Your Influences and Playing Style

[tuffteef]

this inspires me



and i just wing everything

[ifeellikeatourist]

+1 x infinity for the mercedes gullwing.

If I had a full band, I would want our main influence to be Fugazi: I love me some noisy, angular, yet incredibly musical guitar. Also throw in other post-punk bands like Mission of Burma and Gang of Four, and some seminal, noisy early indie rock like the Pixies and Pavement. Oh, and Sonic Youth. I would love to have a band that could be likened to any or all of those bands, if we could make it our own and not have it sound too much like an exact copy.

If I'm playing it solo, just me doing some recording on my laptop, I think I would like to sound more like Neutral Milk Hotel: fuzzy and folky. As far as solo stuff, I'm also kind of drawn to more electronic, minimalistic, loop based stuff kind of like Aninmal Collective or Panda Bear.

Other influences that didn't get mentioned yet:
The Velvet Underground (I got heavily into them a while back and that's when I truly began to appreciate noise)
Arcade Fire (I just wish I could write songs as powerful as theirs).

Songwriting influences:
Bob Dylan
Jeff Mangum of NMH
Belle & Sebastian

[Rygot]

Started out playing punk shit as well as some thrash...therefore early influences go to bands such as the casualties, anti flag, the unseen, dead kennedy's, the exploited. Moved on to pantera/megadeth/bodom/machine head once I developed some skill.

Now I play about anything. Current biggest style influences IMO would be Isis, Baroness, Kyuss, Primus, Russian Circles, Alexisonfire.

Guitarists would be B.B. King, SRV, Trace Bundy, Homme, Dallas Green, Duane Allman, Zappa, and Page.

Long enough list.

[HereticPride]

By far my biggest influence is Jeff Buckley.


Some of the others include:
Lou Reed
Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear
James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers
Bernard Sumner of Joy Division/New Order
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats

[veteransdaypoppy]

Jeff Buckley.
Lou Reed
Bernard Sumner of Joy Division/New Order

Good, good man.

[futuresailors]

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

God, if I could play one Johnny Marr piece...

[metalmariachi]

Bass player
Inspired by Mingus,
JPJ arrangements and every thing
JMJ from NIN to “30 days of Night” and beyond what’s not inspiring
Jack Casady. keeps time with his eyebrows.
Bill Wyman’s minimalist approach
Jack Bruce contra leads on a bass VI bottom line on an EBO.

Segovia, Coltrane

Every thing I have ever seen, heard or felt in my life has found it way into my musical being.


MM

[bigchiefbc]

Man, this is rough.

Bass is my main instrument. For playing style, my biggest inspiration was Paul D'Amour, the first bassist in Tool. Justin Chancellor was also a big influence on me, as well as Entwistle, Chris Squire, Juan Alderete from Mars Volta, and recently Jeff Caxide from Isis.

I do play a bit of guitar, and my main influences there (as much as people may give me shit about it) are The Edge, Paul and Daniel from Interpol, Billy Corgan, Michael Karoli from Can, John Frusciante, and more I'm sure.

As far as songwriting goes, my biggest influences are Autechre, Plaid, Can, NIN, and Tool

[Astronovazz]

What a long strange trip its been.Beatles,Stones,Kinks,Kiss.Aerosmith then prog Genesis,King Crimson,Gentle Giant,Van Der Graff Generator. PUNK came along and all that went out the window (at least the prog).Velvets,Stooges,Damned,Birthday Party ect along comes the hardcore invasion/American Underground- Black Flag,Necros,Misfits,Negative Approach,Scratch Acid,Butthole Surfers,Sonic Youth,Husker Du(Zen Arcade)Wipers Crucifucks ect.ect.ect. this was probably the biggest influence on me along with....Garage-Trash-Paisly Underground -13 FLOOR ELEVATORS-SEEDS-Pebbles comps. ect Free Jazz -Albert Ayler,John Coltraine -''OM'',Dewey Redman,Sonny Sharrock,SUN RA,John Cage (dont worry about being good or bad just play or as Zappa would say "Shut up and play your guitar" Throbbing Gristle,Cabaret Voltaire The Fall,Can Neu,Faust,Kraftwerk NOIZENOIZENOIZE MERZBOW SUNNO))) Doom FREAK OUT PSYCH DOOM FREEFORM GARAGE TRASH WOULD BE WHERE I AM AT NOW. My main influence right now is ME & FUZZ,Modulation pedals,noize making devices,modular synths long bike rides mountain biking ,hiking. There are so many more like ENO,Cluster,Harmonia,Amon Duul,Wolves in the Throne Room,Boris,Sun City Girls,Wolf Eyes,Bowie T-Rex. oh yea I almost forgot I really like the band I am in(they were my favorite local band and then they asked me to join them)Bubblegum Stooges-THE SHIRLEY ROLLS
http://www.myspace.com/shirleyrolls We have a record video coming out middle of this month.Babblebabble thats all for now.

