Some of my musical heroes. ---See music section.
Unfortunately, most of my musical influences are dead.
Living: Vince Gill, Eric Clapton, Slash, Axl Rose
Dead: Robert Johnson, Johnny Cash, or Ray Charles
"It is a remarkable thing to have been driven and influenced all of my life by the work of one man. And even though I accept that it has always been the keystone of my musical foundation, I still would not regard it as an obsession; instead, I prefer to think of it as a landmark that I navigate by, whenever I feel myself going adrift.
I am talking, of course, about the work of ROBERT JOHNSON.
Now, after all these years, his music is like my oldest friend, always in the back of my head, and on the horizon. It is the finest music I have ever heard. I have always trusted its purity, and I always will."
Clapton on Johnson. I couldn't have said exactly how I feel any better than this.