Member Since: 1/30/2006
Band Website: metalmatt.com
Band Members:
Matt Ross
MY PERSONAL MYSPACE - Check it out if you want to know more about me.
Mark Tremonti
Mark Tremonti's brand of well thought out messaged filled music with great riffs, soaring ballads, and uplifting hooks has left its permanent mark on me (no pun intended.) I'm a huge Alter Bridge fan, and even a Creed fan to an extent despite the bad rap they always got.
Zakk Wylde
Strength, Determination, Merciless, Forever. If you can't tell by now I'm a sucker for a positive message. Having insanely well honed lighting fast chops also ain't too bad.
Eddie Van Halen
Bombastic flashy riff based rock with its heart in blues.
Steve Vai
How do you find the balance between feel and shred? Steve Vai is how.
Joe Satriani
Melodic, beautiful, and sometimes almost haunting. I never grow tired of his melodic playing. I have a huge respect for his ability to never sound repititious.
Slash
Raw, edgy, rev'd up blues. I sometimes wish my style was a tad more lose like his, but his sleezy riff writing definitely made an impact on me.
John Petrucci
I love all the hints of different elements in his playing. I've heard progressive and metal all the way down to smooth jazz.
Days of the New
I know this may seem a bit of a contrast when compared to a lot of the other artists on this list, but this kind of music is where you find a lot of truth and meaning. Like I said, I like to try to have a point to my music and these guys deliver some heavy stuff when you listen to the lyrics.
Paul Gilbert
Such a sickeningly clean player and riff writer.
Jimi Hendrix
I've heard alot of people try and say he's overrated, but in my opinion soul is something you can never have too much of.
John Mayer
Say what you will, but this is one of the few cats still carrying the torch. Great songwritter, great feel to his playing.
Jimmy Page
Another one some people call overratted. Come up with some blues phrasing like him then maybe we'll talk.
Randy Rhoads
I'd have to say about all though, the guitarist that had the biggest influence on me is the late great Randy Rhoads. I run a site called "Diary of an Axeman" with a friend of mine dedicated to him. Check it out if you wish to learn more about him.
If you want to check out me doing some Randy Rhoads covers, CLICK HERE .
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I have MANY many numerous other influences, including early Alice Cooper, early Kiss, Joe Perry of Aerosmith, King's X, 7m3, Godsmack, Pink floyd, Queensryche, George Lynch... The list goes on and on. Sometimes you can almost hear what I'm into at the time reflecting in my writing...
Actually its something that I struggle with a lot, and thats trying to find my one true voice as a musician with so many influences. I don't want to be a one trick pony, but I also don't want to have a million projects either. I'd like to be able to fuse and merge it all down to one tangible style of music if at all possible. I'm stuck between loving a simple groove for the ladies to move to, something that actually means something to me personally, and wanting something that tears your face off. I guess at the end of the day I sound like me no matter what I do.