]

mine in no particular order
Steve Vai
Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman
Zakk Wylde
Dave Mustaine
Yngwie Malmsteen
Dimebag Darrell Abbott

[Grim]

Influences:

Marty Friedman
Jason Becker
Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Dave Mustaine
Chuck Schuldiner
Ritchie Blackmore

Guys who made me pick up guitar:

Eddie Van Halen
Jimmy Page
Ritchie Blackmore

[Grim]

Shit guys, didn't realize this was a necro. sorry about that.

[DonP]

Shit guys, didn't realize this was a necro. sorry about that.

You can thank the for sucker punching you

[Hellbat]

Influences:

Marty Friedman
Jason Becker
Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Dave Mustaine
Chuck Schuldiner
Ritchie Blackmore

Guys who made me pick up guitar:

Eddie Van Halen
Jimmy Page
Ritchie Blackmore

I like how people use the "Yngwie J Malmsteen", so you don't get him confused with all the other Yngwie Malmsteens out there.

[Trem]

Fun to Reminisce

Kinda in order of discovery

Got me interested
-----------------
Richards
Cheech and Chong "Earache my Eye"
Zappa
Nugent
Angus/Malcom Young


No turning back
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Iommi
Randy
Eddie
Jake
Vivian Campbell
Di Martini
Mick Mars
Mathias Jabs/Rudolph Schenker
Michael Schenker/Uli Roth
Tipton/Downing
Murray/Smith
Chris DeGarmo/Michael Wilton - 1983 for the Ep damn!
Mike Ball - First Suicidal Tendencies
Wolf Hoffman
Hank Sherman/Michael Denner
Akira Takasaki
Yngwie
Vai
Lynch
Le Tekro
Jeff Hanneman/Kerry King
Hetfield/Hammett
Mustaine
Denis D'Amour - Voi Vod
MaCalpine
Vinnie Moore
Andy Laroque
Al Di Meola
Jason Becker
Marty Friedman

[RacerX]

I don't see a problem with resurrecting this type of thread...

[Cygnus X1]

Sure, but now I have to look to see what I was thinking at the time!

[Twitch]

Some guitarists, some bands all together, but ever changing.

[Grim]

I like how people use the "Yngwie J Malmsteen", so you don't get him confused with all the other Yngwie Malmsteens out there.

I just noticed. It's because it was Yngwie J. Malmsteen on the cover of Rising Force, to me.

[AlexL]

I picked up a guitar because of Tommy Shaw.

I immediately gravitated towards Alex Lifeson and Angus Young as their music turned out to be more fun to play than Styx.

Other idols are Randy Rhoads and John Petrucci, but sadly, I haven't the talent to play like them.

I've recently gotten into Elliot Easton from The Cars, and just spent some time tonight practicing the solos to Dangerous Type and You're All I've Got Tonight.

On bass, it's all about Geddy Lee.

On keyboards, I tend to practice Geddy Lee, Tony Banks (Genesis), and any TSO stuff I find interesting.

On Drums, which I haven't been playing for very long, it's really anything I think I can play along to. I love Neil Peart and Mike Prtnoy, but that kind of playing will never happen for me. My drummer buddy says I have a good internal clock. I can live with that.

- E.

[akoch]

Picking up the guitar: Yngwie

Influences: Yngwie, Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Helloween, Artillery, Coroner