napalmdeath
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Ace for me, no question.
Ace for me, no question.
mooncobra
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A song left a very strong impression on me. I went to my friend’s house. His older brother was a few years older than us. I was about 10 or so.
His brother was having a band rehearsal in their garage and it was open to the neighborhood. It was a warm summer evening.
we all lived on a hillside above the bay. There were killer bmx tracks on the surrounding hills and we would get motorcycle helmets and life jackets and have BB gun wars. The magic of youth was in full swing.
The wind was blowing off the bay and his girlfriend and a couple of her friends were dressed in very short cut off jeans, and tank tops cut very high up. The wind was whipping their tank tops up and their hair was blowing in the wind and it looked like an MTV video.
Earlier we were in his brothers room and he had smoked a ton of weed and there was a thick cloud of smoke so I was mildly high for the first time.
I was solely focused on the girls until they started playing mean streets, his brother expertly played the intro. before that they were playing something that didn’t even make a dent on my radar, it was just background noise, but mean streets, whoa, between the song and the girls, it quickly coalesced into something that triggered a deep visceral reaction in my young mind, I thought to myself, “THIS! This is what I want!! All of it!!!!”
His brother instantly became the coolest guy I’d ever seen as he ripped through mean street near perfect. His girlfriend and her friends clearly worshipped at the altar of his brother and the way they looked at him and moved their hips as their braless boobs bounced freely, I wanted them to look at me that way.
II managed to get a guitar and I furiously practiced nonstop. I could not get enough and even practicing was enthralling. The rockers at school didn’t let me join their ranks because I was also super into sports and they said sports were for losers. I briefly considered giving up sports but they were too fun at the time and I couldn’t do it.
But, I had all access to my friends brother and I badgered him incessantly to teach me songs. He would tell us what girlfriend (he was always juggling many beautiful girlfriends) was coming over that night and let us hide in the closet and watch. We sat in there and triumphantly congratulated one another as if we were the ones getting lucky. His parents took us to Day on the Green a couple times and it was glorious.
His brother eventually gave up on music and is sadly a member of the tan pants army on gear page. He is a lawyer and collects valuable guitars and hangs them on the wall and doesn’t even play them. He is merely a collector. Let’s all say a prayer for a fallen guitarist, as he further descends into the tan pants coalition and his level of bozodom increases. Mr. tan pants man, I salute you for introducing me to VH, guitar and beautiful women.
His brother was having a band rehearsal in their garage and it was open to the neighborhood. It was a warm summer evening.
we all lived on a hillside above the bay. There were killer bmx tracks on the surrounding hills and we would get motorcycle helmets and life jackets and have BB gun wars. The magic of youth was in full swing.
The wind was blowing off the bay and his girlfriend and a couple of her friends were dressed in very short cut off jeans, and tank tops cut very high up. The wind was whipping their tank tops up and their hair was blowing in the wind and it looked like an MTV video.
Earlier we were in his brothers room and he had smoked a ton of weed and there was a thick cloud of smoke so I was mildly high for the first time.
I was solely focused on the girls until they started playing mean streets, his brother expertly played the intro. before that they were playing something that didn’t even make a dent on my radar, it was just background noise, but mean streets, whoa, between the song and the girls, it quickly coalesced into something that triggered a deep visceral reaction in my young mind, I thought to myself, “THIS! This is what I want!! All of it!!!!”
His brother instantly became the coolest guy I’d ever seen as he ripped through mean street near perfect. His girlfriend and her friends clearly worshipped at the altar of his brother and the way they looked at him and moved their hips as their braless boobs bounced freely, I wanted them to look at me that way.
II managed to get a guitar and I furiously practiced nonstop. I could not get enough and even practicing was enthralling. The rockers at school didn’t let me join their ranks because I was also super into sports and they said sports were for losers. I briefly considered giving up sports but they were too fun at the time and I couldn’t do it.
But, I had all access to my friends brother and I badgered him incessantly to teach me songs. He would tell us what girlfriend (he was always juggling many beautiful girlfriends) was coming over that night and let us hide in the closet and watch. We sat in there and triumphantly congratulated one another as if we were the ones getting lucky. His parents took us to Day on the Green a couple times and it was glorious.
