Some of your Playing influences, favorites...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:22 pm

Donts forgetted Fast Eddie Clanke, Carlos Cavazoo and Mark St. John??

NY Chief · Post by **NY Chief** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:24 pm

Bonnie Raitt is an EXCELLENT slide player and I have seen Charro play some flamenco that would melt your finger nails.

As far the great not having to show off all the time I'm 100% in agreement. Wasn't anywhere his best but anybody ever hear Beck's "Flash" album. He's got some serious flash playing going on there. Just proves that's he's just so far beyond a billion notes a minute.

5150loveeddie · Post by **5150loveeddie** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:15 pm

Christopher Parkening

tonejones · Post by **tonejones** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:42 pm

Christopher Parkening

Back in the day, yes......

These days he's lost his mind!!!!

Something I wasn't aware of a colleague informed me of is that Mr. Parkening hasn't learned any new repertoire since at least his early twenties.....

I went to his recital at either the 1999 or 2000 Guitar Foundation of America convention in Charleston, SC and he was absolutely horrible!!!!

I felt bad for him!!!!!

There's also been stories of him in the last few years stopping in the middle of a concerto and chewing out the entire orchestra over their tempo...........

Christopher was excellent back in his day, but he has been far surpassed by performers such as John Williams, David Russell, Stanley Yates, the Assad Brothers, the Romero family and others as of the past 10-15 years or so.....

But this IS all to some degree part of the Segovia backlash that's been occurring in the classical guitar community the last couple of decades (Segovia & Parkening were very close).....

Segovia did more for classical guitar than any other in modern times, period. However, being raised on a pedastel to hero status like he was, we are now finding his humanity and a backlash has begun.....

The things that are being discovered are along the lines of the following:

1. Comissioning new guitar works from Mexican composer Emmanuel Ponce, recieving them and then almost completely re-writing them to suit himself while leaving the composer's name on the piece without mention of the fact (more or less musical plagarism)....

2. The rather recently discovered fact that upon meeting Igor Stravinsky, Stravinsky offered to write a classical guitar piece for him and Segovia turned him down!!!

DAMN!!!!!! STRAVINSKY!!!!!

This is all because Segovia favored the Romantic/19th century style of composition and did not want to perform a work that was or might be modernistic (from the world's most famous living composer no less, no matter how monumental it might have been).........

BrownSound1 · Post by **BrownSound1** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:38 am

On guitar:

EVH--obviously
Page--probably my overall fav
Clapton--Les Paul into a Marshall and the rest is history
Beck--gets overlooked in a lot of ways
Hendrix--of course
Billy Gibbons--love that early tone
Roy Clark (don't laugh, I'm serious)
Chet Atkins
Scotty Moore--first solo I learned was That's Alright Mama
Buddy Guy--nobody can bend notes like him
The Ventures--always play Walk Don't Run when I play through a Fender amp

BB King--'nuff said
Albert Collins--the Iceman
SRV--magic
Chuck Berry--you can't play rock guitar and not play one of T-Bone's..er, I mean Chuck's licks.
The dude from Bill Haley and the Comets (Rock Around the Clock solo is a knockout)

On bass:

John Paul Jones---The glue of Led Zeppelin
Geddy Lee
James Jamerson
Jack Bruce

master keeper · Post by **master keeper** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:42 am

In the '70s:

blackmoore
gary moore
alex lifeson
allan holdsworth (UK!)
uli roth
schenker
the guy in YES...his neme eludes me now...

In the '80s:

malmsteen
malmsteen
malmsteen

'90s:

malmsteen
jason becker
marty friedman

'2000s:

blackmoore
gary moore
brian robertson
scott gorham
gibbons

I guess I came full circle, maby that's what you do when getting 40'ish?

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:21 pm

the guy in YES...his neme eludes me now...

Steve Howe........to each their own.

Bad Kitty · Post by **Bad Kitty** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:49 pm

Wes Montgemery

The rest in no particular order:
Joe Pass
Herb Ellis
Joe Satriani
David Gilmour
Steve Vai
Chuck Berry
Robin Trower
Jimi Hendrix

and too many others that I can't remember but make an appearance everytime I pickup a guitar.

npminard · Post by **npminard** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:54 pm

I think I'll have to add Jeff Healey as an influence, great player, definately overcame many obstacles.

xjunjix · Post by **xjunjix** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:06 pm

Clapton
Hendrix
Page
SRV
Albert King
Robert Johnson
Alvin Lee
and has anyone mentioned Duane Allman?

master keeper · Post by **master keeper** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:54 am

Flames1950 wrote:
the guy in YES...his neme eludes me now...
Steve Howe........to each their own.

Yep that's him. One of my alltime faves. He was really great during the early seventies.

NY Chief · Post by **NY Chief** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:45 pm

npminard wrote:I think I'll have to add Jeff Healey as an influence, great player, definately overcame many obstacles.

Good songwriter, too. Where the hell has he been lately?

npminard · Post by **npminard** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:37 pm

NY Chief wrote:
npminard wrote:I think I'll have to add Jeff Healey as an influence, great player, definately overcame many obstacles.
Good songwriter, too. Where the hell has he been lately?

No clue, his site hasn't been updated and there's no tours listed.

erigm · Post by **erigm** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:37 pm

My list is short because I just want to point out the core ones that influence my playing, even though there are many other guitarists I like and respect.

Alex Lifeson
Eddie Van Halen
Billy F. Gibbons
Brian May
Nuno Bettencourt
Vito Bratta
Ian Thornley (he's new, but still an influence.)

Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:33 pm

Ill try for a few that havent been named yet

Steve Cropper
James Jamerson
Jimmy Nolen
Eddie Hazel
Sco
Jaco
Django
Tal Farlow
Prince (yeah thats right

)
Chris Wood (MMW)
Martino
Anastasio
Ford
David Walker