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    Posted: March 16 2006 at 10:33

Drums - Keith Moon

Keyboards - Rick Wakeman, Mike Oldfield, Keith Emerson, etc.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 10:06

my biggest influence in writing and performing is

  • Frank Zappa
  • Can
  • Gong
  • Captain Beefheart
  • John Mclaughlin
  • Mr Bungle
  • Primus
  • Dead Kennedys
  • Public Image Ltd (First three albums)
  • Genesis (Early Genesis)
  • Minutemen
  • Faust
  • Metallica
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2006 at 08:49

My biggest influences in writing music has been:

1. Pink Floyd

2.Genesis

3. Camel

4.Marillion

5. Metallica

6. Danny Elfman

Without whom Id be dead.

For most it does not come easily
For some it comes with pain
From a thought to a living sight
For some it's a life for some a game

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2006 at 02:45
Steve Howe, Robert Fripp, John Petrucci, Steve Hackett.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2006 at 23:56

I play piano my inspirations are J.S. Bach, Michael Pinnela (Symphony X) Yngwie Malmsteen and Janne Warman(Children of Bodom). Ive never figured out who i sound like though I guess that means i am eather very original or i suck



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2006 at 15:35

Well i just started playing guitar recently, but the musicians who influence me are:

  1. Yngwie Malmsteen (he was the one who made me want to learn to play)
  2. Steve Howe -I love playing his stuff, its easy enough that i can learn it, but it sounds great
  3. Ritchie Blackmore - anyone who plays guitar has learned how to play smoke on the water
  4. Robert Fripp -his experimental and crazy sounds are great, i want to sound half as good as he does
  5. Steve Vai -I admire this man so much, he is today's Hendrix
  6. Bach -his music should be inspiration for everyone
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2006 at 12:42

I'm playing piano and synth. My main influences are Tony Banks, Thijs van Leer and Ton Scherpenzeel.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2006 at 11:54
  • John Petrucci
  • Eric Johnson
  • Paul Gilbert
  • Al Di Meola
  • Bela Fleck( I love his banjo playing

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2006 at 13:18

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

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2006 at 08:27

My top 5:

* John Lennon
* David Gilmour
* Jean Michel Jarre
* Brian Jones
* Ananda Shankar

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2006 at 05:43
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2006 at 18:45

Drums:

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

2. Neal Peart

3. Vinnie Collaiuta

4. Phil Collins


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2006 at 18:02

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

Guitar:
Steve Hackett
Steve Howe
John Petrucci

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2006 at 17:10

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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2006 at 16:37

Lemmy, Billy Cox, Geddy Lee, Cliff Burton, Victor Wooten...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2006 at 15:40
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2006 at 14:42
  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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2006 at 13:59
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.
My music!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2006 at 04:46
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2006 at 02:24

Bill Bruford, Phil Collins are the biggest influences

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