Yannis Spathas was the lead guitarist for the Greek rock band Socrates Drank The Conium in the early 1970s. His style is very similar to that of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, and some of Tony Iommi's bluesier music. Of these, Hendrix's influence was probably the greatest, evidenced mainly by the fact that Socrates Drank the Conium covered several of his songs at their early concerts in the clubs of Athens, Greece, where they were discovered. Guitars and style Like several of his most prominent influences, Spathas produced his blues-rock/hard rock s…
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