Name your top 5 *non-guitarist* influences

[Huggy Love]

Vangelis -- multi-instrumentalist, plus he writes the most beautiful music, I can't even emulate him

Ya gotta love the Bladerunner soundtrack.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Ya gotta love the Bladerunner soundtrack.

Not just Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire -- I love everything he does. I'm working on the "Needles & Bones" section of Heaven and Hell, just because I love his music so much. (It's the one that sounds like one of Tchaikovsky's "Danses caractéristiques".) I even love his albums The City and Direct.

 

[11top]

Lee Michaels
Lou Graham
Micheal McDonald
Ken Hensley
Billy Joel
Mike Mangini

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Sade Adu
DJ Lady Miss Kier
Mars Williams
Morris Day
Ru Paul

 

[Huggy Love]

Sade Adu

.... I have a new found respect and admiration for you.

 

[flux]

DJ Lady Miss Kier

The last name I expected to see in this thread... bad-@$$.


Victor Wooten
Flecktones / Bela Fleck
Dave Weckl Band

There have to be more but I'm drawing blanks.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

.... I have a new found respect and admiration for you.

I could happily listen to nothing but Sade for the rest of my life.

The last name I expected to see in this thread... bad-@$$.

She was/is the sh!t. Dew Drops In The Garden is a masterpiece.

 

[Ovibos]

John Taylor
John Bonham
Keith Moon
Jordan Rudess
Ben Folds

 

[sergiodeblanc]

John Taylor

So good.

 

[pjdude]

Top 5 non-guitarist influences:

Freddie Mercury
Bill Bruford
Ann Wilson
John Myung
Neil Peart

 

[Ovibos]

So good.

Criminally underrated. Duran Duran was the sound of the early 80s and he was the heart of it.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Ok more -

James Taylor
Carol King
Seals and Crofts
Michael Jackson
Prince
Mel Torme
Colman Hawkins
Oscar Peterson
David Lee Roth
Brian Adams
Dave Grohl
Vivaldi
Debussy

Etc etc etc

You can’t compartmentalise me, I won’t conform, you can’t make me!!

 

[gtrdave]

Ruggiero Ricci
Rod Morgenstein
Rick Wakeman
Stevie Wonder
James Jamerson

 

[flux]

John Taylor

I love this board. Seriously.

Also, after racking my brain, I have to give a special shout-out to Chester Thompson, as well as Omar Hakim. There are a lot of killer pocket drummers but these guys really opened my eyes in incomparable ways when it come to structure and dynamics. I've always been a sort-of-drummer on the side (read: poseur... but I did take lessons from a killer player in Austin who'd studied extensively with Kenny Aronoff, so I gave it a valiant effort).

 

[flux]

Top 5 non-guitarist influences:

Freddie Mercury
Bill Bruford
Ann Wilson
John Myung
Neil Peart

Great, now I have list envy.

 

[flux]

Oscar Peterson

Brilliant choice, sir.

Mastery. Period.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

I caught an interview with Peter Cox and Richard Drummie - Go West, on BBC Radio 2 today. I always found Peter’s vocals an influence growing up. They attributed their influences as Motown and ‘70s soul, also an influence to me.

In the early ‘90s I discovered an album by Little Feat - Feats don’t fail me now. Lowell George’s vocal and the slide guitar just did it for me. “Fat man in the bath tub” such a good song.

So great to see them still gigging!

I can’t pick 5, so I guess I’ve failed. Story of my life, but I’m ok with it!!

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Steeley Dan - Live in America

Donald Fagen - Nightfly

Two albums that I listen to regularly!

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Criminally underrated. Duran Duran was the sound of the early 80s and he was the heart of it.

Absolutely! He's got one of Bernard Edwards' basses too.

 

[László]

Matthew Fisher
Steve Winwood
Holland Dozier Holland
Richard Wagner
Jean Luc Ponty