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Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound Of Thunder
Queen: Greatest Hits I+II
Guns N Roses: Use Your Illusion I+II
Chris Rea: Road To Hell, Auberge
Deep Purple: Machine Head, Perfect Strangers, Come Hell Or High Water, Purpendicular, Total Abandon
Rainbow: On Stage, Final Vinyl
Pavlov's Dog: Pampered Menial, At The Sound Of The Bell
Jesus Christ Superstar
Heather Nova: Siren
Dire Straits: Alchemy, On The Night

Do you know Pavlov´s Dog?
What do you think about Chris Rea as a slide guitar player?
 
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Red Hot Chili Peppers-Californication
Buckethead-Colma
Dream Theater-Octavarium
Dire Straits-Dire Straits
System of a Down-Toxicity
just a few I can think of right now
 
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1. Pink Floyd - The Pulse. Music that touches my heart, comfortably numb being the be all end all guitarsolo of all time. Best guitarsound ever.
2. Metallica - The Black Album. My first introduction into metal. Hetfield influenced me enormously. I see a lot of him in my playing now.
2. Metallica - And Justice For All. After the Black Album this one just blew me away. Practised endlessly on One. So proud of myself when I nailed that solo for the first time.
3. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell. Step up from Justice. Metal like it should be. Melody, aggression, it just swings. Arguably the best metal- "ballad" ever Cemetary Gates. Dimebag became my instant hero and still is (RIP).
4. Queen - Innuendo (first album I ever bought). The solo in Innuendo still amazes me. The Show Must Go On must be my favorite Queen-track.
5. Dream Theater - Metropolis pt II Scenes from a memory. Together with the live-DVD a document of craftmanship. Amazing musicianship. This made my dad understand why I love metal.
6. Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets. Die to Live gives me goosebumps every time.
7. Anathema - Judgement. For those not familiar with them, give these albums a go. Often called the Pink Floyd of metal, though I think metal is too big a word for them. Awesome band. Best live-show I EVER saw.
8. Anathema - Alternative 4
9. Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache. That song in particular got me through a hard time. Fantastic voice, awesome riffing. The joy to play just shines on this album.
10. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms. Outside of metal, Knopfler influenced me most, together with Gilmour. When we recorded our first album (full on metal) I played a solo that a player I really dig said about: "the guitarist must have listened to Knopfler a lot" and I was proud for that.
11. Lamb of God - Sacrament. These guys are the future of metal. This album just gives you a giant kick in the nuts.
12. Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve. Math-metal pioneers. I was just shocked when I first listened to this record. It's a benchmark in the scene.
13. Liquid Tension Experiment I. Speechless. Some albums make you wonder wether you'ld be better off quitting playing cause you could never imagine to be anywhere that good.
14. David Gilmour - Live at Royal Albert Hall. Just bought this on BluRay. Stunning sound. The older he gets, the better. Pure refinement. Gilmour in general showed me that the occasional error does't mean anything, doesnt take away from the magic that hitting the right note at the right time can be.
15. U2 - Rattle and hum. The Edge tought me about using a guitar to create landscapes. I think the guy is massively underestimated. I got massively into huge racks, effects and guitarsynths. Still am actually.
16. Tool - Schism. Intelligent, melancholic, groovy, screaming, soft. Just a complete record.
17. Slayer - Reign in Blood. What to say about that one. Finished my initiation into metal. That album will always be awesome. Also it annoys the hell out of my girlfriend AND my parents when I was living at home. Always nice, hehehe :)
18. Death - Symbolic. Got me into the more extreme parts of metal. Chuck Schuldiner was a genius in my book. Not as famous as Dimebag was but might have been just as influential.
19. Caedere - Mass Emission. First full-length album from friends of mine. They asked me to play a solo on it after I hadnt touched a guitar for years because of a major depression. Forced me out of musical hiding.
20. Signs of Zodiac - Evil Spirits. First and only album from my own band. The whole process was fantastic. The studio, the comradery with the bandmates, the quarrels, the fighting, the joy at having the endresult (wich sucks now all these years later :) ), amazing experience. 10 years after I can still listen to it with a big smile on my face. The band isnt here anymore but I have no regrets about that period in my life.
 
