This is for all you musicians here: which musicians have made the biggest impact on your style of playing? Here are some musicians that influenced me as a guitar player. Son House Syd Barrett Albert King Jerry Garcia Lou Reed Mick Taylor
Albert Ayler, Lester Young, Photek, Skream, Igor Stravinsky, D'Angelo, Claude Debussy, Busta Rhymes, Chris Speed, Jim Black, Chris Cheek, Meshuggah, Ravi Shankar, and Ivo Papasov (among others) have all had an immense impact on my music.
Ben Weinman, Dave Knudson, Brian Cook, Thom Yorke, Thomas Erak, Trent Reznor, Daryl Palumbo, Telefon Tel Aviv, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Keith Buckley, Anthony Green, Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, Chris Pennie, Greg Puciato. There's probably a couple I'm missing, but they're the shit.
i get really inspired by Doseone and Why? also Silver Jews and mobb deep are very much up there. also, sun ra. sun ra will always be one of my biggest influences.
The Melvins (both of em) Jerry Cantrell Kim Thayil Bad Brains (the entire original line-up) Les Claypool Bootsy Collins Buckethead Wu-Tang Clan (yes all of em) Eddie Hazel Gibby Haynes Paul Leary Tom Waits N.W.A. That's in no particular order and there are a whole bunch I just can't think of at the moment.
No idea how the hell I missed Nate Barcalow in my list, but since you are a dear fan of both him and Ant, you sir, are the fucking man.
haha thanks man. pretty easy to forget about him though since finch died out for a while. the new finch ep was pretty good but sounded alot like say hello to sunshine. i just pray to god the whole album doesn't sound like that. what it is to burn is what made the band.