Who inspired you to play 7-stringers??

[7stg]

Trey and their album covenant is how I found out there was such a thing as 7 strings. I had recently started playing, and a six string could not cover the range I was after. At one point I was down to G#1 on a 6 but then I lost the high strings . I saw Trey playing a 7 and looked into it. It was exactly what I was after.

 

[Neko]

Mr. John Petrucci
by this DVD

 

[FantasyMetal]

Hate to say Korn was probably the first that got me to buy a 7-string, but Petrucci is who got me to stick with it and keep coming back to it.

 

[PBGas]

I first saw Vai with one when he was with Whitesnake on tour and I just looked at it and loved the concept! Noticed Korn was using them some time later and then of course petrucci. Glad they have kept in season! I love my JP12 7!

 

[Nightside]

Ihsahn Prometheus

 

[ESPImperium]

This order:

KoRn
Christian Ole Walbers
John Petrucci
Joe Satriani
Jeff Loomis

 

[TraE]

Honestly, I wasn't sure what I was going to do in terms of guitars (was deciding on a 7 or a baritone 6), but hearing Jeff Loomis' solo work really convinced me to go ahead and get a 7. It probably would've boiled down to that anyways since there isn't much selection when it comes to finding a 6 string baritone. The world of extended range guitars is becoming much more prominent in society, and hoorah for that!

 

[TheDraeg]

Loomis and Allegaeon

..now add Unearth

 

[HurrDurr]

1- Andy Mikhail (from his Oceano days)
2- COW
3- Friends in local bands

 

[AKan]

Keith Merrow and Misha Mansoor...

That stuff just sounded so cool, and I didn't know how to go about learning it on a 6.

 

[tacotiklah]

Jeff Loomis
Pat O'Brien
Steve Vai

 

[meteor685]

John petrucci though i didnt know he used a 7 string when i got mine, i just found a 7 string at a garage sale and thought it looked cool, and it was a really really cheap RG7321 so i got it hahaha

 

[Fear]

I'm getting old: Korn, Meshuggah and Fear Factory back when I was in 8th grade. That caused me to get my first RG7

More recently, bands who got me back into 7s and extended range guitars: Textures, Scale the Summit, Devin Townsend, Thy Art is Murder, Behemoth, Modern Day Babylon, Tesseract, Skyharbor, Monuments, Intervals and Uneven Structure.

 

[Webmaestro]

Keith Merrow

 

[discarded]

Dino Cazares and Trey Azagthoth got me into playing Sevens

 

[Loicle]

Ola Englund and Fred Brum , i saw them last year In Belgium for a Special event , and 2 month later i had my first seven

 

[bythepainiseetheothers]

Ihsahn and Fear Factory

 

[s4tch]

 

[IanCBoss]

Considering that I'm very young in terms of being into metal, (I'm just shy of 18, and have been into heavy music for around 3 years) most of you older dudes will laugh at me for this but the band, or album rather, that got me wanting to play a seven string/in drop A was The Flood Reissue by Of Mice & Men. I had never really heard something so throaty so i blocked my Floyd off, bought some heavier strings and into the land of drop A I went.

Years after that I heard the riff in Icarus Lives! by Periphery and I fell in love. From there I got into Prog Metal and I needed a Seven.

Of Mice & Men and Misha Mansoor, final answer.

 

[ToS]

Munky, Head, Wes Borland, and Dino Cazares got me into 7's at an early age, and I never looked back!

^that

I got infected when I heard KoRn’s Clown for the first time. I immediately knew that this is the way to go – I´ve never owned a single 6-string since then...