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

[markD]

can't do songs either - albums:

live after death - iron maiden
gold and platnium - lynyrd skynyrd
the wall - pink floyd

[Reverend Timmy]

Kiss-Black Diamond
Led Zeppelin-Communication Breakdown and Foghat-Slow Ride.

[slayer32390]

Megadeth - Hangar 18
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Slayer - Raining Blood

[guitarsjb]

Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues
Ozzy- Crazy Train
Slayer- South of Heaven

[DTP]

Kiss - King of the Night Time World - Alive 2
Kiss - Shock Me - Alive 2
Kiss - Tomorrow And Tonight - Alive 2

Some one gave me the first album to the Alive 2 set and after listening to Ace play those licks, it was over. I had to have a guitar. It was a long time before I ever got the second album in the set.

Ace will always be the standard for me and the one that got me into guitar.

J.

[ripley156]

1. I still can't believe I am going to admit this, but a little guitar break in Bruce Springsteen's "Candy's Room". <ick, lol!>

2. Crazy Train

3. Headin' Out to the Highway

[jackson1]

Rory Gallagher - Live
Frank Marino and Mahagony Rush - Live
Thin Lizzy - Live

[j4vice]

WALK DON'T RUN - VENTURES
RAUNCHY - VENTURES
uuhhhh . . . .I started in 1959
My favorite modern guitar song is CHILD IN TIME - DEEP PURPLE.

Saw D.P. in 1972 and recently July 2007. No Blackmore this time though. Then I saw SLAYER in AUG. 2007.

[Cygnus X1]

Xanadu-Rush
One Whiskey, One Scotch, One Beer-Thorogood
"Remember" cover by Aerosmith on "Night in the Ruts"

And almost everything by Pink Floyd from Meddle to The Wall.

[Wylde06]

I cant really name three songs that influenced me, more like one band, but the one song that made me go out and buy a guitar was

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

[Frigo89]

if I do it by album...

None, I orginally wanted to be a bass player, but my Dad said, "Learn Guitar First, So You Can Switch Back and Forth!"

I can now say I have never bought a bass, or picked one up off the ground/stand with the intention of buying it.

but when I started playing guitar I was Into Slayer, Pantera, Iron Maiden...

I have since "mellowed out" and am Primarily a Hair Metal and Power Pop guy (White Lion, Cheap Trick, Enuff Z'Nuff etc...)

[thebigz]

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Metallica - Sanitarium
Metallica - Enter Sandman

I started playing my brother's guitar in his room when he wasn't home. Needless to say, he had the tab books for MOP and the black album.

[JetFixxxer]

Kiss - Shock Me
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Metallica - Whiplash.

[Joe_Steeler]

Ozzy- Crazy Train
Deep Purple- Highway Star
Judas Priest- Living After Midnight

[AlexL]

I actually wanted to play guitar all my life, even before I knew any popular music. But I supposed what finally made me nag my parents enough to let me get a guitar was:

Renegade - Styx
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Not sure what else; quite likely "Shock Me" from Alive II

I'm still a huge Tommy Shaw fan. Not an incredibly technical guitarist, but he gets the job done, is a great songwriter, and has a great voice.


- E.