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Posted by: superize May 8 2010, 10:42 PM

The title say it all

My favorites are Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli from Rhapsody of fire

Posted by: OzRob May 8 2010, 11:51 PM

Tuomas from Nightwish. And Hans Zimmer and John Williams.

Posted by: Andrew6 May 9 2010, 12:14 AM

Steve Harris and Dave Mustaine

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic May 9 2010, 01:16 AM

This is easy for me - John Lennon!

Steve Harris is cool too

Posted by: thefireball May 9 2010, 01:18 AM

Red and Skillet

Also sub favorites are Thousand Foot Krutch and The Letter Black.

Posted by: zen May 9 2010, 01:49 AM

Dave Mustaine & Michael Amott

And Of course the men from Maiden

Posted by: Adrian Figallo May 9 2010, 02:18 AM

john lennon, kurt cobain and jimmy page.

Posted by: The Uncreator May 9 2010, 03:05 AM

#1 is Iron Maiden. (Steve, Bruce, Dave, Adrian, Janick, Nicko, everybody)

After that though, It would be Hansi Kursch, Marcus Siepen, and Andre Olbrich (Blind Guardian)
Arjen "Ayreon" Lucassen (Ayreon)
Angela Gossow (Arch Enemy)
Steve Vai
John Petrucci, John Myung, Mike Portnoy, Jordan Ruddess, and James Labrie (Dream Theater)
Paul Wagonner (Between The Buried and Me)
Jon Schaffer (Iced Earth)
Warrel Dane, Jeff Loomis (Nevermore)


Plenty more but those are the main ones

Posted by: JVM May 9 2010, 03:26 AM

Radiohead.

Billy Corgan.

Kelly Jones of Stereophonics

and the beatles, mostly John, but also George really.

OH! And Beck.

Posted by: SirJamsalot May 9 2010, 04:37 AM

dude... you sooooo stole my thunder. I have a John Williams station set up on Pandora cause their sound-track music is sooooo amazing.

Posted by: OzRob May 9 2010, 04:48 AM

First in, best dressed, as my mum used to say.

I love soundtrack stuff, especially the orchestral composers.

Posted by: Staffy May 9 2010, 07:16 AM

Oh, this was a hard one... My grandfather always said: "Music consists of three elements - melody,rhytm and harmony". In some way, I have always adopted this, and a good song is not a good song if it can't be played sitting next to a campfire and played on an acoustic. Ofc. there are some exceptions from this rule, but in general terms I believe so.
So my answer would be like a kilometer long, but speaking of modern music my favourite composers are Lennon & McCartney, Deep Purple, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Sting, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, George & Ira Gershwin, Duke Ellington and a lot of others I probably forgot....

//Staffay

Posted by: Skewlbuzz May 9 2010, 09:12 AM

Hmm misunderstood the subject at first I think!

My favourite songwriter (if we're not talking lyrics) I can't pick out. The few I like the most are: David Gilmour, Adam Jones (Tool), Matthew Bellamy, Mark Knopfler and Tom Morello.

Posted by: Santiago Diaz Garces May 9 2010, 09:17 AM

For me, the one and only Astor Piazzolla

Posted by: Gitarrero May 9 2010, 09:40 AM

Among many others:
Kürsch/Olbrich (Blind Guardian)
Petrucci/Portnoy (Dream Theater)
M. & C. Amott (Arch Enemy)

Posted by: Vasilije Vukmirovic May 9 2010, 11:18 AM

Ennio Moriccone and Coldplay songwriter/singer!

Posted by: Daniel Realpe May 10 2010, 07:31 PM

I would have to say Petrucci and Portnoy from Dream Theater

Posted by: JVM May 10 2010, 08:08 PM

Gotta add Dave Mustaine and Tony Iommi.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic May 11 2010, 11:21 PM

If you mean "popular" or "social music" songs, I would say one and only Mr. Bob Dylan

Posted by: danielabbasi Jun 11 2010, 08:25 PM

Mikael Åkerfeldt, Opeth.

Posted by: Eat-Sleep-andJam Jun 11 2010, 09:26 PM

Justin Nozuka is a new favorite of mine.