Same... I heard the intro to money for nothing in grade 3 and have been playing ever since... as far as form and style goes though... SRV, McCready, Iommi, Hendrix, Angus...
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Jimmy Page, then I saw a video of Stevie Ray Vaughn playing live...almost cried.....but now Im completly influenced by Mike and Stone....Im not the best lead player so I just try to be the most well rounded player I can.
Billy Gibbons-ZZ Top. When I was 7, I was obsessed with La Grange, Then I really started paying attention to Tom Scholtz's riffs on Boston's 1st record & I was sold.
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I eat more chicken
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Mike McCready is the reason I play guitar. How can you watch him during an Evenflow solo and not want to try that? Maybe Pete Townshend inspired me a bit too.
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When I was 10 years old my dad was listen to B.B. King Live at Apolo, great album, i was in love by the melodie, after B.B.King my dad put Stevie Ray Vaughn, i was almost "out of myself", and to finish, Summertime by Janis Joplin. It was a really big day for me, that day i resolved that someday I was going to learn guitar.
But I olny start to play the guitar at 15 years old, then, PJ was my biggest influence.
for me it was jimmy page ,steve vai...(damn i drool when i see this guy play!!) and jerry cantrell from AIC those people were a big inspiration for me ,what about you?
Def. Jerry Cantrell was huge, especially watching him with those solos on AIC Unplugged I loved it. And PJ.....mainly black and the riff to alive.
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I got my first guitar about 5 years ago. My grandfather left it for me when he died. Around the same time, my mom gave me her old vinyl collection. I listened to Clapton, VanHalen and Hendrix, and before my mom could even sign me up for lessons, I was playing "Kiss the Sky"... it's amazing what having timeless mentors like them can do. Eventually Nirvana and Pearl Jam got me into writing my own music.
Well technically Robert Deleo (of STP) got me into playing bass, and love playing his riffs. After that I tried to start writing songs, and just went out and bought a cheap guitar. Funny thing is bass playing wise, I love guitar oriented rock, I.E. Black Crowes, Blind Melon, Big Head Todd and the Monsters.
Guitar playing wise, I love the power pop punk thing.
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Micheal J. Fox in Back to the Future. I was ten and before that I had a 4 string nylon toy guitar that had been my brothers. So I was trying to play along to duran duran on that guitar or a yardstick. My parents got sick of it so they sent me to lessons. So my influences went from Rick Springfield, Duran Duran, Chuck Berry via Marty McFly, C.C. Deville, Ritchie Sambora, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Hendrix, Stones, Kurt Cobain, Mike McCready.
Mark Knopfler made me want to play. Stone/Mike/Zappa made me want to be GOOD!!!
"I get into a state of consciousness that I can't explain. It is about feeling and not thinking. I get positive chills and insight into things that I can't get to any other way. It is Healing of the Soul." - Mike McCready
Well I fell in love with the sound of a guitar through smashing pumpkins in grade 7 and 8. That was the first time I really liked some guitar parts as much as the whole of the song.
But I finally started playing cause of Ed. I wanted to write songs, and sing them and play more than anything. funny I can't play and sing at all, or even sing But yah Ed was my biggest influence to actually start playing. Touring Band Ed to be specific. He looked so cool with his black Tele.
I swear that has nothing to do with my black tele hiwatt rig
I miss you already, I miss you always
I miss you already, I miss you all day
Luckily, by the time I found out I could never play as good as Slash, Kurt Cobain came around and he became my hero.
Now, it's guys like Alain Johannes (from Eleven), Murray Lightburn (of The Dears), Johnny Greenwood (obviously of Radiohead) and esoteric jazz guys like Charlie Hunter that keep me inspired to play.
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and nirvana. power chords rock.
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Same... I heard the intro to money for nothing in grade 3 and have been playing ever since... as far as form and style goes though... SRV, McCready, Iommi, Hendrix, Angus...
However, the first song that I ever learned was "Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd.
Eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken
Than any man ever seen
Reading 2006 - WOOOOW!!!!!
Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing
Wembley 2007
Yeah I know they're not up there with SRV and Hendrix but they influenced me to pick up a guitar.
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Kirk Hammett
But I olny start to play the guitar at 15 years old, then, PJ was my biggest influence.
That was 11 years ago....and I still play that song alot to this day.
Def. Jerry Cantrell was huge, especially watching him with those solos on AIC Unplugged I loved it. And PJ.....mainly black and the riff to alive.
Guitar playing wise, I love the power pop punk thing.
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But I finally started playing cause of Ed. I wanted to write songs, and sing them and play more than anything. funny I can't play and sing at all, or even sing
I swear that has nothing to do with my black tele hiwatt rig
I miss you already, I miss you all day
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Luckily, by the time I found out I could never play as good as Slash, Kurt Cobain came around and he became my hero.
Now, it's guys like Alain Johannes (from Eleven), Murray Lightburn (of The Dears), Johnny Greenwood (obviously of Radiohead) and esoteric jazz guys like Charlie Hunter that keep me inspired to play.
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