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Post subject: Why you started playing/ inspirations
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:58 pm
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pretty much what the topic says


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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:59 pm
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but i'd say listening to players like clapton, slash, page, and hendrix made me really want to pick up a guitar in hopes of playing anywhere near their level some day


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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:34 pm
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I always wanted to play, but was so involved with athletics that I never had much time for anything else. So I decied at 52 to give it a whirl and now at 54, I am in my thrid year of playing...


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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:42 pm
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I blame Jack Bruce for making me pick up a bass.

From there on in constant inspiration comes from players like John Paul Jones, Jaco Pastorius, James Jamerson, Jesse Keeler, Paul McCartney etc, etc.


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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:55 pm
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John Lennon. I wanted to be a rock star and he was the coolest man in the world back in 1970.

Then in '72 I heard Steve Howe play and I knew what guitar playing was really all about.

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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:25 pm
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I guess like everyone else, I saw bands playing and it seemed cool. The Beatles, Who, Byrds, Dylan, Kinks, Elvis...all cool! Only wish I had stuck with it then.


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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:29 pm
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EVH -- The dude looked like he was having sooo much fun on stage doing his thing. Made me want to try my hand(s) at guitar too.


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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:53 pm
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I started after seeing Ace Frehley in KISS back in the day. Same goes for Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson in Thin Lizzy.

Those guys just looked so cool! :D

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Post subject: why not?
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:23 am
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I was a horn player, and then got braces. I wanted to play in the jazz band at H.S., so I asked the director what I could do. He had his wife, who was the orchestra director, get me started on the bass. I dod nothing else for the next 5 years, including other school work :) The rest is history.

I am 45 now, I've been a company vice president a couple of times, and still would rather play than work at anything else.

My main influence at the time (and maybe even now) was John Entwhistle.


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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:53 am
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My uncle, cousin, and Eric Clapton.


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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:35 pm
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I always wanted to play guitar, especially because my dad plays. But my first real influence was Carlos Santana. He made me wanna play more than anybody... until I heard Stevie Ray. Every time I hear that man's music, I just want to play more and more.


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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:54 pm
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All the guys I hung out with in high school were guitar players. I being the weird one was attracted to the bass at age 15. Chris Squire (Close to the Edge) John Paul Jones (Led Zep II) Greg Lake (Brain Salad Surgery) John Entwhistle & everything Paul McCartney ever did, all had an impact on me as a lad!


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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:59 pm
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My dad played jazz and he made me want to play guitar. He still influences me cause hes in the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. This is him(love his hagstrom):

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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:21 pm
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In the early seventies i heard ''Voodoo Child (slight return)'' by Jimi Hendrix on my little transistor radio, Radio Luxemburg over here in Europe. The next day i bought a best-of double LP.
Must have been 15 or 16 years young, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who,
Rory Gallagher, Robin Trower, Roy Buchanan etc.
Reading intervieuws with these players i discovered the blues, so in the
eighties it were Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray
and so many more players.
At this moment it's Jimi again, Roy Buchanan, Santana, Gary Moore, The
Rosenberg Trio (Dutch gypsy trio, Django style), and for inspiration my
new Fender Classic Player Baja Telecaster.
Half a century old i'll now have a go with jazz (or my version of it), the
blues riffs still creeping in.

With love ftom Holland, Peter :) :roll:


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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:30 pm
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i started because my dad found a $50 new electric guitar pack (i still have it. its my only guitar.) i didnt really start till this summer in june i soked up guitar like a wet sponge slowly nad not always well but im getting better.

my big influence is clapton who at age 12 got a spanish guitar and struggled with chords but he never gave up.


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