I co-write most of my material these days with Chris. I am one half of The Blind Bowling Club and a much smaller fraction of Pull (see links to friends).
Influences
A lot of stuff, but significant ones include: Radiohead - Satriani - Vai - Pearl Jam - Sound Garden - Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Aerosmith - Guns 'n' Roses - Blind Melon - Smashing Pumkins - Temple of the Dog - Pantera - System Of A Down - Lemonheads - Beatles - Rolling Stones - Stone Temple Pilots - Supergrass - Foo Fighters - Counting Crows - Toad The Wet Sprocket - Gin Blossoms - Blur - Beck... all stuff that I used to listen to a lot.
Sounds Like
Probably sounds a bit like a confusion of the above mentioned influences...