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Two people inspired me to play. One was Eric Clapton. The other was a freind of my dad's who got into a motorcycle accident when he was younger. Then he kept playing guitar and he now plays professionally. That is pretty cool. 8)


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EVH from there well I think we all know how that goes, endless quest for tone, playing till morn, pissing off the neighbors, to the wife and kids saying turn it down...
man I love playing the guitar. :lol: :lol:
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:29 am
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Jimmy Page and Stevie Ray Vaughan inspired me to pick up a guitar.
Who admired you to play?
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[quote = "jagstang grunge-quake"]Jimmy Page, Leadbelly, and Kurt Cobain inspired me to pick up a guitar.


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Kenny Paulson, Jimmy Nolen, Tommy Tedesco, Mike Bloomfield and George Harrison mostly.

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My milk man when I was growing up.

He was this sweet guy and all the kids loved him. When I was about 8 or 9 or so my parents took us kids to a wedding and at the reception there was my milk man up on stage singing and playing guitar with a band. With my tender young innocent mind it had never occurred to me that people could actually play the same songs you heard on the radio. I was awestruck. Being a young family, my parents didn't stay long and I only heard about 3 songs or so before they dragged me away to take me home to bed. I did not want to leave and I knew from that moment on that I wanted to learn to play the guitar.

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The trail blazer, Tiny Tim. :D

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Joe Strummer
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Jimi Hendrix
Pete Townshend
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...to name but a few.


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James Burton, I was around nine years old and my mom was playing a record of Elvis live in Las Vegas.
James and the band went into playing Johnny B. Good, and his guitar tone and technique really got my attention, I thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever heard and I still find his playing very inspiring.


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... I was so fascinated with guitars as objects as with music in general from the time I was 6 or 7 that it was inevitable that I'd end up a guitar player. I was born to it, and I would have been a guitar player even if I'd never seen anybody else play one.

That is my answer exactly -- Looking at other responses, I was actually surprised to see specific names or whatever. For me, I was consumed with all of the rock and roll that went before me. It was "inevitable".

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My uncles all played in a band and they used to practice at my grandparents home and it was so cool to watch them play. Then one weekend my favorite uncle took me to see Derek & the Dominos and seeing Clapton play guitar like that, just blew me away. After that it was I GOT to learn to play. After just a year or so I would sit in with my uncles' band and that was just too cool for a kid of 10 years old. Good times.

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My dear cousin Doug. Wish he was still around. He always offered me advice and encouragement. Great slide player.


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A lot of players, almost all Strat players - Beck, Blackmore, Richard Thompson, Clapton, Knopfler, Gilmour are a few names that spring to mind.

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I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan when I was all of 8 1/2 years old and wanted to learn to play. My uncle played so even as a young lad, I knew it could be done. I got a cheap acoustic to learn on.

Then the Monkees came along a few years later (actually it was first call session guitarist, Louie Shelton, but I didn't know it at the time). They caused me to take two paper routes (remember paper routes?) to save up for an electric. Then Hendrix, Clapton, Pagey . . . and the rest is history.


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I have always had a strong gravitation towards music. And before I started to play I was torn between drums and guitar.

For me it was both inspiration and influence:

The Beatles
Neil Giraldo
Phil Collin
Steve Clark
Steve Stevens
Warren Cuccurullo
Matthias Jabs
Rudolf Schenker
Billy Squier
and Ritchie Blackmore

As far as bands go it would be King's X and Collective Soul, but they came in later in my playing.

I am a pop ho. I like most styles, but the more pop/melody oriented songs/bands in those genres.

When I was in High School and College, I wanted to be in a band with AC/DC sounding drums and guitar, Kool and the Gang sounding bass (that low round thump - think Ladies Night) with a Pat Benatar sounding singer. I thought the 80's rock/metal was missing good low end.


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