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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:16 pm
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The year was 1983 and I was listening to Shaun Cassidy records at the time (yes those black round things) when I stepped into a real record store for the first time and saw Eddie on the cover of Iron Maidens Killers album. I bought it and from that day on I have wanted to be Dave Murray. I saw them in concert the next year and from that time forward I wanted a Fender Stratocaster. It took me 24 years to finally get one. I will never part with my first Stratocaster.

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Besides the big names (Page, Beck, etc) I was influenced by

Rory Gallagher
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Michael Schenker

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i was watching the 50 most infulential artsists on hard-rock on VH1 when i was about 8 or 9... i saw so many great artists, then hendrix and zeppelin.... i realized, wow, they are amazing, i really need to do this..... so then i picked up the guitar

so jimi and jimmy, but there were others, but not as large of an influence


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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:05 pm
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SRV, Zappa and Hendrix
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I got inspired to get an Ibanez Rg because of Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert and Joe Satriani, hah


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my dads a drummer and so are my three older brothers...i never got into music until bowt 5 years ago and i play guitar haha kind of the black sheep of the family! having a musical family and then having to learn a song on guitar for a school assessment got me into playing guitar and in the last few months ive started learning bass..dont really no why though. noone influenced that decision.and to this day ive had 8+ strats 2 teles 2 fender amps and just got a jazz bass. FENDER ALL THE WAY!!!!


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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:56 am
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I had been singing lead vocals for several different groups at our churh and after practicing our music for Sunday's and different events the guys in the band would just sit and jam. Well I kinda felt left out so I bought a guitar and started learning how to play. The guy's (and girls) in the group inspired something I didn't know I had, an absolute love for playing guitar! Since day 1 they have continued to inspire and encourage me!


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Cliff Gallup (google if you don't know of him). :wink:

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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:26 am
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Jimmy Page and his variety of styles and influences (blues, country, folk, hard rock and metal). I still get impressed when I'm listening to a Zeppelin mix and it goes from Kashmir to Since I've Been Loving You to Achilles' Last Stand to Black Mountain Side. So diverse. :)


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Ace Frehley inspired me to to pick up the guitar and Donald "Duck" Dunn the bass.

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Personally I (and my mother) blame my father for introducing me to my guitar idol. When I was just a toddler back in 71 I would would stand in front of my father's Reel-to-reel Stereo system for hours listening to Hendrix and starring at the reels going round and round. My dad would crank the stereo and drum along to hendrix as I danced around the room.

Of course I went through the 80s thing with hair bands and the metal bands but never lost my love for Jimi. I'd have to say the true inspiration.

However, there are tons of guitarists and styles out their. I'm trying to open my mind to all of them. the way I look at it, there is always something I can learn even if it isn't my favorite type of music.


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I guess I am showing my age when I say the Beatles. Watching them on TV with all of the screaming girls, wow. As I am learning to play (2.5 years) I appreciate how great George Harrison was, let's not forget that John was not so bad either and the best may be Paul Can't go wrong with the Fab Four. I am also influenced by Dylan and Springsteen. More for their writing and stage presence as well as their guitar playing.


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Jimmy Page got me into music. Stevie Ray Vaughan got me into guitar


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Lets see -

The Beatles, especially George Harrison.

The Grateful Dead, especially Jerry Garcia.

Gil 8)

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BB King is a huge talent in my humble opinion. For one thing, he claimed and refined the Blues form in the post-war era. He's a genuine guitar hero playing extremely complex, rapid, prolonged solos in most songs and notably in King of Guitar, You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now and other 1950s Blues songs that he wrote and interpreted. He plays very clean. Although he came up from Mississippi sharecropping origins, he reads and writes music and never quits. His complex and soulful songs are challenging and less accessible than pop or rock. He pushes the lines between Blues, jazz, and rock, touching on all of it and inspiring my original guitar heroes like Clapton, Jimmy Page, Santana. BB, I hope you live forever.


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Eljay wrote:
Ace Frehley inspired me to to pick up the guitar and Donald "Duck" Dunn the bass.

I got to see Donald "Duck" Dunn and Steve "The Colonel" Cropper live with Booker T. and the MG's in '96 (at least I'm Pretty sure it was '96, maybe '97). They were headlining the last night if a 3 day Music Feastival in Marysville called "The Gathering Of The Vibe". Hardly anyone there had heard of them so I had the whole left side of the stage pretty much to myself. I was really into it, watching their hands and rockin' out. Then I noticed they were looking me, smiling. Then looking around me, and laughing, and shaking there heads. I was all by myself with maybe 12 other people scatterd around the grass in a camp ground with Booker T. and the MG's giving us very intamate performance.

Very Cool for me, but I felt sorry for Booker T. and the Boys.

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