#1 Influence

[JackBootedThug]

Some of you guys are really showing your age here!

Yes, our ages and the level of proficiency we shot for.

My post was who inspired me to pick up a guitar, not what proficiency I shot for. Both Tom DeLonge and Billy Joe Armstrong can and rightly should be credited with pushing a massive amount of people to pick up guitars from my generation. Sorry that ruffles your feathers.

i always wanted one of those strats...

 

[Mailman1971]

Some of you guys are really showing your age here!

Yes, our ages and the level of proficiency we shot for.

My post was who inspired me to pick up a guitar, not what proficiency I shot for. Both Tom DeLonge and Billy Joe Armstrong can and rightly should be credited with pushing a massive amount of people to pick up guitars from my generation. Sorry that ruffles your feathers.

i always wanted one of those strats...

Me to....
Invader in the bridge....just a rock machine

 

[Beyond Black]

Randy Rhoads would be my #1 influence/hero as a wee lad. That being said, Gillis on Ozzy's "Speak of the Devil" was the first album that I actually started learning and playing along to. Gillis' tone on that album DESTROYED me at 13 and still does.

Amen brother. We must be close to the same age. I played along to SOTD and still do. It was such a fresh approach to the Sabbath catalog. You can hear every instrument clear as a bell on that recording and Ozzy's voice sounds fantastic.
It filled the void of Randy's loss to some extent. Got me thru that tough time.

I'm 46. My Godmother got me that album for my birthday in '82 and it blew my head off! Agreed that the recording is phenomenal. That album still sounds massive, Gillis' tone is killer, and the band was on fire. Whether or not Ozzy recorded his vocal tracks in the studio, I couldn't possibly care any less, that album is a killer.

 

[lll]

It's a tie.

-and-

 

[Chubtone]

Some of you guys are really showing your age here!

Yes, our ages and the level of proficiency we shot for.

My post was who inspired me to pick up a guitar, not what proficiency I shot for. Both Tom DeLonge and Billy Joe Armstrong can and rightly should be credited with pushing a massive amount of people to pick up guitars from my generation. Sorry that ruffles your feathers.

I read the title as #1 influence and not first influence. If it was first influence I would have said Ace Frehley.

Zero feathers were ruffled here but the opportunity to smack talk back to smack talk was taken. Your post clearly called a bunch of us old men with a smiley face afterwards and that's cool, we are. But if you wanna roast, I'm going to roast back. That's the way it works here. So, fire away power chord basher and I will take some Geritol and work on some weedly - weedly - weedly - weee scale licks.

And oh yeah, don't forget the

 

[metalmaniac93]

Definitely my #1 influence!!!

 

[SpiderWars]

Frank Marino & Tony Iommi are mine. They both had as much influence on me, for different reasons.

Talk about showing your age: My first concert was I think 1976. Ted Nugent was the headliner, this new band called Foreigner was the middle act, and the opener was Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush who I had never heard of at the time. I was a big fan after that show. Saw him several times after.

And FWIW (more dating myself It was Glen Campbell on his TV show that made me pick up the guitar at first but he is def not an influence.

 

[prsplayer86]

The young me would say Eddie, Wylde, and Hetfield.. Hell thats true to an extent but the more studio stuff I do and song writing I get under my belt I find that none of those really influenced me as much as I thought. Dave and Marty influenced me more than I ever realized. I only learned a handful of the songs early on. Hanger 18, symphony, She wolf, almost honest.. But I can go back and listen to my earliest to my latest recording and theres marty and dave tid bits through out. Even in completely different genres.

 

[chaosmonger]

For me it's a tie between:

- Denis "Piggy" D'Amour (Voivod)
- Chris Degarmo (Queensryche)

 

[thenine]

EVH and Rhoads

 

[Stradazone]

Edward

 

[a24fretman]

Frank Marino & Tony Iommi are mine. They both had as much influence on me, for different reasons.

Talk about showing your age: My first concert was I think 1976. Ted Nugent was the headliner, this new band called Foreigner was the middle act, and the opener was Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush who I had never heard of at the time. I was a big fan after that show. Saw him several times after.

And FWIW (more dating myself It was Glen Campbell on his TV show that made me pick up the guitar at first but he is def not an influence.

Amen to that Brother! Ya, You got me pegged! I'm certainly not a young pup. If i remember correctly,(LOL) My first show was Ted Nugent as well. I think it was in 75/76. I think Stranglehold just came out, or maybe it was on the free for all tour. Anywho, I heard all the commotion about Ted challenging anybody on guitar rumor, and heard that Frank Marino answered the call, and absolutely blew him off stage. Anyway, had to go see this guy, and WOW, that was it, he floored me, other than Tony Iommi from previous years, and was serious about guitar ever since. The only other time i got that excited over guitar at that time, was a few years later, hearing Tony off Heaven & Hell/Mob rules.

and....Geriatric Rock Rules!!!

 

[Ventura]

Thank fucking gawd I didn't have to be the first.

Inca Baby, you and me Bro, you and me

 

[Mr. Willy]

Gilmour. He was the guy who made me realize how important feel and phrasing are and that the perfect note at the perfect time is magical. There are several guitarists mentioned here that I love as well (VH, Rhoads, Satch, Brian May), but Gilmour's playing totally affected my approach to lead playing.

 

[ReloadZZ]

Hetfield-Gilmour

 

[alan67]

Some of you guys are really showing your age here!

I've been on the internet for 18 years now, and that is the first time I've ever seen anyone mention him as an influence.


That's not a good thing either.

I don't know who 'him' is.

I have no idea who that is either......except that he's rocking the doofus look in that pic....

 

[codyjarret]

 

[shredhead7]

Happy to see that Lynch was mentioned a lot in this thread. He was the reason that I started playing and to this day, almost 30 years later, my go to noodling still has a Lynch vibe to it. It's like an accent that I was never able to drop.

 

[blackie13]

wolf hoffmann

 

[Bishop5150]

There was so many growing up when I first started playing as a kid in the 80's. Guess I'd have to go with Randy.