[Mudfuzz]

Aston Barrett, Cliff Burton, Duck Dunn, Paul Barker, Kurt Danielson, Ray Brown, Mike Watt, Tony Levin, Geezer butler, Roger Waters, George Porter Jr, John Entwistle, Willie Dixon, Lemmy, Bootsy Collins, Takeshi, Krist Novoselic, Mark Sandman.....

[Ghost Hip]

Influences for rhythm guitar:
Jack White
Billy Corgan
the Swirlies
Kurt Cobain
Arcade fire
Violent Femmes

Influences for Lead Guitar:
Billy Corgan
Jack White
Joey Santiago
Sonic Youth

I play damn near anything. Mostly a mix of noise punk, shoegaze, and the classic 90's alternative. I always use a pick. I play mostly in the Major scale, Pentatonic, or my favorite Myxolydian. I enjoy lots of fuzz and echo.

[Blurillaz]

Influences- (for multiple instruments)










For bass it's mainly Junior/Left Hand Dan who was a session musician on tons of reggae and dub albums, but I no can find picture....


What I sounds like- (or so I've been told)

[Mudfuzz]

I've never been told I sound like anyone... according to others I have a sound... They tell me they like this sound I have... But when I ask "like what" they always say "You sound like you and that I can fit in anywhere"....

[sevenSHARPnine]

[PanicProne]

Allright. blabber time. Here goes.

I play guitar in two bands. One straightforwardinyourfacehardcorepunk and one experimental/ambient/alternative/idontlikementioningaspecificgenrewhentryingtodescribethisband-band.

For the hardcore/punk band I'm quite heavily influenced by cheap american pop/skate-punk. I've always had a soft spot for bands like green day (their latest record really sucked. I've really tried to like it bu I can't!), new found glory, nofx, goldfinger etc. Also, within my own genre I'm influenced by hardcore bands like champion, bones brigade and comeback kid. Everytime I try to write a riff for this band I'm think bout playing summer, guys wearing shorts caps and skate-shoes, playing tony hawks proskater (those games always had nice soundtracks!). I search for a "skatepunk-feel" (which is for me just a complete feel of ontheverge of uncontrollable joy and late teen years love/energy/feel) in my heart and never settle before I find it. It's like when atheletes are said to think of that winning moment. I have that too, and it's "skatepunk" in my head. All though it doesn't actually have to be related to any off the above mentioned bands. Also, I should mention I don't write happy-sounding stuff the raw energy from the "happy-feel" helps deliver the riffs I need. S

As for the other band it's completely different. I try to think of really (to me) intricate music like dillinger escape plan, oceansize, the ocean, misery signals, radiohead (and perhaps thrice too) for some parts and really moody (in a simple but depressed kinda way) stuff like cult of luna, sonjagon, thrice, radiohead, anna ternheim. I then combine it with purebrutalangerbreakdowns and dissonance and ultimately go back to and put all the stuff in a "the-world-is-gonna-end mentality"-mood which is more I've given up than just sad. "D is for Dystopia" is a title/something I always think fitted my vision of the band. But this far I haven't used it, other than in my head.

Sound pretentious/overambitious enough? Honest to god, this IS how it works.

And yeah, I'm not done quite yet. I do vocals for both bands. Lead singing screaming for the second mentioned project and back-up inyaface-style chants for the hardcore band. For the backup stuff I just roar as tight and loud as I can. You know like chanting rhymes and stuff at sports events.

For the second project I want to do it all but guess I do a lot off Cult Of Luna-styled vocals for our and some more mellow stuff for most verses. I can do low screams pretty well, my singing needs technically improving and I'd like to be able to do the 36crazyfists high pitch barks as well as those reaaally low guttural (is that a word?) death metal growls..

there. done. too much OT?