This one's for anyone who writes music. Tell your top 3 influences, can include anything from P. Diddy to Django.

mine are:

-Jeff Buckley (guitar-style, vocal-style)
-Travis (really cool songs)
-Les Miserables, the musical haha (really cool melodies and changes)

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free mp3 ~Jump - Young America

new album Between the Dim and the Dark available now

[This message has been edited by Schming (edited May 24, 2004).]

Boom Desjardins and Dany Bédar have both influenced my singing greatly.

Mark Tremonti and Stéphane Dufour have been influences for my guitar work. Flea and Les Claypool are like gods to me when it comes to bass playing.

It'd be simpler if I didn't do all three

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Jean-Michel Jarre (all the crazy and great synthesizer stuff)
Geinoh Yamashirogumi (all the crazy and great synthesizer stuff, along with EVEN MORE CRAZY STUFF YOHOO)
Vangelis (all the crazy and great synthesizer stuff)

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[This message has been edited by FastGamerr (edited May 24, 2004).]

Surprised Jump arent up there, Schming, I've said it before - you sound very similar

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There is no spoon.

As a bassist, gotta go with Matt Freeman.

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

I actually try very hard to make sure that my songs dont sound too much like Jump, mainly because it's very possible that we might open for them pretty soon.

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free mp3 ~Jump - Young America

new album Between the Dim and the Dark available now

i'd say...
everything
everything
everything

too many bands influence me one moment i'll be writing a song that is influenced by every good 70s rock band the next i'll be going all death metal/rap/punk

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LONG LIVE DREAMCAST!!!

For my punk/rock band:
The Ramones
Foo Fighters

For my jazz/blues/improv band:
Stevie Ray Vaughn (certainly can't play like him, but I try my darndest to mimic his style)
Muddy Waters



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I don't know.It's alot more than any 3 I could pin down. Here's a few,though, in order of when I discovered them/they added to my influences

Sublime
Everclear
Korn
Limp Bizkit (only their first CD, the rest blow)
Fear Factory
Slipknot
Edgey
Aphex Twin
Square Pusher
Tech Itch
Concord Dawn

there's almost a sort of progression, if any of you know the last 5 groups it'd be a a nice transistion. That's just modern groups. It'd be useless for me to name every jazz/big band/orchestral musician that I idolized at one point or another.

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Béla Fleck
Ryan Martinie
Flea
(Should probably mention Les Claypool, and Chi Cheng too...)

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[This message has been edited by Roach (edited May 26, 2004).]

hrm, I try to draw a lot of my lead guitar influence from Alexi Laiho's work, although I'm not nearly good enough to pull off all the mad sweeping runs he does, and when it comes to rythm, I have a very HEAVY Jon Schaffer influence (Iced Earth), along with quite a bit of Kalmah for melodic lines and whatnot.

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I'm walking towards dead end, and I'm walking all alone. Two steps ago I passed insanity - Aleksi Laiho

Flexor.

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"I'd rather be hated for who I am rather than loved for who I pretend to be." -Janis Joplin

Pink Floyd
Kraftwerk
Smashing Pumpkins
Eels
KMFDM
Self
Radiohead
The Dust Brothers

Seriously, sometimes all in one track.

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"halucid is not really intelligent but is simply a better simulator of human conversation." Googlism

...how easy life would be... if only it came with a consistancy checker.
Fabricator of Neurotic for MLP4

My top 3 influences would be:

1) Stratovarius - style of melodies
2) Edguy - way choruses are done, and rhythm
3) Savatage - The band I bought a guitar for...=)

for my young ska band:

Reel Big Fish
Less than Jake
The Aquabats



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What once was...

For my own little riffs and stuff i make up:

Radiohead
Deftones
(quite a contrast - what i make up varies a lot)

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/fluffle

Nas
Eminem
and the person who wrote "Classical Gas"

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[="Mothers stop cooking take off your aprons; Fathers stop looking at every sports station; Take a second, and think of every poor nation." - Nas=]

Massassian since: March 12, 2001

"Musical Influences" as far as encouraging me to learn to play music, I guess I would probably attribute to:

Enya (lovely, soothing, reflective, as easy as "easy listening" gets... )
Smashing Pumpkins (just "sublime" - there's something for everyone with their style)
John Williams ("StarWars!!!". Need I say anymore... )

Bit of a mix, yes?

-Jackpot

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"Life is mostly froth and bubble, but two things stand in stone,
Kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own"
("Ye Wearie Wayfarer" - by Adam Lindsay Gordon)

And he's finally off the starting grid --> Zooooom -@%

aww


- Robert Miles
- Delerium
- Tiesto

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