Thanks Cobber....hope you got my e mail..

As a musician..

The Ventures..made me want to play guitar
Mike Bloomfield..make me want to play the blues on my guitar
Jeff Beck..made me want to buy that really loud amp for my guitar
Roy Buchanan..made me want to give up guitar !
King Curtis,Jimmy Smith,Stanley Jordan,Earl Palmer,Cannonball Adderley,...taught me in my formative years that there were lots of cool sounds that didn't come from a guitar.
Brian Wilson...Phil Spector..these last two taught me about combining alot of instruments to create one sound

As a singer/performer

Eddie Cochran
Little Richard
Chuck Berry
The Everly Brothers
Buddy Holley
Otis Redding
Louis Armstrong
Etta James
The Band
Ernest Tubb
Hank Williams

As a writer/performing songwriter

Irving Berlin
Bob Dylan
John Prine
Randy Newman
Harlan Howard
Steve Cropper
James Taylor
George and Ira Gershwin
Paul Simon


There are many more, but these are the people most responsible for the development of my "style" in my formative years.

Bless 'em all !

And....thanks !

Bob