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Guitar Influences
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1944“ Fell in love with everything on "Blow by Blow" and Beck's willingness to experiment. When he hits one out of the park (like "People Get Ready"), it's beautiful. „ - 2
1955“ I'm a child of the 80s. What more do I need to say? „ - 3
1945“ Blackmore was the easiest style to pick up for me when I first studied guitar. Loved the classical elements he introduced into songs. „ - 4
1956“ I wanted a guitar a lot longer than I had one in hand. Listening to "Blizzard of Ozz" was probably what drove me over the edge to getting a guitar. „ - 5
1944“ Never a big Zeppelin fan, but it was hard to escape learning Zep tunes as a young guitarist wannabe. Had to learn a lot of their stuff and recognized the importance of the music in everything else that I wanted to play. „ - 6
1956“ First two albums led me to put the guitar down since I knew I couldn't touch what he was doing. Still a lot of elements in his playing that haven't really materialized out of mine ... but it's there! „ - 7 1963“ Neoclassical guitar. The two greatest words in the English language. Not quite the songwriter of this list, but his style permeates a lot of what I've played (and continue to play .... and strive to play). „
- 8 1966“ The king of fun guitar and the best teacher of this list. He's a great re-assembler of a lot of different rock styles and a heck of a fun musician to learn from. „
- 9 1948“ The style ... the grace ... the three chords. To this day, I still want a cool leather jacket. „
- 10 1947“ Loved his melodies and I blame my urge to harmonize guitar parts based on listening to a lot of Queen tunes in the 80s. „
- 11 1954“ More neoclassical cool. Loved the commercial stuff he wrapped his solos up in. It's a great combo. He wasn't bad in Whitesnake, either. „
- 12 1955“ Selectively influential here. His stuff with MacAuley was pleasantly commercial and fun. But the stuff that sticks with me is his early-80s melodic instrumental stuff that just sings. „
- 13 1954“ His finished work suffers from the ego that he carried along with it. But there was a lot of talent in the mix. Loved his rhythm stuff and some of the solos. Heavy chords in a nice commercial-sounding mix. „
- 14 1959“ For all his talent, I place him here for being a great hard rock rhythm player. That's most of what I try and pick up from him. What I don't borrow from Blackmore in that area, I probably rip off from Sykes' two Whitesnake albums. „
- 15 1953“ Underrated in a lot of capacities. I loved his solos, in particular. They were always fun to pick out; very simple, structurally; and great building blocks for a lot of different styles that followed. „
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Pete Steinkopf
- 17 1979“ Saw her evolve as a guitar player and that makes her a little bit inspiring. In her earlier days, the allure was another fun punk guitar style ... in recent years, she's become quite an amazing guitar player. „
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steve lynch
“ Two-hand tapping gone wild! „ - 19
derry grehan
“ Honeymoon Suite is still one of my favorite bands & Grehan is criminally underrated. There's not a great deal original with his style, but he manages to fit great rock solos very tastefully within tunes. „ - 20
warner hodges
“ Just. Plain. Fun. His influence probably has yet to fully show in what I'm playing. Just wait, though ;-) „
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Guitar Influences at 4/12/2010 10:43 AM
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