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God this was hard

In no particular order (or are they?)

Albums:

Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced?
Jimi Hendrix - Axis bold as love
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Steve Vai - Fire Garden
ZZ Top - One Foot in the blues
Maynard ferguson - One more trip to birdland
Doobie Brother - Rockin down the highway
Van Halen - Van Halen 1
Van Halen - 1984
Led Zepplin - 1
Led Zepplin - 4
Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood
Michael Jackson - Bad
John Mayer - Try!
Toto - Through the looking glass
Toto - 1

DVD's:

Joe Bonamassa - A new day yesterday Live
Joe Bonamassa - Live from the albert Hall
John Mayer - Where the Light is
Toto - Live in Amsterdam
Toto - Falling in Between Live
 
GWDavis28

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Eric Clapton - Behind the Sun
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Couldn't Stand the Weather
Don Henley - End of the Innocence
Van Halen - Right Here, Right Now
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
The Cars - The Cars
John Butcher Axis - Wishes


Glenn |B)
 
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Dr. Lemonator

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In no real order:

Night Of The Living Dregs (Dixie Dregs)
High Tension Wires (Steve Morse)
Tarkus (Emerson, Lake, and Palmer)
Trilogy (Emerson, Lake, and Palmer)
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (Take a wild guess)
Led Zeppelin II (Again, take a wild guess)
Blow By Blow (Jeff Beck)
Wired (Jeff Beck)
There And Back (Jeff Beck)
Crime Of The Century (Supertramp)
Killer (Alice Cooper)
Welcome to My Nightmare (Alice Cooper)
Sgt. Peppers (The Beatles)
Abbey Road (The Beatles)
Ah Via Musicom (Eric Johnson)
Tones (Eric Johnson)
Electromagnets II (Electromagnets)
Images and Words (Dream Theater)
Awake (Dream Theater)
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Dream Theater)
Yes Album (Yes)
Fragile (Yes)
Close to the Edge (Yes)
Yessongs (Yes)
Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield)
Tubular Bells II (Mike Oldfield)
Bridge Of Sighs (Robin Trower)
Tea For The Tillerman (Cat Stevens)
Danzig (Danzig)
Hunky Dory (David Bowie)

Wow, I think I could go on forever...There are just so many that have affected me in a huge way. Sorry for going way over 20. :D
 
GWDavis28

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mb99zz said:
Originally Posted by GWDavis28 View Post
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Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
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Glenn |B)

That was a great album.
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Heck yah, the first time I heard "Girlfriend" the song I was just floored. If I'm not mistaken, Ry Cooder plays on it.

Glenn |B)
 
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Here's round 2 for me. No particular order. I was reminded of some influential gems by reading other posts. Here goes.

1. Matthew Sweet : Girlfriend
2. Alex Skolnick : Skol Patrol
3. Michael Manring : Thonk (Steve Morse and Alex Skolnick play on some of the tracks)
4. Michael Hedges : Live on the Double Planet
5. Indigo Girls : Indigo Girls
6. Robert Plant : Now and Zen
7. Led Zeppelin : Houses of the Holy
8. Gary Moore : Bad For You Baby
9. Blue Murder : Blue Murder (John Sykes)
10. Larry Mitchell : Larry Mitchell
11. King's X : Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
12. Tora Tora : Surprise Attack
13. AC/DC : Back in Black
14. Mr. Big : Mr. Big (Gilbert)
15. Mr. Big : Lean Into It (Gilbert)
16. Mr. Big : Get Over It (Kotzen)
17. Greg Koch : Strat's Got Your Tongue
18. Greg Koch : The Grip
19. Duncan Sheik : Duncan Sheik
20. Jeff Healey : See the Light
 
musikarero

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Albums:
George Benson This Masquerade
Robben Ford Talk To Your Daughter
Pink Floyd Animals
Jeff Beck Wired/Blow By Blow
Songs/Solos:
Two Tickets To Paradise solo
People Get Ready Jeff Beck/Rod Stewart
Pete Frampton Do You Feel Like I do
What most changed my playing:
Albert Lee Star Licks audio tape

There are more but these are what comes to mind right now!
 
