What inspired you to pick up the guitar???

[raz311]

I'm sure this thread has been around before, but after reading the thread asking what your first guitar was, it got me thinking.

As a young guy growing up in the late 80's/early 90's, the only music on radio and tv was guitar oriented stuff. Then one day a bunch of mates decided to form a band and needed a second guitarist. The other guitarist showed me a few chords and off we went. After that I was hooked. I was lucky that my parents realised that it wasn't just a fad and that I really enjoyed playing. Fast forward 20 years later, and I still suck , still spend more time reading guitar forums than playing, but I still love the guitar. I will never be a virtuoso, but who cares?

 

[EyesOfTheSouth]

I bought Mercyful Fate's album "Melissa" on vinyl. For the following few weeks I bugged the shit out of my parents until they gave in and bought me a cheap Hondo strat and some kind of wedge shaped 1x8 amplifier. Man I made some god awful noises with that thing. Still doing it today..........just with high $$$ gear

 

[IHateRap]

My best friend's cool older brother....and probably Angus.

 

[rrobertson]

E-r-u-p-t-i-o-n...
Need I say more?

 

[Badronald]

Eruption

 

[Rushtallica]

 

[King Guitar]

chicks

 

[twenty4_7spy]

Tony Iommi/Billy Gibbins/Jimmy Page/Robin Trower

 

[VoodooChild24]

Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.

 

[MYLILSS]

Eddie Van Halen

 

[155]

not sure but I think it was Rush " Tom Sawyer"... or some shit evh

 

[syncrodude007]

chicks x2

 

[5150clone]

Heard Eruption and that was it! EVH was the reason for me

 

[RSRD]

When I first heard "Red Barchetta" on the radio back in 1983. Changed my life forever.

 

[TroubledWine]

This

and this

To meet these (this movie was a minor inspiration too)

 

[scottywompas]

Space Ace and Brian May were the first reason I wanted to play guitar.

Then it was because it was the only way to drown out the voices in my head.

Scott

 

[fluff191]

Nirvana's Nevermind record got the gears turning. Then Alice In Chains' Dirt record came out and that was it. I had to learn how to do that.

 

[RoidRage]

 

[Mauler]

The seeds would have been planted as a kid using the tennis racket with AC/DC records cranked when the parents went out of the house (the albums were theirs btw).
But the thing that made me actually buy a guitar was rediscovering Surfing with the Alien about 10 years after I first heard it but didn't know "how people can listen to music without words"

 

[Zap]

"Neon" by John Mayer, before I knew that much cooler music existed.