What makes my sound unique right now is the fact that I have very minimal equipment.... I'm just playing out of a practice amp, with no effects...been that way for about a year or two now, (after having nothing for about 6 years) and so I've been playing clean, only just messing with the dials on the practice amp & on my bass & guitar...I can get a little fuzzy, but not too much. I have plans to expand once I move and get my life in order (goal for the new year), but in the meantime, I kind of enjoy trying to get the maximum sound from my minimal toys. And I really like perfect 5ths & perfect 4ths...I tend to lose myself in my sound and really let the notes ring out...it makes me so happy!!

It's difficult for me to say exactly why my sound is unique, I just know it as my own. I used to try and cop licks from all my heros, but it wasnt getting me anywhere. I cant explain how I sound, but it feels right to me, whatever it is...

you know, i dont think it is as much my influences as my poor practice technique when i first started. i would start to learn something, and while i was, i would hear a sound that i made that i thought was cooler..... after a few million of these little mistakes happening, i find myself with my own style, which i am proud of. of course there are little pieces of my influences in my playing, but i like tho think i made something all my own.

My sloppiness probably

I don't think I have a unique sound. Especially when doing blues solo's. Sometimes I don't recognize my own playing when random songs are playing.

However, I recognize that I (myself) typically view things and approach things in a differen't way than most people.

I think influences play the biggest part in how your sound and techiques develope overall.

i think its a combo of influences, gear. But i also think that as your ear changes over time what makes you sound different changes. when i first started i had a peavey 2x12 and a metazone and a delay, which worked for me, but it wasn't until i had my first half stack that i started hearing what i wanted to hear or close to it anyway.

My style is a combo of my gear, influences and practice techniques.

I think George Lynch describes it pretty well, in an interview he said, “I’m sort of chameleon in the sense that I tend to acquire stuff from good players from every era that I’ve gone through in my lifetime. I incorporate those elements into my playing. I’ve been heavily influenced, in semi-chronological order, by the Beatles, Albert King, Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Beck, Johnny Winter, Leslie West, Blackmore, Gibbons, Brian May, Frank Morino, Al Dimeola, Shenker, Uli Roth, Holdsworth, EVH, Yngwie and a hundred other players from the 60’s to present day. I think what I’m blessed with is the ability to take those influences, make them my own, and making it part of my musical vocabulary. I guess as guitarists we all do that to a certain extent. So many things inspire me and a lot of those things are non-musical. I think that the greatest artists may not been have inspired so much by their peers, as they were by their own deep sense of urgency or unique state of mind. I’m not finding that there is those select few great ones that we look up to anymore. Now, it’s more of a collective movement that you have to tap into.”

For me, its the struggle, to emulate others that makes me sound like me, I dont think I have my own sound because Ive raped and pillaged my way through and im a blues rocker. I always write stuff in the style of, so its hard to put a name to it, I sound like a shit version of lots of players, but we all do to some extent. Im gonna change my name to Steverich Hendblackpage.

I think that my style is that I have no style. I am influenced by soo many players and different genre, it's hard for me to pinpoint anything specific. But my ultimate goal is to sound like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray, Steve Vai, Brian Setzer, BB King,Eric Clapton, Eddie van Halen,Chuck Berry,Slash,Vince Gill, Angus Young,Randy Rhodes, Kirk Hammet, Zakk Wylde,Vernon Reid and Sheryl Crow.