Adam Latiff (born March 24, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist for a number of bands, most notable for

Puddle of Mudd Puddle of Mudd is an American post-grunge band formed in Kansas City, Missouri in 1992. The band has sold over seven million albums. Their major-label debut, '' Come Clean'' (2001), spawned the single " Blurry", which peaked at number 5 on the ...

. He started his career in bands such as Devereux and was a touring guitar player for Eve to Adam until December 2014. Latiff is the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for a national Nirvana tribute band called Heart Shaped Box, and is also the lead vocalist for Vanilla Women, which features former members of

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and

Career

Latiff was friends with

's former lead guitarist, Paul Phillips whom he knew from the Jacksonville, Florida, local music scene. He had formed the band Society Red with Phillips and Damien Starkey, which was active from 2008 to 2011. When lead-singer Wes Scantlin discovered that he had problems sharing vocals duties with playing guitar at the same time, the band decided to hire a rhythm guitarist for the band. Latiff joined

in April 2011 toured with them until June 2012. He appears on no official releases by the band. In December 2013 it was announced that he had joined Eve to Adam.

Influences

He cites groups such as

Pink Floyd Pink Floyd are an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic music, psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experiments ...

Thin Lizzy Thin Lizzy are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. The band initially consisted of bass guitarist, lead vocalist and principal songwriter Phil Lynott, drummer Brian Downey, guitarist Eric Bell and organist Eric Wrixon although Wr ...

Foo Fighters The Foo Fighters are an American Rock music, rock band formed in Seattle in 1994. Initially founded as a one-man project by former Nirvana (band), Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, the band comprises vocalist/guitarist Grohl, bassist Nate Mendel, gu ...

, and

Nirvana Nirvana, in the Indian religions (Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism), is the concept of an individual's passions being extinguished as the ultimate state of salvation, release, or liberation from suffering ('' duḥkha'') and from the ...

as influences and is inspired by

David Gilmour David Jon Gilmour ( ; born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who is a member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He joined in 1967, shortly before the departure of the founder member Syd Barrett. By the early 1980s, Pink F ...

Kurt Cobain Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – ) was an American musician. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana (band), Nirvana. Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establis ...

, B. B. King, and

Eric Clapton Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English Rock music, rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music. Clapton ranked second in ''Rolling Stone''s l ...

. His interest in grunge, brought him to start his own

tribute band, called Heart Shaped Box. He uses Gibson Les Paul, Fender Stratocaster, Telecaster and Epiphone Les Paul electric and Yari acoustic guitars."Paul Phillips Puddle of Mudd – Rig & Set List"
''Gear-vault.com''. Retrieved on April 3, 2010.

References

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