solacematt Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Simple enough question. What made you want to play the guitar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Martin Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 WATCHNIG SLASH!!!!!!!! LULZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCI Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXE® Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008   I was eight at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jefleppard Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 wow. you nailed that. i was ace in our friend's basement air guitar band. the position of choice was peter criss because then you got to beat on the upside-down bushel baskets stuffed with pillows while kiss alive played. my dad made me a les paul shaped guitar out of scrap wood panelling (so 70's!) and used duct tape as a neck binding so i wouldn't get slivers. i drew in the pickups with a magic marker and then coloured the rest of the body in after. i was sooo hooked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 In 1958 when I was in the 7th grade, a friend was taking lessons. One day he brought his beautiful Gibson ES of some sort, flashy with gold knobs and trim, and I think I was hooked. Not sure why, maybe because I was destined to play and this was just one factor in pushing me that way. I didn't get my own guitar until '62 but played a few a little bit before that. There may have been some external factors guiding me toward the guitar but I think I was going to play anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VA_siCkBoy Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I think my very first exposure to the guitar was watching Roy Clark on Hee Haw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Â I was eight at the time. Â What a great band.... I saw them live in Boston when I was a kid... "I'm Your Captain" what a tune!!! To bad they kinda fisseld out. They sort of got a bad wrap for being too commercial at the end.... What ever happened to them anyway? Â What made me want to play guitar was what made me devote my life to music in the first place, its in my blood... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vagabond Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I know it's stupid, but while I had always hovered about picking up guitar, what finally made me buckle down and learn to play a few chords was a girl (who is now my wife) who I was crushing on hard for a years. Picked up an acoustic, learned to play Blackbird, and just never put the damn thing down after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCI Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 What a great band.... I saw them live in Boston when I was a kid... "I'm Your Captain" what a tune!!! To bad they kinda fisseld out. They sort of got a bad wrap for being too commercial at the end.... What ever happened to them anyway? Â Still together and touring with an extended lineup minus Mark Farner. Â www.grandfunkrailroad.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynadude Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Simple enough question. What made you want to play the guitar? Â Simple answer. AM radio in the mid 1960s, along with a few rather daring television shows. Â AM radio was playing all the good music in those days. Doors, Beatles, Stones, Santana, Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Elvis. Everything from "bubble gum" tunes to bluegrass. FM was just starting to catch on, mostly through college radio stations, but they were playing some of the weirdest stuff around at the time, and the DJs spoke in this strange quiet, stoner voice. Â Then there were the TV shows, like The Ed Sullivan variety show. The guy was kind'a strange, but he put on a really good shoe, as the saying goes. He gave most people their first real look at many great bands, other than the rare album photos. There seemed to be a phobia among artists in those days. Many bands would not use photos of the band members on their albums, (old school CDs) so you hardly ever got a chance to see what they looked like. Ed helped in that respect. Â There were so many great artists around at that time, that I couldn't really pin it down to just one influence. It was an explosive atmosphere of different music and morals, and I don't think there will ever be anything like that time again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homz Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jannusguy Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 THE BEATLES. i was a 9 yr. old kid living in france, listening to armed forces radio when in between the singing nun and henry mancini, out pops i want to hold your hand. i was hooked from the get go. still am. my first guitar was a badminton racquet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Plains Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 A former friend. I bought my guitar and he bought his base on the same day. We formed a band with his brother, drummer for a few years, the very next day. A few years later, we moved to Hanover, Germany, to find a singer...and we did. We called ourselves The Scorpions and toured for a few years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Â What a great band.... I saw them live in Boston when I was a kid... "I'm Your Captain" what a tune!!! To bad they kinda fisseld out. They sort of got a bad wrap for being too commercial at the end.... What ever happened to them anyway? Â What made me want to play guitar was what made me devote my life to music in the first place' date=' its in my blood...[/quote'] Â I thought AXE's picture was of Frank Marino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I don't know what I voted for. I must have accidently clicked a choice without realizing it. Â Anyway, I'm torn between Ace and song. Of course I wanted to be Ace but when I fisrt heard Sultans of Swing in about 4th or 5th grade I knew that someday I would learn to play that song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 A former friend. I bought my guitar and he bought his base on the same day. We formed a band with his brother' date=' drummer for a few years, the very next day. A few years later, we moved to Hanover, Germany, to find a singer...and we did. We called ourselves The Scorpions and toured for a few years...[/quote'] The Scorpions Band Members  Klaus Meine Matthias Jabs Rudolf Schenker James Kottak Pawel Maciwoda  I don't see R9 listed.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Martin Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008  The Scorpions Band Members  Klaus Meine Matthias Jabs Rudolf Schenker Timothy "The Greek" ****face James Kottak Pawel Maciwoda  I don't see R9 listed....  I do! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Â I do! :-) Â LMFAO..... Ian you are too quick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 For me it was listening to Terry Kath on "Chicago Transit Authority" and Clapton and Duane Allman on "Layla and Assorted Love Songs".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Martin Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I inspired myself to learn by playing air guitar in front of a mirror. Â I wanted to share that with the world, only louder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solacematt Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 Forgot to put mine down. My first instrument was actually drums. I don't know why either. I live in an area where there's mostly old people. They would call the cops for me playing drums at 4-5 in the afternoon. My parents got sick of it, so we got rid of the drums and I got a Les Paul. I was determined to learn this Smashing Pumpkins song I was really into, and after a friend showed me how to play it, a month later I had it down. Funny thing is said friend put 12's on my LP to discourage me from playing. Obviously it didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamienAzrael Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Slash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlekenny Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 a friends older brother, I think I was around 11/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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