In 1965 I went to the Downers Grove Tivoli theatre, a real movie theatre, and along with about 12-13 guys and a thousand screaming girls, I saw "A Hard Day's Night"......

A thousand young girls screaming and climaxing in their seats over a movie about some guys who sang and played electric guitars was the handwriting on the walls for me.......

The Rolling Stones....."The Last Time"....."It's All Over Now"

I started singing in grade two, in my school choir. Kept singing in school and church choirs until I was in grade nine, at which point I stopped being religious, and therefore stopped singing in church choirs.

I started off instrumentally by taking up the flute in grade six. I switched to horn in grade nine (we had twenty flutes in our band that year...), and played that through high school and university. The guitar is a more recent thing, something I started when I was twenty five. It was something I'd wanted to learn for a while, so I went out and got a cheap guitar and amp. The amplifier was terrible (since replaced with a Classic 30), but I still play the guitar, a black Strat copy, along with my "nice" electric.

Luckily, I have a musical wife. She plays flute very well (her major in university), and is a band teacher, so she can play a bit of all the band instruments. She mostly plays flute, sax, and electric bass these days, though.

We play in a band with a couple of our friends. She handles bass duties, and I'm one of the guitar players. Life would be dull without music.

The electric guitar "picked" this picker-to-be at age 6, then it took 10 more years to buy one, during which interval, electric guitar sounds became the most resonant music to this soul.

Wlectric bass was appealing and added 3 years later and 12-string acoustic guitar mere months thereafter, followed by acoustic 6.

'Never regretted the cosmos' choice of instrument for this existence and 'love being a musician.

'Am joyfully beginning bouzouki and mandolin.

I've always wanted to play guitar--ever since I was a little kid.

I don't know what set it off, but as long as I can remember I have wanted to play guitar--and that's never stopped.

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

answering the newer inspiration thread.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

The Beatles made me do it.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

when i saw Hendrix playin' at Woodstock on TV (at like 9)

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I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk...

i started playing music when i was 3 because i listened to some of my dad's beatles records
i played the recorder and played a very small acoustic guitar
when i got to playing very good i got an electric guitar that i found at a music store.but i started playing the saxophone as much as i do with guitar.
i can play alto tenor and soprano
what i listened to back then were like jimi Hendrix and the beatels were rocking the ages.
thanks for asking this question

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Squire Strat
Jasmine Takamine
Cherry Red American Standard Strat

Haha, I love it!!
First, it was Queen that got me really hooked on music. Then it was Brian who inspired me to pick up the guitar and learn; I haven't stopped being inspired by him, and I swear to God, I never will. He'll always be my guitar idol, and one of my role models.

SO, that's what got me into playing.



Edit: Typo

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"If it's planned, it's boring." - Freddie Mercury

I actually starting playing guitar because I didn't have room (still don't) for a drum set. Drums were my first musical love but I just don't have the space for a good set. I wanted to get involved in music so I decided to pick up a guitar instead and haven't really looked back. I still want a drum set but for now I'll stick with playing guitar which has become a real passion of mine since first picking it up.

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http://www.youtube.com/guitarmike26

Free & Easy Down the Road I Go

Music was always a part of my family life growing up. Singing in the car on family road trips, listening to classical records (my father played piano), I got piano lessons for years before I picked up the guitar at 16. I started playing rock n roll for the standard reason (girls dug it).

I've been at it for 30 years now and my kids have been bitten by the music bug too. My older son (17) plays guitar, drums, and clarinet, the younger son (15) plays Bass, guitar, and flute. The older one plays snare in the HS Drumline and both are in their High School Jazz Ensemble. We all jam together regulary, kicking out some pretty wicked home grown heavy metal.

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

I got my first guitar six months after my stroke. My uncle said that I looked pretty lonley, and needed something to do. So he suggested to my parents to get me a acoustic guitar. They did, and I had a bit of strums on it every now and then, and put it down and continued with whatever I was doing. I was always into the electric guitars, not acoustic. So I saved up for a electric, and played it for like 3 hours a day.

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riley

How I started playing guitar was my mum and dad worked at the local servo and this guy came past for some petrol and couldent pay so he left an ibanez gio there so i started playing it and got lessons so my dad showed me a bunch of bands like pink floyd, led Zeppelin, acdc, the sensational Alex Harvey band and my mate that played drums showed me some metal
and another mate that played bass showed me some punk bands
and a kid in my class showed introduced me to prog rock metal and space rock latter on when I got better me and some mates made a band

and then I got a strat

I've always been obsessed with music. Harmony, melody, counterpoint, chords, notes...WOW!!! It makes me feel good! That's who I am! I need to play, or else...

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"If you're on a path that's beaten, it's not your path." Joseph Campbell

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

"All that is impossible remains to be achieved."
Jules Verne

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