Who would you say are your influences as a player?

Karl Hungus

Thought this might be an interesting thread for our lovely new forum.

Personally, my biggest influences would have to be:

Mikael Akerfeldt
Chuck Schuldiner
Marty Friedman
John Petrucci

OLP

Yeah i'd have to say my list would go like this

Lemmy
Duck Dunn
James Jamerson
Steve Harris
Cliff Burton
John Entwistle

The Freeman

i'd say



rory gallagher
hendrix
clapton
josh homme
george harrisson:cool:

Steve_o

Eric Clapton
Gordon Lightfoot
Bob Dylan
Neil Young

Its a bit of a mix and match but i try to vary as much as possible.

Doc_Savage

Edward Van Halen ..............................(flash)
Duane Allman .....................................(soul)
SRV .................................................(feel)
Billy Gibbons ......................................(touch)
James Hetfield ...................................(meat and two veg)
Josh Homme ......................................(sloppy lead)

thats in chronological order too!

feylya

Kirk Hammett
James Hetfield
Tom Morello
Josh Homme

Toly

Id go for.......

Marty Freidman
Dimebag Darrell
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Herman Li..............and many more

0utshined

For me the mainstays would be :

Bill Steer - Carcass
Anders Björler - At The Gates
Johnny Marr - The Smiths
John Squire - The Stone Roses

From time to time I'll have a few players who I'm really enjoying listening to and hearing what they do e.g. Vini Reilly from the Durutti Column at the moment, but those four are the ones the inspire me to play better all the time.

So Glad

Eric clapton
Allan Holdsworth
A Multitude of shredders (Vai, Satch ,Malmsteen, Friedman ect.)
Tommy Emmanuel
David Gilmore

red_ice

I think im a tad different from the bunch as i've been playing guitar for 11 or so years now, but havnt had any influences By that i mean, ive always tried to make sure i have my own sound, and ive never tried to mimic other peoples sounds (big mistake, its effecting me now im not as versatile as i want to be). Its only in the last 2/3 years that ive started to take notice of playing styles and accepted influences and its simply because of QOTSA.

Billy Gibbons (i have a real ZZTop Key Chain on my car keys!!) The chaps a legend.

Mark Knopfler is good too imo, i've paid him some attention, but only because i was told to from my guitar teacher. I have respect for him, but i wouldnt want to go into that style, or let it influence me much..

Conor McGoren (old mate of mine whos name i probably spelt wrong lol)... heard him playing out side of a mutual friends backgarden when i was 8/9, made me want to play too!!

Josh Homme is (imo) The most creative chap on the planet - so he would be my only real influence for sure. For the last 2/3 years ive been listening to more and more stuff from the dessert sessions 1-10(11/12 out soon!!), kyuss, and anything qotsa related or can be linked to qotsa via 6 degrees of kevin bacon haha. Every time i hear Josh playing it blows my mind - not the complexity or technique(or lack there of), but for being able to put the right riff, in a style that just hasnt been done before. So, the only person i can see ever being a real influence on my guitar would be josh homme, simply because unlike most guitarests, you cant taint him with the one style brush. He has a box of tricks for every style, and apon hearing it it can only be related to him. You know its josh when you hear him - thats why imo, he is my only influence.

Other people who would influence my bass playing (ive started playing bass)
would be the bass player from Death From Above 1979, and UB40!

Doc_Savage

red_ice wrote:

Josh Homme is (imo) The most creative chap on the planet

100% agree!!!

Kilgore-Trout

Frank Zappa
Allan Holdsworth
Jason Becker
Ron Jarzombek
Steve Vai

ANarcho-Munk

For m, it's something like

Brian Baker
Guitarist from Rich Kids On Lsd (don't know his name )
J Mascis
Greg Ginn
Robby Kreiger
Mike Ness
Johnny Cash
Jeff Buckley
Joe Satriani
Tony Iommi

They are pretty much all the main ones.

Beecher

Kirk Hammet
Slash
John Petrucci
Bill Steer/Michael Amott (the solo in no love lost really inspired me towards certain techniques)
Steve Vai

For Bass:
Lol Tolhurst - The Cure
Brian Ritchie - Violent Femmes
Mike Dirnt - Green Day

I like to think my sound would be a nice mix of all three

For lyrics,
You just can't beat Tom Waits!

kheed

Tom Morello
Slash
Mike McCready and Stone Gossard
Neil Young
Josh Homme
Rory Gallagher
Stephen Carpenter



Influences........If i could play as well as any of them that'd be ****in awesome. Totally agree about Josh Homme....Genius, Where did you get dessert session 1 - 8, I've only ever heard 9 and 10

red_ice

kheed wrote:

Where did you get dessert session 1 - 8, I've only ever heard 9 and 10

http://www.rekordsrekords.com/main.html (the ending track on 7+8 is so ****ing funny)

The dessert sessions is the only way to see how josh and every band tied to qotsa has evolved. It starts off 1-4 mainly kyuss, and then starts to include PJ Harvey and loads of other guests. 11/12 should actually be done by now. The dessert sessions also has loads of kick ass songs like Avon, hanging tree and so on recorded low qual, Avon actually had different lyrics and went by another name(cant remember)... Thank god josh's lyrics are being used in 'todays' version. most of queens stuff like 'millionare', sung by Mario Lalli, who does a more bluesy/not sung form the throat version(the origional). There are tonnes of SWEET origional versions on the dessert sessions.

