What made you start playing guitar?

[damoog]

Easy - james hetfield ,it really is that simple

[irpacynot]

Pat Metheny.

My older brother took me to see him and Lyle Mayes, along with the full PM Group in 1977 (I was 6-years old) at the Gusman Theater in Miami.

That was it, man...I knew...

[mountainmaster]

Probably early Pink Floyd. Most of the weird sounds on those early albums were made with guitars using experimental slide techniques.
I had no idea how to play guitar properly but I can tell you that simply making a racket by attacking those strings with a slide is a great way to start. Not so much for my parents or the neighbors though...

[VOODOO U]

I had no idea how to play guitar properly but I can tell you that simply making a racket by attacking those strings with a slide is a great way to start.

Sounds like grunge. But I'll put money down that you sounded better than anything Nirvana put out.

[jamcat]

https://youtu.be/bBUFWnaKom8?si=QuwQbh_3myq0qaNn


https://youtu.be/HdnMvnjEW_s?si=lQP6oe7rlPhNWNm2
He was the one

Prince and the Revolution, I can see.
But New Power Generation…

[DCrown]

https://youtu.be/bBUFWnaKom8?si=QuwQbh_3myq0qaNn


https://youtu.be/HdnMvnjEW_s?si=lQP6oe7rlPhNWNm2
He was the one

Prince and the Revolution, I can see.
But New Power Generation…

I like all his bands, in the studio it was most of the time a "one man show", though and I like him on every instrument

[Zipede]

A friend had a rather nice sounding nylon acoustic that everyone tried to jingle on.
Then we heard Alex Lifeson and played Spirit Of Radio wrong for years.

[Big DAW Audio]

1970's guitar solos

[pough]

My grade 7 teacher. We all had to learn it and since there was always a guitar in the house I just never stopped.

[Robmobius]

distortion.

[Uncle E]

I was such a poof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3nPiBai66M

Then I heard this at a pirate cassette shop in Bangkok and it blew my mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18kqUNG9mO4

Then my best friend in high school told me to learn the Master of Puppets album start to finish and I finally got good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws36JBnXRuA

[VOODOO U]

After listening to Night Rocker by David Hasselhoff, I knew right then and there, I must play guitar.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

Simple, to pick up chicks! Guitarists get all the groupies...

Alas, as soon as I started learning, forgot about the girls and was consumed by the urge to SHRED UNTIL I'M DEAD!

Still got a gf, but she was a rock drummer. Heh. Funny how that worked out!

Decades later, still having better luck with guitars than gfs. Dating is a pain, just hand me my axe!

[Scrubbing Monkeys]

Well here is an embarrassing topic. I would watch the Hardy Boys on tv. At the end of every episode Shawn Cassidy would play a guitar and sing. Everyone seemed to enjoy it especially the girls. But I was still a bit young for girl chasing. After that it was Ace Freahly and by then girls were a big deal.....but never as big a deal as playing guitar. Even at 55 ...I piss off the wife with the amount of time I play music.....oh well....hope she can adjust.

[hotmitts]

It was acoustic players, especially Nick Drake, also John Martyn, Roy Harper, and Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull