Music:
Metal: Absu, Accept, Aghora, Am I Blood?, Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Armored Saint, At The Gates, Atheist, Avantasia, Ayreon, Behold the Arctopus, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Blind Guardian, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Celtic Frost, Cynic, Danzig, Death, Deep Purple, Demons & Wizards, Diamond Head, Dimmu Borgir, Dio, Dissection, Dragonforce, Dream Evil, Edge of Sanity (and other Dan Swano projects), Electro Quarterstaff, Emperor, Euthanazia, Evergrey, Evile, Exodus, Flotsam & Jetsam, Forbidden, the Gone Jackals, Grim Reaper, Guns 'n' Roses, the Haunted, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Kamelot, King Diamond, KISS, Kreator, Labyrinth, Leprechaun, Yngwie Malmsteen, Mastodon, Mayhem, Megadeth, Melechesh, Meliah Rage, the Mentors, Mercyful Fate, Metal Church, Metallica, Ministry, Motley Crue, Motorhead, My Dying Bride, Napalm Death, Opeth, O.S.I., Outbreak, Overkill, Pantera, Pig Destroyer, Phobia, Queensryche, Rainbow, Rammstein, Ratt, Satyricon, the Scorpions, Sepultura, Skid Row, Slayer, S.O.D., Spastic Ink, Stormlord, Subway to Sally, Suicidal Tendencies, Symphony X, Testament, Tool, Twisted Sister, Van Halen, Venom, Vio-lence, Voivod, Watchtower, Wehrmacht, White Lion, Whitesnake, many others.
Punk: the Adicts, the Adolescents, the Adverts, Die Aerzte, Agent Orange, Agnostic Front, Amebix, Angelic Upstarts, Anti-Nowhere League, Antisect, Black Flag, Blondie, Broken Bones, the Business, the Buzzcocks, the Casualties, Chaos UK, the Circle Jerks, the Clash, Cock Sparrer, the Cockney Rejects, Conflict, Crass, Elvis Costello, the Damned, the Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys, the Descendents, the Dictators, DIRT, Discharge, Disorder, Disrupt, the Distillers, DOOM, the Exploited, Extinction of Mankind, Fear, Final Conflict, Fleas and Lice, GBH, the Germs, Green Day, Richard Hell, the Hiss, Iggy & the Stooges, the Jam, the MC5, Misery, the Misfits, Nausea, the New York Dolls, the Offspring, Oi Polloi, the Plasmatics, the Pogues, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Sham 69, the Skulls, the Sonics, Subhumans, the Varukers, the Vibrators, the Violators, Wire, X, X-Ray Specs, Zero Boys, etc etc.
Progressive/Avant Garde: A Triggering Myth, Laurie Anderson, Anekdoten, Anglagard, Ange, Arco Iris, Arzachel, At War With Self, Black Bonzo, Bjork, Brand X, Bumblefoot, Camel, Can, Canvas Solaris, Caravan, Degree Absolute, Dream Theater, Echolyn, Einsteurzende Neubauten, ELP, Focus, Genesis, Gordian Knot, Happy the Man, Harmonium, Greg Howard, Jethro Tull, Kansas, King Crimson, Knight Area, Landberk, Locanda Delle Fate, Tony Levin, Magma, MMS, the Moody Blues, Neu!, Paatos, Pavlov's Dog, Philharmonie, Pink Floyd, Popul Vuh, Porcupine Tree, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Procol Harum, Riverside, Rush, Secret Oyster, Spock's Beard, Wastefall, Yes, Frank Zappa, more that I can't think of at the moment.
Electronic: Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, the Orb, Squarepusher, Tangerine Dream, just starting to get into this stuff...
