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Hate to admit this... but it was Green Day...
I once was a huge fan of them (1or 2 years ago). Then I tried a friend's guitar at his home, and he tought me Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes. Then he tought me power chords and showed me how to play american idiot.
A few months later, he had convinced me to buy a guitar too, so I did, a really cheap "adonis" strat model.
I played it, but since I only knew about 2 or 3 songs, I got bored with it.
Another few months later, I picked it up again, and I got in the zone, playing seven nation army. That's when my friend told me about ultimate-guitar.com, and I began to teach myself.

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It was in '95, in my companie and department was tempory worker with long hair, playing in a local metal band and 1 CD was fresh produced and was short bevor publish. Name of the band was Erosion.

To this time I was a Prince fan and heard also everything from pop, rock and funk.
We talked about his band, guitars, concerts, other bands etc. I remember in the youth I wanted to play e-guitar but this idea was stopped by my mother.

It has made click...I ask him to give some more info about e-guitars, amps etc. and we walked into the local store here. He took some guitars and played them, I took them in my hand and checked the feel and handling.
After this I have had my package:
Ibanez JS100
Hughes & Kettner Attax 40
Gig Bag
Chord Book, Cable and Strap

He (Boris) was known at the store, so I got 5% discount.
Back at home we showed me some power chords, settings on the amp.

Alone then at home was the new gear first an alien element for me.
2 days I have looked at this thougt if this was right or not to buy this.
Then I thougth you have buy this so play it.
First I cut my finger nails on the left hand, second I took the guitar in my hand, plug into the amp and tried my first chords.
My first string change....hm....terrible...
Next was I start to buy guitar-music like metal, blues rock etc.
After 2 years I triying to learn autodidactic I was go a local music school.

So it was not really a special artist, maybe indirect Prince with his special guitars, I don't know.

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The Beatles.

When I was in seventh grade, my cousin who is 10 months older, was really into them and he had learned to play guitar. He got me into it and I learned guitar. Since not many kids played bass, I made the switch.

It makes me laugh looking back - we were really into it and went as far as to create our own "Beatlemania" show that we even performed in public - including multiple costume changes and different pictures we projected onto a large screen. (remember those old carousel projectors?) My aunt even made Sgt. Pepper costumes for all of us and I still have my blue Paul one hanging in the closet. A bit faded but very authentic looking.

At some point my high school band expand our repertoire into more classic rock. Great times.

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Rocker_Gamma wrote:
Well, somehow, I hate to admit it but...Guitar Hero got me onto the real thing... I've got to say, the real thing is so much more fun than the plastic toy. :D


The Jerm wrote:
Hate to admit this... but it was Green Day...


Heh, I don't think it's ever necessary to preface responses with "hate to admit this..." We've all (mostly) come from humble beginnings, right?

I'm just glad to hear a story about how Guitar Hero actually sparked someone's interest in musicianship, Rocker_Gamma! I absolutely agree that a plastic video game controller comes nowhere close to the real thing.

The Jerm, Green Day's Kerplunk! album was a constant companion of mine when I started playing. Early Green Day isn't the most musically complex stuff, but I think it's that accessibility that helped lure me in. If I had to learn how to play like SRV or Eric Johnson at the offset, I might have found guitar too daunting and not have been as enthused by it to begin with. Not that I'm all that great or anything...

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The Beatles.

When I was in seventh grade, my cousin who is 10 months older, was really into them and he had learned to play guitar. He got me into it and I learned guitar. Since not many kids played bass, I made the switch.

It makes me laugh looking back - we were really into it and went as far as to create our own "Beatlemania" show that we even performed in public - including multiple costume changes and different pictures we projected onto a large screen. (remember those old carousel projectors?) My aunt even made Sgt. Pepper costumes for all of us and I still have my blue Paul one hanging in the closet. A bit faded but very authentic looking.


Awesom pics, tomk62! It's stuff like that that made me post this topic!!

Thanks for the responses, everyone. Please keep them coming!!!! :D


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Les Paul.

He had a 5-minute TV spot in Chicago with his wife, Mary Ford, between the original Mickey Mouse Club and evening news. They played 2 songs every weekday and this then-6-year-old picker fell in love with the electric guitar.

'Finally bought one at 16 and never looked back. The never-flagging love affair of this lifetime.


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My dad and his brother both had, and still have, their own polka/old time music bands....(insert laugh here)....and they made good $$ over the years doing it. They have a quick set up, almost no maintenance, and no overhead, their fans don't expect a light show or fog machines. I am pretty sure that alot of groceries coming into the home when I was a kid came from $$ money.

Through that, I was exposed to live music at an early age and I just picked up the bug I guess. I took accordion lessons for a couple years since that' what the old man played and he had like 10 of them around the house.

Got my first KISS record and traded the accordion in for drums.


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Guess I must be getting real old :)
For me it was first watching Gene Autry on the black&white TV set way back in the 50's that first got me interested in the guitar. (and pestering to get one, I think it really was made of plywood from the SearsRoebuk catalog for Christmas)

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I grew up a drummer…one day I heard Hendrix play on the woodstock record and I all of a sudden took notice of guitar music….some weeks later I heard Yngwie Malmsteen’s first Rising Force record and could not belive that kind of stuff could be done on a guitar…that same week I heard Vinnie Moore’s time odyssey record and was shocked to find that that many emotions could be evoked in a song through the use of Modes. It was that day I knew I just had to be a guitar player. (plus they get more chicks that drummers do) funny how a 17 teen year old kid thinks huh? That was 22 years ago and I still am in love with playing, and jam every single day


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i wanted to play when i first saw James Hetfield playing his guitar and thats what started it

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After the Marimbe, Recorder, Violin, and the Baritone, a friend of mine played "Highway Star".
I didn't see much of a difference between Blackmore and what I did with the Violin, so,...


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my top 30 influences in no particular order

1.SRV
2.Eric Clapton
3. my uncle who is guitarist for metal band gwar
4.my dad
5.John frusiante
6.ted nugent
7.kirk hamet
8.scot ian
10.jimi hendrix
11.elvis
12.paul gilbert
13.BB King
14.buddy guy
15.angus young
16.jimmy page
17.mick mars
18.kurt cobin
19.my friend rob
20.jerry cantrell
21.dave grohl
22.slash
23.pete townshen
24 david gilmour
25.eric johnson
26.randy rhodes
27.zack wylde
28.tony iomi
29.richie blackmore
30.mike macready


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in 1958 i listened to my older bro, and uncle practice, in moms huge living room. when they took a break, i would talk there drummer into letting me mess with his drums, they were a workin band. later in 1962 the band broke up! my bro asked me if i would be interested in learning to play bass? i jumped on it, and to make a long story short, i'm 63 this year, and still doing it, still get butterflies before i go on stage, and still have the same feelings when it all comes together. you here the crowds response, the aplause, they still get up and dance, they still enjoy what you do, i started on a fender p 1958, and use a fender 63 jazz today. that feeling never left! it is in your blood, and in your soul, it is what makes you who you are! set back and enjoy, it only gets better!!


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Watchin' some guy playing Needle and the Damage Done. I thought......I can do that and the rest is history.

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3. my uncle who is guitarist for metal band gwar


Whoah, your uncle is in Gwar?

Haha, I bet THAT's fun.

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