Dec 27, 2004 09:45 pm To many to list.
Gong
The Doors,
The Beatles,
The Who etc... all the legends.
My fav band of all time is, The Stone Roses
Who are your Fav. Bands/influences?
Posted on Dec 27, 2004 09:38 pm
xtc
Banned
Out of curiosity, i thought it would be neat to pole the people here to list their favorite bands/influences?
for me its "XTC", The Beatles, Zappa, Adrian Belew(cant wait for the new album on jan .25) King Crimson, Dream Theatre,Primus, Rush, Belle and Sebastian, sonic youth, the ventures, man or astroman(all surfy stuff) the bosstones, the pietasters(lots of ska bands)
People i wish i could play guitar like.
lenny breau, chet atkins, danny gatton, justin king, adrian belew/fripp, holdsworth, all 80's shredders.
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Dec 27, 2004 09:45 pm To many to list.
Gong
The Doors,
The Beatles,
The Who etc... all the legends.
My fav band of all time is, The Stone Roses
Dec 27, 2004 09:53 pm xtc, I cant believe it but your the first person here aside from myself who even knows who Belle and Sebastian are.
As for influance, I agree with Murphy, way to many to list. But you hit a few of my favs, infact all you mention would be on my A list for sure expecially Frank, as well as Dream Theatre, Petruci is one of the all time best technical players on this earth.
Dec 27, 2004 10:16 pm Tom Waits
David Bowie
Elliot Smith
Radiohead
Sparklehorse
Nick Drake
Modest Mouse
Even a little Grateful Dead and Phish sneak their way into my mind sometimes when I'm writing.
Dec 27, 2004 10:18 pm noize,
i saw belle and sebastian last year, what an awesome show!!!!
Dec 27, 2004 10:26 pm xtc, ya I saw them quite a while ago. My next to oldest sons mother turned me onto them. They are very radical opinion wise, but it is one hell of a show. I know several peeps who didnt realize they are both female.
They have some great tunes out there and there website is, well interesting to say the least.
Dec 27, 2004 10:52 pm My 2 all time favorites/influences are The Beatles & Foreigner. There are far too many to name that are just ever so slightly below those 2 though. :)
Dan
Dec 27, 2004 11:05 pm Good to see someone else listens to The Ventures!
As for my influences...again, too many to list, but some of the ones that have a direct and notable influence on my writing:
Neil Young
Joao Gilberto
Barrett-era Pink Floyd
Wilco
mid-60's-era Rolling Stones
Moby Grape
Built to Spill
The Kinks (the early stuff, at least)
Dec 27, 2004 11:10 pm How about this for a top five:
1. Bob Dylan
2. Neil Young
3. Bruce Springsteen
4. John Prine
5. Doc Watson
No wonder I don't have any friends!
Dec 27, 2004 11:28 pm OOOOOOO, I love seeing stuff like Neil Young and Mobey Grape, and Barrett era PF. It just means I am not the only old timer here.
Nice choice with John Prine Jim.
Dec 28, 2004 12:42 am Well Noise, I can't say they are my favorites, but they obviously influenced me....and they do date me:
Grand Funk Railroad
Rare Earth
Blood Sweat & Tears
CSNY
James Gang
Moody Blues
Aurther Brown
Uria Heep
Steppenwolf
Ten Years After
Jethro Tull
Joe South
Savoy Brown
Iorn Butterfly
Black Sabath
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Blue Oyster Cult
Byrds
King Krimson
Deep Purple
Bill Withers
Sly and the Family Stone
Three Dog Night
Procal Haram
Traffic
Of course now I play:
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Billy Strayhorn
Johnny Mercer
Cole Porter
Ray Wetzel
Morrow
Benny Goodman
Lionel Hampton
....
So go figure!
Dec 28, 2004 12:58 am The Beatles
Tom Waits
Pink Floyd
Bob Dylan
The Doors
too many more to list
Dec 28, 2004 06:14 am Black Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne
John Paul Jones
Kiss
Uriah Heep
B.O.C.
Ronnie James Dio
Deep Purple
Rainbow
Pink Floyd
Iron Maiden
Jethro Tull
Grand Funk Railroad
Clapton/Cream/Derek and the Dominoes
too many to mention...
and many grunge and new hard rock/metal bands, just the sound as a whole...
Dec 28, 2004 07:09 am currently i like aphex twin more than anything else in the world, though i gotta include the beatles, dj dangermouse for his 'grey album' and the beastles ( halley.lunarpages.com/~djbc002/beastles/ ) for mixin stolen beatles songs with hip hop.
nothing in rock or guitar music has grabbed me since queens of the stone age and the yeah yeah yeahs...
