Albums that molded you into the musician you are today?

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Kiss - Alive I and II
VH - I and Fair Warning
Rush - Fly By Night & Exit Stage Left
Yes - Drama and 90125
Dokken - ULAK & BFTA
Alice - From The Inside & Nightmare
Vinnie Moore - Time Odyssey
Ozzy - blizzard
Queensryche - Mindcrime
 
Smashing Pumpkins - Their entire catalog
Abandoned Pools - Humanistic
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Pantera - Vulgar Display
Sevendust - Home
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Green Day - Insomniac
Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors
Deftones - Around The Fur
 
Dokken - Under Lock and Key, Tooth and Nail (The reason I picked up the guitar)
Yngwie - Rising Force, Marching Out and Trilogy (I wore out these three tab books, especially RF and MO)
Racer X -Street Lethal/Live Extreme Volume (Holy Shit!)
MSG - Perfect Timing, Save Yourself (The best slabs of melodic rock ever to me. Also wore out these tab books)
Dream Theater - Images and Words (Everything culminated in this epic)
Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets (Tender Surrender is one of the best instrumental pieces and overlooked by most)
 
In no particular order...

The Rolling Stones albums released between 1968-1972
The Alice Cooper albums released from 1970-1973
Led Zeppelin - I through IV
Rory Gallagher's live album
New York Dolls New York Dolls
Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Yes - The Yes Album through Close to the Edge
Sabbath Volume IV
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Al Dimeola - Elegant Gypsy
Good Rats - Tasty
CSN - the '69 and '77 albums
CSNY - Deja Vu
Aerosmith - Everything up to and including Draw the Line
The first 4 Van Halen albums
Blizzard of Oz
Diary of a Madman
Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes

That is off the top of my head...

Steve
 
Early influences that shaped the way I thought as a growing musician

Aerosmith Rocks, Get Your Wings and Toys in the Attic, Draw the Line
VH self titled through Fair Warning
UFO Strangers in the Night
Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Iron Maiden Killers and Number of the Beast
Judas Priest Unleashed in the East
Cheap Trick Live at Budokan and Dream Police
Journey Evolution, Departure and Escape
First two Ozzy albums
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

There's more but these had a big impact on me early on.
 
Aerosmith: GYW, Toys, Rocks, DTL
Van Halen: 1, 2, WACF
Led Zeppelin: 3, PG, HOH
Extreme: Pornograffiti
Dokken: ULAK, BFTA
Billy Squier: Tale of The Tape, Don't Say No
Guns N Roses: UYI 1
UFO: Strangers In The Night
Queen: A Night At The Opera, Queen 1/2, Jazz
 
Van Halen - 1984
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
 
Fugazi-Repeater
Black Flag-Damaged
S.O.D.-Speak English or Die
Hatebreed-Perseverance
Terror-One With the Underdogs
Nirvana-Nevermind
Slayer-Seasons in the Abyss
Anthrax-Among the Living
Helmet-Meantime
Black Sabbath-Sabotage

This could go on...
 
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Tool - all
Metallica - MoP, RtL, Justice
Thrice - all
Deftones - all, especially White Pony
August Burns Red - Messengers
 
AC/DC - Back in Black / For Those About to Rock
Judas Priest - Screamin for Vengeance
Metallica - Ride / Master
SRV - Texas Flood
Van Halen - 1
King X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Janes Addiction - Nothings Shocking
Saturday Night Fever - Movie Soundtrack
Kiss - Destroyer
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

There was so much great stuff on the radio in the 70's......
Simon and Garfunkel
Tom Jones
Nazereth
Foghat
Allmans
Skynyrd
Willie
George Jones
Journey
Fleetwood
Nugent
Purple
Zep
Jimi
Floyd

The list goes on and on..........
 
VH 1
Rio Grande Mud - ZZ Top
Bridge of Sighs - Trower
Rush
 
KISS - Alive II
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Ozzy - Diary of a Madman
Van Halen I
Led Zeppelin IV
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Metallica - RTL/MOP/Justice
Slayer - Show no Mercy/Reign in Blood
 
cool thread! Here are the ones that I heard and put me in a particular direction.

