Name three songs that influenced you to pick up guitar!!!

[AdRock]

I saw a thread like this somewhere else and thought it might be interesting here.

Here's mine.

Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengence
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Motley Crue - Live Wire

When I was about 10 years old, 1982, I received Judas Priest's Screaming For Vengence and Motley Crue's Too Fast For Love for my birthday. I was now a metalhead and wanted a guitar. I finally got my first guitar in 1984.



So, what are your 3?

[Carbuff]

Highway star- Deep Purple

Train Kept a Rollin- Aerosmith

Blackdog- Zep

[pott]

Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love

Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Dunno about the rest. I was heavily into Punk so probably something by Pennywise, Bouncing Souls or NoFx.

[jacksoncsplayer]

Victim of Changes (live version) Judas Priest

Long Time Boston (Huge Guitar sound back then)

Heartbreaker Grandfunk railroad

[horns666]

I can't name "songs"..Because I love the whole record.

Black Sabbath Paranoid

Frank Marino and Mahagony Rush Live

Van Halen I

That put the guitar in my hands and paved the way for things to come.

[jonasaberg]

Growing Up by Bruce Springsteen
Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi
and...
umm...
don't know really...probably some 80's song

[Gartron]

Crazy Crazy Nights ..Kiss
Am I Evil..Metallica version (I was blown away by the weedly, weedly, weedly bit at the start ..sorry hammer ons and pull offs!!)
Futureworld ..Helloween

God I'm old!

[zeegler]

The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Death - Pull the Plug
Slayer - Black Magic

[Megadeth79]

Megadeth - Symphony of destruction
Metallica- Enter Sandman
Dream Theater- Pull me Under

[Spivonious]

Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - One
Metallica - Seek & Destroy

[atomic charvel guy]

The song Remains the same
Eruption
Feel your Love tonite

[Soap]

Can't break it down to three single songs, but I can list a band or two.

VH, VH, VH.......

[CharvelRocker]

Van Halen - Panama
Ozzy - Crazy Train
You've Got Another Thing Comin' - Judas Priest

[uberthrall]

I can't narrow it down to indivdual songs either,but album wise I'd say.....

Kiss-Alive
Quenn-Night at the Opera
Alice Cooper-Goes to Hell

[Larz]

Metallica - The Four Horsemen

Scorpions - Still Loving You

Def Leppard - Rock of Ages / Photograph / Foolin' (I know, not epic guitar songs, but they were in such heavy rotation early on in MTv's formative years and they sounded pretty heavy compared to most anything else MTv was playing)

Ozzy - You Can't Kill Rock n Roll (had to throw that in there as my inspiration to keep learning although I didn't discover the tune until after I started playing).