His brother eventually gave up on music and is sadly a member of the tan pants army on gear page. He is a lawyer and collects valuable guitars and hangs them on the wall and doesn’t even play them. He is merely a collector. Let’s all say a prayer for a fallen guitarist, as he further descends into the tan pants coalition and his level of bozodom increases. Mr. tan pants man, I salute you for introducing me to VH, guitar and beautiful women.
Les Zombie
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I never thought about playing guitar till i was around 10 yrs old, i heard the shout at the devil album and it made a impact on me, warren demartini on out of the cellar, those guys wrote songs and solos that i loved, year later i heard george lynch and then heard metallica and i loved kirks solos and hetfield on the early albums. I would say all of those guys and their bands made me wanna play guitar. Playing Guitar seemed fun and i wanted to learn songs from those bands, so eventually it led to me buying a guitar and amp.
The~Kid
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That's what's up. Thanks for sharing the story and the song, it's still fresh IMO ^_^
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EyesOfTheSouth!
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My mom’s Nugent and ZZ Top vinyl. Then Too Fast For Love and Kill Em All. Then MF’s Melissa and Trouble’s Psalm 9 put it over the top
sandman
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The~Kid
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Malagena was one of the first things I learned on guitar. Hard to beat the real Classics ^_^
Eazy-ESP
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The Soldano in the background also left an impression. I had no guitarist friends, no knowledge on gear, but I saw that Soldano in the background and connected that. Still haven’t owned one though.
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower
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Wasn't allowed to listen to devil's music growing up. Mostly always bluegrass, oldies, or southern rock being played in the background by the adults around me while I was stuck with Classical(lots of piano/violin lessons), Tiffany, and NKOTB (and my favorite probably to this day; midi video game background music).
Remember some stuff usually by my Father and/or Uncles playing that was heavier and scary in a way to me when I was little.
When I got older and went my own way, found out a lot of that was Sabbath, Maiden, Dio, Manowar, etc...
Aware not most here's cup of tea, but when I started to become guitar inspired was mostly from 90s Industrial, EDM, and Nu Metal.
Nothing super specific outside of what was mostly mainstream for the time, but the grind of guitars on NIN or Rammstein really got my heart beating, despite the often simplicity. Love the dynamics and strange timing that come from a lot of it and EDM as well. Probably a bigger inspiration to me than any tones.
Remember some stuff usually by my Father and/or Uncles playing that was heavier and scary in a way to me when I was little.
When I got older and went my own way, found out a lot of that was Sabbath, Maiden, Dio, Manowar, etc...
Aware not most here's cup of tea, but when I started to become guitar inspired was mostly from 90s Industrial, EDM, and Nu Metal.
Nothing super specific outside of what was mostly mainstream for the time, but the grind of guitars on NIN or Rammstein really got my heart beating, despite the often simplicity. Love the dynamics and strange timing that come from a lot of it and EDM as well. Probably a bigger inspiration to me than any tones.
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower
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AFI? For a long time I was having a Mandela Effect with one of their and STP's songs. Not sure if it was a Napster misnaming thing or what that just stuck with me despite them not really being similar.
Eazy-ESP
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Are Deftones considered Nu Metal and Fear Factory Industrial? Then that’s my cup of tea.
You can keep your EDM though. I’m sure there’s exceptions though.
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower
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I dunno, never really got into Deftones, besides them being big in my circle of friends.
Feel in some ways Fear Factory is a bit of Industrial and Nu Metal
.As far as EDM, there are elements of classical involved, just like in Metal. There's def some heavy stuff and not all candy flipping raver music.
I have some stuff that is probably darker and heavier than a lot of metal, tbh. You just have to get past the lack of guitars is all.
Eazy-ESP
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Deftones to me are the unicorn from that era. Actually really beautiful, dynamic, talented and unique musically.I dunno, never really got into Deftones, besides them being big in my circle of friends.
Feel in some ways Fear Factory is a bit of Industrial and Nu Metal
As far as EDM, there are elements of classical involved, just like in Metal. There's def some heavy stuff and not all candy flipping raver music.
I have some stuff that is probably darker and heavier than a lot of metal, tbh. You just have to get past the lack of guitars is all.
Getting past the lack of guitars is ok. I listen to a lot of other stuff like exotica and 80s synth pop and all sorts of stuff. I think accidentally going to a rave when I was 16 was a turn-off I still need to get past.
