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What are the top 5 guitar players that actually influenced YOUR style?
Brilliant question, I love it. In the other thread I gave up after realizing I was never going to shoehorn a list of 25+ into 5 slots. Sheesh, I couldn't pick my 10 favorite jazz players.
Thinking back, these guys are the most directly responsible for whatever my "style" is.
Van Halen
Paul Jackson Jr.
Eric Johnson
Dave Murray (Maiden)
John Petrucci
[Obligatory Rabea Massaad spot reserved for the future, if I survive learning his riffs]
and while I'm totally a VH fan and used to play almost all his songs, I play a lot like his style, but really don't tap much at all any more
Tapping just comes out whether I mean to or not. Pretty sure I'm incurable.