List of my influences/favorites/artists I like
I will be including in parentheses the known bands/projects I know of for artists that I feel some may not know or to signify style if it might be not listenable to others; screaming, rap, etc Shawn Lane(duh) Buckethead Alexis Pareja (The Number Twelve Looks Like You(screaming), Voyeur's Kaleidoscope, Composite City) Keith Latinen(Empire! Empire! I Was A Lonely Estate, Mt. Oriander, Anna Flyaway) Kurt Rosenwinkel This Town Needs Guns, also abbreviated TTNG Nirvana The Smashing Pumpkins The Pixies The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die (I watched this band form in a backyard) Dads Marietta Chopin Tchaikovsky Gustav Holst Josh Scogin(Norma Jean, The Chariot, '68) CHON Josh Martin(Little Tybee) Modest Mouse Title Fight Hendrix The Doors The Grateful Dead The Cure The Clash The Smiths At The Drive In Circle Takes The Square (screaming) pageninetynine (screaming) The Gorillaz Thundercat Primus Chiodos(some screaming) Hiatus Kaiyote Plini Rob Scallon Kendrick Lamar(hip-hop, rap) Eyedea(hip-hop, rap) Sage Francis(hip-hop, rap) Jpegmafia(experimental hip-hop) Anthony Green(Saosin, Circa Survive, solo) Animals As Leaders Necrophagist Jason Becker Marty Friedman Algernon Cadwallader Erik Satie Joe Hisaishi Yusuke Honma Casiopea Consider The Source Frank Zappa John Mclaughlin Weather Report Thelonius Monk Tigran Hamasayan Miles Davis Herbie Hancock Victor Wooten Nat King Cole Snarky Puppy Van Halen Johnny Cash Black Sabbath Eric Burdon(especially War era) Alice In Chains Steve Vai Paul Gilbert Beethoven(Sonata. 23 in F Minor is my all time favorite, specifically the Michael Studer rendition.) Bach Guthrie Govan Scale the Summit Mike Kinsella (Owen, American Football) Slipknot Korn Deftones Covet Maps & Atlases Hail The Sun Allan Holdsworth(how could I forget) Joe Pass Aesop Rock(hip-hop) Rick James James Brown Usher Alexisonfire(screaming) Pink Floyd(especially Syd Barrett era, Piper At The Gates was my bread and butter for awhile)