I was inspired by the guitar itself...Beautiful

In the beginning there was Ritchie Blackmore (Rainbow's "Rising" album).


Many others have and still do inspire me but I think he was the first.

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"Life is like eating jalapenos. What you do today may burn your arse tomorrow"

I remember when i was about 8 or 9 watching HEE HAW and seeing Buck Owens and Roy Clark playing. I wanted to learn then so my dad got me an acoustic and i started learning. Then I got an Elvis record and was inspired to play more stuff like his. My dad busted my guitar and it was over for the next 20 years. Then i kind of taught myself different styles but Eric Clapton has had a huge influence on my playing along with most of the country and bluegrass players i listen to.

After I got my first KISS record I just started to listen to so much music I had never heard until than. I was raised in a house where country or polkas were always on.

Once I started hearing the guitars on all this great music, I was enamoured with the instrument. I bought a guitar for like $35 from a friend of a friend, it was crap, I took 2 lessons and gave up and sold the guitar. I could tell you it was brown sunburst but not brand. I than went back to the drums I was just starting on and did that for 15 years. Bass came after that, around '90, and guitar in the last 4 years.

Stones, KISS, Beatles, pre-Hi-infidelity REO, Styx, Joe Walsh, all of them were instrumental in my falling into rock.

Any funk bassist and Flea for bass.

Randy Rhoads and Eric Clapton for guitar.

I don't know.

I've wanted to play guitar for as long as I can remember--some of my earliest memories involve that.

I don't know who or what started that.

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It wasn't Willy-Nilly, it was at crows.

This is an easy question for me. Ace Frehley, Eddie Van Halen. I wanted so bad to be just like them. Now I find myself playing Peter Tosh type stuff these days. What an odd twist of fate.

actually at first it wasnt about to play guitar but to get into the world of music. then came the passion for guitar & generally musical instruments. first inspiration was (silly?) green day. passion especially for guitar came with listening to better artists & better solos.

The Late Great Jerry Garcia was the first to inspire me to play guitar. Since then I've learned to play Jerry riff's and Jerry type solo's but I've also learned that to play like Jerry requires a very open musical mind with the ability to incorporate and play with a band that can "almost" read each other's thoughts, muscial directions, ideas, and sync up to play as one. Now don't get me wrong the GD had many bad moments but the good ones can bring tears to your eyes. I've got a huge collection of live shows and some of the GD's stuff just blows me away. I'm searching for words that can describe the feeling I get when listening to a perfect Grateful Dead set or song but I don't think there are any. That is just something that must be experienced. If anybody is curious you may be able to find (from the So Many Roads (1965-1995) box set Disc 2: Track 2. Beautiful Jam (Port Chester NY 2/18/71) also my fav. from the box set. Disc 2: Track 4. Sing Me Back Home (Veneta, Oregon 8/27/72). Check these tracks out if interested. I promise these are great tracks. Anyway since Jerry influenced me to begin I've picked up many other influences such as SRV, Hendrix, EC,Moe.,EJ, JP, Lightnin' Hopkins, Trey Anastasio, Hauser, Herring, man there are too many to list. Hopefully a few of yall will check out the tracks I mentioned and just give the GD a shot. I know I'm forgetting alot but Jerry's my main man.
Later,

Russ

i was influenced by alot of bands that got me into music such as CCR , nirvana , butthole surfers , black sabbath , the police and theres a few more

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>NIRVANA<

Hank B. Marvin, back in the early sixties.

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Paul McCartney

I actualy wanted to play drums, but the orchestra teacher said "We don't need any more Ringos!". She said there was an opening for a bass player, so I thought "Well, Paul plays bass, so that's cool!".

My old man said "Play bass and you'll always have a gig." He was right!!

Also loved listening to bass in jazz records - really dug Chubby Jackson with Woody Herman's Thundering Herd. Especially the solo in "Caldonia."

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So life is just a game, and there are many ways to play -- and all you do is choose

George Harrison

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Go to people's funerals, or they won't go to yours - Yogi Berra

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