My first exposure to St Vincent was 2009's 'Marrow' while I didn't get fully onboard until the follow-up album 'Strange Mercy'. These are my own personal preferences and inspirations - feel free to let me know where we overlap and which are your own favourites - and by all means enjoy this selection! ![]() I’m one of those few people who still like the art of the album - and I’m still largely album-influenced to this very day - albeit I am exposed to singles in a variety of interesting modern ways. ![]() Of course today’s inspirations are coming via YouTube and TiikTok - where the span of attention is down to 1 minute snippets. Funnily enough most of that inspiration comes from just two albums - Saga’s 1982 ’In Transit’ as mentioned, and 1983’s ’Heads or Tales’Įveryone will of course have grown up on different guitar heroes - it wholly depends on what your own family members and siblings were into as well as what you were exposed to on radio, and latterly on MTV. He is definitely one of the most undersung and underrated of guitar virtuosos and possibly the least well known on this list. In fact those early years of guitar inspiration probably owed most to Saga’s legendary 1982 ’In Transit’ Live album - with 9 perfect tracks - including a drum solo! I had that cassette on repeats for probably 3 or 4 years in a row and I really loved the tones and phrasing Ian got out of his Music Man Silhouette guitar and Diezel Herbert amp. My own pedalboard and effects library have pedals to represent all these key signature tones and effects near enough - where it’s as well that so many here favour the Marshall Plexi sound as I have so many options for that - all kinds of styles are represented here from clean, to low gain, crunch and searing saturation.Īctually the initial 3 players who right in the beginning inspired me to pick up guitar in my teenage years were Saga’s Ian Crichton, Queen’s Brian May and Van Halen’s Eddie Van Halen - those were the very first riffs and tones I wanted to try to replicate. Eric Clapton is too much of a bigot these days - I don’t feel like I can really support him any more with any clear conscience. I may very well do another follow up-with the next 25 - including Chuck Berry, Duane Allman, Jack White, Joe Strummer, John Frusciante, Jonny Greenwood, Kurt Cobain, Lindsey Buckingham, Mike Kerr, Nile Rodgers, Pete Townshend, and Peter Frampton among that number. for each artist I felt that 25 was the right number - and these 25 are the very players that inspired me the most to pick up the guitar in the first place, and continue to inspire me to pick it up today and every day henceforth. But in selecting 3 fully representative videos etc. ![]() This is as much for me to have a handy reference to my favourites as much as to expose you to 1 or 2 you may not be fully aware of or else have forgotten about!įor sure people will be hounding me with how could I possibly leave out this or that guy - in fact I have enough really to do a top 50, or top 100 even. I get asked so often what my key influences are, and what informs my own pedalboard choices, tones and textures - that I thought I would do this detailed overview - which has actually taken a very significant time to compile and write up.
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