Name the 4 or 5 guitarists that most informs your playing

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All 4 of the teletubbies, especially tinky winky
Barney from his greatest f***in hits album
King diamonds 2nd cousin shyqueisha
Beyond that I would say
Jimi
EVH
Vai
Dime
Randy/Iommi/Hetfield
 
Most Influential:

James Hetfield
Tony Iommi
Jerry Cantrell
Tommy Victor
Zakk Wylde

Close Seconds:

Pepper Keenan
Adam Jones
Billy Corgan
Jim Martin
Geordie Walker

Honorable Mention:

Greg Ginn
Josh Homme
John Christ
Robb Flynn
Dino Cazares

Sorry...Way too many.
 
East Bay Ray from Dead Kennedy's because that dude managed to mix surf music with punk music and I think that sounds sick. I basically aspire to something similar but more with spaghetti western and hardcore.

Jimmy & Angus because that's what I hear in my brain when someone says rock'n'roll.

Neeraj Kane of The Suicide File and The Hope Conspiracy. Not exactly in the pantheon of the rest of these guys but the most contemporary and the only one I grew up seeing live.
 
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Ok, I'll take a shot and then do some 'splainin' after my list.

1. Kurt Cobain
2. Phil Ensor (Limp)
3. Dan Lukacinsky (The Suicide Machines)
4. Fletcher Dragge (Pennywise)
5. El Hefe, Eric Melvin (NOFX)

I picked up the guitar to learn Nirvana songs, but my listening habits quickly pivoted to punk and ska. I stayed there for a while, got really comfortable, started writing music, changed tastes, and then didn't continue to learn the guitar parts to the new music I was listening to. So I never learned how to play death metal even though it's what I listen to most of the time when I'm listening to anything under the rock umbrella. I'm just a sloppy punk guitarist who writes stuff that's too complicated and hard for me to play.
 
phillybhatesme said:
Ok, I'll take a shot and then do some 'splainin' after my list.

1. Kurt Cobain
2. Phil Ensor (Limp)
3. Dan Lukacinsky (The Suicide Machines)
4. Fletcher Dragge (Pennywise)
5. El Hefe, Eric Melvin (NOFX)

I picked up the guitar to learn Nirvana songs, but my listening habits quickly pivoted to punk and ska. I stayed there for a while, got really comfortable, started writing music, changed tastes, and then didn't continue to learn the guitar parts to the new music I was listening to. So I never learned how to play death metal even though it's what I listen to most of the time when I'm listening to anything under the rock umbrella. I'm just a sloppy punk guitarist who writes stuff that's too complicated and hard for me to play.
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Oh my god I love Phil Ensor. What an underrated player.

"Clear Color" might be the most well-written 90s pop punk song
 
DanTravis62 said:
Oh my god I love Phil Ensor. What an underrated player.

"Clear Color" might be the most well-written 90s pop punk song
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I have never ever met anyone in the wild who knows the band. Pop and Disorderly is one of my favorite albums of all time. Clear Color is a masterpiece. All About Paula is a vibe. Jesus christ dude, holy shit.
 
phillybhatesme said:
I have never ever met anyone in the wild who knows the band. Pop and Disorderly is one of my favorite albums of all time. Clear Color is a masterpiece. All About Paula is a vibe. Jesus christ dude, holy shit.
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Dude, that album is a masterpiece

One of the best punk albums of all time, full stop

Stable is a perfectly written pop song, All about Paula is amazing as well

That band is a great example that it's literally all luck that decides whether bands "make it" or not. If that record came out today, it would literally re-ignite the entire genre. They were cursed with label troubles, and not being from the correct scene at the correct time. I totally tried to audition for them as a teenager when the second guitarist left LOL, but they had already broken up by the time Phil emailed me back.
 
DanTravis62 said:
Dude, that album is a masterpiece

One of the best punk albums of all time, full stop

Stable is a perfectly written pop song, All about Paula is amazing as well

That band is a great example that it's literally all luck that decides whether bands "make it" or not. If that record came out today, it would literally re-ignite the entire genre. They were cursed with label troubles, and not being from the correct scene at the correct time. I totally tried to audition for them as a teenager when the second guitarist left LOL, but they had already broken up by the time Phil emailed me back.
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Incredible. I couldn't agree more about Pop and Disorderly. Believe, Weirdo, just great, fun songs. You know what they also suffered from? You search for "Limp band" or "Limp music" back in 1996-1999, the only hits you're getting are Limp Bizkit. You had to find these guys. Phil did an interview with someone in 2021 and talked about how he never really tried to get the band on Fat Wreck, even though he...maybe worked for them? I don't remember everything, but it's definitely worth the listen if you haven't heard it already.

 
Jeesh, my head hurts trying to do this…
Ty Tabor
Adam Jones
Gary Moore
Jimmy Page
Pat Travers
There are a bunch more who I love and listened to a lot but I can’t play like they do at all. Most of the guys who influenced me did a lot of vibrato that sounded similar to a human voice
 
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JTyson said:
Jeesh, my head hurts trying to do this…
Ty Tabor
Adam Jones
Gary Moore
Jimmy Page
Pat Travers
There are a bunch more who I love and listened to a lot but I can’t play like they do at all. Most of the guys who influenced me did a lot of vibrato that sounded similar to a human voice
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My #1 is Allan Holdsworth; it's inspirational...I'd need several lifetimes to get to close to where he was at 21 years old. :sick:

This lesson makes my brain hurt, beware. Just to be clear, this is only "Guitar Lesson 01". I can only imagine Lesson 02, or 05. :LOL:


 
Waylon Jennings
Paul Daniel Frehley
Pearl Thompson
Prince Rogers Nelson
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend

Pretty much anyone that wasn't in Pearl Jam.

 
The Edge
Radio Head
Tony Iommi
Mike Sullivan (Russian Circles)
Jerry Cantrell
 
Hetfield
Dimebag
Mark Morton
Vogg


Damn, 5 is tough. Lots of guys that I respect their playing these days, and I maybe write riffs somewhat similarly, but I don't think I listened to them much in my formative years to consider them influences.
 
David Gilmour
Randy Rhoads
Graham Coxon
Steve Jones
The guy in the Cars (Elliot Easton?)
 
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