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    Posted: February 12 2006 at 21:28

Who has influenced you the most on your respective instrument? This could also correspond with who are your favorite musicians on a specific instrument.

For me:

  1. Alex Lifeson
  2. Adrian Belew
  3. Robert Fripp
  4. Frank Zappa
  5. Steve Hackett


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Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, plus everyone else I've ever listened to, come into contact with, or known. Even things I hate have influenced me in some way, positive or negative. Oh yeah, and Yes and Mr.Bungle.
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Steve Hillage, Mark Wood, Neil Young, Afro-Celt SS, Gong, Hawkwind...

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Everyone from Bach to Dream Theater...

 

Beatles

Dispatch

Streetlight Manifesto

Dashboard Conffessional

Mahavishnu Orcestra

Dt

Bach

Mozart( especially the Requiem)

Marcus Miller

Muse

System of a down

Mettalica

Yes

King Crimson

Porcupine Tree

Queen

GY!BE

Mogwai

Sigur Ros

Pink Floyd

Symphnoy X

Kansas

Showtunes(Rent, Tick Tick Boom, LEs MIs, God spell, Evita, Mulin Rouge, JCS, Ragtime,ect...)

Gentle Giant

Reutrn to forver...

 

probably alot more...

 
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I meant individual musicians... that was the intention of the thread.
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Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

I meant individual musicians... that was the intention of the thread.

Individual musiicans who have influenced my violin playing:  Mark Wood, Steve Hillage, Neil Young...

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Lord Qwerty proclaims his proficiencies on:

Bass guitar as influenced by John Entwhistle

Electric guitar as influenced by Robert Fripp

Acoustic guitar as influenced by Nick Drake

Lead guitar as influenced George Harrison

Rhythm guitar as influenced by Keith Richards and Pete Townshend

Vocals and piano as influenced by Paul McCartney

Electric keyboards as influenced by Brian Eno

Tenor saxophone as influenced by John Coltrane

Trumpet as influenced by Miles Davis

Drums as influenced by Bill Bruford

(Lord Qwerty copied this list from another topic)
Lord Qwerty is remarkably pretentious.
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Bill Bruford, Phil Collins are the biggest influences
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Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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For me, my main influence drummers will be (No Particular order)

Buddy Rich
Carl Beauford
Mike Portnoy
Neil Peart
Nathanal Townsley
Jimmy Lee(Singapore sessionist)
Hensen Beng (My Drum Teacher =])
Tony Royster JR.

I think thats about it... =) Cheers!
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Piano/Keyboard - Classical, Teachers, and I'm beginning to pick up some Rick Wakeman
Synthesizer - Wakeman, Schulze, Marillion
Guitar - George Harrison, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Dimebag, Robert Fripp,Steve Hackett and Howe, Frank Zappa.
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  1. Mike Portnoy
  2. Neil Peart
  3. Lars Ulrich
  4. Bill Bruford
  5. Carl Palmer
  6. Ian Paice
  7. Andy Ward
  8. Michi Dei Rossi
  9. Franz Di Cioccio
  10. Pierluigi Calderoni
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For my style of drumming the late Pierre Moerlen of Gong was a very big influence (hence my signature pic ). His style of starting with a simple rhythm and making it more and more complex the longer he plays until he is finally all over the place is what I really love about him (and also the reason he is very underrated as a drummer, because he doesn't go flashy right from the start, he slowly builds his drumming up, until he comes to a climax. and probably only a trained drummer can really appreciate what he is doing). To a lesser extent Bill Bruford; what I took from him is his habit of slightly delaying the hit on the snare; I like that effect.



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Lemmy, Billy Cox, Geddy Lee, Cliff Burton, Victor Wooten...
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As posted in the "What instrument do you play?" thread:

Drums!

Influences:

  • Phil Collins
  • Billy Cobham
  • Bill Bruford
  • Carl Palmer
  • Mike Portnoy
  • Jason Rullo
  • Pierre Moerlen
  • Chester Thompson

Added Chester Thompson because his work with FZ is amazing!



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Drums:
John Bonham
Bill Bruford
Phil Collins
Alan White
Mike Portnoy

Guitar:
Steve Hackett
Steve Howe
John Petrucci
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Drums:

1. Mike Portnoy-- Learned a lot from his instructionals

2. Neal Peart

3. Vinnie Collaiuta

4. Phil Collins

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Guitar - Steve Rothery,Mirek Gil,Steve Hackett,Jimmy Page,Robert Fripp,Andy Latimer
Kybds - maybe Clive Nolan or Mark Kelly
Drums - Woitek Szadkowski,Mike Portnoy,Roberto Leoni
Bass - John Wetton,John Jowitt
Vocals - definetely Fish and Peter Gabriel
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My top 5:

* John Lennon
* David Gilmour
* Jean Michel Jarre
* Brian Jones
* Ananda Shankar
>---* Old and Analog *---<
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Let´s see, influence?

Jimmy Page more than anybody I think...specially in the solos

Robert Fripp, with his experimentation

Slash has also influenced me with the soloing

Jonas Engdegård from Anglagard...well, realy Anglagard as a whole...because sometimes I dont know who made each melody...and that´s what I take from them

apart of them...I guess no other comes up to my mind...at least not as a main influence

ahhh, and as I also compose in the bass

Chris Squire with his strong and thick bass lines

Again Anglagard

Greddy Lee in the rockish parts
"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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  • John Petrucci
  • Eric Johnson
  • Paul Gilbert
  • Al Di Meola
  • Bela Fleck( I love his banjo playing

 
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