| Influences | Panic!...At the Disco!, Fall Out Boy, Avenged Sevenfold, Taking Back Sunday, Less than Jake, All American Rejects, New Found Glory, 30 Seconds to Mars, Hawthorne Heights, AFI, Alexisonfire, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Coheed and Cambria, Death Cab for Cutie, From First to Last, Funeral for a Friend, Senses Fail, Something Corporate, The Starting Line, Story of the Year, Thursday, and any other fake-emo band you can think of and including but not limited to Green Day, Maroon 5, Five for Fighting, Foo Fighters, Rage against the Machine, Maroon Day Five for Fighting Foo Against the Machine, Spongebob Squarepants, Velvet Revolver, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Megadeth, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Stone Temple Pilots, Warrant, AC/DC, Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen, Michael Anthony, Sammy Haggar, but not so much Gary Cherone..., Whitesnake, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Eric Clapton, Cream, The Yardbirds, Journey, Nickandalli.net, Static-X, Spinal Tap, Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, John "Stumpy" Pepys (1964-1967) Died in a bizarre, unexplained gardening accident, Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs (1967-1974) Choked on vomit of unknown origin, Peter "James" Bond (1974-1977) Spontaneously combusted onstage, Mick Shrimpton (1977-1982) Onstage explosion, Joe "Mama" Besser (1982) Quit the band, claiming he "couldn't take this 4/4 shit"; according to an MTV interview with Spinal Tap in November 1991, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances, Gary Wallis, Jody Linscott (Amnesty International performance in 1991) (Wallis pretended to explode at the end of the performance.), Richard "Ric" Shrimpton (1982-1999) Allegedly sold his dialysis machine for drugs, presumed dead, Sammy "Stumpy" Bateman (2000) Died in a freak tricycle accident jumping over a pool of sharks, Mick Fleetwood (2000) The only one to survive unscathed, Scott "Skippy" Scuffleton (2001-2007) His iPhone exploded in his hands while downloading "The best of Celine Dion",
Plus 14 other drummers at various times all of whom are dead, Kiss, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Aerosmith, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, Blue Oyster Cult, Deep Purple, Frank Zappa, Alice Cooper, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Temple of the Dog, Pearl Jam, Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, but not Courtney Love eww..., Eddy Vedder, Poison, Slash, Slash's Snakepit, Izzy Stradlin' and the Ju Ju Hounds, Duff McKagan, Axl Rose, Steve Adler, Matt Sorum, Gilby Clarke, Freddy Mercury, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jimmy Hendrix, Good Charlotte, Queen, The Damned, Queen of the Damned, Queens of the Stone Age, Queens of the Damned Stone Age, Dave Mustaine, C.C. DeVile, Def Leppard, Wolf Mother, Shiny Toy Guns, LA Guns, Hollywood Rose, Rose Tatoo, Bon Jovi, Strong Bad, Rick James, Anthrax, Slayer, Pantera, Korn, Godsmack, Lynard Skynard, Skid Row, Styx, The Who, ZZ Top, Weird Al, Dane Cook, Demetri Martin, Rush, Billy Talent, UnderOATH, The Used, Syndicate, Cyindikate, HIM, Her, HIM & Her, Puddle of Mudd, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Marty Biron, Danny Briere, Marty Briere (a.k.a. Danny Biron), Motley Crue, Cinderella, Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickenson, Judas Priest, Dimebag Darrel, Les Paul, Gibson, Fender, Jackson, Dean, Epiphone, Pansy!, G-Synth, B.C. Rich, Ibanez, Dunlop, Marshall, Sepulchura, Tenacious D, The D, Jack Black, Wyld Stallyns, Bill S. Preston Esq., Ted "Theodore" Logan, The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, George Martin, Pete Best, The Offspring, Bad Religion, there's two people with the name "Manson" that come to mind, Chris Cornell, Audioslave, Def Leppard, My Chemical Romance, The Chemical Brothers, The Ramones, Joey Ramone, Sebastian Bach (yes, I mean the one from Skid Row), Serj Tankian, System of a Down, Aiden, Alesana, Anti-Flag, Amberlin, Aphex, Twin, Apoptygma Berzerk, Atreyu, Black Dhalia Murder, Buckcherry, Buckethead, Machine Head, Motor Head, Radio Head, Talking Heads, Children of Bodom, Chiodos, Chimaira, The Confession, The Decemberists, Deftones, DIR EN GREY, From Autumn to Ashes From First to Last, The Gothic Archies, Greenskeepers, I Am Ghost, Julien-K, Lamb of God, The Magnetic Fields, The Matches, Mindless Self Indulgence, Muse, Nevermore, Orgy, Paramore, Porno for Pyros, A Perfect Circle, The Rasmus, Saosin, A Skylit Drive, Samael, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, The Smashing Pumpkins, Strata, The Tragically Hip, Triosphere, The Vines and maybe even some Rammstien |