Who has influenced your playing?

[theavondon]

BUZZ YESSS

[Derelict78]

OH I forgot Chris Wood of Medeski Martin & Wood.
MMW was the first Jazz other than big band jazz I got into.

[dubkitty]

i don't drum much, but it's dear to my heart. i'm not a power drummer by any means, and my influences reflect that as well as the fact that i'm not really into Great Big Drums that much. my favoritest drummer is Dannie Richmond, who played with Charles Mingus. my drumming has also been hugely influenced by Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead's tendency to military snap-rolls at the end of verses/choruses and to play 12/8 accents over everything, and by Russell Kunkel's thundering toms-with-brushes and general yeoman work serving the songs on the early James Taylor albums. i'm also a great fan and exceedingly poor emulator of Jim Gordon's playing, and for sheer metronomicity while still being musical i admire Dave Mattacks of Fairport Convention, who i think of when i try to keep it simple/effective. and like everybody of my generation who plays rock drums, i go back to Ringo and Charlie Watts when my well runs dry. i just don't have the kind of physicality as a drummer to play like Elvin Jones or Philthy Animal, so i play relatively quiet drums.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Satan

...and I love Your new avatar, too.

Besides Satan, my main influences have been Jimi Hendrix, Lemmy, Geezer Butler, Jonas Hellborg, Robert Fripp, and Animal from the Muppet show.

[Fuzzy Fred]

Hmm...

Jeff Tweedy
Dallas Green
Neil Young
Jack White
Nels Cline
Dan Auerbach

Oh and Chad Kroeger. He influenced me to NOT be like him

[Galaxula]

David Gilmour
Tony Iommi
Jimmy Page
David Brock
Ron Asheton
Robby Krieger
Syd Barret
Pete Townsend
Jimi
Some are more audible than others.

[Bret608]

Wow! I am a day late and a dollar short here. However, having started the Quine thread, I must step up and chime in here.

First, Dubkitty, you are a historian, sir! Love your replies on this thread. Due to being in my late 30s, I can certainly relate to different things influencing you at different times.

Like most of you, influences are too many to mention--Bob Mould and J Mascis were the first that really made me take notice and actually want to play guitar (early 90s), followed later by Kevin Shields, Sonic Youth (especially Ranaldo), Mudhoney, and others. Then I went off on a big meta-exploration of my influences' influences (early 2000s), which is what led me to check out Neil Young, Television, Quine/Hell and the Voidoids, etc.

I feel like there are influences where you might actually try and play their songs, just to get into their musical frame of mind. For me this has been Bob Mould above all others, but more recently Television. Then there are influences you just try and absorb by osmosis--I don't know about others, but for me this is usually because the particular player's ability is so far beyond mine (Mascis, Quine) or because their sound/playing is so idiosyncratic and particularistic that there's no point trying to reproduce it enough to actually play it (MBV, Sonic Youth).

When I was living in NYC from '95-'00, I was lucky enough to check out most Sonic Youth side projects. The Lee Ranaldo/William Hooker and Thurston Moore/Nels Cline pairings come to mind the most. Getting to see them do their thing so up close was my best experience in the "influence by osmosis" vein. I read an interview with Quine online somewhere, and he mentions trying very hard to absorb Miles Davis through repeated listens.

[Bassboar]

Al Cisneros, Jeff Matz, Joe Preston, Ron Petzke, Rex Brown, Geezer Butler, Cliff Burton and Earl Scruggs.

[andtheLiquidmen]

Bass:
I came to the realization that all I've been trying to do for all these years is try to get my bass to sound like Godzilla.

Guitar:
Hideki Ishima (Flower Travellin' Band), Kurt Ballou (Converge), Dick Dale, Nokie Edwards (The Ventures), Adrian Belew, King Buzzo (Melvins), Warren Ellis (Violinist/multi-instrumentalist of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah)

[MEC]

Dylan Carlson

[Holy Schnikes]

Brian Cook, David Wm. Sims, Duane Dennison, my friend Tommy, Scott Reeder, Jonathan Nunez, and Justin Pearson. I could write paragraphs about each of their influences on my style, not only on bass, but guitar, singing (er, well, screaming) and general antics, but I have class in a few minutes, so deal.

That's one solid list of influences

Except for this Tommy guy, don't know shit about him.

[bob the r0bot]

Bass:
I came to the realization that all I've been trying to do for all these years is try to get my bass to sound like Godzilla.

Guitar:
Hideki Ishima (Flower Travellin' Band), Kurt Ballou (Converge), Dick Dale, Nokie Edwards (The Ventures), Adrian Belew, King Buzzo (Melvins), Warren Ellis (Violinist/multi-instrumentalist of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah)

Shit, I forgot about Nokie. That man is the reason I like instrumental music.

[theavondon]

Brian Cook, David Wm. Sims, Duane Dennison, my friend Tommy, Scott Reeder, Jonathan Nunez, and Justin Pearson. I could write paragraphs about each of their influences on my style, not only on bass, but guitar, singing (er, well, screaming) and general antics, but I have class in a few minutes, so deal.

That's one solid list of influences

Except for this Tommy guy, don't know shit about him.

He's in a band I really like called Innards, they're the best ever. He basically showed me how to use one's influences in genres that are entirely unrelated.

http://innards.bandcamp.com

[Holy Schnikes]

He's in a band I really like called Innards, they're the best ever. He basically showed me how to use one's influences in genres that are entirely unrelated.

http://innards.bandcamp.com

Yeah, that shit's great. Thanks for the link!

[theavondon]

He's in a band I really like called Innards, they're the best ever. He basically showed me how to use one's influences in genres that are entirely unrelated.

http://innards.bandcamp.com

Yeah, that shit's great. Thanks for the link!

My pleasure!