Who inspired you to play 7-stringers??

[oneblackened]

Periphery, TesseracT, Dream Theater, Jeff Loomis.

 

[iRaiseTheDead]

Alex Wade \m/

 

[XBetrayedX]

John Petrucci, Steve Vai and my personal instructor.

 

[iRaiseTheDead]

You know what... it might have been Chris Storey xD

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

This video. It's also the video that introduced me to Dino, and eventually Fear Factory.

Oh, and as silly as it sounds, Brad Delson of Linkin Park. When I saw him use those RG7620's in some early live Linkin Park videos, I immediately thought "Do want."

 

[skoatdestroy]

this guy

and this guy

but mainly this guy

 

[cosmitron]

Nobody but the guitars themselves. ^^'

 

[dooredge]

I was inspired to move to 7's after hearing the how vastly different a 7 sounds than a 6 from a tone perspective. It's something that drew me in and grabbed ahold of my ear drum and wouldn't let go.

After moving to 7's, I actually went back to 6's for awhile. Late last year I had another "moment" and said time to get back to the 7. I dumped all but 2 of my 6's. I now have 3 7's and 1 8 string. I'm not going back this time!

Bands like Vildhjarta have really captured my imagination as of late.

 

[TheShreddinHand]

I kind of discovered JP, Vai, and Rob Johnson all around the same time in 96 and got Meshuggah's D.E.I. around then too. But I finally got pushed over the edge and bought one after getting Dead Heart in a Dead World, but I'd mainly cite JP.

Eric

 

[Djdnxgdj3983jrjd8udb3bcns]

I was looking at buying my first decent guitar and found a pretty decent deal on a seven. I thought "Why not? It'll give me access to more tunings without too much dicking about"

 

[simulclass83]

I think it was Chris Letchford/STS. They really kind of made me realize it wasn't just CHUGGA CHUGGA.

 

[Ralyks]

Korn and Dino Cazeras made me aware of their existence. Then I discovered John Petrucci, Jeff Loomis, and Chris Broderick all around late 90's/early 00's (Metropolis Pt. 2, Dreaming Neon Black, and Thane to the Throne specifically the albums that got me into them), and kinda sealed the deal on me wanting a 7.

 

[Djentleguy]

Meshuggah, Korn, Nevermore, Chris Broderick, Cannibal Corpse, Dino Cazeras, Whitechapel, Dream Theater. All of those pretty much made me want to experiment with 7 strings\extended range guitars.

 

[BrianUV777BK]

This dude named Steve.

 

[Mprinsje]

textures. still the best band to use them IMO

 

[Andrew11]

Buz from Unearth, Whitechapel and Suicide Silence.

 

[jon66]

If i had to pick a single guitarist, I guess itd be John Petrucci. "A Change of Seasons" changed the way I thought about ERGs. No longer did I just view them as a means to CHUGGAH lower, but create something more musical with added range. For me, it was moreso the fact that I like going against the norm, and wanted something different to help inspire new writing. The thoughts of having full upper range for leads while having 5-7 semitones lower than standard E for chording/riffing seemed like a very intriguing concept.

Funny side story: as I was tinkering with the 7321 in the store that I later bought that day, the sales guy brought me over a 2228 and said "here try this out". At the time my thought was "wow this thing is overkill...ill never need or want an 8 string, its just too much..." And 3-4 short years later, guess who's GASing ridiculously hard for an 8...

 

[Ari_VD]

my biggest influence is -of course- John Petrucci 1st I heard Dream Theater's The Glass Prison, that song was brutal -and still brutal till now - then I go back to Awake album n so on..
I also Listened to Steve Vai, Dino Cazares, Trivium's Matt Heafy, n then I found that Joe Satriani also played a 7 strings..

 

[GSingleton]

At the time....it was bulb....but after buying one...def everyone but him lol

 

[Blackheim]

Steve Vai was a great influence definitely, but Emperor's "Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise" was a great revelation to me... He used his 7 string so melodically imho instead of that breakdownish sound so often used with tuned down guitars...