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Your Top 5 guitarists/influences

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So who are your top 5 guitarists that you would cite as being your biggest influences? :)

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I'm not sure I can put these in any semblance of order, but mine would be:

Steve Rothery
Paul Kossoff
Brian May
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan

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Brian May
Randy Rhoads
Knopfler
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Clapton

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I only have guitarists I like, as I've always failed miserably to sound anything like any of them. I haven't even so much as stolen a signature lick.

Slash inspired me to learn how to play guitar though.
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Mark knopfler
Billy corgan
Jon nødtveidt
Robert fripp
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Dave Chandler
Kevin Shields
Stephen O'Malley
John McEntee
Barry Thomson/Gavin Ward
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John Frusciante
John Butler
Santana
Jimi
Jeff Buckley
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Knopfler
Gilmour
Bert Jansch
Tommy Emmanuel
Doc Watson.
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Pete Townshend
John entwistle
Dimbag Darrell
EVH
George Lynch
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Post by higainer »

Pretty sure this has come up before but here goes.

Ace Frehley
Adrian Smith
Warren DeMartini
Brian Robertson
James Dean Bradfield

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David Gilmour
John Frusciante
Matt Bellamy
Jeff Boyle
Aaron Turner
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Jeff Buckley
Nick Drake
Jimmy Page
Neil Young
George Harrison

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Post by mttn3 »

Still I can't really play for shit, I just mess around on guitar so it's not like I would sound like any of these players :) But here are 5 who give me that "i want to play guitar like that" feeling.


Dean Ween,
Yamano Naoko (shonen knife)
Daron Malakian
Zacky Vengeance,
Kawakita Ryou (maximum the hormone).

(Edited. It's really hard to pick a top 5.)
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I want to say Masayoshi Yamashita, bass player from Loudness. Mostly I just want to say Yamashita...

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Molly wrote:I want to say Masayoshi Yamashita, bass player from Loudness. Mostly I just want to say Yamashita...
Yamashitinme
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