Randy's favorite guitarists....

[Alex]

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[RRFAN123456789]

I hear some Ritchie Blackmore influences. Would've been cool to see Radny play Smoke on The Water. He would've put some cool licks, and classical elements into that one.

[Alex]

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[stealaway]

Leslie West also influenced Michael Schenker quite a lot [surprise, surprise...well, not really ] I love Mountain!!! Leslie´s vibrato was and is, quite astounding; check out Mountain´s "Travelling In the Dark", "Blood Of The Sun" and "Don´t Look Around" to get some clue, just how good his solos were. Or just listen to any Mountain-song for that matter. Leslie´s very accomplished guitar player and he did practise a lot, for what I´ve read...

[RRFan4Ever]

was looking for a RR quote to use as my sig, and I found this, and thought how approprite:)

"I have a lot of influences from everywhere. I like a lot of classical music and blues rock. As far as the classical, I just like it. I think it’s a real technical thing. I wouldn’t call myself an accomplished classical player at all, though. Again, I never had the patience to go through it. I wish I could be good at it. There are many great players. Eddie Van Halen is great–I don’t want to get near competing with people like him. I love Allan Holdsworth ’s playing. He’s got a lot of great jazz scales. Andy Summers of the Police is definitely unique. Pat Metheny does some great acoustic stuff. John McLaughlin is technically great, but his is not one of my favorite styles. Leslie West was very important to me. He has a great feel. He is powerful and moody. I like Earl Klugh. Jeff Beck can do anything–he can play one note and it’s great. Ritchie Blackmore was great; I loved his expression. I love B.B. King. I like Michael Schenker ’s and Steve Lukather ’s playing a lot. I also like Ronnie Montrose, especially with Edgar Winter. I like the way he bends; I could never bend like that. I liked all the English players in the ’70s who used a lot of vibrato. But I don’t own any rock guitar albums. I listen to a lot of background music that I don’t have to think about. I don’t listen to music to achieve anything from it. I just listen to relax and be social. Mostly I like mellow jazz and classical. If I’m out in public, I like to hear blaring loud rock, but never in my own house. I can’t listen to my own records at home."

[Paul Wolfe]

That's from Guitar Player magazine's Randy tribute issue that came out in November of '82 I believe. Definitely a great quote on this topic.

[RRFan4Ever]

Thank you, as I wasn't sure whom to credit this to. I knew it was from Randy, but I didn't know who he was talking to. I was surprised by a few he mentioned, that's for sure!

[hansolo]

was looking for a RR quote to use as my sig, and I found this, and thought how approprite:)

"I have a lot of influences from everywhere. I like a lot of classical music and blues rock. As far as the classical, I just like it. I think it’s a real technical thing. I wouldn’t call myself an accomplished classical player at all, though. Again, I never had the patience to go through it. I wish I could be good at it. There are many great players. Eddie Van Halen is great–I don’t want to get near competing with people like him. I love Allan Holdsworth ’s playing. He’s got a lot of great jazz scales. Andy Summers of the Police is definitely unique. Pat Metheny does some great acoustic stuff. John McLaughlin is technically great, but his is not one of my favorite styles. Leslie West was very important to me. He has a great feel. He is powerful and moody. I like Earl Klugh. Jeff Beck can do anything–he can play one note and it’s great. Ritchie Blackmore was great; I loved his expression. I love B.B. King. I like Michael Schenker ’s and Steve Lukather ’s playing a lot. I also like Ronnie Montrose, especially with Edgar Winter. I like the way he bends; I could never bend like that. I liked all the English players in the ’70s who used a lot of vibrato. But I don’t own any rock guitar albums. I listen to a lot of background music that I don’t have to think about. I don’t listen to music to achieve anything from it. I just listen to relax and be social. Mostly I like mellow jazz and classical. If I’m out in public, I like to hear blaring loud rock, but never in my own house. I can’t listen to my own records at home."

Earl Klugh is on Facebook and has a few videos on there. He is a Facebook friend!

[camdenlp]

I'm glad someone finally mentioned Earl Klugh

[Stiltzkin]

I'm glad someone finally mentioned Earl Klugh

the first Super Distortion user

[Geo Sav]

I think it's funny that he thinks that he's not a accomplished classical guitarist. He always sells himself short. I think he was his own worst critic. This comes from a guy that whent to classical guitar lessons and ended up showing the teacher stuff and still paid. Not to mention wrote Dee, RME and DOAM.

[Stiltzkin]

the first Super Distortion user

correcting myself
The 1st SD user would be a different Earl...Earl Slick