S t e v e Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 nothing serious here just a random thought. when i first started playing i was realy into angus young, but now i can take or leave him... you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Buckethead, cant stand him now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shnate McDuanus Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Rory Gallagher, Alvin Lee and Eric Clapton. I still have a lot of respect for all three of them, I still have a certain reverence for them and love of their music, but somehow I've drifted away from my interest in blues-rock in general. I rarely listen to any of them now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 I was big into Green Day. Then I saw the awesomeness that was Nirvana and Cobain. Never turned back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2lambchops Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 e.v.h. i can do without him now especially when i found out eric clapton was his idol, i thought theres a real starting point. that was in '84. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Andres Segovia. Back in the 60's I thought he was absolutely the tops but after hearing Esteban I see him for the hack that he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoFrills Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 I had a heap of favorite guitarists when I started playing. Billy Joe of Green day, Billy Corgan, Kurt Cobain, Dimebag Darrel, Kirk Hammet, John Rezenik, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton. Didn't tak3 long before a few of them dripped off and other guitarists became an interest though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swleary Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Ace Frealey hehe James Hetfield, Steve Ray Vaughan and Steve Vai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbreslauer Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 As a kid, I really dug Ace Frehley: the first record i picked out on my own was Kiss' Destroyer, when i was 8 years old (Kudos to mom for letting me get it back then!) :) My tastes have diversified a lot since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 I don't really dislike any guitarists I used to like, but my tastes have opened up greatly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryUK Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 As a kid and the youngest of five. Elvis and the Beatles were all around the house. I remember listening to 'Guitar man' by Elvis. Would that be 'Scotty Moore'? That got me playing and then Marc Bolan gave me the boot to play properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lespaulj45 Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 acoustic Doc Watson electric Mike Bloomfield,his playing in the band "Electric Flag" sent me to my first guitar lesson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleb Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 My first real guitar hero was and will always be George Harrison. Huge Beatle fan as a youngster. Used to get made fun of for it. Then I got into Kiss and started worshiping the Man From Space himself. Speaking of Ace, I saw him at Rockin' the Rivers in August, along with BTO. Both knocked my socks off. But I scooted up front for Ace. He was f'n hillarious! Was making jokes about Montana's dryness, and threw his water bottles into the crowd. When he came out onstage he said, " I'm gonna kick your *** tonight". Some took offense, but I laughed mine off. Great show. Even played some Kiss tunes like I Want You, Shout it Out Loud, and even Love Gun. Whole band was killer. Anyhoo, I still love Kiss and the Beatles, just not as much. Then after Kiss I got into the Stones and wanted to be Brian Jones ( WHOA THAT RHYMES! ). Then came AC/DC. I spent many hours in my living room doing Angus's dances and jamming along to their tunes. After that, I got into Zep, and then Van Halen. I had a Squier Strat, and I tried striping it! And then things sorta took off. Had some "phases", though, like my Traffic phase, my Cream/Clapton phase, Tom Petty phase, Nirvana phase, Foo Fighters phase, even a Brad Paisely phase. For a while I was into Hair Metal, like Ratt, The Crue, Poison, Faster *****cat, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, eg. And I was into G nR for sometime. Got into Pearl Jam/Mother Love Bone. Got into SRV, Hendrix, Rockabilly ( mainly Setzer and Scotty Moore ). But I think all these phases make my style what it is. Mixing blues licks with shredding, melodic rock ( like Tom Petty ), and balls to the wall toughness ( AC/DC, Jackyl, Airbourne ). AND LES PAULS AND JCM 800s WILL DO IT ALL!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Hmm, when I was young it was SRV, Page, and Gibbons. I still love SRV, Page, and Gibbons. I really like a lot more players than I did back then, but never lost the respect and admiration I have for the sounds inspired me, in fact I like them more now than I did then. Good music just keeps getting better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 My first favorite guitar player was Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz)....... But I still adore him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cam011235 Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Jimmi Hendrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Pete Trias. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 The sole reason I started playing guitar was when I first heard Tom Saywer on the radio. It had a wall of guitar sound and I had to learn the solo by Lifeson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl00dsm0k3 Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 what if you just atarted playing guitar and my favorite guitarist is still glenn tipton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman5293 Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 I guess I'm gonna have to admit that I was one of those kids that thought Slash was the god of guitar playing. When I first started playing, there wasn't anyone alive who could tell me that there was a better guitar player than Slash. I still think he's a really good guitarist. But no where near the best. Yeah I know..................I'm a loser................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Okay, this response may seem a bit odd because it appears to be a non sequitur. Favorite guitarist? Probably among those I knew were playing, Mundell Lowe. But he was doing jazz as far as I knew. But when I started playing guitar, I was doing the folksinger thing with a bit of imitation flamenco along with it on occasion. I didn't think of the "folkies" as guitar players as much as folksingers who played guitar. Lowe was a guitar player, and one whom I figured then - and still now - as having skill and talent far beyond anything I'd ever achieve. Folksingers, on the other hand, I quickly figured I could match much of their skill if not their talent to make a given level of skill sound better. Then I got to watch Carlos Montoya, take a couple of classes from Christopher Parkening, watched a lotta bluegrassy and folksie folks who were "better" players such as Gary Davis who, even if only seeing them a cupla times taught me a lot. So... Bottom line is I started guitar to do the folksie thing but thought the jazz, classical and flamenco guys were "it" when it came to picking. Rock and country electric just were there, neither fish nor foul; ditto blues if not the "folk" blues variety. But I've always enjoyed good pickin' although I've gotta admit I like guitar tones that sound more like a guitar than a single-note stream from a sax. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Jimmi Hendrix I can relate to that. I used to listen to ELECTRIC LADYLAND and AXIS a lot, and I truly loved Hendrix, but now I could care less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 At the time I actually got a guitar and started learning to play, Randy Rhoads was probably my favorite guitar player. I still think he was one of the greatest, but I don't really listen to or play that type of music very often now days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Okay, this response may seem a bit odd because it appears to be a non sequitur. Favorite guitarist? Probably among those I knew were playing, Mundell Lowe. But he was doing jazz as far as I knew. But when I started playing guitar, I was doing the folksinger thing with a bit of imitation flamenco along with it on occasion. I didn't think of the "folkies" as guitar players as much as folksingers who played guitar. Lowe was a guitar player, and one whom I figured then - and still now - as having skill and talent far beyond anything I'd ever achieve. Folksingers, on the other hand, I quickly figured I could match much of their skill if not their talent to make a given level of skill sound better. Then I got to watch Carlos Montoya, take a couple of classes from Christopher Parkening, watched a lotta bluegrassy and folksie folks who were "better" players such as Gary Davis who, even if only seeing them a cupla times taught me a lot. So... Bottom line is I started guitar to do the folksie thing but thought the jazz, classical and flamenco guys were "it" when it came to picking. Rock and country electric just were there, neither fish nor foul; ditto blues if not the "folk" blues variety. But I've always enjoyed good pickin' although I've gotta admit I like guitar tones that sound more like a guitar than a single-note stream from a sax. m It begs the question: do you like sax players as much as guitar players? I think I understand your preference to a guitar player sounding like a guitar more than a sax? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Yure right... A sax has different dynamics and attack than a guitar with lotza "fuzz" stuff on it, and I enjoy hearing a good sax player playing sax. A fuzzed guitar tone - which seemed to me when it first came out was an intent to emulate the sax by a guitar band - isn't my schtick. If I were younger it probably would be, at least to an extent. There are so many people who play different kinds of guitar and make them sound like wonderful guitar music that... that's where my head is. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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