Who inspired you to play 7-stringers??

[mikemueller2112]

Honestly, it wasn't until recently when I started playing guitar again, and playing metal, seeing a lot of these new bands (Animals as Leaders, Periphery, etc.) using 7+ stringers, and seeing how cool it was. I always listened to Dream Theater, Steve Vai when I was playing somewhat seriously through high school, but never had any desire to get a 7 string. I'm so glad I did, because it is seriously so amazing to have, and it doesn't have to be strictly for metal. Best transition ever.

 

[Ardez]

Devin Townsend and Scar Symmetry

 

[Micky Fish]

I originally got inspired by Chris and Mark from suicide silence. But since then have moved on to people like Misha and the guys from Meshuggah and Fellsilent.

On a side note, am I the only person that thinks Carpenter is one of the most over rated guitar players of all time?

 

[s4tch]

...and I could not find any decent images of Eddie Head with a guitar (and nobody would recognize him anyway ), so here's a vid featuring his mind-blowing guitar work:



So underrated...

 

[Die Super]

Mesh/Bulb!

 

[christheasian]

That John Petrucci guy. I remember I bought a really crappy Cort viva 7 at a local shop in southern Utah just to go home and learn the glass prison.

 

[rythmic_pulses]

Well my story is a little funny, when I was about a year in to guitar playing I was still having lessons and the shop had Ibanez catalogs and I used to pick them up just to look at the guitars, then I came across a picture with these two swedes pulling really fucking weird faces with two 7 string LACS Ibanez's and under the picture it said Fredrik Thordendal and Marten Hagstrom of Meshuggah, so I went out and bought Destroy Erase Improve as it was the cheapest CD of theirs there was, got home and dusted of my CD player, turned it on and inserted the disc and my life has changed ever since

 

[Ancestor]

some guy had one at a mab clinic. it looked really cool. couldn't stop thinking about it. bought a universe. didn't like it. bad tone. sold it.

bought the a7 many years later and it was great.

 

[ItWillDo]

Vai, Chris Garza, Stef Carpenter and most of all Jason Richardson. He opened up a whole new world for me with The Discovery.

 

[Santuzzo]

For me it was Petrucci, Vai, Loomis and Broderick!

 

[CompactHand]

John Petrucci

I Bought my RG1527 just to be able to play Dream Theater songs

 

[havocvulture10]

Definitely Ihsahn Of Emperor, and Trey Azagthoth of Morbid Angel

 

[Miek]

I got back into sevens after listening to textures religiously for a year or so.

 

[Podium]

Chris Broderick, Steve Vai, Korn, but my main one, Jeff Loomis!
without a doubt my favorite 7 stringer on this planet!

 

[Riger]

Korn

 

[Insightibanez]

Korn

I second that, the first album won me over.

Along with Fear Factory/ Demanufacture.

 

[hereticemir]

Jeff Loomis as for just to pick up and play guitar it was Marty Friedman and Jason Becker

 

[animalwithin]

I first discovered the 7-string when I stumbled upon Jeff Loomis. As I researched more I found out that Steve Vai uses them quite often and that most of his album Passion and Warfare was composed on his Universe. Vai is one of my biggest influences to play guitar all around, after I found out that he plays a 7, I was hooked.

 

[ThePhilosopher]

Korn's First 3 albums, Dino with Obsolete, Stef. I've always dreamt of playing like JP or Vai, but I'm a terrible lead player.

 

[pitbulltodd]

keith merrow. i've been playing for 25 years and i never evened desired a 7 string until i saw one his youtube videos 4 months ago.