Most personally influential guitarists?

[steeltormentorx]

Mentioned: John Petrucci, Marty Friedman, Jeff Loomis, Yngwie Malmsteen, Victor Smolski, Per Nillson, Alexi Laiho, Michael Romeo,
Not mentioned: Marco Sfogli, !Chris Amott, Viggo Lofstad, Luca Turilli, Arjen Lucassen, Akio Shimizu

 

[drunkard]

Oh I forgot.DIMEBAGGGGGGGG

 

[slayercannibalsuffohead]

-My father
-Yngwie J Malmsteen
-Randy Rhoads
-Jake E Lee
-Vitto Bratta
-Patrick Rondat
-Dave "Snake" Sabo
-Scotti Hill
-Terrance Hobbs, Guy Marchais and Doug Cerrito
-Chuck Schuldiner,
-Marek "Hudy" Chudzikiewicz and Trufel
-Vogg
-Peter and Mauser
-Stéphane Souteryand and Geoffrey Gautier
-Pat O'Brian
-Wojtek Lisicki
-Gary Holt and Rick Hunolt
Many classical genius...

Analgrinder, I WANT TO JAM WITH YOU, that is the best list here!
Although I would trade out Scotty and Snake for Trey Azagoth and Dimebag.

 

[TravisW]

I forgot Hank Shermann and Michael Denner.

 

[dan weapon]

Marty Friedman
Chuck Schuldiner
James Hetfield

 

[slayercannibalsuffohead]

Would there be any room for Nigel Tuffnel anyone?

 

[slayercannibalsuffohead]

This bloke actually had a smidgin of influence for me ..............
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[Line666]

This guy is actually amazing.

 

[Mikaël-ange]

Actually i think Scotty Hill was the better player in SkidRow. Quite under- rated IMAO

But I love Dave rythm playing style...

Analgrinder, I WANT TO JAM WITH YOU, that is the best list here!
Although I would trade out Scotty and Snake for Trey Azagoth and Dimebag.

I love this guitarist but I'm not really influenced by him. Trey playing is like something from an other world for me (like Steve Vai but for DM world)

Btw I'm not againt a jam with you

 

[slashvanyoung]

Snake and Scotti were such a great team back in the day. On the first two Skids records (especially the first) is some really tasty playing and some great solos by Scotti.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

EVH- Nuff Sed

DIME- Changed my life. The way I try and live my life etc. It's all because of Dime. I even wear a razor necklace.

LOOMIS- He's pretty good.

ROMEO- Taught me all about the right hand.

SATCH- Melodies so tasty I could eat them.

PETRUCCI- ......

DONAIS- Taught me about soloing

STUMP- A good buddy of mine, as well as my last teacher, he taught me all about the theory side of music and how to make it metal.

BREAM- This man is my all time favorite guitar player. Really incredible musician.

RHOADS- The O.G that made classical music and metal like Peanut Butter and Chocolate for me. I realize Blackmore is the godfather of Neoclassical but Rhoads took it to another level Warcraft style.

BLACKMORE- The Godfather.

 

[schust]

• evh
• satch
• Ronni le Tekrø (beautiful harmonies/melody)
• srv
• yingwee
• sykes
• ted the sledge

 

[Matt-Steele]

My list from most influential to least...



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Marco Sfogli
Andy Timmons
John Petrucci
Guthrie Govan
Kiko Loureiro
Alex Skolnick
Marcel Coenen
Andy James
Mark Moore
Yngwie Malmsteen
Paul Gilbert
Jason Becker
Marty Friedman
Vai
Satch
Slash - The reason I picked up a guitar.

 

[Ironbird666]

No love for Andy LaRoque here? Definitely one of my favorite guitar players ever, great combination of shred and melody.

Anders Bjorler - For the riffz

James Hetfield - See above

James Murphy - Dude, not to kiss your ass but I absolutely love your style, especially the leads you played on Low.

Bill Steer/Michael Amott - Yep.

Trey Azagthoth - This guy definitely knows what a good riff sounds like. I miss the days when death metal guitarists worried about writing good riffs instead of widdly-widdly-widdly-look at mah skillz!! (I'm a bitter old-school guy, so definitely IMO )

There are tons more guitarists that I love but these guys have definitely influenced me the most.

 

[Fox Mulder]

Adrian Smith
Michael Romeo
Randy Rhoads
SRV
David Gilmour
Dave Mustaine
Marty Friedman
Chuck Schuldiner
Trey Azagthoth
Jimmy Page
Glenn Tipton


Edit: Oh fuck, how could I ever forget Shawn Lane and Jason Becker??

 

[Executioner213]

No love for Andy LaRoque here?

Mentioned him yesterday, but yeah...

 

[SteelRat]

KK Downing - he is the man #1 for me
Dave Murray - such a fluid player, his fingers are fun to watch
Akio Shimizu - Anthem...really good shredder, but very tasteful
James Hetfield - super-tight rhythm
Henrik Danhage - Everygrey...he is a freakin badass
Reb Beach - "tapping's my thing" was hysterical when he told me that!
Joe Satriani - the chords alone are great...and then the soloing...
Emily Remler - jazz guitarist...really good
Mathias Jabs - very nice and melodic
Pat O'Brien - sick sick sick
Scott Ian - another rhythm monster
Albert Collins - if you don't have the Collins/Cray/Copeland CD "Showdown!", shame on you
Marco Sfogli - great work on Elements of Persuasion
Eric Peterson - yet another sick rhythm master
Joe Bonamassa - monster player
Petrucci / Gilbert / Becker / Skolnick - of course

 

[Ironbird666]

Mentioned him yesterday, but yeah...

I chased a herd of small children around in the heat today, not exactly running on all cylinders hahaha!!

 

[Glenn Fricker]

K.K. Downing
Glenn Tipton
Tony Iommi
Dave Mustaine
Scott Ian
Josh Homme
James Hetfield

I play rhythm guitar.

 

[Djabthrash]

Made me grab a guitar and inspired most of my playing :

Dimebag Darrell
Andreas Kisser / Max Cavalera

And then :

Jim Root / Mick Thompson
Stephen Carpenter (Deftones) / the 36 Crazyfists guy
Jerry Cantrell (AIC), the Pearl Jam/Mad Season/Soundgarden/temple of the dog guys
Fletcher Dragge (Pennywise)
the Glassjaw dudes
Joe Satriani (back in the days) & Andy Timmons
Kirk Weindstein / Pepper Keenan (DOWN / Crowbar / COC)
The Cannibal Corpse dudes
John Gallagher / Sparky Voyles (Dying Fetus / Misery Index)
the Madball / Merauder / Rag Men / Skarhead / Wisdom in chains / Earth Crisis dudes
the E Town Concrete / Downset / Body Count dudes
the Vision of Disorder / Bloodsimple (2d album) dudes
Ole / Saïd (Eyeless)
Trey Azagtoth
Jeff Loomis
the Hatesphere dudes
the Exodus & Testament dudes
Dino Cazares
the Coyle brothers (God Forbid)
the Killswitch Engage dudes

p.s: not that influential on my playing, but along the sides of SEPULTURA & PANTERA i mainly picked up a guitar thanks to my Dad who is a guitar player and huge Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits fanboy, as well as the Jimmy Hendrix records he was playing at home

p.s 2 : there is a lot of guitar players i dig but they do not really influence my playing (QOTSA dudes, Immolation dudes, Cryptopsy dudes, All Shall Perish dudes, Rob Arnold from Chimaira...)