Eddie Van Halen has always been an inspiration for me musically, arguably one of the greatest guitarists to ever live. Us modern guitarists don't realise how go

Eddie Van Halen has always been an inspiration for me musically, arguably one of the greatest guitarists to ever live. Us modern guitarists don't realise how good we have it, we are living in a golden era of music technology. I think for me one of the most influential and original ground-breaking guitarists would have to be Link Wray who was obsessed with fuzz/distortion and quite famously on his hit Rumble achieved distortion by puncturing his speaker with pencils to make it crackle. It is debatable who invented distortion, Wray was a pretty experimental guitarist.