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Re: So who inspired you to play?

i wanted to play a insurment and i <font color="[SIZE=7">red[/SIZE]]love</font> <font size="7"><font color="red">rock music</font></font> <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_eek.gif" border=0 alt="Shocked">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_eek.gif" border=0 alt="Shocked">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_eek.gif" border=0 alt="Shocked">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_razz.gif" border=0 alt="Razz">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_redface.gif" border=0 alt="Embarassed">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_mad.gif" border=0 alt="Mad">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_eek.gif" border=0 alt="Shocked">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_confused.gif" border=0 alt="Confused">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_sad.gif" border=0 alt="Sad">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_cry.gif" border=0 alt="Crying or Very Sad">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_evil.gif" border=0 alt="Evil or Very Mad">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_twisted.gif" border=0 alt="Twisted Evil">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_rolleyes.gif" border=0 alt="Rolling Eyes">

  • Registered: 2007-01-07
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Re: So who inspired you to play?

Well I always had wanted to play guitar as a way to express my song writing but i was never motivated to do so but then I heard the soulful sounds of SRV and B.B. King and was just inspired

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keep @ it and you could be faumous like them <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_eek.gif" border=0 alt="Shocked">

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Re: So who inspired you to play?

i would have to say oasis's Noel Gallagher inspired me to play

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Re: So who inspired you to play?

I was actually first inspired to learn guitar when I was seven years old, and I saw the school classical guitar group practising for a concert. My dad was a drummer, and I had started playing drums with him, but after I heard the group play I was determined to play the guitar.


The person that inspired me to play well and work hard was Angus Young ^^. He's still my guitar-hero.

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I gotta say John whatisname from red hot chilli peppers. Also last year there was a school musical at my high school about the seventies and seeing Mitchel Everleigh stand out and solo to "long way to the top" was just magical.

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Eric Clapton is my inspiration he has made so many different changes in the music world

  • Registered: 2007-07-03
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Don't laugh, as he is by no means a guitar virtuoso, but I started playing guitar to accompany my singing inspired by Roy Orbison. Of course, when I realised there was more to playing than chords on the first three frets, my chief inspirations shifted a little. I would have to say my inspirations on lead playing are David Gilmour (in front by miles), Mark Knopfler and George Harrison.

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Re: So who inspired you to play?

Hey twilliam - R.O. is a great inspiration, a true ground breaker. I dare say we wouldn't have many since him, if we didn't have him. (And thanks for bringing back this thread from the dead!)

That said, I gotta agree with mrFretty. Clapton has been a hero of mine forever.

Edited to add:

Thought twilliam might enjoy this R.O. video from 1965

http://www.stage6.com/OLDROCKABILLY/vid … ncert-1965

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Re: So who inspired you to play?

Billie joe armstrong and angus young

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Re: So who inspired you to play?

My inspiration was Joe Satriani ... just loved how he could make the guitar do whatever he wanted ... almost like it was a piece of him and not some piece of equipment he was holding

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Re: So who inspired you to play?

Good point Tim

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  • Registered: 2006-03-04
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Re: So who inspired you to play?

Tony Iommi, Hendrix, and KISS of all groups, don't laugh smile i started listening to them when i was 7 now 39 and still own cd's and they were the best concert i have ever seen.

Rock and Roll Never Dies,,, It just passes out for a while: George Thorogood
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Re: So who inspired you to play?

spad_dad wrote:

Tony Iommi, Hendrix, and KISS of all groups, don't laugh smile i started listening to them when i was 7 now 39 and still own cd's and they were the best concert i have ever seen.

Rock never Dies,,It just passes out for a while : George Thorogood

Rock and Roll Never Dies,,, It just passes out for a while: George Thorogood
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Re: So who inspired you to play?

Doc Watson

The Avett Brothers

Please talk slowly I don't hear good any more.
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Re: So who inspired you to play?

Buddy Holly was my inspiration back in the '50s-the first time we saw a stratocaster.

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jimmyriddle74 wrote:

i would have to say oasis's Noel Gallagher inspired me to play

I love you lol

same here! smile
oh, and my granddad also inspired me

don't ever stand aside, don't ever be denied
you gotta be who you be if you're comin' with me
cool
okay??

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Re: So who inspired you to play?

i was originally inspired because i thought it would get me laid if i could play some dave matthews songs when i started college(it did)
but the passion to push past simple strumming and create my own guitar voice came from mikey houser from widespread panic

i miss you mikey and i wish you were still creating-can't wait to finally meet you on the other side

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JimBusch wrote:

I am dating myself

hmm

lol lol

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Re: So who inspired you to play?

well....before i played it as GrEEN DAY...or more likley BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG....but when i began to play my biggest influence became JIMI PAGE

if you can learn bass in 15 minutes
then why do i play the guitar???
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Re: So who inspired you to play?

Eric clapton and george Harrison. I Had my first urge when I was very young and saw Buddy Holly,I wanted a guitar but I was only six.My parents got me a clairinet,boy did I make them misrable.

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Re: So who inspired you to play?

I would have to say that Mark Knopfler is my main inspiration. I just absolutely love the way he sounds. Steve Lukather is also in my top 5, along with all the other usual suspects (Hendrix, Clapton, BB King)

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I started taking sax lessons at 9 and I remember soloing with the school band on Midnight Cowboy at 11 years old. They wouldn't let me see the movie, but I could play the song smile I did learn lots of scales and how to improvise.

I started going to the Capital Theater in Passaic NJ in 1971-2 where I used to hang out by the back door and beg the stage hands to let me sneak in.   I saw a great string of players up close and personal: Leslie West w/ Mountain, Johnny Winter, Ronnie Montrose, Steve Hunter, Billy Gibbons, Dave Mason,  Robin Trower,  Carlos Santana, Lenny Kaye, Mick Ralphs with Mott the Hoople.   I saw the Who on the Quadrephenia tour at MSG before an English final exam and still got an A.  Steve Howe and Yes 5 or 6 times. Stones in '75, Eagles, CSNY and Zepplin in '75 and '77.  Living in mass transit distance of NYC was great.  I saw the Ramones at CBGB's (and a dozen other joints),  Blondie at Max's Kansas City and the Clash at Roseland? and Lou Reed at the the Palladium.

My main inspiration through all this was: "These guys probably get l**d a lot". 
I was a horny teenager that beat it like it owed me money.

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Slash

  • Registered: 2008-04-10
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Re: So who inspired you to play?

Hello. This is my first post here. Anywoo..

When I was a Sophomore in HS. My friend started bringing his guitar to school sometimes. I thought it was really cool and all. Next year he started the school's guitar club and I would visit when I could. I got interested and I thought it could be easy even though I had no clue lol. I got to borrow my aunt's cheap acoustic. My church's music director helped me tune it and gave me a guitar book. I learned my first song, Ode To Joy. I eventually bought a beginner electric and I got to learn more with it. Oh and guitar isn't as easy as I thought XD. So I guess I was inspired by my friend.

I still use it with the same strings (they are wearing out bad!) I've been scared to change them because I worry I might not be about to get the bridge done right and I hear rumors of guitar necks snapping (!!!). It's a "Starcaster by Fender". Until I get a job and the money, I'll change my guitar.

I got into guitar a bit later then others(16) probably, but it's never too late I guess.