Artist you consider as a personal mentor

[seamonkey]

I find Patrick O'Hearn and David Helping are excellent mentors for composing Ambient music. Any artist you consider your mentor?
"Wake me up when it's over"

Not sure about mentor but influence and inspiration, Alan Parsons,Tangerine Dream,Pink Floyd,Camel,Dreamtheater,Fish,Marillion,early Genesis,Bach,Mozart,BeachBoys,Chuck Berry,Bo Diddley,
MoodyBlues,Beatles,Hawkwind,Strawbs,Yes,Dave Brubeck,
Burt Bacharach,Jimmy Webb,Klaus Schultz,Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams.

[hao nao]

it's a very good question, especially the hard part about distinguishing "mentors" from influences

[Hink]

Roy Clark...not for his playing but for his being as humble as he is with his immense talent. The fact that he doesn't act as if he's privaleged because of his talent, instead he carries himself as if it's a prevaledge to have talent.

As far as a mentor as a gutar player, Gary Moore, Schenker, Brian May, Ritchie Blackmore, and Mick Taylor (mick and ritchie were really big in shaping me as a child in the 70's during my guitar playing formative years). As far as songwriters, Gary Moore, Queensryche, Alice Cooper, Queen, Jimmy Buffet, Pete Townsend ( I think he is one of the worst high profile lead guitar players ever, and really I'm not a big Who fan, I don't even own a Who album, but Pete is one hell of a songwriter...even if his solos are like fingers on a chalkboard) and the Scorpions...

Overall Gary Moore because he embodies that of all of the above, I think he is very humble, quite talented, and a great songwriter (though you have to know some of obscure stuff)...

[b2d]

oh mentor, as in mentor.. i see

well, i guess that would be me then, not counting my violin teacher in first grade.

[JeffSanders]

First it was Eddie Van Halen...then Jimmy Page...then James Hetfield...now, probably John Lennon and Roger Waters and back to Jimmy Page.

[Mikael Adle]

Frank Zappa and Mike Patton

[Big Karma]

All of you guys!

[ugo]

i dont know if you can hear it or not in my music, but bowie is my artistic hero.

there are, of course, lots of other artists who have had an impact on me musically. (fla, nin, siouxsie, manson, tom waits, philip glass, james brown, fluke, prodigy, primus, etc., etc.) but there is still no question that, by far, my biggest influence/mentor is david bowie.

-ugo

[Ian Stone]

I did mean mentor rather than influence; Let me clarify...an artist can serve as a mentor superficially by application. That is by learning how they produce certain type sounds, ect.
and applying them into your own compositions.









"Wake me up when it's over"

[kovacs]

In that case, I think U2's The Edge and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour have been my "mentors". I'm a poor student, though.

[JeffSanders]

Hmmm...in that case, Phillip Sudo who wrote "Zen Guitar".

(R.I.P.)

[Steven West]

Stanley Kubrick
Brian Eno
David Cunningham
Tom Ellard
Al Jorgensen

The GODS!

[Emerald Tablet]

to me ....

Nick Drake

[ZioKiller]

Steve Vai.

He's a genius, a creative Musician behind a good guitarist.

[Katanaman]

Mike Patton
Mindless Self Indulgence
System of a Down
Aphex Twin
Mike Paradinas