Who influenced your likes and dislikes?

[RIJIMMY]

So lets hear it, who influenced what music you like?

Long list for me. these guys defined most of what I listed to today

1. My Dad, he had music on all the time. Lots of old country, jazz, blues, vocals, Beatles. He opened my ears to a lot of stuff since I was a little kid

2. Sister, my sister is 6 years older than me. i can remember clearly Fleetwood Mac, Frampton and Led Zeppeling blasting from her room. She used to buy me albums as presents and I borrowed a lot from her collection. She also had an old acoustic guitar in the house that I started noodling around with when I was 13.

3. My youngest uncle,about 15 years older than me was a massive 60s and 70s music fan. He used to give me tons and tons of albums, Stones, Sabbath, Zeppelin, Doors. I was only 10 or so and a big music fan. I remember those Fontana labels on the Sabbath albums. I used to listen to zeppeling,stones and sabbath over and over. Most of my friends were into the current music.

4. Joyce from Looney Tunes, some of you South County guys might know her. I was teaching guitar lessons at Looney tunes and she used to play a ton of reggae, she introduced me to Funkadelic, Zappa and lots of old reggae, ska, chili peppers. She was an awesome lady.

5. Dave Bernstein- my jazz guitar teacher in San Francisco 1994-1997. An extremely talented musician who also collected records. I thought I knew alot about music, but this guy knew it all. Introduced me to a lot of blues, country, jazz guys I never heard of. We spent hours discussing music. I learned a ton.

How about you guys?