The 10 albums that influenced you most as a guitar player

[fearhk213]

These are not ordered in regards to most influential, but rather in a timeline. That's why I put 12, because if I didn't there would be some holes in the timeline. Anyway, I could probably list more, but these are the albums that without a doubt, for one reason or another, changed my perception of guitar playing and/or music.

Metallica-Master of Puppets
Megadeth-Rust in Peace
Megadeth-Countdown to Extinction
Sepultura-Chaos A.D.
Death-Symbolic
Fear Factory-Obsolete
Victor Wooten-Show of Hands
Christopher Parkening-In the Spanish Style
Stevie Ray Vaughn-The Sky is Crying
John Williams-From the Jungle of Paraguay: John Williams Plays Barrios
The Mars Volta-Deloused in the Comatorium
Sikth-Death of a Dead Day

 

[redrol]

Bob Marley - anything really
Anthrax - Among the Living
Anthrax - Persistance of Time
Anthrax - State of Euphoria
Bad Brains - Banned in DC... and everything else as well
Sepultura - Beneath the remains
Metallica - Ride the lightning
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Pantera - Cowboys from hell

 

[realbeeker]

pantera-vulgar display of power (the first time i heard walk i knew i wanted my guitar to sound like that)
nirvana- bleach ( this isn;t the first one i heard but it made me want to play guitar the most)
metallica- ride the lightening
stevie ray vaghan- texas flood (biggest inspiration for my lead playing)
jimi hendrix- are you experienced
fu manchu- no one rides for free
death- individual thought patterns
suffocation- pierced from within
black sabbath- paranoid
kyuss- sky valley

honorable mentions to
isis - oceanic
soundgarden- badmotorfinger
high on fire- art of self defense

 

[Scott Ians Beard]

I love these threads, they are a great resource for finding new music (or 80s bands ive not heard of )

Megadeth - Rust In Peace: This album taught me all my rhythm chops, single handedly. Also, Marty has influenced my lead playing, mainly through his note choice and note bending
Van Halen - I: No explanation needed!
Yngwie - Rising Force: This album showed me that all the years I was playing "classical" music on piano wasnt wasted - I could bring it into METAL! Haha
Dokken - Live from the Sun: For years I didnt realise that it was Reb Beach on this disk and not George Lynch. I tend to use alot of Reb style tapping (notes/intervals, not technique - im not that good!)
Dokken - Beast from the East: Lynch brings the pain, song after song. He is a big influence on me, although I dont think it shows in my improv playing. If I sit down and work out something, this is where Lynch comes into things.
Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean: A recent discovery for me, but its superb. JLP is a true artist. Its his album, but everyone shines on it, and everyone has their place. Its shown me that you dont have to be showing off all the time to be great. Even if you have Holdsworth and Struemer in your band, duelling out on leads.
Toto - IV: This is one of the first albums I remember hearing as a kid (hey, im only young!). Lukather floored me, I wanted to be him (and still do, or at least have his chops).

 

[redrol]

I love these threads, they are a great resource for finding new music (or 80s bands ive not heard of )

Megadeth - Rust In Peace: This album taught me all my rhythm chops, single handedly. Also, Marty has influenced my lead playing, mainly through his note choice and note bending
Van Halen - I: No explanation needed!
Yngwie - Rising Force: This album showed me that all the years I was playing "classical" music on piano wasnt wasted - I could bring it into METAL! Haha
Dokken - Live from the Sun: For years I didnt realise that it was Reb Beach on this disk and not George Lynch. I tend to use alot of Reb style tapping (notes/intervals, not technique - im not that good!)
Dokken - Beast from the East: Lynch brings the pain, song after song. He is a big influence on me, although I dont think it shows in my improv playing. If I sit down and work out something, this is where Lynch comes into things.
Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean: A recent discovery for me, but its superb. JLP is a true artist. Its his album, but everyone shines on it, and everyone has their place. Its shown me that you dont have to be showing off all the time to be great. Even if you have Holdsworth and Struemer in your band, duelling out on leads.
Toto - IV: This is one of the first albums I remember hearing as a kid (hey, im only young!). Lukather floored me, I wanted to be him (and still do, or at least have his chops).

