ATTN: People in bands (Who are your influences)
 

Who are your influences? (ie. if you are a bassist, which bassists do you study?)

I drum, so:

Chad Sexton (311)
Jose Passillas (Incubus)
Travis Barker (Love the AOL music sessions with The Game)
Matt Sorum (G&R, Velvet Revolver)
Eric Kertz (STP)
Paul Powell, Mark Nichols (Lilly Allen)
Tommy Lee
Mike D (Beastie Boys)
?uestlove
John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
Neil Peart (Rush)

But my vision is probably more influenced by 311. (Because we got an MC who sounds really like a cross between SA Martinez and Del)

Not sure if adding a female lead (vocal) would be a good thing or a bad thing....

Guitar

I started playing guitar because I liked the sound of it in Blink 182, so I guess Tom Delonge was the reason I got into it, but I haven't played a blink song in years..

Corey Steger (Underoath)
Kerry King/Jeff Hanneman (Slayer)
Joel Stroetzel (Killswitch Engage/Aftershock)
Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth)
Chad Waldrup (Hopesfall)

Probably the main five.

Bass
Matt Maginn (Cursive)
Eric Axelson (The Dismemberment Plan)
Brian Cook (These Arms Are Snakes)
Cory Murchy (Minus The Bear)

Trumpet
Scott Klopfenstein (Reel Big Fish)
Glen Marhevka (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy)
Keith Douglas (Mad Caddies)
James Morrison
Dizzy Gillespie

Muddy Waters and ZZ Top.

Interesting mix of influences there, Naitch. What kind of music do you play?

Guitar: pretty much all the big name shredders:

John Petrucci (Dream Theater)
Michael Romeo (Symphony X)
Criss Oliva (Savatage)
Jim Matheos (Fates Warning)

Then there's all those guys like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, Dave Mustaine, Axel Rudi Pell, Timo Tollki etc.

Drums:

Chad Sexton (311)
Danny Carey (Tool)
Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) *I think I spelled his name wrong*
Alex Pappas (Finch) *The Original Drummer from Finch, not crapass Marc Allen*

Bass:

Victor Wooten (The Flecktones, Solo) *He signed my Bass and we had a chat about slap technique :y: *

Guitar:

Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)

Marching Percussion:

Jeff Queen
Murray Gussak
Scott Johnson
Roger Carter

I play along to the above mentioned. But I play more for rap and funk. I learn from most genres and apply it however. Depends on my mood and who's on the mic

Victor Wooten is awesome :y:

wow, check out around 5:58/0:25, the guy juggles 3 sticks while drumming

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Vocals-

Howard Jones