Which player is engraved in your style?

[Melodic Dreamer]

Was having this conversation with a friend. Basically, most of us either copy our heroes and/or are trying new concepts we learn from a plethora of books, videos and players.
When you are kinda just being yourself and not trying to hard, what musician does your natural self lean toward?
Basically who do you tend to kinda sound like when your playing comfortably?

mine... Bill Frisell

[jameslovestal]

Jimmy Raney.

[mr. beaumont]

Grant Green. Which makes sense, I've never studied anyone as closely.

I cover it up by using a very different tone, and not being half as cool.

[M-ster]

I think I'd be flattering myself to claim I remotely sound like any of my idols.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I sound like a pentatonic wanker much of the time ... so no specific names, but we're legion.

[henryrobinett]

Coltrane.

[guido5]

Warne Marsh, Lee Konitz, Ted Brown, Billy Bauer. Currently engraved in my intentions. Someday...

[pingu]

I sound like a pentatonic wanker much of the time ... so no specific names, but we're legion.

Ha ha so do a lot of us
If were honest !

PS Curtis Mayfield

[henryrobinett]

Yeah. Coltrane is written on my DNA. Late 50s. Soultrane. A lot of my phrases are out of that. That's why, I think, a lot of my stuff doesn't sound particularly like guitar lines. I think. I don't know.


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[cosmic gumbo]

Miles

[WillMbCdn5]

wayne shorter in my imagination but penta wanker to your ears

[wolflen]

an amalgam .. Coryell/McLaughlin .. Julian lage .. Joe Diorio Muris Varajic larry carlton Scofield Chuck Loeb Ted Greene

[rpjazzguitar]

I wish I could sound like any of them -- and if I had to pick just a few (for the wish list) it would be Wes, Jim Hall, Mark Knopfler, Santana, Albert Collins and BB King.

I think I was influenced by all of them, but I don't think it's anything anybody else could identify. Maybe some Jim Hall, Santana and BB King, oddly enough.

[fasstrack]

At this point when I hear myself I sound like me---no big deal at my age and 50+ years of playing.

But I always tell people my biggest influences were the 2 players I was around the most, Eddie Diehl and Jimmy Raney (Eddie a lot, Jimmy a little bit). And I hear Wes Montgomery in my sound still somehow...

[John A.]

In my mind, Pat Martino. In your ears, me, malheursement.

John

[neatomic]

which player isn't ? (yet)....is who i'm still out here trying to find!!!

influences run thick, but always room for a new perspective


i want to play like me, but on the shoulders of many!!

cheers

[fasstrack]

i want to play like me, but on the shoulders of many!!

cheers

That sorta says it all.

We're all standing on the shoulders of our elders. It's kind of Old Testament----in a good way. As long as we 'leave home' after absorbing the lessons and wisdom and make our own way. That's the best way to honor the forbears: Don't do WHAT they did, do it the WAY they did it---in other words, be yourself and let the chips fall...

[mr. beaumont]

The only way to really get past influence is to acknowledge it.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Ha ha so do a lot of us
If were honest !

PS Curtis Mayfield

I'm still trying to figure out how Carlton does that half-step-away-from-key pentatonic to get those outside notes that sound sooo inside.

[reventlov]

Hank Garland with hints of Charlie Christian, Lenny Breau, Django, Richard Harding, Chet Atkins, Joe Pass, Scotty Anderson, Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Bryant, John Renbourn and Grant Green, but without being anywhere near as good as any of them

[sgosnell]

For me, it's mostly Charlie Christian. I don't really sound like him, certainly can't play like him, but his influence on me is probably stronger than any other. Plus Freddie Green, for rhythm playing.

Oh, and how could I forget Eldon Shamblin?

[Cunamara]

I would say Jerry Garcia/Bob Weir and aiming for Jim Hall...

[Stringswinger]

Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery mostly, with some Herb Ellis, Pat Martino and Django Reinhardt mixed in. I also hear some Charlie Christian, but I think that comes to me through Herb Ellis and Wes Montgomery.

And I do not see myself as standing on the shoulders of my heroes, I see myself standing in their shadows.

[max chill]

Mostly a mix of EVH and Barney Kessell.

[Thumpalumpacus]

If I were pressed for a serious answer, I'd say there's a quite a bit of Alex Lifeson, a little Albert King, a pinch of Carlos Santana, enough Vernon Reid outside playing to annoy folks, and a smidgen of the Middle Eastern oud/lute players that I heard growing up in Iran.

And plenty of pentatonic wankery in between those few good spots.