Assumer

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Cream Desireli Gears
Yes The Yes Album
Yes Fragile
Pat Travers Puttin It Straight
Pat Travers Heat In The Street
Pat Travers Live Go For What You Know
REO SpeedWagon Live You Get What You Play For
Rush All The Worlds A Stage
Rush Caress Of Steel
Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo
Judas Priest Unleashed in the East Live in Japan
Manfred Mann Nightingales and Bombers
Al DiMeola Kiss My Axe
Cheap Trick Live at Budokon
Chicago Transit Authority
Crowded House Temple of Low Men
Spocks Beard Beware Of Darkness
The Flower Kings Stardust We Are
Transatlantic SMPT;e
Queen News of the World and Day At The Races
Kansas Point Of No Return
Montrose Montrose
AeroSmith Get Your Wings
Marillion Made Again
Led Zepplin Physical Graffiti
Rolling Stones Some Girls
Three Dog Night Golden Biscuits
King Crimson Court of the Crimson King
Journey Escape
Joni Mitchell Court and Spark
Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps
An assortment of Frank Zappa
 
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Could never afford albums when I was growing up so here's some singles...
Elvis Hound Dog (First song I ever remember hearing, still my favourite)
Shadows Wonderful Land
Ventures Walk Don't Run
Beatles Saw Her Standing There
Rolling Stones Jumping Jack Flash
Tornados Telstar
Monkees I'm A Believer
Carpenters Goodbye To Love (My favourite guitar solo)
John Lee Hooker Boom Boom
Muddy Waters Hoochie Coochie Man
BB King The Thrill Is Gone
& some albums
Eagles Greatest Hits
ZZTop Eliminator
Paul Simon Paul Simon
Byrds Greatest Hits
Bachmann Turner Overdrive Not Fragile
Bruce Springsteen Born To Run (& lots of his others!!)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedoes
Steve Miller Greatest Hits
Roy Buchanan....almost everything
Anson Funderburgh & Sam Myers That's What They All Say
Deacon Blue Fellow Hoodlums
Freddie King Greatest Hits
Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell
Steve Forbert Alive On Arrival
That's probably enough.....it's fun.....though I'm not sure I would claim that any of them except Elvis & The Shadows "affected my life"......without those two I wouldn't have felt the urge to pester my parents for that first guitar and I'd probably be a rich accountant now!!!!
 
Assumer

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Beach Radio said:
Nice to see someone mentioning "Caress of Steel."
It seems to be almost everyone's least favorite Rush album and I never understood why. It is my second favorite and I still listen to it frequently over most other Rush albums.
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That was my second Rush album and man it was killer.
 
DavidOfOz

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My collection is a little on the eclectic (nerd-y?) side. It's all stuff that has had a musical influence on me, or taught me something valuable (ie musically, though not limited to guitar):

Toto - IV
Tommy Emmanuel - The Journey Continues
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Toto - Tambu
Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues
Steve Lukather - Ever Changing Times
Toto - The Seventh One
Alan Parson Project - I Robot
Doobie Brothers - Stampede
Doobie Brothers - Listen to the Music
Little River Band - Diamantina Cocktail
Crowded House - Woodface
Ian Moss - Matchbook
Hunters and Collectors - Natural Selection
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
Little River Band - Backstage Pass
Sting - 10 Summoner's Tales
Yes - 90125

...and many, many more
 
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