• Les Dawson
• Father Abraham
• Chico

Well, I've been into music since the late 1950s, but really took off on the British invasion.
Beatles; Stones; Kinks; Zombies; etc...etc...
I like the Beach Boys; Grateful Dead; Country Joe; wow! there's just too many to list.
I guess #1 influence is Beatles.

Well, I played with and got lessons/tips from Craig Goldy, who played with Dio and is Ritchie Blackmore's Godson (who was HIS influence).  So, I definitely inherited some from that line by default.  On my own I used to play along with the early Scorpion albums from begin to end so I also picked up things from Herman Rarebell and the Schenker's.  A lot of time was spent on Jimmy Page stuff too.  Later on I studied some of Steve Bartek's work (Oingo Boingo), Wolf Hoffman (Accept), the guitarists in Styx, Boston, Judas Priest and Def Leppard; and I love some of the stuff from Edgar Froese (Tangerine Dream).  I'm sure I've missed some obvious influences, but they say one of the first things to go as you get older is... Um, well... Anyway, I'm sure I'll recall it later! 
 
One thing that's interesting is that I didn't even get into guitarists who predominantly play single coils until I was over 40 (including most blues players, Jimi Hendrix or David Gilmour - among others).  I just loved the double-coil humbucker sound too much when I was young.  Now that I can't play fast, I need to study feel more (like Gilmour).

Different genre for me. So the list looks a bit different

• Julius Baleak - haven't heard of him? - not surprised. Few folks probably have. But he was my music teacher when I started learning guitar back in 3rd grade. Continued going to see him every Friday evening until I graduated high school and entered the military. Probably the biggest musical influence I had.
• Shirley Green - another person you probably haven't heard of. She is my mother-in-law and bought my first mandolin. She found a resonator mando at an estate auction. Told me I could have it if I promised to learn it. 'Nuff said.
• John Duffy - and not just his mandolin picking (which I wish I could mimic) but his entire to approach to life. A lot of folks would do well to try the same.
• Hank Williams - a great story teller/song writer, but not a life one would wish to mimic.
• John Hartford - could write a great modern country song, but always had his feet in the roots of folk music.
• Doyle Lawson - Another great mando picker from the world of bluegrass. We do a lot of bluegrass gospel and Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver is one of the best groups to copy in that realm. We even started doing the single mic routine after watching them do it.

My guess is most of these folks you never heard of. But just because they don't have 'rock star' status doesn't make then any less influential. Especially that special person who put that first instrument in your hand, or taught you your first chord or how to read a note of music. Without them, we might not of ever started down this wonderful musical journey. And for that, I will always be both grateful - and will try to do the same with others I may meet along the way.

Rather than write a list that would be fairly long.... suffice it to say that I have influences from just about every category of music.   Everything from bluegrass to hard rock and in between. It's all got good musicians and writers in it.

In the early 1960s, my oldest brother liked the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Dylan, so I heard a lot of that in the house. We watched Hullabaloo and American Bandstand every Saturday and Ed Sullivan every Sunday.
But the first band that I really noticed was the Beatles. They have certainly been my main influence.
Others were Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the Byrds, Grand Funk (seriously), Deep Purple, the Who, Uriah Heep, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Jeff Beck, J.S. Back and Beethoven.

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• Les Dawson
• Father Abraham
• Chico

You forgot Paper Lace.
 
 
 

ABBA
 
(It's why I grew moobs)

First I would say ELP, Yes, early King Crimson and the Strawbs. But in reality it's Pink Floyd that seems to creep into every thing I (try to) do.

And, to be completely different I have a heavily AC/DC influenced song on the go.

Way too numerous to list. But the obvious standouts are The Beatles, Ray Charles, Leon Russel, Elton John, Tom Waits, Becker and Fagan. And, of course, my list for songwriting influences is mostly...but not totally...different.