You have no Anthrax in that list, for shame...

 

[guitar_god123456]

1.iron maiden-edward the great/rock in rio (DVD)
2.children of bodom-stockholm knockout
3.dream theater-score
4.machine head-the blackening
5.pantera-reinventing hell
6.shadows fall-threads of life
7.ozzy osbourne-essentials
8.trivium ascendancy/the crusade
9. g3 dvds
10. ac/dc- live at donnington

something like that, i think

 

[Jeff Hilligan]

Kiss Alive II
VH 1
VH fair warning
Dio. holy diver
first 4 kings X albums
Blue Murder
Pornograffiti

 

[Oblivion DC]

From earliest to latest

1. Def Leppard - High & Dry
2. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
3. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
4. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
5. Metallica - Master of Puppets
6. Anthrax - Among the Living
7. Megadeth - Peace Sells
8. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
9. Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
10. Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache

It's been a long strange trip.

 

[Meathead]

Hard to pick 10...some guitar CD's I dig

Blow By Blow...Jeff Beck
Blizzard of Oz...Randy Rhoads
Diary Of A Madman...Randy Rhoads
Houses Of The Holy...Led Zeppelin
Van Halen 1...Van Halen
Fair Warning...Van Halen
Eat 'Em And Smile...David Lee Roth
Purple...Stone Temple Pilots
Tales From The Buldge...Michael Landau
The Star Spangled Banner...Michael Landau

Shit!

Whitesnake...Whitesnake
Blue Murder...Blue Murder

Sykes is one of the top guitar GODS.

 

[Scott Ians Beard]

You have no Anthrax in that list, for shame...

Shit! Spreading the Disease/Among the Living are awesome. I havent listened those discs in years! Definitely picked up some rhythm chops from Scott, and his beard!

 

[mentoneman]

Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean: A recent discovery for me, but its superb. JLP is a true artist. Its his album, but everyone shines on it, and everyone has their place. Its shown me that you dont have to be showing off all the time to be great. Even if you have Holdsworth and Struemer in your band, duelling out on leads.

yeah but allan crushed darrell! particularly in the tone department. struemer sounds like he was soloing on a jew's harp through a phase shifter in comparison. i would have stuck to the dolphin shorts and rollerskating backwards with the juan epstein afro through those "chikachika" 70's porn rhythm parts if i were darrell.

sykes > weir...the trade off solo in the tygers of pan tang song "take it" from the gangland album is the biggest shred pwnership of all time! sykes slapshotted that musical hockey puck off the edge of eternity on that gem.

tipton > downing
smith > murray pretty similar deals going on with those two groups...blondie shook the hair and pumped the studded fist, brunette made sense out of the notes.

jabs or uli > r. schenker
man if uli could have only kept that piehole shut....he sounded like paganini fused to a muppet with a sinus infection trapped under a collapsed quaalude factory

vh1
randy/blizzy-yo
yngwie/alcatrazz
gary/corridors
eric/tones
sykes/tygers
hendrix/axis
lane/powers
holdsworth/road games
landau/tales

 

[Scott Ians Beard]

Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean: A recent discovery for me, but its superb. JLP is a true artist. Its his album, but everyone shines on it, and everyone has their place. Its shown me that you dont have to be showing off all the time to be great. Even if you have Holdsworth and Struemer in your band, duelling out on leads.

yeah but allan crushed darrell! particularly in the tone department. struemer sounds like he was soloing on a jew's harp through a phase shifter in comparison. i would have stuck to the dolphin shorts and rollerskating backwards with the juan epstein afro through those "chikachika" 70's porn rhythm parts if i were darrell.

Ill agree with you on the tone thing, Darrells tone stinks. but I think you are being a bit hard on his playing! I think Darrell does a fine job on the leads, but Allan definitely wins the prize...