Most inspiring artist when you satrted playing and whos inspiring now

The people who inspired me to play was Stevie T, Eddie Van Halen, Jared Dines, and Herman Li.

I saw Van Halen in 1995 in concert and Edward was the reason I started playing.  I put the guitar away for 15 years and started relearning a few months ago.  And now it is a plethora of different guitarists from different genres.  I’m not a John Mayer fan but I do love his guitar tone, there is also Anthony Wilson, Jim Hall and George Benson in terms of jazz, then there is Buckethead in the rock category as well as people like Paul Gilbert.  There is Tim Pearce and others 

When I first started playing it would of been Herman Li of DragonForce. Mainly because one day when he was doing a giveaway on his twitch for some new Fishman pickups, I won. Nowadays it would be Nick Sadler from the band Daughters. The thing I like most about them is that they like to do heavy stuff with the high end of their guitars. 

Steve Howe was a big inspiration for me, but right now my favorite guitarist is Steve Hackett. He's not the most wild guitar player out there by any means, but I love his sound so much!

The people who inspired me to start playing and who inspires me now are the same people lol,, frank iero and ray toro from my chemical romance continue to inspire me to this day. They are such good players each with their own style of writing. 

For me. It would have to be Daron Malakian from System of a Down. He's not what you would call technical. But System's music is what pushed me to pick up a guitar again and really start learning how to play guitar. I will say tho that Tom Morello from Rage Againt the Machine is a really kick ass guitar player too.

Well i'm heavily inspired by Hole, Mazzy Star, The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Pj Harvey, and The Cocteau Twins Etc. Different sounds with a bit pop influence, distortion, and noise. You know? I'm Embarrassed to say that nirvana convinced me to learn guitar lol. 

My grandpa is the reason I wanted to become a musician but Iommi, Dimebag, and Schuldiner are why I play metal. Also gotta give props to Adam Dutkiewicz, has to be my favorite of all time

I started off with a guitar coach and after that, no one comes into mind within a few months. Until I tried learning guitar riffs and techniques where I would find what inspire me later on. Originally I was inspired to play guitar by the name of Kyle Hunter, former guitarist of Protosequence. Then when I thought "Hmm, I want my playing style to be much more advanced but playable." And so many artists come by and I was inspired through most of them, but to name a few that are my main inspirations, I guess I would go with Daron Malakian, Mario Carmarena and Erik Hansel, Thomas Erak, Yvette Young, and Paul Gilbert to name a few.

Kurt cobain, Eddie vedder, metallica, those are the guys that made me wanna play.

Now I'm not really a guitar player but I use alot of guitar in my songs, but the people that make me still wanna play now are Mikael Akerfekdt and Steven wilson.

The person who inspired me to start playing was Eric Clapton but right now it's cool ppl like Ray Toro because i like him a lot!

my inspirations were and still are jimi hendrix, johnny greenwood, ray toro, frank iero and johnny marr

mine was (embarrassingly) kurt cobain, i was in love w nirvana and i realized kinda "holy shit. i can learn guitar. amazeballs" and overall i felt like kurt's entire story kinda resonated with me, and his (nirvana's) music made me feel super seen. i wanted to play guitar cuz i wanted to make music that made other kids feel that way too

Dimebag Darrell, though Eddie Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix are arguably “better” then him, i still think of Dime as the best guitarist. Not just when it comes to the skill itself, but the way he put emotion, and feel into it. He didn’t just play guitar, his guitar sang, it told a story. You know, he just ate, slept, and breathed his guitar. His dedication, his passion, his heart and soul for the guitar has ALWAYS inspired me.

Steve Howe inspired me from the beginning, now Dave Mustaine and Steve Howe still :D

hell yeah, mine are srv, jimi, slash, satch, tyler bryant. so many and always changing! :)

when i started it was george harrison, chuck berry, jimi hendrix and sister rosetta tharpe. now its kurt cobain, courtney love, johnny greenwood, joni mitchell and ed o brien

Kurdt kobain,led belly, John Lennon, eh . I was 8 when I went I was watching nirvana play at the Paramount on my moms phone lol . all of a sudden I got up from my bed,went to my closet and grabbed a old untuned,broken guitar. Ive been playing every since .

when i first started guitar i felt very inspired by crispian mills , i got a black strat because of him . nowadays my "guitar heroes" kinda consist of people like andy partridge, marc moreland, john mcgeoch, andy gill, frank zappa, snakefinger nd glenn branca(?) .... still admire mills and other guitarists with different styles though , its just that the quirky ones have a soft spot in my heart

EDIT: forgot to add ricky wilson & keith levene ...

i think i started taking guitar seriously when i was really into radiohead, so i guess jonny greenwood was my main influence starting out. these days, prolly adam demirjian and spencer seim, i think i just focus less on pedals these days and more on technique cuz i do not have the income to spend money on pedals lmao

It was mainly a lot of the grunge guys that made me start (like I'm literally just starting). You know, guys like Kurt Cobain, Steve Turner, Jerry Cantrell, that sort. I love their focus on melody and serving the song. I figure with enough practice, I can be like them.

When I started it was guys like Herman Li and Hetfield for sure, now it's more Thomas Erak and various other emo/screamo/metalcore influences e.g Seeyouspacecowboy.

Well, my inspiration for playing was Brian May from Queen. But now it's Eddie Van Halen

Randy Rhoads at the start but weirdly I've started to tip towards Fusion and am now a big fan of Guthrie Govan 

The ones who inspired me to start playing guitar were "Digão", (guitarrist of "Raimundos") and Marco Donida (ex-guitarrist of the band Matanza [the brazilian countrycore one]).

Now who inspires me to play is B.B. King and Paulinho Nogueira.

it's still kinda the same, Rivers Cuomo of Weezer.......

Kevin Kaarl!!