Who has influenced your playing?

[Birthday Boy]

The Robert Quine thread got me thinking about it. For me Quine with the Voidoids and Tom Verlaine in Television are probably the major, long-lasting ones.
I've been playing since I was 11, but I only got serious about it a couple of years ago.

Television is what made me get serious about guitar and finally lose the anti-theory-and-practice ideas. Made me mostly leave the whole blues scale/power chord thing behind, even if I'm finding myself going back there (but with a drastically changed attitude towards it)

Robert Quine's solos on Blank Generation are like putting forth a concept or, eh, like a sort of commentary on guitar, music and the act of presentation relating to art in general (I don't mean to sound pretentious, but it seems to happen a lot anyway). I'm not the guy that throws double-stops or whatever and "sweet licks" right and left; if I actually write a song with a solo, it's usually more of the "composed" variety in a minimalist way (like The Beatles' Fixing A Hole), or just some sort of wave of noise.

Kevin Shields a bit too. I'm not super-into shoegaze but I had been thinking for a long time about how to sound more "abstract" or break out of my very rhythm-oriented playing that I think came from having drums as a 1st instrument. Loveless gave me a point of reference for finally doing that. Helped push my writing one step forward.

Who has changed the way you play your instrument?

[metalmariachi]

I really can’t make a list.
I have been influenced in one way or another by every thing I’ve ever heard.
The big band sound taught me to make it tight, show tunes taught me to take liberties with rhyming etc.

MM

[sylnau]

There's lots of influences... but a short list would be:

-Greg Ginn
-Tom Verlaine
-Marc Ribot
-Rowland S. Howard
-Adrian Utley

I've been playing guitar for a while... more then 15 years, but never been serious about it.
At the moment I'm really trying to practice a lot and improve my playing. I'm trying to get my own thing, but Tom Waits "Real Gone" and "Mule Variations" and Neil Young "Le Noise" are a big influance on my sound.

[DarkAxel]

um... Gilmour (at least a little), Buckethead (ELECTRIC TEARS CHANGED MY PLAYING FOREVER), Steven Wilson

those three are probably my most audible influences... i'm sure there's more though

[Derelict78]

Rodger Waters (PF)
Paul Barker (Ministry)
Brian Ritchie (Violent Femmes)
cEvin Key, Dwayne Goettel (Skinny Puppy)
Al Cisneros (Sleep)
there are others but these Guys REALY have influenced how I play.

[moggieman]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TijihbJSAqQ[/youtube]

[bob the r0bot]

Everything has influenced me but, the three biggest influences on the way I write have been Two Door Cinema Club, Beach House, and Animal Collective/Panda Bear. TDCC and AC/PB I attribute with sparking my love of strange time signatures. TDCC had more affect on the way I write vocals. AC/PB triggered my love of building songs from strange samples or keyboard sounds and my desire to effect my vocals to the point of being in human. Beach House furthered my desire for cheap organs and drum machines.

[theactionindex]

Waaaaay too many to name all of them, here's a short list:

-Cody Bonnette (As Cities Burn)
-Teppei Teranishi (Thrice)
-Chris Simpson/Scott McCarver (Mineral)
-Tim Collis (This Town Needs Guns)
-Mike Sullivan (Russian Circles)
-Jason Rosenthal/Lou Fontana (On the Might of Princes)
-Chris Crisci/Aaron Pillar (The Appleseed Cast)
-Will Killingsworth (Orchid)
-Explosions in the Sky as a whole

All combined into one big angry cry-fest that is my style.

[foomanfat]

My big ones for bass are: Matt Wong (Reel Big Fish), Roger Manganelli (Less Than Jake) and Mike Dirnt (Green Day).

My guitar influences are still kind of fleshing out. Jack White is in there, for sure. Andy Williams from Every Time I Die. Botch-era Dave Knudson.

[kbit]

Nine Inch Nails; not due to any particular instrument, more so on how melodies flow and searching for sounds.

& while I don't think it's really been prevalent in my playing yet, because I mostly play by myself, Brian Cook's playing on Botch - "We Are The Romans" is extremely admirable. Relatively simple lines (i.e. not shredding), but they add so much rhythmic emphasis without over powering the music.

[RR Bigman]

Oh god...too many to list. Lots of midwest twinkle daddy emo guys, lots of skramz/screamo guys, some early 00s post-hardcore guys. Also, fucking Native. some 80s thrash/crossover stuff. And a little Merzbow for good measure.

[Blackened Soul]

Satan

[adrianlee]

Cobain, gilmour, iommi, karoli.

[RR Bigman]

Satan

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puwllq0fBLs[/youtube]

[StopReferencing]

Neil Young

Derek Bailey