My name is Joe 42, from Ireland and i just want to find out what makes other people tick, heres some of the guitarists who inspire me. (not in any order)

Gary Moore, Mark Knoffler, Brian May, Alex Lifeson, Ritchie Blackmore,
The Edge, Eric Clapton, Yngwie Malmsteen, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page,
Jeff Buckley, Rory Gallagher, David Gilmore, Michael Schenker, Jimi Hendrix.

Now i know there are a whole bunch of superb guitarists ive left out, but i'd like to know how many of you guys i have this much in common with.

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12 guitars 2 hands not fair!

sorry, meant to say that most of the guitarists in my thread are dedicated strat players, and some swap and change who has the best sound?

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12 guitars 2 hands not fair!

A lot of great guitarists on that list most of them is on my list too....

(sorry for correcting your post, just couldn't resist)

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It's a mix between Jazz and Funk, it's called "Junk"

This is going to be a long list lol, but here goes;

(in no particular order)
Jimi Hendrix
Ritchie Blackmore
David Gilmour
Brian May
Tony Iommi
Jimmy Page
Jeff Beck
Gary Moore
George Harrison
John Sykes
Eddie Van Halen
Frank Zappa
Steve Vai
Eric Johnson
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Eric Clapton
Robin Trower
Steve Howe
Robert Fripp
Adrian Belew
Al DiMeola
John McLaughlin

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The mind is like a parachute; it doesn't work unless its open-FZ

It's neat how you have Gary Moore on top of your list while saying you're not putting it in any order

Gary Moore is on the top of my list too. He's one of the few guitarists who can play indiscriminately on any guitar, be it a Strat or a Les Paul. He still gets that beefy and huge tone.

Joe Satriani, kirk hammet, john petrucci, eric johnson... I kind of like ynwie malmsteens style too but I love satrianis songs

Those are the influences and the favorites. It's really difficult to choose among so many notable players.

But I had to go with the "stranded on a desert island and can only bring 5 albums" thing.

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-Kc
"Payin' dues."

I just saw Richie Kotzen and Paul Gilbert play w/George Lynch here at the HoB in Anaheim at the beginning of this month

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The mind is like a parachute; it doesn't work unless its open-FZ

NEAL SCHON! (solo, Journey, Santana)
Carlos Santana
Stevie Ray Vaughan
David Gilmour
Eric Johnson
Chris Degarmo & Michael Wilton (Queensryche)
Alex Lifeson
Jerry Cantrell
Joe Satriani
Eddie Van Halen
Brain May

John Petrucci
Phil Collen (Def Leppard)
Richie Sambora
John Sykes
Michael Schenker (Thanks for the reminder, OP!!! "Rock you like a hurricane!)
Jimi Hendrix

Your favorite guitarists are not always your "influences." (I put it in quotes becuase the term reeks of some kind of rock-star self-importance... it always reminds me of a cartoon in The New Yorker back in the 70s, of two ordinary, suited guys chatting at a cocktail party, and one is saying to the other, "My humor, of course, owes a debt to both Johnny Carson and George Burns, but, in the end, I'm me.")

You don't have to tell anyone your influences, because they can hear them when you play.

Players who have actually influecned my playing are Larry Carlton and Walter Becker, George Harrison and Paul McCartney, Martin Barre (Jethro Tull), Carlos Santana and Merle Travis. In addition to players, my playing is heavily affected by some specific solos: Drift Away, Doctor My Eyes, Woodstock (the CSN&Y version), a bunch more. I wish you could hear more of James Taylor when I play acoustic, and more of Jim Campilongo when I play electric, but as much as I would love to claim them as "influences," they really aren't.

I have to agree with SlapChop there... in fact, my favourites probably aren't influences at all, in that I wouldn't be inclined to learn how to play anything by them. I guess I did that a lot when I was young and found that I didn't listen to those particular players much afterward, which seemed a shame. Now I can kid myself that by doing my own thing I will arrive at my own style... heh... sort of like what Adrian Belew does (yeah, right, in my dreams).

Although... I do think there are some players who are inimitable, and you can try to learn as much as possible from them safe in the knowledge that you'll never be able to say "well, I guess I got that down"... Hendrix is foremost among those players for me. It'd take me a lifetime to convincingly imitate something he improvised when he was half my age, and I still wouldn't be able to synthesize that into my own thing.

I don't know... maybe if you spend long enough learning something, it becomes an influence whether or not you want it to. Sorry, rambling a bit but it's late here... I put in years learning Joe Pass and Tuck Andress pieces, and then more years learning Sabicas and as much Rafael Riqueni and Paco de Lucia as my pathetic little fingers could stumble through... now, when I pick up my guitar I play the blues and that's it! Maybe a listener would think there were some jazzy elements to it. I think it's just that time of life for me -- got the blues, man, but in a good way.

Sup guys, new to the forums and here are some of my favorites:

Jimi Hendrix
Ry Cooder
Eric Johnson (Best tone ever)
Kirk Hammett
SRV
David Gilmour
Alex Lifeson
Blues Saraceno
Chris Poland
Woody Weatherman
The guys from Queensryche
Eddy Van Halen

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Gear:
Fender Standard Strat (MIM)
Charvel Model 2
Peavey Classic 30
Digitech Hardwire ML-2

I was there too. Lynch SUcked. Poor guy.

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-Kc
"Payin' dues."

Albert King, SRV, Clapton, T-Bone Walker, and Hendrix