Who has influenced your playing, style and sound the most

[the_incunabula]

Originally Posted by jayjay

Adam Jones is a good one, forgot him. Unique in his style, just screams of, well, Tool.

For those who want to know, he's left handed but plays righty.

Yeah, if anyone inspired my initial playing the most it was Adam Jones.

[jayjay]

Originally Posted by the_incunabula

Yeah, if anyone inspired my initial playing the most it was Adam Jones.

I was very wrong to leave him off my list actually. I only tried Drop-D when trying to learn a Tool song.

[jonny-b-brown]

trey anastasio's phrasing
jeff beck's tone
billy corgan's fashion sense (circa '94-'95)

[Equinox]

Aaron Tollefson - Kaddisfly, Water & Bodies
Mike Einzinger - Incubus
Andy Summers - The Police
Daniel Johns - Silverchair
Stephen Carpenter - Deftones
Mike Mushok - Staind
Alex Lifeson - Rush
Billy Howerdell - A Perfect Circle

[yaledelay]

Tony Falconie of Flipper is a big influence these days.

[Speel035]

1 jimmy page
2 chuck berry
3 SRV
4 david gilmour
5 neil young

[fullmetalfunk]

That's an impossibly long list...I guess the most influential have been:

John Frusciante
Matthew Bellamy
Jimi Hendrix
Joey Santiago
Darrel Herbert
Nick Zinner
J. Mascis

There are TONS of others but those are the guys off the top of my head.

[Prime]

Jun Senoue
Yoshiaki Manabe
Tom Delonge, pre 2000's(dude ranch album)
Angus Young
Pete Townsend
Funtwo (lol)
chuck berry

a few other but these i think influence my style and sound the most. More so first 3 and last one.

[fullmetalfunk]

Originally Posted by Prime

Jun Senoue
Yoshiaki Manabe
Tom Delonge, pre 2000's(dude ranch album)
Angus Young
Pete Townsend
Funtwo (lol)
chuck berry

a few other but these i think influence my style and sound the most. More so first 3 and last one.

Yoshiaki Manabe! Thank you! Too many people pass up The Pillows just because they're a Japanese band but they're damn good musicians that make good music.

[Prime]

Originally Posted by fullmetalfunk

Yoshiaki Manabe! Thank you! Too many people pass up The Pillows just because they're a Japanese band but they're damn good musicians that make good music.

Epic lol was had.

Yeah I love The Pillows, i'd love to see them live but I doubt they would ever come to England.
Yoshiaki Manabe makes me want a Fender Mustang, and I added tortoise shell pickguard, black knobs and white P/U covers to my standard tele to make it look like one...

I'm so sad.

But yeah, I don't listen to too many japanese bands, just them, mad capsule markets (just cause it's all simple and I love a bit of heavy dirt) and Dragon Ash. I don't mind not being able to understand the words, since even with english tunes I can barely make out what they are saying anyway.

[jayjay]

Originally Posted by fullmetalfunk

Yoshiaki Manabe! Thank you! Too many people pass up The Pillows just because they're a Japanese band but they're damn good musicians that make good music.

I've lived in Japan over 6 years and heard OF the Pillow but never really heard them. But that's not strange since in Japan good bands struggle and J-Pop rules the airwaves.

I might have to check the out. And for anyone interested in Japanese music, I think I may set up a new thread in the "Now playing" section to discuss it.

[l2yz]

yoshiaki manabe rapes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuQ3BkhYIO8

nuff said

[fullmetalfunk]

Originally Posted by Prime

Epic lol was had.

Yeah I love The Pillows, i'd love to see them live but I doubt they would ever come to England.
Yoshiaki Manabe makes me want a Fender Mustang, and I added tortoise shell pickguard, black knobs and white P/U covers to my standard tele to make it look like one...

I'm so sad.

But yeah, I don't listen to too many japanese bands, just them, mad capsule markets (just cause it's all simple and I love a bit of heavy dirt) and Dragon Ash. I don't mind not being able to understand the words, since even with english tunes I can barely make out what they are saying anyway.

That's not sad, you should see some of the things I've done to try to look and play like John Frusciante haha.

Yeah they're awesome. I know they come to the US every now and then, not too sure about England though. They don't come around my area of the US anyway so unless I make a road trip I'm not seeing them live anytime soon.

I don't mind not understanding the words either, I listen to the music and the emotion in the words more than the words themselves when I listen to foreign music. I like Manabe's playing style, the way he plays melodies over Yamanaka's chords that just seem to fit perfectly. It reminds me of Joey Santiago from the Pixies, which is no surprise I guess since they're huge Pixies fans.

[fullmetalfunk]

Originally Posted by l2yz

yoshiaki manabe rapes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuQ3BkhYIO8

nuff said

That's a good preformance.

[fullmetalfunk]

Do you play an Orange amp because of Manabe?