| Thanks to Paul Weiss who directed me to the logic of music and music theory. Paul attributes what he taught to Mick Goodrick of Berklee College of Music.
Thanks to:
Duane Allman - how to develop a solo in a jam
Jeff Beck - more ideas than a room full of geniuses
Jimi Hendrix - like you wouldn't believe!
Eric Clapton - good stuff; over and over
Carlos Santana - good influence for me as a beginner
George Benson - the reason I went to Paul Weiss for jazz theory
Wes Montgomery - see George above + Killer octave playing
John McGlaughlin - jazz fusion influence
John Abercrombie - jazz fusion influence
John Scofield - took a lesson from John back in the '70s
Lee Ritenour - great stuff to play
Tommy Tedesco - the guy with the first really good sight reading book
Larry Carlton - my hero of the mid-late '70s
Chet Atkins - my hero of fingerpicking
Merle Travis - the man who a fingerpicking style was named after
Paul Stookey - Peter, Paul, & Mary (some of the first fingerstyle I learned)
Jorma Kaukonen - Hot Tuna! learned every song!
Leo Kotke - guitarists with hands this big should put a disclaimer on their albums! |