Dec 28, 2004 08:28 am XTC-
Glad to see the ska influences! We seem to be rare on this board. For me, my influences are:
The Slackers
The Skatalites
Radiohead
King Tubby
Lee Perry
Hepcat
The Skalars
Victor Rice
...my influences are more old school ska/reggae & dub but man, you gotta love some of the 3rd wave/90's bands (The Pietasters, Bosstones, The Toasters, Fishbone, The Skoidats, etc.).
Dec 28, 2004 08:56 am db,
Dio!!!!
the last in line guitar solo is one of my all time favz. what ever happened to vivian campbell?
Dec 28, 2004 09:08 am I dunno, I never thought a whole lot of Vivian personally, he was good, but I never thought "great" I just love Dio's music. He is the only person I have seen that sounds better live than on a studio LP. I saw the Last in Line tour, his last stop, as I recall was in Minneapolis. At the end of the show the whole stage crew got behind him on top the set and mooned Dio and the whole crowd, it was awesome.
Dec 28, 2004 10:39 am I have a few different influences toward my style of music.
For drumming... a good portion of my roots have been developed through high school marching and jazz band. Due to my background, Chad Sexton (311) is also a favorite.
Guitar pieces... Ive always liked slow songs the best. For example, "goodnight" by dry kill logic. Nothing too complicated, but very well written none the less.
For the harder songs, as stupid as this may seem, I took a lot of style from a good friend of mine, who can play extremely fast riffs with ease. For that, I have always held a very great amount of respect for him.
Bass Guitar.. I have always liked very elaborate lines. So for that, I would have to say, Mudvayne.
Overall style, I would say I follow more closely along with bands like Nullset and Darwin's Waiting Room.
as far as personal musical taste... You can usually find Lacuna Coil in my CD player. I have never heard a voice quite like Christina's.
Dec 28, 2004 11:19 pm Kinda funny Walt, I own vinyl of everyone on your list. Yikes, now that is dating oneself.
Savoy Brown Rocks!
Procol Haram, and Traffic were 2 big influances on my Hammond B3 licks, as well as John Lord.
And the Strawberry Alarm Clock, My mind goes fuzzy thinking about those days, or maybe it was fuzzy in those days.
Dec 28, 2004 11:46 pm Well Noise my friend, I know it was a bit-0-both for me. A lot of worlds both internal and external colided in those times for me. Real was a very fuzzy and questionable concept.
Dec 28, 2004 11:56 pm In no particular order
The Smashing Pumpkins
Sisters of Mercy
Bauhaus
Joy Division
Nitzer Ebb
Front 242
Einsturzende Neubauten
Clan of Xymox
Fields of the Nephilim
The Cure
Dec 29, 2004 10:19 am nice list loki, i love that 80's gothic stuff, even like some of peter murphy's solo stuff.
and you cant go wrong with front 242, they are pretty much my fav. industrial band.
Dec 29, 2004 12:21 pm Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Love these.
Loki, Where's... Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Revco, Murder inc and all them???
Dec 29, 2004 02:00 pm Some quick shouts:
Noize, I do indeed know about Belle and Sebastien, just not a big fan.
Walt, nice mention of Bill Withers. One of my favorite artists. And Sly and the Family stone has that SF funk that you gotta love.
Some of my influences (some intentional, others just creep in despite me trying to remove myself from them)
Outkast
Tupac
The Coup
E-40
Blackaliscious
San Quinn
Michael Jackson
Prince
Cameo
The Time
Parliament and Bootsy
Rick James
Dan the Automator (mostly from Deltron stuff)
Dec 29, 2004 02:13 pm Me...?
Keith Richards
Joe Walsh
Little Feat
Tom Waits
Charlie Parker
Beach Boys
and everyone that dB, Walt and Noize mentioned, especially the Byrds.
plus all that southern rock stuff from the late 70's, Skynyrd, Tucker, Elvin Bishop and on and on.
Dec 29, 2004 02:16 pm You can really pick out people's approximate age based on these lists can't ya?
Dec 29, 2004 03:09 pm That's for sure. There are more old farts like me around here than I thought!
Oh, yeah, one more to add to my list:
Bad Martini (a.k.a Cocofromscotland)
Dec 29, 2004 03:47 pm Murphy: I never really dug NIN or Ministry, and I have never heard Murder Inc
Dec 29, 2004 05:28 pm loki/Murphy how about skinny puppy, pigface, sister machine gun, KMFDm? the 2 OHGr cds are excellent!
