Homme's unique approach to mastering the guitar can also be attributed to the often left-field ideas he cleverly weaves into more catch-all song formats.

He explained the inspiration to Rolling Stone: “I was trying to write a Velvet Underground-type song because I was super into them, and I came up with that guitar riff.

How Chet Atkins' nuanced and innovative guitar style influenced Paul McCartney to write The Beatles classic, "Michelle".