who are your heroes?

JeanH

David Bowie - His idea of using personas had a major impact on me. He had said he used Ziggy mainly to overcome shyness and... it works. His creation of new worlds and 'alternative realities'' (to quote the great man himself) with most of his albums fascinated me.

Jarvis Cocker - my first love! Pulp were the first band that got my attention in 1995. Mis Shapes was the first song that I heard by them on Top of the Pops on a miserable october evening. It was the lyrics that initially attracted me. It was like listening to life. Then the image and the music made sense too.

John Deacon - a more recent one for me. I really began listening to Queen properly in 2003. John drew my attention to the bass guitar and within a year and a half I bought my first bass. He's still my favourite bassist and he's always came across as a nice, quiet and unassuming person too which (provided you're not the frontman/woman) is nice and admirable.

BurnsCarpenter

Robert Pollard. More great songs written than anyone else IMO.

Alanstrainor

Stevie Ray Vaughan. My favourite guitarist of all time, truly amazing. The biggest influence on my guitar playing.

lordgoat

JeanH wrote: »

Jarvis Cocker - my first love! Pulp were the first band that got my attention in 1995. Mis Shapes was the first song that I heard by them on Top of the Pops on a miserable october evening. It was the lyrics that initially attracted me. It was like listening to life. Then the image and the music made sense too.

Mis-Shapes Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits. Raised on a diet of broken biscuits, oh we don't look the same as you We don't do the things you do...

Love Jarvis, his words are what it's all about.

mental07

lordgoat wrote: »

Mis-Shapes Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits. Raised on a diet of broken biscuits, oh we don't look the same as you We don't do the things you do...

Love Jarvis, his words are what it's all about.

This inspired me to go and listen to that song for the first time in years. And I still know all the words!!

markesmith

Mark Hollis.
Paul Weller.
Kate Bush.
Elvis Costello.
Mark E Smith.

Ziltoid

Shawn Lane
Guthrie Govan
Devin Townsend
Paul Gilbert
John Petrucci
Michael Romeo

I admire their attitudes as much as I do their playing!

Alanstrainor

Rustar wrote: »

Guitar heroe:...Stevie Ray

+1
Stevie Ray Vaughan has to be my all time favorite guitarist and blues musician, i love Freddie king too...
And of course Christy Moore, amazing.

eamon234

David Byrne
Ben Folds
DJ Shadow
Nina Simone
Ruben Gonzales
Stan Ridgeway (stop laughing!)
Jim White
Imogen Heap
Kate Bush
Peter Gabriel
Tom Waits

Killaqueen!!!

Hmm..I know different people will have different heroes but although I love most of the artists that have been mentioned, I wouldn't consider them 'heroes'. They may be amazing at electric guitar and in that case I'd like to add Brian May to the list. May would be one of my favourite guitar players. But think some artists (to me) can be heroes for more than just producing some good songs.

Anyway, here's mine:

Freddie Mercury
Tina Turner
The Boss, Bruce Springsteen

and Jack Johnson

Jelly 292

Jimi Hendrix

Peyton Manning

Jim Adkins

Hermy

Frank Zappa

Orbghost

2nd vote for Frank Zappa, people like him only come along every century or so.