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I didn't know really where to post this, so if it needs to be relocated let me know.

But I got to thinking today, wow, I never really realized how much Spaghetti Western and surf music has an influence on my sound when playing.
More specifically that dripping spring reverb sound that I don't think I could live without.

I guess I bring it up because I do not play Spaghetti Western nor Surf music. But man, if I hadn't have heard it, I don't know where I'd be.

Any weird sources of musical inspriation on your projects and your sound?

Indian classical music, Turkish folk music and Arabic folk music all influence my sound a bit. I love playing with scales and tones found in those types of music, but feeding it through a fuzzed out guitar or bass.

Pop Music...

Skinny puppy. I usually play rock and metal but SP HUGE ass synth bass lines have influenced my "sound" a lot. Also KMFDM. I find myself lisining to Motown a lot as well but I grew up on that shit and its beefy basslines.

The Pixies and Weezer are my biggest influences and I play fast, dark, loud thrashy hardcore

i don't think any of my influences are weirder than myself.

I'm not sure how to fully answer this without tipping my hand; giving away secrets I'm not yet ready to reveal.

For now, I'll just leave it at this: Surrealism in pop culture.

Whenever I touch the Electribe I try to channel Yuzo Koshiro, the dude who made the music for the Streets of Rage games. As a kid I was always into the sounds and music in vidja games. Sound Test menus are cool.
Also, Andy Rourke and Agata are my DUDES.

Environmental sounds- wind, waves, lightning, trains, etc.. It's amazing how you can draw inspiration just by listening closely to the world around you.

Syd Barrett, even though I rarely listen to his stuff I tend to channel it unconsciously or something.

Gotta agree with the weird environmental sounds being an influence, I moved next to a train yard recently and find myself wanting to replicate the metallic groans and clangs with the guitfiddle.

Birdsong's not weird, right?

Reading Religious Books???

air conditioning, colorful vinyl, ducks.

Blackened Soul wrote:air conditioning, colorful vinyl, ducks.

I can't stand being in an air conditioned room with the windows shut, colorful vinyl and ducks are ok... It's 100 here and I can't drive with the windows up and I haven't turned on my A.C. at home yet...

A surprising amount of Jimmy Page leaks into my lead playing.