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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:48 pm
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It was The Beatles and Buddy Holly for me. 1977!!! My mother bought me a guitar at a tag sale. The strings might as well have been razor wire. but I got through it, and my folks eventually bought me my first Strat, which unfortunately I don't have anymore, long story, but I did replace it.

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Ritchie Blackmore made me do it
More specifically, Rainbow's album Rising made me do it

Dude, that album is phenomenal ...


I'm still turning youngsters on to it today my friend. What's your favorite track?

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The Beatles. Saw "Hard Days Night" and said yup - that's what I want to do!

Paul McCartney and Chubby Jackson (Woody Herman)

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1. Watching Ritchie Blackmore & Deep Purple when I was about ten yrs. old playing on "Don Kirschner's Rock Concert @ after midnight one summer. He smashed his strat all to pieces and rammed the headstock through his Marshall amp! (I had NO idea he wasn't the first to do that!)

2. After almost giving up on playing guitar, an album that my older brother bought me in 1978 gave me new inspiration...

My bro said "you got to hear this guy play guitar! I saw this band open for BLACK SABBATH last week and he put Van Halen on my turntable...

That's right, I'm 44 years old and it was VAN HALEN! (not Clapton) VAN HALEN! (not Hendrix) VAN HALEN! The Blackmore story was just an attempt to hide my shredder -never-was,-wanna-be shame!!!

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mthorn00 wrote:
What's your favorite track?

"I don't wanna go
Something tells me No ... No ... No ... No
There's traces in the sand
The lines inside my hand say Go ... Go ... Go ... Go"


I still get chills when I hear Tarot Woman. And Stargazer is a tremendous work. I bet we'd be like best buds if you lived on my street, dude. Rainbow Rising ... awesome.

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I played Guitar Hero back then. The feeling became rather empty and unsatisfying when I played a song. Now everything seems so much more...satisfying. :D


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Ace Frehley. Listening to him got me into playing.

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Steve Stevens. A guitar GOD, IMHO. My best friend's brother left for college and came home for Thanksgiving with a Mohawk and a bag full of punk records. The Clash kicked my $@! so hard I needed a bandage. Steve Stevens made me see Jesus*, and Jesus himself told me that Steve ROCKED. And he told me Joe Strummer was a living prophet.

I was in 4th grade. And my life changed.

I met Billy Idol and Steve Stevens a few years ago and tried to tell yhem that story. They didn't care.


(*Per the Adcurium legal depertment: When reading aloud, please feel free to substitute 'Jesus' with the God/Messiah/Savior/Diety of your choice)

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BUMP!

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I have my father to thank for my passion for guitars. He have been playing since he was young, and listening to him play made me want to learn it myself. I actually bought my first guitar with my own hard earned money when I was 12 years old. I had delivered newspapers before school every day for a year :)


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I got my first acoustic guitar in 1973 - Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead are the folks who got me interested in playing.

Gil 8)

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I loved loved loved (and still love) Iron Maiden. By the time I was 14, I day dreamed about fronting a band, but found the notion impossible. A guy I ran X-C & Track with (who was also the younger brother of my current brother-in-law) would talk with me about music, and his own endeavors. He convinced me that you didn't need to be Metallica to have a band, so I set out to form one with myself as the vocalist.

The line-up was shaky, but we stayed together for 3 years. There had been talk of saving up for a Squire Stratocaster and learning to do rhythm, but it never came together and we eventually just got another guitarist; leaving me as lead vocals.

I broke my leg in the latter half of my junior year, and my brother-in-law gave me his SNES to keep myself occupied at home. A few weeks later, his brother (same guy who convinced me I could have a band), wanted to borrow the SNES, and that was fine by me. After a few days, he decided that he wanted to keep it, and said he had something to offer me for it; asking if I still liked Iron Maiden.

Imagine my surprise when he offered up a Stratocaster & an amp. I couldn't refuse. I tinkered with it, but it wasn't too big of a priority. I just wanted to maybe help write the basic stuff for songs. Sadly, a few months later, he was no longer with us. When he passed, I told myself that the guitar wasn't a hobby anymore, and I was gonna play the hell out of it. One of his friends even pondered if the "torch" had been passed purposefully.

To this day, this is the item that I would grab first if my house was on fire.


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Les Paul.

'Was a wee tot watching Mickey Mouse Club and between that and Chicago afternoon news was a 5-minute segment where he would do 2 songs with wife Mary Ford. And he likely played a 2-P90 gold top.

An electric guitar seemed SO unasttainable, SO much for rich people, it went out of mind until age 16. Then, $64.95 earned caddying was enough for an Aldens catlogue Harmony 2-pup Jazzmaster-ish-looking solidbody, 3-tube amp, chipboard case, pick, book, strap and mini-33 instruction record.

Two years later it was a used Silvertone Twin Twelve amp. Four months later was a Gibson guitar. And since...much.

No looking back. Thank You, Mr. Lester Polfus, for that initial inspiration.


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February 9, 1964 - I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and that started me down the path. Finally got my first guitar on Christmas Day 1967. It was a tinny acoustic that I saw later in a store for $9.99.


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Back 29 years ago, my uncle got me a Fender MIM Strat (don't know which model) and a Peavy amp for my birthday, so I started playing that and I got really interested. Then I got a band goin' and we played some gigs and what not and......... Thank god for uncles! :lol: 8)

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