Most influential guitarist of all time
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It's Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley's birthday today and I think a good case can be made that he. more than any other guitarist. cause many to pick up that guitar for the first time and play hard. Not always play good but with deep conviction with the thought that maybe a loser like me can learn some chords. join a bad. make some noise and change one's life on the journey.
Happy birthday. Ace.
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Ehhh.
Ehhh.
I'd say Jimi. Changed the way guitar is or could be played.
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No doubt that Hendrix pushed
No doubt that Hendrix pushed boundries as to what could be done but for pure simply inspiration that you too could pick up a guitar and become a star...
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Good to see you, Tony. I've
Good to see you, Tony. I've never heard of "Ace" Frehley - where did people hear him?
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Ace was the lead guitarist
Ace was the lead guitarist for Kiss; the band that launched more adolescent rock and roll fantasies than the next 50 bands combined.
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>>>>>>I think a good case can
>>>>>>I think a good case can be made that
he.vagina more than any other guitarist. cause many to pick up that guitar for the first time and play hard.Fixed that for ya
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Oh! I never listened to them,
Oh! I never listened to them, was already very set in my ways with '60s and '70s bands.
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Now, now, Timmy...
Now, now, Timmy...
No doubt that vagina was a prompt for many but in those early ears, vaginas are scary. To may, locked in their room with records and dreaming of being a rock star was much more realistic.
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> I've never heard of "Ace"
> I've never heard of "Ace" Frehley - where did people hear him?<
lols.
um, how about that chuck berry cat?
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Les Paul had a pretty big
Les Paul had a pretty big impact.
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Frehleh's Comets was a great
Frehleh's Comets was a great band.
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Was That Richard Vagina or Ry
Was that Richard Vagina or Ry Vagina?
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Jimmy Page probably
Jimmy Page probably influenced a fair share of budding guitarists.
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Slipping & slidin, drinkin &
Slipping & slidin, drinkin & driving , bringing me closer to hell.
Yeah Frehleys Comet was great! Lol.
If you asked Ace he would tell you that he is the most influential of all time. To me that says it all.
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Influential - would have to
Influential - would have to say Chuck Berry.
Inspirational - for me it was Jorma when Quah came out, around 74. Been playing ever since.
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I'd rather go with most
I'd rather go with most important guitarist.
Andres Segovia
Django Reinhardt
Charlie Christian
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^Cork sniffers guitarists.
^Cork sniffer's guitarists.
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Not sure if serious.
Not sure if serious.
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personally for me it was the
personally for me it was the Claptonian
When I heard Born Under A Bad Sign on Wheels of Fire - I said .... how does he do that?
thats' when I went out and bought a Harmony Stratotone electric ( $29.95)
Still couldn't figure it out....but I've gotten closer through the years.
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Matt Pike
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>>>>Jimmy Page probably
>>>>Jimmy Page probably influenced a fair share of budding guitarists.
This. I understand that the Space Ace may have fueled many teenage guitar hero dreams, but Jimmy Page did the same in spades. Moreover, Jimmy Page was a big influence on many of the axe slingers that followed, including Ace himself. Eddie Van Halen, who is highly influential in the guitar world, credits Page as the inspiration for his signature two handed tapping style.
Jimmy Page's big inspiration was of course Chuck Berry, I would rank the five most influential players as follows:
1. Chuck Berry (for starting it all)
2. Jimi Hendrix (for showing world what you can do with an electric guitar).
3. Jimmy Page (the sound that launched an entire legion of crappy and not so crappy hard rock and heavy metal bands)
4. Eddie Van Halen (for taking guitar playing to the next level)
5. George Harrison and John Lennon (not for anything special about their playing style, but just getting millions of young men to pick up guitars and form rock bands).
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An impossible, but fun
An impossible, but fun question to try and answer
Scotty Moore
Charlie Christensen
Less Paul
Segovia
Duane Allman
Clapton
Beck
Page
Keef (in terms of influence on other guitarists, perhaps the most)
Dick Dale
Gene Vincent
Eddie Cocran
Check Berry
Reverend Gary Davis
Robert Johnson
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Without Charlie Christian
Without Charlie Christian there would be no electric lead guitar. He gets my vote.
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I was teaching 5th grade in
I was teaching 5th grade in the late 70's when Kiss was near the height of their popularity and they certainly influenced a lot of ten year old males.
It's easy to listen to this and think, "I could do that". Listening to Hendrix you think, I could never do that.