Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

An area to discuss erm... musicians?

Moderator: Capt. Black

Mini Forklift
meble-kuchenne.warszawa.pl

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by Mini Forklift »

Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:I'm not sure I can put these in any semblance of order, but mine would be:

Steve Rothery
Paul Kossoff
Brian May
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan
I’m struggling to omit one of those, but Nuno definitely sits on a par with a few of those guys. Hmmmm

User avatar
Bg
Site Admin
Posts: 43187
Joined: Fri Sep 05, 2003 12:13 am
Location: Auckland
Has liked: 2254 times
Been liked: 3873 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by Bg »

Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:
Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:I'm not sure I can put these in any semblance of order, but mine would be:

Steve Rothery
Paul Kossoff
Brian May
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan
I’m struggling to omit one of those, but Nuno definitely sits on a par with a few of those guys. Hmmmm
just dump SRV out of there, its easily done.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

User avatar
chur
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 1268
Joined: Sun Aug 02, 2009 4:05 pm
Location: Christchurch
Has liked: 169 times
Been liked: 210 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by chur »

Slash
Zakk Wylde
Gary Moore
EVH
Clapton

Generally if I can’t think of anything to put on the stereo it will be something from them, however with Spotify streaming there’s no shortage of other options.
No one ever died of hard work.. but why take the risk..

Mini Forklift

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by Mini Forklift »

Bg wrote:
Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:
Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:I'm not sure I can put these in any semblance of order, but mine would be:

Steve Rothery
Paul Kossoff
Brian May
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan
I’m struggling to omit one of those, but Nuno definitely sits on a par with a few of those guys. Hmmmm
just dump SRV out of there, its easily done.
Ironically he’s the player that comes through most in my playing, but yeah out of the five he would likely be the one to be dropped!

User avatar
Bg
Site Admin
Posts: 43187
Joined: Fri Sep 05, 2003 12:13 am
Location: Auckland
Has liked: 2254 times
Been liked: 3873 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by Bg »

Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:
Bg wrote:
Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote: I’m struggling to omit one of those, but Nuno definitely sits on a par with a few of those guys. Hmmmm
just dump SRV out of there, its easily done.
Ironically he’s the player that comes through most in my playing, but yeah out of the five he would likely be the one to be dropped!
lose the strat, lose the hat, drop the chunka chunka chunka, stop wearing kung fu pyjamas. Get some toan. Done.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

foal30
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 7554
Joined: Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:14 pm
Location: South Brighton
Has liked: 608 times
Been liked: 946 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by foal30 »

5 Guitarists I think are highly influential;

Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Page
Nile Rodgers
Eddie Van Halen
Johnny Marr
Genuine Old Frontier Gibberish

foal30
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 7554
Joined: Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:14 pm
Location: South Brighton
Has liked: 608 times
Been liked: 946 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by foal30 »

5 Guitarists I think are great musicians/played on great recordings and in some way are influential;

Jimmy Nolen
Jeff Beck
B.B. King
Prince
Al de Meola
Genuine Old Frontier Gibberish

User avatar
sizzlingbadger
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 8241
Joined: Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:12 am
Location: Wire Wrapper
Has liked: 1202 times
Been liked: 1398 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by sizzlingbadger »

Bg wrote:I think these things are always a snapshot in time. Or thats how I treat them.
Peter Green
Michael Schenker
Rory Gallagher
Mark Knopfler
Matt Bellamy
True, I started with 5 but grew to eight and my list would grow again seeing some of the selections here. You can add Rory to my list for example.
Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...

User avatar
Bg
Site Admin
Posts: 43187
Joined: Fri Sep 05, 2003 12:13 am
Location: Auckland
Has liked: 2254 times
Been liked: 3873 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by Bg »

sizzlingbadger wrote:
Bg wrote:I think these things are always a snapshot in time. Or thats how I treat them.
Peter Green
Michael Schenker
Rory Gallagher
Mark Knopfler
Matt Bellamy
True, I started with 5 but grew to eight and my list would grow again seeing some of the selections here. You can add Rory to my list for example.
Yep 5 is just too hard, for an all time thing, I'm mostly playing bass at the moment and my influences are.... fuck knows.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

foal30
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 7554
Joined: Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:14 pm
Location: South Brighton
Has liked: 608 times
Been liked: 946 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by foal30 »

Mingus
Jamerson
Hook
Jackson
Collins
Genuine Old Frontier Gibberish

foal30
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 7554
Joined: Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:14 pm
Location: South Brighton
Has liked: 608 times
Been liked: 946 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by foal30 »

Chambers
Dunn
Jemmott
Graham
Entwhistle
Genuine Old Frontier Gibberish

User avatar
philly
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 1428
Joined: Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:47 pm
Location: Dunedin
Has liked: 146 times
Been liked: 126 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by philly »

mate... you can't have 2 top 5's... cos that's just 10!
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

User avatar
calling card
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 4279
Joined: Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:56 am
Location: Hoodoo dump, BOP
Has liked: 855 times
Been liked: 274 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by calling card »

Anarchy would so work but for humans :)
2024; I have explored the extent of the perimeter dome, there is no escape. I am become Morpheus

Kiwiaxe
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 2712
Joined: Fri May 21, 2010 10:08 pm
Has liked: 8 times
Been liked: 244 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by Kiwiaxe »

Eric Johnson
Andy Timmons
Gary Moore
Carl Verheyen
Paul Gilbert (all my canned speed runs will be found somewhere on a Racer X album)

User avatar
calling card
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 4279
Joined: Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:56 am
Location: Hoodoo dump, BOP
Has liked: 855 times
Been liked: 274 times

Re: Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

Post by calling card »

And I'll play.
Jimi Hendrix
Rory Gallagher
Billy Gibbons
Lightning Hopkins
Muddy Waters
Muddy worked his way into things I do somehow by osmosis most probably from the upper 3 listed.
Every dog has it's day and there's been times I've heard some of you play and that has inspired me too.
Sometimes a riff or a sound will pop from the radio just for a moment from someone I've never known and sometimes one I've forgotten.
Most of all I want to be me.
2024; I have explored the extent of the perimeter dome, there is no escape. I am become Morpheus

Post Reply