who are your heroes?

babygenius

heroes might be too big a term to use but when i think of dylan and neil young i could easily refer to them as my musical heroes.. anybody have any thoughts on why we care so much about these songwriters, singers and musicians? and what are ye're heroes and why? doing a project on this for university and all feedback and discussion would be appreciated? cheers

studiorat

Lou Reed. Some people travel to see Man Utd. I travel to catch LR shows.

AckwelFoley

Tupac Shakur.

Rockee

Keith Moon

keefg

Rockee wrote: »

Keith Moon

plus John Entwhistle.....RIP Moony & the Ox

Rockee

keefg wrote: »

plus John Entwhistle.....RIP Moony & the Ox

+1

callaway92

Yore Ma is my HERO

AckwelFoley

callaway92 wrote: »

Yore Ma is my HERO

Wrong place , wrong time.

Choose youre moments to drop the "Yore ma bomb"

You fail

damonjewel

Captain Beefheart - now there is a star!

lordgoat

Elliott Smith.

I miss ya, man.

Xavi6

Matt Bellamy

biZrb

Tom Waits

Timans

Pearl Jam.

callaway92

snyper wrote: »

Wrong place , wrong time.

Choose youre moments to drop the "Yore ma bomb"

You fail

No YOUR FACE Fails

Mr Alan

Ryan Adams
Levon Helm
Adam Durtiz
John Lennon

AckwelFoley

callaway92 wrote: »

No YOUR FACE Fails

very smooth.

Hilarious actually. :rolleyes:

SligoBrewer

Alex Kapranos is my hero

Nightwish

Tuomas Holopainen. By April I'll have seen the band 6 times. Met him last September in Finland and it was a dream come true.

Rustar

Guitar heroes: Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray
Bass heroes: Chris Squire, John Paul Jones
Vocal heroes: Justin Hayward, Greg Lake
Keys heroes: Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson
Drum heroes: Neil Peart, Bill Bruford
Engineer/Mixer heroes: Donald Fagen
Sax heroes: Paul Desmond
Singer/Songwriter/Bandleader heroes: Ian Anderson

Beefheart's up there, though!

Jay P

The Page-meister. Also Jeff Buckley and Eddie Vedder

Kevster

I greatly admire Kurt Cobain, more than any other artist. Why? - I relate to him in many ways.

GrahamThomas

Joe Strummer is my musical hero, RIP

Jerichoholic

Bruce, Tom Petty

That's all I need.

Kaiser_Sma

Les Claypool, Avishai Cohen

Bubs101

Jeff Tweedy

RastaRed

Bob Marley, Ian Brown, Noel Gallagher

Bren_M.Records

As daft as this is going to sounds I think in some respects my musical hero is as much a town as a person/band.
It cant just be chance that the Stone Roses, 808 State, Oasis (first few years), Happy Mondays, Stakker Humanoid, Joy Division/New Order all came from the one city.

The Fridge

Dexter Grodon, John Coltrane:D

Nailz

Bren_M.Records wrote: »

As daft as this is going to sounds I think in some respects my musical hero is as much a town as a person/band.
It cant just be chance that the Stone Roses, 808 State, Oasis (first few years), Happy Mondays, Stakker Humanoid, Joy Division/New Order all came from the one city.

I love you man! :eek:

Shaun Ryder... Bez... Paul Ryder... Mark "Cow" Day... Gaz Whelan...Tony Wilson...
But most of all Shaun Ryder and Tony Wilson...

DangleDevil

Kate Bush and Bjork..... I relate to them in ways i could never explain. Kates album 'The Dreaming' is just THE album for me .... made me think on completely different levels.

Serpentine

Far too many but sure here goes: Layne Staley, Phil Anselmo, Tairrie B, Kurt Cobain, Shirley manson, Kim Deal, Mark Lanegan, Kim Gordon, Jim Morrison, Phil Lynott, Andy Wood, RICHEY EDWARDS, Courtney Love, Trent Reznor, Jerry Cantrell, Robert Plant & Jimmy Page, Debbie Harry, Siouxsie Sioux, janis Joplin, Mike Patton, Marianne Faithfull, Kathleen Hanna, Brody Dalle...

all continue to inspire me and a whole lot more people that i relate to/have related to in a big big way

JeanH

David Bowie - His idea of using personas had a major impact on me. He had said he used Ziggy mainly to overcome shyness and... it works. His creation of new worlds and 'alternative realities'' (to quote the great man himself) with most of his albums fascinated me.

Jarvis Cocker - my first love! Pulp were the first band that got my attention in 1995. Mis Shapes was the first song that I heard by them on Top of the Pops on a miserable october evening. It was the lyrics that initially attracted me. It was like listening to life. Then the image and the music made sense too.

John Deacon - a more recent one for me. I really began listening to Queen properly in 2003. John drew my attention to the bass guitar and within a year and a half I bought my first bass. He's still my favourite bassist and he's always came across as a nice, quiet and unassuming person too which (provided you're not the frontman/woman) is nice and admirable.

BurnsCarpenter

Robert Pollard. More great songs written than anyone else IMO.

Alanstrainor

Stevie Ray Vaughan. My favourite guitarist of all time, truly amazing. The biggest influence on my guitar playing.

lordgoat

JeanH wrote: »

Jarvis Cocker - my first love! Pulp were the first band that got my attention in 1995. Mis Shapes was the first song that I heard by them on Top of the Pops on a miserable october evening. It was the lyrics that initially attracted me. It was like listening to life. Then the image and the music made sense too.

Mis-Shapes Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits. Raised on a diet of broken biscuits, oh we don't look the same as you We don't do the things you do...

Love Jarvis, his words are what it's all about.

mental07

lordgoat wrote: »

Mis-Shapes Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits. Raised on a diet of broken biscuits, oh we don't look the same as you We don't do the things you do...

Love Jarvis, his words are what it's all about.

This inspired me to go and listen to that song for the first time in years. And I still know all the words!!

markesmith

Mark Hollis.
Paul Weller.
Kate Bush.
Elvis Costello.
Mark E Smith.

Ziltoid

Shawn Lane
Guthrie Govan
Devin Townsend
Paul Gilbert
John Petrucci
Michael Romeo

I admire their attitudes as much as I do their playing!

Alanstrainor

Rustar wrote: »

Guitar heroe:...Stevie Ray

+1
Stevie Ray Vaughan has to be my all time favorite guitarist and blues musician, i love Freddie king too...
And of course Christy Moore, amazing.

eamon234

David Byrne
Ben Folds
DJ Shadow
Nina Simone
Ruben Gonzales
Stan Ridgeway (stop laughing!)
Jim White
Imogen Heap
Kate Bush
Peter Gabriel
Tom Waits

Killaqueen!!!

Hmm..I know different people will have different heroes but although I love most of the artists that have been mentioned, I wouldn't consider them 'heroes'. They may be amazing at electric guitar and in that case I'd like to add Brian May to the list. May would be one of my favourite guitar players. But think some artists (to me) can be heroes for more than just producing some good songs.

Anyway, here's mine:

Freddie Mercury
Tina Turner
The Boss, Bruce Springsteen

and Jack Johnson

Jelly 292

Jimi Hendrix

Peyton Manning

Jim Adkins

Hermy

Frank Zappa

Orbghost

2nd vote for Frank Zappa, people like him only come along every century or so.