Who inspired you to play seven?

[tspaleny7]

Misha Mansoor aka bulb. The Periphery album is a masterpiece, and when I found out that they played 7s, I had to get one for that brutal G#

 

[coldm51]

Meshuggah/Broderick

 

[jrg828]

chris garza from suicide silence. the stephen carpenter 7 he had made me jizz. and i was rly into deftones at the time, i was like whoa, didnt know those existed. bought a used rg7321 like 6 months later, best choice ever...

 

[aslsmm]

el duche haha.


no seriously it was matt. my first guitar teacher.

 

[Jontain]

No single person or band for me, more jsut a strong love of guitars and browsing ss.org gave me gas to try one. Ended up with a 7321 and even though its not my nicest playing guitar over my 6's its still my goto guitar.

 

[CryptopsyAndWhatnot]

Korn, Deftones, At The Gates(B standard on a but yeah) Fear Factory, Whitechapel, etc. Finally got a schecter damien 7 last week after wanting one for, oh I don't know...........3 years

 

[simulclass83]

Mostly Cloudkicker and Scale the Summit, but also Chris Broderick.

 

[Coffee Elf]

Steve Vai.

Way back, Guitar for the Practicing Musician had a transcription of I Would Love To. They tabbed it for a six string with the sixth string tuned to B.

Nobuo Uematsu is partially responsible too. I was trying to learn the Crystal Theme a couple of years back and while it's possible to play on a six, the fingering is easier on a seven.

 

[Bones43x]

John Petrucci for sure. Korn and Limp Bizkit turned me off of 7-strings for a LONG time. Then I found Dream Theater, and I had to have one.

 

[fredw138]

Korn and Limp Bizkit turned me off of 7-strings for a LONG time.

Same here.

I'd say for me, I recently discovered in the past year that Trey Azagthoth from Morbid Angel uses a 7 (I always thought they just downtuned). I already liked Loomis/Nevermore, so when I found out that John Petrucci, Azagthoth and Ihsahn used them too, I was sold.

 

[Kroker]

Ion Dissonance, Tony Danza, and my buddy that sold me his Rg for $150.00. Tweaked it out, threw an EMG-808 in that bitch, and now it's become my main axe. Looking into getting either an 'S' series next ,or an Agile custom from Rondo Music.

 

[xGUITARZEROx]

honestly, Buz McGrath and Keith Merrow were my biggest influences because of their different metal styles.

 

[Talmaci]

Pat O'brien from Cannibal Corpse )

 

[Vhyken]

Mr. John Petrucci..

 

[Blind Theory]

All Shall Perish--More specifically, Chris Storey
After the Burial--Justin Lowe and Trent Hafdahl

 

[Bryancap7]

it wasnt a who, more of a what, i had major GAS for an ibanez universe and had to have it, so i bought one finally and that led me to the world of 7 stringers!

 

[illimmigrant]

I started playing guitar when I was in high school... back then it was Korn who made me want to pick up a seven string. Since I didn't have one, I would tune my old Ibanez RG120 down to A, lolz. I didn't play a whole lot during college, but then, some time back in 2006 I stumbled upon Misha's Soundclick account. Pure 7-string win.

 

[Facebones]

The fact that I kept needing to go lower than my E string would allow on my six string...

 

[metalman_ltd]

For me it was korn, coal chamber, and nevermore.

 

[guitarzombie]

Wes Borland and Dino Cazares