Your Influences and Playing Style

[Zack AKA Moose]

Hey guys, I was just thinking to my self *low,murmuring,whisper* "I wonder who the inspiration for the guys on ILF are,and their styles....lets ask." So i'm asking. AND WANT TO NO NAO. I play BASS. Playing style: drone-y, thrashish, industrialish, elctronic synth-y.
INFLUENCES: Fieldy, Flea, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Nine Inch Nails, Sunn 0))), Earth, Amon Amarth, SR-71, RHCP, Mount Eerie.

YOU GUYS TURN!

[bubstance]

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[Big Mon]

Hmmm...Stylistically,I'd say:
drone jazz
flower metal
kudzu funk(as kosta called it)
Ghost Rawrk
Noise folk
in general,very fuzzy,textural,lots of clawhammer and finger picking variants. Influenced by:
J. Mascis
Nick Drake
Tony Iommi
Kevin Shields
Leigh Stevens(Blue Cheer)
Jimi Hendrix
Blind Willie Johnson
Jimmy Page
Neil Young
Thin Lizzy
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Blind Willie McTell
Ron Asheton.

[RossCanyonsofstatic]

fripp & too many more to list

[foomanfat]

My main squeeze is bass.
I was listening to a lot of ska punk bands when I started playing, so I was initially influenced by dudes like Matt Wong of Reel Big Fish and Roger Manganelli of Less Than Jake.
Then I got my little bit of slapping and strumming from Les Claypool. And all of the other dudes I have stolen riffs from over the years. So and so forth.
I'm kind of all over the place with my playing style. I don't do any one thing particularly well, but I do do a lot of things particularly badly.
I make noise pretty well, though.

[gururyan]

Well, although I started on bass playing Cure songs, I got into guitar after tossing Disraeli Gears onto the turntable and hearing Eric on Strange Brew. My influences range from George Harrison to Andy Dunlop (Travis) and I pull from Ween to the Black Keys. This week I've been going for a Happy Mondays meets Ride kinda vibe.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

I play bass guitars. And pedals. And here's the list of portraits in my hall of heroes:
Lemmy
Jonas Hellborg
Chris Squire
John Wetton
Felix Pappalardi
Tony Levin
...and though they are not known for their bass playing, these two guitarists were a huge inspiration for my bass playing.
Robert Fripp
Jimi Hendrix
Some have also pointed rather to the Jakk Wylde influence because of the excessive pitch harmony bending - which I used to do just for the hell o it Others refer to me simply as a bass oriented guitarist with instrument down tuned one whole octave

I'm used to replace guitarist(s) by bass guitar in my old band Cantata Sangui, in which I used 12-string, 8-string, and four string; some times a piccolo baritone bass (Yes, a five stringer tuned up one octave) along my trusty old four strings. Lots of feedbacking overdrive dirges, walls of distortion and fuzz.

Throughout years, I've played as the bassist of the group a bit, all sorts of psychedelic rock and heavy metal... what ever You call it. But those who know me, know me mainly for a good unhealthy dose of feedbacking bass playing doom, thrash, death, and black metal since early nineties. Did at one point some - let's admit it - purely commercial sounding AOR stuff, too, and gigged a bit playing classics for living - but I didn't inhale. Couldn't keep going on like that.

What else? Why yes, free jazz and noise impro with a group, and once even a little 'art music' from notes in a gala, when a composer friend wrote a piece for a bass (accopanied by a grand piano, viola and an oboe. I was, of course, deeply honored getting to play to a formal, sitting audience in the suits and dressess. They sure deserved what they didn't quite expect.

[Jenesis]

Influences - Steve Jones, Andy Taylor, Warren DeMartini, Jason Bieler, Steve Stevens, Jimmy Page

Playing style - sloppy and simplistic

[Bassus Sanguinis]

I Playing style - sloppy and simplistic

[futuresailors]

These guys and their ilk.
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So sloppier and simpler than Jenesis.

[ohsojayadeva]

For guitar, my main man is Daniel Ash. He's inspired me more than any other guitarist... so far anyway!

[veteransdaypoppy]

Elliott Smith and Jimi Hendrix

[Bellyheart]

I'm usually effected by the band as a whole and the relationship, rather the individual musicians. Deerhoof, Zs, and Arab on Radar are up there for that

[smile_man]

I play really messy parts that sometimes don't make sense in relation to the chords/key but sound good imo. I also like to use lots of alternate tunings that I've stolen from bands that I like.

influences are ian williams, jamie stewart, tim kinsella (or whoever else is in playing in Joan Of Arc during the song that I'm listening to).

[1,2,3, Pull Out!]

I always use a pick. My playing style is really aggressive and angular. I like to use big sounding chords, with a tone of reverb, dirt, and pitch bending. My Jag's vibrato is my best friend. It's all about writing something pretty and beautiful and fucking it up. I also like to make things super clean and jangly sounding too, so I like to mix up the two styles in the songs I write.
My Gods:

Rowland S. Howard


Johnny Marr


Nick Zinner