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Influences
Another made frenzy at Giraffes Annonymous!
Sounds Like
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Who Do I sound Like?
Hmmm...
Well, I always Liked to
listen to these people:
Frank Zappa
- the biggest Influence of all. He was just the best...simply
put. He is why we all gravitate towards that God-loved Lydian
Mode.
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush
- Number 2 on my list just because he was so cool, played that '62
SG, was so Psychedelic and had that awesome fat whooshy tone. C'mon,
LIVE was en epiphany for me.
Allan Holdsworth
- hit me from Jean Luc Ponty's Enigmatic Ocean and tore my head off!
It's been love head-on since then. We hung out at a pub once
in the 1980's He is SOO Modest.
Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs
- 2nd Album with Take it
off the Top, the picking, the over-the-bar progressions. Man!
Al DiMeola -
Elegant Gypsy Made me practive my butt off for years.
Eddie VanHalen Came
Along in 1978 and Changed my whole view, darn him! I had to
start over, again.
Yngwie made me
start over another time in 1981
Shawn Lane
(R.I.P) when he was 15. Still my favorite guitarist to listen to.
Until I watched Shawn play, I had NO IDEA what he was doing...still
don't know HOW he was able to do that stuff!
Greg Howe - Took
Blues Metal and made Fusion out of it. in the past 11 years, Greg
Howe has become a monster and I had, without trying, added a lot of
his style into my own.
Scott Henderson -
OK, I TRIED to incorporate Scott's Style into mine but that is SO
HARD TO DO. I wish I had an ounce of his creativity and
technique
Steve Vai - I
HUGE INFLUENCE since he double tracked Frank's solo on Tinseltown
Rebellion in 1978, played the Impossible Guitar Parts all over FZ's
albums, Flexible, Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth (Lookin' For Trouble
Solo? Whew!), and when I got Passion and Warfare I had to Start over
ONE MORE TIME. I love Steve's Playing and I think it shows -
like it or not. But it think it comes from both Steve directly
and from Frank through Steve indirectly.
Of course I started @ age 8
with Beatles, Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Martin Barr,
Alice Cooper, Lots of Classical stuff, lots of 1940;s and 1950's
pop, Herp Albert, and weird Polka stuff and Lawrence Welk, too.
Guitarist / Vocalist with THE OATH / PARTY of
FOUR
Ok, so I am Greg Alan Moore, also known
as GiraffeGuitar. Can you guess why :-)
I make guitars - odd guitars
- I started playing at age 8 on guitar , age 7 on Piano - a player piano
that I would watch the keys depress as the rolls would play great
classic songs like Autumn Leaves, Who's Sorry Now, Ode to Joy, and many
many ragtime tunes. I would try to memorize the key movements and
follow them as the rolls would play and eventually I could play along
with the Player Rolls and improvise along with them. Then I got my
guitar, made the note connections between the piano and guitar and would
play the guitar along while I pumped the player piano rolls. Needless to
say I had a good Vascular Pulmonary system by age 10.
Since I had no formal
instruction - only a Mel Bay Level 3 book and a Paganini (the Red One)
scales Book, I didn't know much about guitar - it was given to me tuned
to Drop D and that's how I learned to play it. I didn't learn to play
standard tuning until I was 11 Although I did know I was playing a
non-standard tuning within the first month of having the guitar - I
didn't care - I like the Drop D Tuning. Plus, when I was 10 and got
Black Sabbath Master Of Reality, I was all set to learn it.
Grew up on Rock,
Fusion, Jazz
Influenced by Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck,
Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Scott Henderson, Mahavishnu
Orchestra, Rush, Greg Howe, Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen,
Steve Vai, Frank Zappa, Pat Travers, Joe Satriani - the list
would go on ad
nausium.
AND NO! I don't take
these silly pics seriously...I am dedicated to my music - forever. I make
my own guitars because I can and I choose wild, stupid, strange, and most of all
corny to make or interesting conversation and memorable experiences for those
who come to my shows. Thanks to all. You're the best!
I have Synaesthesia
I live in the rural
outskirts of Anderson County in upstate South Carolina - 120 miles northeast of
Atlanta and 120 miles south west of Charlotte North Carolina, 90 miles North
West of Columbia South Carolina and 786 Miles straight south of Detroit,
Michigan, my home town
