Who made you first wanna pick up a guitar?

[giles]

Re: Who made you first wanna pick up a guitar?

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EVH was the first reason I picked it up. even though that changed in time..... but he was the FIRST reason.

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Ditto! However, in my case it took me another 20+ after that to move from air guitars to real ones! Now that I have I keep wondering "why oh why did I wait so long?" [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[hammer84]

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Tie, Paul Stanley or EVH.

I thought that Iceman he played was the sh*t

[sully]

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hmmmm....




i think ace might have had something to do with it... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[txcharvel]

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I was way into Kiss before I ever had a guitar. I remember in in 5th grade when we had to do a skit. My group lip synched and played air guitar to "I Want You". I used to love the flanger sound as it went back into the fast part after the solo.

When I really got into guitar, I used listen to Rudy Schenker's outro solo on "Still Loving You" over and over in my headphones. I still think that is one of the most soulful pieces of guitar ever written. I'd say that song is what really inspired me to want a guitar...that and the first VH album [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Top Jimmy B]

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Jimi Hendrix was the reason i begged my parents for a guitar in 1974. Eddie Van Halen was the reason I started taking lessons in 1978.

[ozzuk1]

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I suppose Zakk Wylde has to be a big influence in the respect that he ordered me to practise more ahhah, so I have a huge ammount of admiration for him for giving me the confidence to know what I could achieve with practise...

I suppose I've got loads of influences that made me want to improve more the most recent one has to be jason becker....

I suppose I just wanted to play electric guitar more than tanything no one person amde me want to play as such just a few people made me want to improve...

Ozz

[markD]

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lynyrd skynyrd is what got me excited about guitar. but iron maiden's "live after death" solidified it.

[Soap]

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My sis who is four years older than me, got me started on listening to rock. Aerosmith's first and second albums(no kiss or Randy at this time)Mamma Kin and Train Kept a Rollin' caused my ears to perk up.

Some time past and I got my first electric.
Even though ED was a big influence I went in more or a metal direction. Bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath/Ozzy first two solo records and others, appealed more to me than radio rock. Lynch was a huge influence as well. Loved his sound and style.

I took a more serious interest to Ritchie Blackmore during his Rainbow days. Then when I went and saw the Deep Purple reunion show, Ritchie was stellar unbelievably incredible.

So my influences were mainly, KK, Tipton, Murrary, Smith, Rhoads, Iommi, Blackmore, Ed and Lynch.

[Alvin_Wilson]

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ACE [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[jim777]

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I was two years old when I saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan on the TV set in my grandmother's living room. George's Gretsch Country Gentleman, and the sounds it made were absolutely the spark on that candle. From that moment on, it's been guitar, guitar, guitar. I remember it like it was 41 years ago.... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[xsentrick]

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I would have to say my Dad got me into guitar, but ACE turned me on to the wonder of ROCK!

[No Use]

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the guitarist for Jo Sung Mo and the guitarist who did the solos for the 08th MS Team japanese show.

those are what made me want to start playing immediately.

[guitarsjb]

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Randy Rhoads.

[followthereaper]

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To be quite honest, I'm surprised at how few people said Metallica. I guess I was just assuming there would be a lot since everyone around here is obsessed with them and I'm not really into them.

[sonicsamurai]

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hmm thats a tough one, coz when i was growing up it was numetal all over the airwaves and that didn't inspire me at all. the first good guitar album i heard was led zep ii when i looked through my dad's lp collection at his flat...i really liked it but to an uneducated ear it just sounded very old but still some wierdly cool sounds...i was also exposed to bands like the cult and random dire straits songs, but it wasn't until uni 2 years ago that i got really exposed to guitars when i picked up gta vice city and i fell completely in love with the v-rock sound track. two of my hall mates played guitar and i got to listen to bands like maiden and metallica and slayer and then just kept finding randomn names and listening too them, and finding out bands i used to remember when i was very young like gnr and extreme...then one day i heard a van halen song - ain't talking bout love and i just had to learn it so i borrowed my mates guitar and that was the first riff i ever learnt, followed by riffs like two minutes to midnight and wicker man...i bought a strat and then i then found pantera and black label society (i saw a picture of them on one of my mates guitar magazines - 'hell yeah!!' i thought) and zakk and dimebag became my first two guitar heroes and i learnt loads of their riffs and that was what inspired me to be really good at guitar..my tastes have matured and changed very quickly through playing and listyening to everything and anything but dimebag i love to listen to all the time still...

so i guess in summary, grand theft auto, 80's metal, van halen...