Kiss Alive - Made me want to play guitar

Blizzard of Ozz/Diary of a Madman - These made me seriously get into theory and a bit of classical guitar. I remember looking at Doug Marks Metal Method #6 (Randy Rhoads style) and a Mel Bay book and all the sudden modes/theory just came together. I spent many an after school times playing along with both those cassettes front to back.

Surfin' with the Alien - 1st instrumental CD I every really connected with and thought "I want to do instrumental music".

Chris Duarte - Texas Sugar Strat Magic - got me into the more funkier rhythm playing.

Michael Schenker - about anything - he's the latest influence. Just the Vibrato, phrasing, writing - definitely trying to go in that vein with my own thing with it.
 
it's easy to tell the age of the posters,........BUT!!!!...it took 24 posts before SABBATH was mentioned!!!

we're all doomed!!!


KISS-dressed to kill-alive-destroyer....bought my first guitar and used my mothers sound design console tv/stero with a 1/4 mic input as an amp.

BLACK SABBATH-SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH-VOLUME 4-SABATOGE-MASTER OF REALITY-PARANOID-NEVER SAY DIE-TECHNICAL ECTASY-HEAVEN AND HELL-(when your 13 and your Italian catholic grandmother rips your SABBATH posters off the wall,..."tries" to throw out your albums,...and says your going to burn in hell,...this might be the point of the rebellious teenager stage)
 
music in general for me ;)

a few of my key albums

Blizzard and Diary - Ozzy/ RR
VHI and VHII - VH
Holy Diver - Dio
Piece of Mind - Maiden
We sold out souls for rock ans roll - Black Sabbath.
Rising Force / Marching out Yngwie
Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck
Classical Music...love Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart etc
 
The Supremes - 20 Greatest Hits
Rod Stewart - Foot Loose and Fancy Free
ELO - New World Record
Kiss - Dynasty
Queen - The Game and Live Killers
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
Sabbath - S/T
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
Accept - Restless and Wild
Rose Tattoo - Rose Tattoo
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
 
Shawn Lutz":1sdx02m1 said:
Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck
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:doh: Forgot about that one - shoulda been on my list as well - big influence…

Steve
 
sg guy":1v4eeugy said:
it's easy to tell the age of the posters,...…..
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Oh, no doubt - and based on what I've seen, I win the "old man" contest! :lol: :LOL:
sg guy":1v4eeugy said:
BUT!!!!...it took 24 posts before SABBATH was mentioned!!!
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And I'm proud to be the one who mentioned them! Laying in front of my parent's giant console stereo furniture thingy blasting "Snowblind" over and over until the speakers started tearing is one of my fondest memories of youth… :rock:

Steve
 
The Beatles - Rubber Soul and Revolver
Santana - Abraxas
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Peter Frampton - Comes Alive
KISS - Alive I and Alive II
Queen - News Of The Word
Led Zeppelin - Every LP!!!
Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
Rush - All The World's A Stage, 2112, Hemispheres
Van Halen - S/T to Fair Warning
AC/DC - Highway To Hell and Back In Black
Def Leppard - High N Dry
Ozzy - Blizzard/Diary
Black Sabbath - Paranoid and Sabotage
Dokken - Tooth and Nail, UL&K, BFTA
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules
Dio - Holy Diver and The Last In Line
TNT - Knights of The New Thunder
Loudness - Thunder In The East
Iron Maiden - NOTB
Judas Priest - British Steel
Scorpions - Blackout
Whitesnake - 1987
Alcatrazz - No Parole From Rock N Roll
Yngwie - Rising Force
Tony MacAlpine - Edge of Sanity
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Metallica - RTL and MOP
Testament - The New Order
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Dream Theater - Images and Words
AIC - Dirt
Gov't Mule - S/T and Dose
 
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