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Curious what kinda musicians people on this forum like to think about/study/appreciate/wind up aping

See since I released my album I've been getting that a lot, and people keep assuming I'm mad into Have A Nice Life and stuff, and sure, they're great but I listen to Silkworm/Bottomless Pit way more, who I can't attribute to a single musician because Tim and Andy have been playing together so long that they fit together in a way that renders them inseparable.
I think critical influences change every few months, no one really listens to one artist all year through and we dip through phases, but for me personally, I've been thoroughly enjoying old hymns (nothing religious, just love the music when it's played on an organ) by Horatio Spafford and William O. Cushing. Translating that stuff over to guitar can be really enjoyable and I've found it to open up some great, tragic chord progressions.

This was probably a really pretentious answer

Max Bemis, Patrick Stickles, Matt Pike

j mascis duh

Do you mean musically or intellectually?

D.o.S. wrote:Do you mean musically or intellectually?

What's the difference? An influence's an influence.

Some I like listening to and some I steal from, basically.

Aside from the classic legends, gonna post some modern guys. Josh Homme, Jonny Greenwood, Kevin Parker, Gary Clark Jr, Jack White, and the bands Dead Meadow, All Them Witches, and even Scott Holiday of Rival Sons lately

D.o.S. wrote:Some I like listening to and some I steal from, basically.

Precisely. Like, I love Frank Zappa and Tom Waits in interviews (and Zappa in his book), and what they say about / how they approach music. And listening-wise I prefer Waits to Zappa, but neither of them really make it into regular rotation for me.

Guitar and bass, guys from Codeine and Yo la tengo.
Drums, guys from Orchid and Pele.

But the guys from Meet Me in St. Louis changed everything.... fuck.

Adrian Belew, Ian Williams and Steven Wilson. I would also mention Allan Holdsworth but I've never been good enough to pull anything from him.

jrmy wrote:

D.o.S. wrote:Some I like listening to and some I steal from, basically.

Precisely. Like, I love Frank Zappa and Tom Waits in interviews (and Zappa in his book), and what they say about / how they approach music. And listening-wise I prefer Waits to Zappa, but neither of them really make it into regular rotation for me.

Yeah, exactly, and to Windfish's point, there are some musicians I really love who are just so far beyond my personal comprehension that I'm not good enough to figure out what they're doing.

D.o.S. wrote:Windfish

I love it when you talk dirty to me.

gnomethrone wrote:

I think this's what you meant to post, gnomebro: