Name the 4 or 5 guitarists that most informs your playing

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Oh man, for me it’s these cats:

• Ace Frehley
• Tony Iommi
• Andy LaRocque
• George Lynch

Lots of other “sauce” taken from others but those are my guys.
 
1. James Hatfield
2. Jerry Cantrell
3. Dimebag
4. Dave Mustaine
5. Mark Morton

I'm more of a rhythm player so i feel these guys have left the biggest imprint on my playing. Especially Hetfield and Cantrell, but lately I've been learning a lot by playing old Lamb Of God songs with their weird finger twisting riffs. Like that second riff in "now you've got something to die for". That's difficult.
 
If you listen carefully to my hack playing, you will hear a little bit of these guys:

1. Jimmy Page
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Michael Schenker
4. Uli Roth
5. Gary Moore

These were my earliest influences and guitar heroes..
 
Ed, Lynch, Neal Schon, Leslie West, Joe Walsh.

It depends if you ask other people or ask me. That list is a bit of a blend, because I don’t try to do the Ed thing, but I’ve listed to so much VH that it just comes out, and playing covers in bands people always say “you make that sound like Van Halen”. I think that also comes a little bit from them being ignorant of other players, which is fine. In my mind, I rip off Vito Bratta way more than Ed.

For me Ed is the “sound”, George is the experimental nature, and the rest of the guys are who I’d like to play like.
 
Angus Young , VH , Metheny , Scott Henderson , John Scofield , Holdsworth
 
EVH
Brad Paisley
Randy Rhoads
SRV

Lots of guys could go in the 5th slot but those are the 4 I've cribbed by far the most from.
 
1) Ace… first band that knocked me on my ass as a kid…
2) Randy Rhoads… no fucking explanation needed
3) Jake E. Lee….
4) George Lynch
5) Paco, John, Al…. FRIDAY NIGHT IN SAN Francisco… a paradigm shift….
 
  • Ty Tabor
  • Jerry Cantrell
  • Richie Kotzen
  • Eddie
  • Andy Timmons
  • John Petrucci
  • Lukather
  • Hetfield
  • Chris Cornell
 
McLeanAB said:
1) Ace… first band that knocked me on my ass as a kid…
2) Randy Rhoads… no fucking explanation needed
3) Jake E. Lee….
4) George Lynch
5) Paco, John, Al…. FRIDAY NIGHT IN SAN Francisco… a paradigm shift….
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I name my dog after Paco DeLucia.
 
Brian Setzer
Mark Knopfler
Slash
Jerry Cantrell
Josh Homme
 
SoooRad said:
Ed, Lynch, Neal Schon, Leslie West, Joe Walsh.

It depends if you ask other people or ask me. That list is a bit of a blend, because I don’t try to do the Ed thing, but I’ve listed to so much VH that it just comes out, and playing covers in bands people always say “you make that sound like Van Halen”. I think that also comes a little bit from them being ignorant of other players, which is fine. In my mind, I rip off Vito Bratta way more than Ed.

For me Ed is the “sound”, George is the experimental nature, and the rest of the guys are who I’d like to play like.
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Essentially every rock guitarist after Edward was influenced by him in some way, whether they admit it or not. Or realize it. I've often said I don't play much like EVH, but that are certain types of phrasing/slurs I use and I know where it comes from. I used to think it came from Vai, but Ed did it first. He even influenced Rhoads, which RR wanted to avoid in his own recordings, obviously.
 
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