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Post by Steelpriest on Mar 29, 2004 3:08:41 GMT -5
 I always wanted to know what kind of music the particular member that posts on a thread is into... You can only click one option, so choose the one you really focus on. What else I´d like to know or find it interesting is the following: not which guitar player you rate as the best or most impressive, I´d like to know which known guitar player had the biggest influence on your own playing? Maybe this influence shines through somewhat more are less obviously?  Let me think... I guess when looking on me I think it is Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath... Hearing the riff in Paranoid made me pick up a guitar for the first time and I became a real Sabbath fan throughout all those years. My technique is far away from being brilliant or virtuos, I never really practised, all I did was playing, drinking beer and having fun... hehe, the old rock and roll cliche! 
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Post by supedupviper on Mar 29, 2004 13:32:22 GMT -5
I play a lot of different styles, but mostly rock and classic rock, like Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and the list goes on. I never took lessons, and I dont plan to. Sometimes I'll just sit down and play my Les Paul for hours, making up songs, playing songs, and messing around with effects. It doesn't get much better than that
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OzDog
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Are you ready to Rock and Roll!!!!!!
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Post by OzDog on Mar 31, 2004 11:08:08 GMT -5
No question for me it was Randy Rhoads. The first time I heard the Blizzard of Oz album I was 13 years old.
I'd never heard anything like it. I was totally blown away. I knew right then and there I going to learn to play the guitar. Since then I've grown to love many different players but the stuff Randy recorded with Ozzy still has the same effect on me as the first day I heard it.
I remember when I learned Crazy Train note for note I thought to myself. I can't belive this guy can come up with such simple ideas but yet make them so difficult to play.
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Post by RB on Mar 31, 2004 16:47:00 GMT -5
Me, I've always been in to Hard Rock/ Metal stuff. I like the high energy, the rush you get when playing. Just like to play..... Rock N' Roll.  |
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Post by WickedWishes on Apr 1, 2004 20:20:57 GMT -5
My favorites: (not in order of preference)
Blues
Rock n' Roll
Classic Rock
Alternative Rock
Heavy Metal
Progressive/modern jazz
WickedWishes
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Post by ZacAttack on Apr 1, 2004 21:44:49 GMT -5
I won't boar yall with how I got into the guitar, but it was from tagging along with my dad on gigs way out in the boonies where they could get loud.
When I got good enough to work up stuff I liked, it wasn't far from the rock and blues I was weend on.
ZZ Top, AC/DC, Skinnard, Zeppelin just to name a few.Then when I first heard Metallica Kill'em All I was hooked and destined to strive in that direction for years to come.
I never could lock into just one style or type of music though, even while I was in a thrash band I still loved to go gig with dad and play some Stevie Ray or good ole solid blues.
Now days the band I am in sticks close to a rock/alternative/Texas blues/AC-DC/ZZ Top/ wait ...too many slashes ;D well I guess its a voodoo bowl of all those influences and more. The other guitar player in our band and I have been playing together since we were 12 and he likes to say "keep it simple and just rock".
People have told me that Jimmy Page shines through in my lead and others say Billy Gibons must have inspired me along the way.
I just say "turn it up and let it rock".
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Post by Steelpriest on Apr 4, 2004 5:34:23 GMT -5
I remember when I learned Crazy Train note for note I thought to myself. I can't belive this guy can come up with such simple ideas but yet make them so difficult to play. Oh yes, for sure Randy Rhoads was one of the very few rock guitarists who really brought in something new in the last 25 years! He has to be mentioned along with Eddie Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen. There are so many good guitarists, much too many to mention them all by name, but those who had huge influences on whole generations of players are very few. Randy was for sure one of them. What else could he brought us when his early death did not take him away from us?  |
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Post by noeljob on Apr 6, 2004 10:23:20 GMT -5
if it's too loud , you're a pu$$y, go home and huddle in a dark corner whmpering in your feeble little hole you call a room.
i've been playin guitar 23 years and i still have the same philosophy keep it simple, keep it real, turn up and just play. dont mud up your sound with endless fx. i let my playin speak for itself. i dont work up much cover stuff any more, i mainly write my own material. i like it that way.
thank you for your time
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Post by samicksg on Apr 6, 2004 15:15:34 GMT -5
The guys who influenced me the most and inspired me to pick up a guitar was the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood.
I saw them on the Bridges to Babylon world tour in 1997 at the ripe old age of 10 and even then I knew guitar was for me.
I think anyone can tell from the way I play that Keith has influenced me a great deal. I always am heavily influenced by Angus Young and James Hetfield/Kirk Hammet.
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Post by Khantheundead on Apr 10, 2004 7:37:19 GMT -5
Even though I have only been playing for 11 months, I catch on pretty quick. Zacattack and Noeljob are really great teachers. I have always loved music, from the old zep to some of the newer bands. You could not pin just one sound on our band either. Noeljob is a writing machine, every week he comes to work with a new song, and Zac is a solo playing SOB ;D . These guys can ROCK. I'm trying my best to keep up . If I have not said so yet, Thanks guys for taking me under your wing and showing me how to ROCK. |
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Post by Steelpriest on Apr 10, 2004 7:40:08 GMT -5
;D Obviously your complete band shows up here... lol, don´t you have a drummer that owns an Epiphone drumset?  |
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Post by zep on Apr 10, 2004 11:23:38 GMT -5
;D Obviously your complete band shows up here... lol, don´t you have a drummer that owns an Epiphone drumset? hmm...Epi drumset... As much as I love their guitars, that's about the only thing that I would buy from Epiphone. Certainly not cables, straps, picks, strings, parts, pickups, and I'm sure there's other stuff, and of course if I played drums I wouldn't buy Epi |
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Post by Smooth on Apr 10, 2004 12:48:15 GMT -5
Slingerland drums fall under the Epiphone/Gibson domain, anyone tried those out?
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Post by ZacAttack on Apr 10, 2004 15:53:21 GMT -5
;D Obviously your complete band shows up here... lol, don´t you have a drummer that owns an Epiphone drumset? We are between drummers at the moment. We have one that will play gigs when they come up but he aint the practice type. We are still in the begining stages. Dave is a quick study to be sure, and Noel & I have been playing togather since we were 12 or 13 so it's like we can almost read each others minds. Anyway thats quite enough about us. p.s. No prob Dave, we have been homegrowing bass players for some time now ;D just happy to have one. p.p.s I have heard good things about Slingerland drums. |
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Post by beer on Apr 10, 2004 23:16:27 GMT -5
for me mick mars was the guitar player !!! even tho he's not the king ,the way he plays and never over plays a song is what i like!!! dr feelgood is a great rock guitar record shout at the devil is a great heavy record too fast for love is a great underground punk record ...i know this cause i love the record and when my band opened for greenday in 98 they were playing this cd!! ok i love motley crue ....but dont hate me for it!  |
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I always wanted to know what kind of music the particular member that posts on a thread is into... You can only click one option, so choose the one you really focus on. What else I´d like to know or find it interesting is the following: not which guitar player you rate as the best or most impressive, I´d like to know which known guitar player had the biggest influence on your own playing? Maybe this influence shines through somewhat more are less obviously? 
Let me think... I guess when looking on me I think it is Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath... Hearing the riff in Paranoid made me pick up a guitar for the first time and I became a real Sabbath fan throughout all those years. My technique is far away from being brilliant or virtuos, I never really practised, all I did was playing, drinking beer and having fun... hehe, the old rock and roll cliche! 