Dec 29, 2004 09:28 pm xtc, Skinny Puppy and KMFDM are 2 of my favorites from that genre. Lets not forget this kinda gross name, but they had some great stuff as well, Scraping Fetus off the Wheel. Not sure if any of ya have heard them but they were kinda pre Nine Inch Nails.
Loki, Einsturzende Neubauten is also a very good experimental band, made me look real hard at how and what to sample for insturments.
Murphy, do you remember any of Ministry before they became industrial. They were almost considered a disco type dance band. But they still had that nasty edge to them.
And what about Front Line Assembly?
And lest not forget The KLF!
Daft Punk anyone? Tuna has been digging in my Daft Punk collection and is getting into that poppy flowing electric sound.
Dec 30, 2004 12:43 am One thing I definately love about the group of folks here at HRC, is the honesty. The lists above are definately not recgnized 'cool' lists. They reflect a lot of artists.
Coolo,
Withers was one of those 'WoW' finds for me. So simple, yet so full of soul and life. He really made me feel 'there' with him.
Crash,
The Byrds are an 'odd bird' for me. I can't say I liked them all that much in the 60's. But when they got back together and did things like 'From a distance' I really felt they had matured in their musicianship. I feel a sincerty in their work now.
Dec 30, 2004 01:01 am Frontline Assembly is awesome, as is pigface, KMFDM, MDFMK, Skinny Puppy, Sister Machine gun I didn't get into really, although smash your radio still blairs our mt speakers every once in a while. Throbbing Gristle and Caberet Voltaire are in there as well, I mean Industrial and Goth are my genres... I'm the resident Industrial/Goth dude at HRC hehe... so chances are if they're in that genre I've at least heard em.
Noize - Yeah Einsturzende Neubauten are wonderful. They've got me using old machine parts and pipes and things in my music now, aside from the usual guitars and synths.
Also, no one forget the Blue Man Group. "We wanted to create the sounds of synths without using synths" paraphrase
Dec 30, 2004 01:51 am My personal top ten:
1. The Beatles
2. Badfinger
3. Nirvana
4. The Beach Boys
5. Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
6. The Kinks
7. David Bowie
8. Big Star
9. The Byrds
10.The Rolling Stones
Dec 30, 2004 09:48 pm Shame on me for not even thinking of BMG, I was just listening to them on Monday.
Loki, I have a couple Frontline limited disc's that are very inspiring. It is a bit more experimental sound then they usually had.
Dec 30, 2004 10:55 pm My favs/infuences tend to change from time to time. As a kid I'd have to say Skynyrd was the big one as my dad would always listen to them. I still love them now too.
Then in adolescence it was more like- nirvana, guns n roses, green day, offspring, smashing pumpkins. Out of this, I started playing guitar. Then came METALLICA. That was my obsession for about the next 2 or 3 years. All I would do is sit in my room and play along to metallica tunes. However, I started getting into classic rock like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and such as well during that time period.
Then, as an older teen, I discovered Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai and started to chronically pursue ANYTHING musical that was seemed to cross the threshold of what a normal human should be capable of. It was all I listened to, all I talked about, and all I tried to play.
Nowadays, at age 23, I sometimes don't even know what I like anymore. I think whether or not I enjoy listening to something depends very greatly on my mood.
Lately, I'm starting to appreciate music from 'The Weather Channel' alot more.
Dec 30, 2004 11:07 pm Well Mike, Me thinks you might be in the right place. Granted I'm over twice your age. Yes humans are capable of existing for that long, and I definately felt that way. But here you get exposed to the majority of the music. Not the minority 'programed / production' crap. Something other than canned music with a list of perseritives longer than a morgage contract.
Dec 30, 2004 11:32 pm Canned music, that's a good term, I'll have to remember that one :-)
I'm not sure but I think my musical intensity and passion might be fading a bit. Or then again, I just may need to hear something to really get me inspired again.
It seems throughout my life, I would have one particular interest that I would focus on. For the longest time it was music and only music, but now since I started building my band's website ( www.soniclux.com if anyone's interested), I'm starting to get the feeling that webdesign might be that 'one thing' currently.
A couple years ago my mom told me that I was diagnosed with 'Asperger's syndome' (basically a much more functional form of autism) as a kid and that a 'one interest' lifestyle perfectly fits that profile.
I don't know, I really do still enjoy music greatly. Probably best not to over-analize it.
Dec 31, 2004 12:18 am Wow, Mike. The site really looks nice now. I saw it when you first started it and you have done a lot with it.
