Guitar Heroes!

[Christian Schulze]

Whaddup fam?!
I just wanted to know your guitar heroes. People that inspire you to pursue the instrument. Mine are Johnny Marr ( beautiful guitar tone), Toni Iommi & Jimi Hendrix ( I mean as a fellow leftie I gotta pay my respects plus one redefined guitar and the other started heavy metal). Finaly of course the reason why we are all here. Im not a big fan of shredding...but melodic shredding for sure and Syn made me realize that I wanna do that too!

 

[Daniel Sobota]

Syn - for obvious reasons hehe
Dimebag - the best metal guitarist of all time, untouchable
Euronymous - for creating Norwegian black metal and doing things in an unorthodox way
Matt Heafy - for being a rhythm guitarist that writes like a lead guitarist while also being the singer
Dave Mustaine - if it wasn't for Dime, he'd be the best

There are also other guys like John Petrucci, Robb Flynn, Randy Rhoads, James Hetfield, Jeff Hanneman, Ihsahn, Mikael Ăkerfeldt, Mille Petrozza, Tony Iommni, Alexi Laiho and many others who have inspired me.

There are so many wicked players out there, man.

 

[Manvir B]

Syn
Jeff Loomis
Steve Vai
Jacky vincent
Matt Heafy
Alexi Laiho
Richard Kruspe

Just a few that I really admire from their technical skills and their awesome musical minds.

 

[Ezequiel Romanko]

Syn
Slash
Steve Vai
Dimebag Darrel
John Petrucci
Gary Moore
Django Reinhardt
Julian Bream
Brian May
Ray Toro
those are who i love to hear play and discover what they are doing

 

[Calvin Phillips]

Syn for the lead Influence
Jerry Cantrell for his unique playing style
Mick mars for teaching me you dont need to be professionally taught.
Those 3 are huge for my guitar.

 

[Adin Shepherd]

In no particular order (and by no means an exhaustive list)
James Hetfield
Dave Mustaine
Scott Ian
Dime
Jeff Hanneman
Robb Flynn (guy is a bit of a headcase these days though)

And because I can't seem to listen to enough Mastodon I will add Bill Kelliher and Brent Hinds as more recent influences.

 

[Donovan Etue]

Syn
Joe Duplantier
Mark Morton
Jason Richardson
Chuck Schuldiner
James Hetfield
Dimebag
Any of the Judas Priest Dynamic Duo's (KK and Glen or Glen and Richie)
If I pull up any of these guy's work I instantly get inspired to pick up my guitar and aim to improve.

 

[Firsty Lasty]

Gary Moore is at the top of my list, followed by the 80s metal crowd.

 

[Dominik Gräber]

Syn! Yesterday I watched a Video with him talking about and playing with His Axe FX and after that I wanted to do nothing more than Play guitar for the Rest of the day.
Kirk Hammet and James Hetfield,
Matt Heafy.
Dimebag and Michael Padget from Bullet for my Valentine come in as honorable mentions.

 

[idssdi]

Syn - I think he has an incredible mix of tasty shredding, killer melodies and a really great feel
John Mayer - he is kind of a chameleon and pretty much everything he does always serves the music
Django Reinhardt - he pretty much invented gypsy jazz and he can probably do more with 2 fingers than most people are able to do with 4(I'm not counting the thumb here)
George Harrison - All his solos serve the song and there's never a thing out of place. Also wrote one of the most beautiful solos of all time
Eric Clapton - lyrical playing is my favourite way of playing
B.B. King - I'm not sure I have to say anything here
Marty Friedman - i'm a sucker for scales/modes that are not in your regular green modes/pentatonics
Jason Becker - cacophony and Perpetual Burn has arguably the greatest neoclassical guitarwork I've ever heard.
David Gilmour - those bends and vibrato
Slash - tasty
Dimebag - vibrato, tasty and just commanding the instrument
Ritchie Blackmore - probably the first neoclassical guy, also genious with his riff
Jimmy Page - a bit sloppy but an absolute genius
Jeff Beck - really great melodies
PG - his songs makes me laugh and his solos are really great too!
Paul Gilbert - string skipping Arpeggios can be pretty fun and he's a great teacher as well.
SRV - funk, tone, tasty he has it all
Gary Moore - he may have defined how shred blues is supposed to be done and I don't think anything really has done it better
Jimi Hendrix - you can't really spell guitar without jimi Hendrix


I'm 100% forgetting people but for now I'll stick to this.

 

[Rute Rodrigues]

John Petrucci is the best
Syn
Sarah Longfield
Kirk Hammet
Dimebag
Papa Hetfield
BB King
George Harrison
Prince
Matt and Corey Trivium
Slash
Jeff Beck
Paul McCartney
Brian May
John Mayer
(...)

 

[Edward John]

Jimmy Page.

 

[Ethan Keeling]

Syn
Billie Joe Armstrong
James Root
Mark Tremonti
Johnny Cash
Django Reinhart
John 5
Slash
Papa Gates
Dime Bag Darrell

Some more than other obviously, and some of them I don't necessarily study but love when I hear them!

 

[Schmidtrock]

Syn
James Hetfield
Buddy Guy
Johnny Winter
EVH
Jimmy Page
Jimi Hendrix
SRV
Dickey Betts
Duane Allman
Gregg Allman
Angus Young
Malcolm Young
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani

Just to name a few..