67mike
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Lots of cool bands listed, but I have to be honest with my uncoolness. I heard this riff when I was 11 and saw the band later that year on the Slippery tour. I will not be judged.
glpg80
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I forgot two.
This song came out my junior year in high school. Another absolute head banger that offered inspiration to pick up guitar.
And then from primal fear I found COB and heard this song. Absolutely blew my mind. Just more badassness I knew I wanted to play.
This song came out my junior year in high school. Another absolute head banger that offered inspiration to pick up guitar.
And then from primal fear I found COB and heard this song. Absolutely blew my mind. Just more badassness I knew I wanted to play.
The~Kid
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This was my first Album that I actually bought when I was in HS in 7th grade at Santa Fe Swapmeet on a Friday night.....
My friend from 6th grade was a big Blink 182 fan and he played guitar too and I thought that was crazy, dude even had a Tom Delonge Mexi Sig back, think it was a Squire or Fender but definitely MIM, surf green with one pup. Jesse was cool and he introduced me to Blink 182 and other cool things like ECW which I didn't even know existed or we would kick it and laugh and watch movies like Dude Wheres my Car, Austin Powers, Freddy got Fingered and Super Troopers etc etc.
Later in 7th grade he brought the guitar to AP Algebra to show how there is math in guitar and reading TABs using simple math. A student had to do a report once a week about how math applies in daily life. He brought a little amp too and left an impression on the teacher and everyone else because no one knew there was some sort of basic math to play guitars using TABs or in general really. I think he played All the Small Things and Whats my Age Again. I'm pretty sure no one else remembers anyone elses math report and I don't even remember mine but everyone remembers Jesses for sure. The teacher was really intrigued and gave props on how simple math was used applied to guitar using TABs.
When I heard Blink 182 for the first time and Enema of the State I thought it was amazing and I was like I could never do that, only "Rock Gods" could play.... but later I was kind of more open to just trying and see if I could, got a cheap 100$ Store Brand Acoustic and took some lessons from Pepperland Music now closed in Orange from my first instructor Kenny. Cool guy and I can't believe I still remember.
Glad I picked it up and still playing 20+ years later now ^_^
My friend from 6th grade was a big Blink 182 fan and he played guitar too and I thought that was crazy, dude even had a Tom Delonge Mexi Sig back, think it was a Squire or Fender but definitely MIM, surf green with one pup. Jesse was cool and he introduced me to Blink 182 and other cool things like ECW which I didn't even know existed or we would kick it and laugh and watch movies like Dude Wheres my Car, Austin Powers, Freddy got Fingered and Super Troopers etc etc.
Later in 7th grade he brought the guitar to AP Algebra to show how there is math in guitar and reading TABs using simple math. A student had to do a report once a week about how math applies in daily life. He brought a little amp too and left an impression on the teacher and everyone else because no one knew there was some sort of basic math to play guitars using TABs or in general really. I think he played All the Small Things and Whats my Age Again. I'm pretty sure no one else remembers anyone elses math report and I don't even remember mine but everyone remembers Jesses for sure. The teacher was really intrigued and gave props on how simple math was used applied to guitar using TABs.
When I heard Blink 182 for the first time and Enema of the State I thought it was amazing and I was like I could never do that, only "Rock Gods" could play.... but later I was kind of more open to just trying and see if I could, got a cheap 100$ Store Brand Acoustic and took some lessons from Pepperland Music now closed in Orange from my first instructor Kenny. Cool guy and I can't believe I still remember.
Glad I picked it up and still playing 20+ years later now ^_^
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simonfrewler
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I started out wanting to be a drummer. My family didn't agree. I picked that up later, on my own dime.
Seeing Fugazi on tour for the Repeater album, up close...and at a generally youngish age, I wanted nothing more than to play a SG in to a cranked marshall.
Now I play a SG into a cranked Laney. Still play Fugazi songs, along with Black Sabbath as well.
Seeing Fugazi on tour for the Repeater album, up close...and at a generally youngish age, I wanted nothing more than to play a SG in to a cranked marshall.
Now I play a SG into a cranked Laney. Still play Fugazi songs, along with Black Sabbath as well.
rottingcorpse
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