As for the favorite music thing. I dont think I ever really could say I could pick just one or two favorites. I listen with an open mind and ear to anything that I can. And I hope I always will.
Dec 31, 2004 12:39 am Thanks for that, Noize. Yeah, I can tell you definately have a very broad taste. The awesome thing about music is that there is no linear good or bad. It's so diverse and branched out.
Dec 31, 2004 12:53 am People at work think im psychotic because of the range of music i listen to, I can go from "the residents"(which apperantly 90% of the population doesnt get) to "the magnetic fields",to "shadowy men on a shadowy planet" and then top it all off with some good old CLUTCH. i try to mix it up my rotation as much as possible, but apparently this is a sign of multiple personalities according to my co-workers. :)
Dec 31, 2004 09:11 am Yeh, Noize, I've got a Ministry single and album from the early days, called, 'work for love' or something like that, it's well dodgy!!
Dec 31, 2004 12:30 pm i have "ministry - with sympathy" cd, still dont know how al went from his early work to his heavy industrial stuff.
Dec 31, 2004 01:14 pm Ya Mike,
No sense in dwelling on an 'eieio'. The only folks that don't have one are the ones that havn't discovered theirs yet. My wife went to a seminar on Asperger's a couple of months ago. She was so struck she had to call me from the seminar and exclaim 'I know what you are!...Your an Assberger!' Slight modification of tonal emphasis on her part. Eieio's are like Genre's, a lot of labels that sometimes help, sometimes confuse, and seldom fit perfectly. So your focused. In many circles that is a plus!
I have a friend via music; a guitar player. Bonified, certified, USDA grade A choice Psycotic. Steady job, great guitar player, Fabulous composer, lyricist. On occasion we will have to postpone a recording session because he has 'bugs' on him. He will simply state 'I have bugs', well I don't, but I do, know what I mean?' and we will wait a day or two for them to go their marry way. Hell, I've postponed sessions because I had a fart cought crossways!
Nae worries mate!
Jan 01, 2005 09:07 am for me:
Queen
Aerosmith
Bon Jovi
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
The Beatles
Michael Jackson
Boyz2men
guns an' roses
Xtreme
U2
Rollin' stones
and Prolly a whole lot more
Jan 01, 2005 10:26 am Well - Influences
John Lennon
The Beatles
Aerosmith
GNR
Rolling Stones
U2
Neil Young
Stone Roses
Teenage Fanclub
Oasis
Many more and generally "guitar rock" specially hard rock like GNR, Aerosmith etc. Could go on all day.
Coco...
Jan 01, 2005 03:19 pm Teenage Fanclub, where did they go?
Jan 04, 2005 03:50 am Well, happy new year all
There are just so many, hard to even remember most of them
David Sylvian
XTC (thought I would be alone with that choice)
Cocteau Twins
Banshees
Natatcha Atlas
PJ Harvey
The Only Ones
Birthday Party
Pixies
The The
To name but a few
Jan 04, 2005 04:56 am Hmm, good thread,
Mine are
1. RUSH
2. Pink Floyd
2. Willie Nelson
4. Elton John
5. Alice Cooper
6 Prince
7. Rage against the machine
8. Cat stevens
9. Beatles
10. Kansas
11. KC and the sunshine Band
And yes, Everything that dB listed.
Jeez.. I could go on an on. I guess, a little country, some progressive and pop. I have to admit, Disco has han a big influence on my Bass playing. Hard to beat some of the grooves from that era.
PS. earlier someone asked what happened to Vivien Campbell. He is now playing for Def Lepperd
Jan 04, 2005 08:51 am Hey Murphy
The fanclub I believe released an album last year (poss) or the year before i think. Canny mind, my mate is mad on em. I last bought songs of northern britain which wasnt bad....
Aye, they are a top band.
Cheers
Coco.
Jan 04, 2005 11:32 am I was into fanclub back in 91, during my college yrs. Seen 'em Live a few times but kinda lost track of them over the yrs, I may check em out again.
Cheers.
Jan 04, 2005 12:07 pm Nice call on "The The" - Infected is one of my all time favourite albums.
Hope this doesn't age me too much:
Richard Thompson
Michael Schenker/UFO
Jellyfish
Deep Purple
Elton John
James Taylor (can I please have his voice?)
Mott The Hoople
The Tubes
It Bites
Jan 04, 2005 12:37 pm "You can really pick out people's approximate age based on these lists can't ya?"
The more I read, the more I agree. A lot of the stuff that I see, I have never even heard of.
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