Other Rock/Pop: ABBA, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Christina Aguilera, Alice In Chains, the Allman Brothers, America, Bad Company, the Band, the Beach Boys, the Beatles (including solo careers), Jeff Beck, Jason Becker, Blue Oyster Cult, the Bravery, James Brown, Nick Cave, CCR, the Chantays, Eric Clapton, George Clinton and whatever band is behind him, Coldplay, the Commodores, Alice Cooper, the Coral, Cream, Jim Croce, CSN(Y), the Cult, Dick Dale, Neil Diamond, Dire Straits, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Eagles, Echo & the Bunnymen, ELO, the Faces, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, Free, Brett Garsed, Marvin Gaye, J. Geils, Paul Gilbert, Stu Hamm, Michael Hedges, Jimi Hendrix, Don Henley, the Hollies, Billy Idol, Iron Butterfly, Michael Jackson, Jan & Dean, Elton John, Eric Johnson, Janis Joplin, Journey, Keane, Kaki King, Shawn Lane, Led Zeppelin, the Lovin' Spoonful, Madonna, the Mars Volta, Matchbox Twenty, Steve Miller, Minus the Bear, Ronnie Montrose, Alanis Morissette, Muse, Randy Newman, the O'Jays, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Polaris, Elvis Presley, Queen, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Otis Redding, REM, the Rolling Stones, Kelli Ruddick, Joe Satriani, Brian Setzer, Carly Simon, Sly & the Family Stone, the Smashing Pumpkins, Steppenwolf, Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, the Stone Roses, Stone Temple Pilots, Donna Summer, Tears For Fears, Thin Lizzy, George Thorogood & the Destroyers, U2, Steve Vai, Suzanne Vega, Velvet Revolver, the Verve, Joe Walsh, the White Stripes, the Who, Edgar Winter, Joachim Witt, Stevie Wonder, the Yardbirds, Neil Young, the Zutons... I'm totally not giving everyone their due.
Blues/Jazz: Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennet, Dave Brubeck, Kenny Burrell, Billy Cobham, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Larry Coryell, Miles Davis, Sammy Davis Jr, Dave Ellis, Don Ellis, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Benny Goodman, Vince Guaraldi, Buddy Guy, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Herbie Hancock, Allan Holdsworth, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Sean Jones, B.B. King, Diana Krall, Gene Krupa, Glenn Miller, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Dean Martin, Pat Metheny, Lee Morgan, New York Jazz Quartet, Adam Nitti, Jaco Pastorius, John Scofield, Wayne Shorter, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Tony Williams, Victor Wooten... I'm trying to get more into jazz, it's practically all I listen to on the radio anymore.
Rap: Beastie Boyz, De La Soul, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Deltron 3030 (or anything else with Dan Nakamura's name attached to it), Dr. Dre, Eminem, Gorillaz (again with Dan Nakamura... and Del...), Grandmaster Flash, Heiroglyphics, Ice-T, ICP, Jedi Mind Tricks, Talib Kweli, Last Poets, LL Cool J, MF Doom, Mos Def, Necro, NWA, Public Enemy, Busta Rhymes, Run DMC, Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, A Tribe Called Quest.
Reggae/Flamenco/other world musics: Black Uhuru, Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, Al DiMeola, the English Beat, Gypsy Kings, King Tubby, Paco de Lucia, Bob Marley, Damien "Junior Gong" Marley, Matisyahu, Junior Murvin, Agustus Pablo, Tito Puente, Scientist, the Specials, Steel Pulse, Strunz & Farrah, Peter Tosh, U Roy, Uakti, UB40, the Wailers.
Country: Willie Nelson. Yes, that's it, the only country music I like is Willie Nelson... and Johnny Cash... and Toby Keith... and anything not associated with "the Nashville Sound"
Classical: I'm not really that into classical music, but a few of my favorite composers include Bach, Beethoven, Brouwer, Carulli, Carcassi, Chopin, Debussy, Giuliani, Glass, Holst, Ravel, Reich, Satie, Jon Schmidt, Schumann (both Robert & Claire), Stravinsky, Tarrega, Sor, Villa-Lobos, etc etc. Not many favorite performers, although I enjoy John Williams' guitar work and the Kronos Quartet. I also enjoy film composers such as Bill Conti, Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith, Harry Gregson-Williams, Basil Poledouris and John Williams.
