Who inspired you to play guitar ?

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  • JASGMMEV
    JASGMMEV Posts: 19
    Mike McCready is the reason I play guitar. How can you watch him during an Evenflow solo and not want to try that? Maybe Pete Townshend inspired me a bit too.
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  • zircona1
    zircona1 Posts: 293
    Peter Buck and Beck.

    Yeah I know they're not up there with SRV and Hendrix but they influenced me to pick up a guitar.
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  • chrisw_30
    chrisw_30 Posts: 21
    James Hetfield
    Daniel Johns
    Kirk Hammett
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  • Gabi
    Gabi Posts: 6
    When I was 10 years old my dad was listen to B.B. King Live at Apolo, great album, i was in love by the melodie, after B.B.King my dad put Stevie Ray Vaughn, i was almost "out of myself", and to finish, Summertime by Janis Joplin. It was a really big day for me, that day i resolved that someday I was going to learn guitar.
    But I olny start to play the guitar at 15 years old, then, PJ was my biggest influence.
  • FredFlintstone
    FredFlintstone Posts: 193
    Jimmy pAge - Over the hills and far away primarily.
    That was 11 years ago....and I still play that song alot to this day.
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  • CaptainSpaz91
    CaptainSpaz91 Posts: 266
    TABBYCAT wrote:
    for me it was jimmy page ,steve vai...(damn i drool when i see this guy play!!) and jerry cantrell from AIC those people were a big inspiration for me ,what about you?


    Def. Jerry Cantrell was huge, especially watching him with those solos on AIC Unplugged I loved it. And PJ.....mainly black and the riff to alive.
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  • Jasmine
    Jasmine Posts: 22
    I got my first guitar about 5 years ago. My grandfather left it for me when he died. Around the same time, my mom gave me her old vinyl collection. I listened to Clapton, VanHalen and Hendrix, and before my mom could even sign me up for lessons, I was playing "Kiss the Sky"... it's amazing what having timeless mentors like them can do. Eventually Nirvana and Pearl Jam got me into writing my own music.
    ONWARD!... but not upward... that would be weird.
  • All Those Yesterdays
    All Those Yesterdays Posts: 2,723
    Well technically Robert Deleo (of STP) got me into playing bass, and love playing his riffs. After that I tried to start writing songs, and just went out and bought a cheap guitar. Funny thing is bass playing wise, I love guitar oriented rock, I.E. Black Crowes, Blind Melon, Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

    Guitar playing wise, I love the power pop punk thing.
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  • brain of c
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    don maclean.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • Monkey Man
    Monkey Man Posts: 20
    The Beatles were the first band I got into, and really George was the guy who inspired me to play.
  • JakeYanachek
    JakeYanachek Posts: 31
    Johnny Fr00sh dog!3434
  • Kovo
    Kovo Posts: 255
    I needed a hobby, and it was guitar or keyboard. Thank God I got a guitar :D
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  • WiLL75
    WiLL75 Posts: 415
    Micheal J. Fox in Back to the Future. I was ten and before that I had a 4 string nylon toy guitar that had been my brothers. So I was trying to play along to duran duran on that guitar or a yardstick. My parents got sick of it so they sent me to lessons. So my influences went from Rick Springfield, Duran Duran, Chuck Berry via Marty McFly, C.C. Deville, Ritchie Sambora, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Hendrix, Stones, Kurt Cobain, Mike McCready.
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  • Stinkfoot
    Stinkfoot Posts: 546
    Mark Knopfler made me want to play. Stone/Mike/Zappa made me want to be GOOD!!!
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  • stefanwa
    stefanwa Posts: 43
    After I saw Grant-Lee Phillips live in Vienna about 4 years ago...was one of the best decisions of my life!
  • MissYouAllDay
    MissYouAllDay Posts: 939
    Well I fell in love with the sound of a guitar through smashing pumpkins in grade 7 and 8. That was the first time I really liked some guitar parts as much as the whole of the song.

    But I finally started playing cause of Ed. I wanted to write songs, and sing them and play more than anything. funny I can't play and sing at all, or even sing :) But yah Ed was my biggest influence to actually start playing. Touring Band Ed to be specific. He looked so cool with his black Tele.

    I swear that has nothing to do with my black tele hiwatt rig :)
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  • moho
    moho Posts: 541
    jimi hendrix at Isle of whight, voodoo chile still sends shivers up my spine!
    JUST PLAY THE F***ING NOTE!!!
  • enharmonic
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    The first guitarist that I remember watching and thinking "yeah...I want to play guitar too" was Prince.
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  • PintoMusic
    PintoMusic Posts: 73
    Originally, it was Slash.

    Luckily, by the time I found out I could never play as good as Slash, Kurt Cobain came around and he became my hero.

    Now, it's guys like Alain Johannes (from Eleven), Murray Lightburn (of The Dears), Johnny Greenwood (obviously of Radiohead) and esoteric jazz guys like Charlie Hunter that keep me inspired to play.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Jimi Hendrix, and a certain crazy diamond.

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