Besides Vinnie's parents (Country and Bluegrass), Jeff Beck , and Chet Atkins, who else inspired/affected Vinnie's music ???


I here a lot of Ritchie Blackmore in Vinnie's playing. Does anyone know if he was an influence to the Vin-man ???

Who has Vinnie cited as his influences???

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Such advanced techinique, phrasing, alternate picking and most importantly hand vibrato shouldn't go unnoticed and be without the rightful praise that it has earned and deserves.

I love the first guy's ejaculatory expressions.

I think George Harrison, jimmy page and hendrix plus jazz players and 60s popular music have all been mentioned as influences. Personally I don't think much of jimmy page but he is a legend. I think bonham was the most talented guy in that band, but they could certainly make killer music.

As far as Led Zep- In my OPINION ,the M.V.P. of that band was John Paul Jones.

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A few days ago ,I was watching the reunion clips from the reunion show in London, Page's live solo chops have really crystalized and are really palatable to my ears now. The older footage makes me cringe at points.
Plus, You just can't beat Page on an acoustic. I wish I had his ear(plus his favorite Les Paul ) as well.

The best use of an acoustic guitar EVER !!! :

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I swear that this song can bring me to tears any time I listen to it. PERFECTION.

The Rain Song is awesome. I saw Page/Plant in 96, great show.

V himself cited Itzhak Perlman as an influence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzak_Perlman

when you hear him play, you'll understand why

he also mentioned Randy, and Holdsworth.

Of course,since this comes from interwiews, take it with a grain of salt

I heard he said Al Di Meola as well , but again from magazines .

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Rick, I agree that J.P. Jones is the MVP of Led Zep!

interesting. I never thought about the JP Jones. I heard the guys from Cream on the radio slagging off Led Zep as a bunch of 'crap' session musicians who couldn't get a gig in the 60s. (the thought Bonham was good).

I would take Led Zep over Cream however.

Jerry reed too!!

I have been listening to Willie Nelson at work lately. I think Vinnie may have listened to some Willie .

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We ALL sounded like this guy at one stage!!!


Sadly some of us still do!!!!!

I believe Ace, Mark, Bruce and Tommy were huge influences on Vinnie...

I think you would have to look at what was on the radio in 63-75 or a new style for his main influences.

Keep in mind his bread and butter was song / music writing and he seemed to be involved in what was popular. Even though Kiss was not at the time he brought them back to being popular with his writing.
I'm of the mind that his guitar playing was a tool to forward his songwriting and "studio musician career".

While this helped him in the 80's, most less technically schooled guitarist seemed to get long term limelight. Its kinda of like the musicians joke in the 90's "where did all the shredders from the 80's go? ..Nashville". ( a lot were doing studio work ) Maybe this was his intent for his move there, but like most of his moves it imploded. I'm going with this list early to later 63-75, as a guess,... because who really knows?

Chuck Berry
Bobby Vinton
Bobby Darin
Roy Clark
Elvis Presley
Beach Boys
Byrds
cream
The Fifth Dimension
jimi hendrix
Creedence
Elton John
Edgar Winter Group
Santana
Chick Corea ( Al Di Meola )

That's a good list and yeah, the 80's shredders had to go somewhere!! Sadly Vinnie could have easily still had a shredding career but it did not eventuate.

G3 are touring here next year, imagine Vinnie on the G3 bill!

Yer imagine that. Cause that's about close as Vinnie is going to get to doing G3.
(He'd be the biggest drama Queen too.)

Dunno? The G3 guys are all super accurate and can play every song exactly the same every night!!! Vinnie??? Maybe??? He'd have to write up some instrumental stuff first.

I'll give the current G3 a miss too. Lukather is a great player but I don't know any of his stuff and Satriani is pretty boring! Nice guy though. Vai, Gilbert and Petruuci or Yngwie would be my G3.

you can hear in the bangles stuff a 60s sunshine pop inspiration. Most likley the music on the radio when he was learning guitar.
The Byrds
I would say for sure Laurindo Almeida from the modern jazz quartet.
Eddie Van Halen ,
Al Di Meola.
Beck, Harrison, Hendrix and Page being the biggest influences.

shramiac wrote:Dunno? The G3 guys are all super accurate and can play every song exactly the same every night!!! Vinnie??? Maybe??? He'd have to write up some instrumental stuff first.

I'll give the current G3 a miss too. Lukather is a great player but I don't know any of his stuff and Satriani is pretty boring! Nice guy though. Vai, Gilbert and Petruuci or Yngwie would be my G3.

I'm not an instrumental guitar album fan at all but if these three are gonna be in my home town I'll be there, even though I know NONE of their stuff. Not sure what they are going to play but I"m sure it will be incredible.

shramiac wrote:Dunno? The G3 guys are all super accurate and can play every song exactly the same every night!!! Vinnie??? Maybe??? He'd have to write up some instrumental stuff first.

I'll give the current G3 a miss too. Lukather is a great player but I don't know any of his stuff and Satriani is pretty boring! Nice guy though. Vai, Gilbert and Petruuci or Yngwie would be my G3.

Andrew,
What age are you? Are you in your 30's? I'm trying to get my thoughts around Joe Satriani being boring. In reading your posts I think that you like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Judas Priest and such. Is Joe Satriani not heavy enough for your personal taste? I read recently that you prefer every note to be alternately picked which is usually not Satriani's Style.

Share a little more about your opinion of Joe Satriani

Kev

Don't think shram likes priest or metallica KeV but does dig megadeth & dream theatre... I met Satriani in 2005 he's a f*cking really nice guy & he signed a gig poster for me which hasn't seen the light of day for six years now! I love his work specifically flying in a blue dream