Yes that's true. but you also make up your own licks too. That, and playing in proper time.

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Love my Telecaster, Stratocaster, and other guitars.

Not so much influenced by as inspired by:

Jeff Beck
David Gilmour

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I'm really not influenced by any actually...superstrat players like Lynch/Joey Allen/Reb Beach yes, but not really strat players. The only one I can think of in my record collection is Bryan Adams? When i was really into blues I was more into tele players like muddy waters and albert collins and les paul players like Kossoff.

I always liked the look and sound of cool strats especially the bluesy neck pickup, and I just wanted something more versatile than all out rock, and felt I had that with a strat - it could do blues, it could do pop stuff which i wanted to try, and nice clean stuff.

Yngwie J. Malmsteen

Easy...

Jeff Beck
Jeff Healy
Eric Clapton
Eric Johnson
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jimi Hendrix
Robert Cray
Davy Knowles

I don't understand how people say they aren't influenced by anyone...It doesn't matter if im listening to pop,rock,country,opera or rock on the radio when i hear something i like i try to duplicate some part of it..
With that said my major influence is always blues players..It doesn't matter if it is some local guy bending strings or S.R.V himself or if it is traditional Delta Blues or modern electric and every kind of Blues in between..
But as far as Strat players go here is the list..
Jimi Hendrix
Robin Trowers
S.R.V
Eric Clapton
David Gilmour
Jeff Healy
Roy Buchanhan
Jimmy Lee (Local St Louis Blues legend)
Buddy Guy
Poppa Chubby

Im sure there is more but these are the ones im thinking of right now

i don't think you have to be influenced by anyone in particular - i think it's perfectly acceptable that you can just pick stuff up by listening and playting lots of differen things and forming your own style that way. i've been tolded by people that my playing sounds like leslie west - that doesn't mean i've ever listened to him (i haven't), and i think certainly with blues players you don't have to learn stuff to pick up the vibe - vibe is the most important thing i think...

Back in '90, maybe it was just a coincidence the red American Standard was similar in colour to those of two fave Stratmen, Mark Knopfler and Hank Marvin.

But it was not a conscious decision, not even realized until you just brought it up. Thank you.

The very first Strat slinger that drew my attention to the actual guitar was Buddy Holly. His jangly rhythms and economic use of the vibrato attracted me to the guitar. It wasn't until I got into Hendrix and David Gilmour in high school that I went Stratocaster gaga! SRV influenced me also. I got to meet him and talk Hendrix with him like two strangers realizing they had the same father. He was cool and really easy to talk to. There's Clapton as well as Jeff Beck. Eric Johnson and Yngwei Malmsteen ranks high with me too.

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Buddy Holly
Jimmy Hendrix
David Gilmour
John Frusciante

My way of looking at Clapton is exactly "There's Clapton." Overrated, IMO.

Clapton, Hendrix, Keaggy, SRV, Blackmore, Gilmour, Santana, Townshend, Gibbons, Van Halen ....

When I turned 9 (1982) my brother's friend introduced me to Van Halen's "Women and Children First" and I've been hooked ever since. Prior to that it was mostly classical piano (I'm a pianist first) and beatles.

EVH yesterday, today, tomorrow...always (for the guitar).

Over the years I've grown to love:

Slash
Prince
Hendrix
Angus Young
Mick Mars
CC Deville
John Mayer
David Gilmore
Paul Gilbert

Recently I've been blown away by Buddy Guy. It's common to pigeonhole old black guys as"blues", but this guy is a better hard rock guitarist (edit: as well as a blues guitarist) than anyone I've ever heard.

He simply tears up that fretboard without "over distorting" the hell out of his sound, which requires such precision. Love that "Guy"!

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Electric Guitar #1: Fender American Select Mahogany Stratocaster HSS
Electric Guitar #2: Agile Al-3110 Les Paul
Acoustic: Fender CD200SCE Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric Guitar
Amp: Line 6 Spider III 75 75W 1x12 Combo Amp
Piano: Yamaha M450

Listening to Eric Johnson makes me want to practice, alot! I love his style, note choice, harmony etc too.

I like Clapton style, Billy Gibbons, probably some Gilmour in there too.

And Joe Bonamassa was a Strat guy once, a big influence of mine now.

No strats, but there was a Tele... it was the "Cuttin Heads" duel in the film Crossroads that first made me pick up an electric guitar

Jimmie Vaughan
Derek O'Brien (greatest unknown Austin guitarist ever in the history of ever)
Rollo Smith (Fort Worth, Texas Americana/Bluesman)
Charlie Sexton
Doyle Bramhall II
Eric Clapton
Billy F. Gibbons (yes, he does play Strats!)
Ronnie Woods
Bonnie Raitt (one of the best slide guitarists ever)

I have never consciously tried to cop any of SRV's style specifically (there's too many people doing that already!), but living in Texas and playing blues and rock as I do, I can't help but have picked up some of the fantabulous Mr. Vaughan's stuff...

...and just recently (since the acquisition of the greatest analog delay pedal in the world, the MXR Carbon Copy), David Gilmour.

...but I have always stolen, er, picked up as much from Telecaster slingers as the Strat-masters!

Muddy Waters
Kid Ramos
Keith Richards
Tab Benoit
et al

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He's (was) like a hidden talent. I think that, being in the shadow of Hendrix, he never really got the accolades that his skills really deserved. That said... wasn't his Tribute to Hendrix killer?!!

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