If you think you know queens, if you think you've heard it all, think again! Without the dessert sessions you know nothing! So many great versions of songs that later were put on albums. Alot of it is just them jamming, making weird songs, experimenting - the albums show you how to do it, and gave me and my band an idea of how to approach music in a relaxed, productive way and not to get hung up on sounding like another band, the key being to make it your own and not worry about the 'rules' of music; you have break a few eggs to make an omelette! :v:

The dessert sessions is another thing that inspired me when i say 'josh homme'.. Simply because if you see the ranche they recorded in, its not far from anything you could set up at home.

red_ice

lol, just refreshed the rekords rekords site and the ending song came on - class!

Mr. CooL ICE

Cliff Burton
Steve Harris
Fieldy (hehe )

More recently, I would add
Steve Di'Giorgio
Kelly Conlon

Mongo

Tim Commerford
Marcus Miller for my slap style
Ben Kenney
John Paul Jones....what a legend.Great feel and phrasing
Paul McCartney
and many more I'm sure.

Doc_Savage

i just have to add matt belamy to my list!!

dunno how i forgot about him!!

novarock

A Bass Player:

Mark king - I dont think anyone slaps better
Nick Oliveri - (Come back, its not the same!!!)
John Paul Jones - no explanation required.
Flea - Despite his sloppy technique he's still excellent
Krist Novoselic - It was him that made me take it up in the first place

demanufactured

vai
satch
hendrix
gilmour
lukather
kerry king

John

Guitarists I like to think have influenced me are:
Adam Jones (Tool/The Melvins)
Blixa Bargeld (Birthday Party/Bad Seeds/Einstuerzende Neubauten)
Neil Young
Roland S. Howard (The Birthday Party)
Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine)
Lou Reed (Velvet Underground/solo)

Bassists that have influenced me:
Paul D'Amour (Tool)
Justin Chancellor (Peach/Tool)
Mark Chung (Einstuerzende Neubauten)
Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order)
Scott Reeder (Kyuss)
Martin Mendez (Opeth)

As well as these playing influences, artists like Einstuerzende Neubauten, Merzbow, Throbbing Gristle, Coil, John Cage, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Swans, Sunn O))) and The Hafler Trio have challenged the way I think about music and about song structure. I mean it's all well and good if you're listening to a guitarist play something impressive but I like it when a musician uses something non-musical to make music. Like using an electric razor on a guitar or a jackhammer or weird frequencies.

pbsuxok1znja4r

Teppei Terranishi
Dustin Kensrue
James Hetfield
Justin Beck
Todd Weinstock
Jon Brännström
Kristofer Steen

...All of 'em rhythm guitarists!

frux

Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Jason Becker
Marty Friedman
John Petrucci
Paco de Lucia

Giblet

Slash, Jonny Greenwood, Van Halen.

I've been playing a lot of Seahorse lately, I feel so ashamed. It's good for playing "I'm playing lead and rhythm at the same time and I love myself" type playing.

Spicy Lauren

Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
Cobain
The Edge
Nick Drake

0utshined

Giblet wrote:

I've been playing a lot of Seahorse lately, I feel so ashamed.

Hey don't feel bad, John Squire is an amazing player. Love is the law was a cool tune too.

Giblet

0utshined wrote:

Hey don't feel bad, John Squire is an amazing player. Love is the law was a cool tune too.

Yeah I found my capo recently and started rocking it out :cool:

BossArky

Mike McCready
Stone Gossard
Dave Mustaine
Marty Freidmann
Kirk Hammett
That fellow from Cake
Spicy Lauren
..plus others.

Duff_Man

jimmy page
slash
gary moore
hendrix
rory gallagher

Rustar

Guitar:
Steve Howe
Jeff Beck
BB King
SRV

Bass:
Chris Squire
John Paul Jones
and believe it or not, whoever wrote many of those cool KISS bass parts, Bob Ezrin/Paul Stanley/Gene Simmons

sinjin_smythe

Rory Gallagher
Josh Homme
Mat Belamy
Hendrix

Seems to be a big QOTSA fan club here

John

weedhead wrote:

Seems to be a big QOTSA fan club here

Don't forget Mr Homme was in Kyuss too