Twisted Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Not only did it get you going but does it still inspire you to this day? The first one that hit me and made me want to pick up a guitar in the first place was Ozzy's Blizzard of Oz (yeah I was a metal head). I heard it for the first time in 4th grade when it came out, by 6th grade I bought my first guitar. To this day Randy's playing is just as incredible to me and still inspires me. I also love Diary of Madman but Blizzard was my first love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlh Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Originally it was the Ventures and some of the surf music bands, but it was Jeff Beck playing the solo to "Mister Your'e a Better Man than I" on Dick Clark's "Where the Action Is" that really did it for me. That was the first time I *really* realized what an electric guitar could do. But never fear, you're safe with me... Well maybe. - Les Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Russian Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Originally posted by Twisted: ...Not only did it get you going but does it still inspire you to this day? For me it's still this great Pink Floyd's 2LP "The Wall". And, of course, the Fab Four (any album). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gato Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 I don´t remember an album that inspired me to pick up a guitar. Just remember a friend of mine who used to play acoustic guitar and I wanted to do the same ... I was 10 years old ... I had never seen my friend since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbrock1san.rr.com Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Ted Nugent (self-titled). The album that has "Stormtroopin'", "Stranglehood", and "Just What the Doctor Ordered". It had simple guitar parts and I was able to learn most of the album even though my knowledge of chords wasn't very broad when I first started learning. I've heard cuts from the album when I'm in my car and it still does inspire me. The sound of his Byrdland guitar is amazing, and although Ted never was good at writing lyrics he really had a lot of personality on the guitar. Double Live Gonzo was a good live album from that time for just the pure raw guitar energy. I really wanted to play bass guitar because I was really into Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath) and Michael Rutherford(Genesis), but my parents and a salesman felt guitar was a better choice and talked me into it. 19 years later I finally bought that bass. Take THAT mom and dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Dire Straits, "Making Movies." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylver Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 I have to second "The Wall". I really don't know what to put here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coyote Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 It wasn't an album. My brother played guitar a bit and I used to pick it up once in awhile. I began playing drums. The guitarist in the first band I was in happened to be a good player, and liked teaching me things. Then I saw Blackmore's Rainbow..... I'd seen Deep Purple a few years before that but it was that Rainbow show in 77 that inspired me to really get into the guitar. I used to think I was Libertarian. Until I saw their platform; now I know I'm no more Libertarian than I am RepubliCrat or neoCON or Liberal or Socialist. This ain't no track meet; this is football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanner Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 it was hearing that over driven vox amp on 'i wanna hold yer hand' that forever changed and rearranged my whole world. i'm so glad i was around for that and to be able to realize it at the time. s AMPSSOUNDBETTERLOUDER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamesian Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Although it was the Beatles on the radio that first got me interested in music, it was Jimi Hendrix - "Live in the West", the first record I ever bought,that got me playing guitar.J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel E. Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 I used to play bass and at some point decided to start guitar. It was kind of gradual and there wasn't one particular album per se although seeing Carlos Santana playing "Blues For Salvador" on Top of the Pops was a big moment. That being said, the album that totally blew my mind and put me over the edge was a little floppy Guitar Player soundpage (remember them?) of Living Colour's "Cult of Personality". That and seeing SRV live in concert. "You never can vouch for your own consciousness." - Norman Mailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 The first album I ever bought was Abbey Road (all 45s before then). I learned chords to a lot of the songs and nearly all of Harrison's leads. I had played drums to 45s before then and bass some too, but that was the first album I ever bought and also learned. Still dig it! -David http://www.garageband.com/artist/MichaelangelosMuse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny5 Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 metallica, kill em' all!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timrocker Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 You're going to laugh! It was Boston's "More Than A Feeling". It seemed like such a heavenly sound. I still listen to it about once a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael saulnier Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 When I was 16 (1976), the cool radio station in the town I lived in, (Madison, WI), had a listeners poll for the greatest album of all time. The winner was Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland. That night they played it all the way through. Although I had heard parts of it on the radio before, it was the first time I had listened to it from beginning to end. That night, I knew I was going to be a guitar player. Can you imagine ANY of today's current radio stations or audiences picking an album like Electric Ladyland as the best ever? guitplayer I'm still "guitplayer"! Check out my music if you like... http://www.michaelsaulnier.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Downchild Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 I wasn't inspired by a particular album whan I started playing, just wanted to express myself. I had actually been playing a few years when I finally heard Bluesbreakers with E.C. That made me REALLY want to play! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc taz Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 My first love was Van Halen I, pretty much the entire album. I'm also inspired by Allan Holdsworth (though I sound nothing like him). Of course, I'm still waiting for his personal stash of ale. Right now though, I'm going through the prog stuff... take your pick there, I've probably heard it a few times on net radio. sevenstring.org profile my flickr page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meriphew_dup1 Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 KISS "Destroyer". www.meriphew.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Flier Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 I think it was "Rubber Soul" that made me want to start playing acoustic. I didn't play electric for a couple of years after I started on guitar, but it was definitely the live Stones album "Get Yer Ya's Out" that made me wanna play electric! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overcomer Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 led zeppelins first album, page was essentially a studio whiz, too eccentric and with a goofy smile to boot., BUT, he had the knack of using all the notes in a triad and making a song out of it, say, the end of "what is and never should be" off the second album,,, he could use a 6th on a simple d type chord and make it sound bigger than it actually was. i used to be stumped trying to figure the stuff out, but then would look back and be amazed out how simple it was thought out. the guy played a whole tour with a bandaged left hand using three fingers to do the tunes live,, take "whole lotta love" the riff is done by the hand staying in one place but using all six strings, the E and the D and the barred A right in that spot on the middle of the neck... he was way ahead of his time, of course after that came hendrix and arpeggios, of course page had his arpeggios, for instance the lead ending on the first tune of led zeppelin one. it still holds up folks,,, after all these years, he used his little finger to great extent,,,what do you use your little finger for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 I'LL make YOU laugh, timrocker. I took drum lessons in grade school(4th grade), but never got away from the "drum pad". No money in the house for a real drum. It was noneother than Ricky Nelson, as seen on TV, closing each show with a song while strumming a guitar in front of a band that had, I later learned, James Burton playing electric. Both Ricky, and Sandy Nelson (no relation) the "Teen Beat" and "Let There Be Drums" skin beater of the early '60's. I found the guitar parts in Sandy's tunes more intriguing than the drumming. I thought "I'd like to learn how to do that". It was a few years till I actually got a guitar. And in that span, such eclectic inspirations for wanting to learn guitar came from The Beach Boys, Ventures, The Sufaris, and even the (gad!) Kingston trio! When the Beatles finally broke out, the desire reached a fever pitch!! My stepsister, who picked guitar a bit at that point, loaned me her axe for a short spell and taught me my first song ever on guitar, Duane Eddy's old "Rebel Rouser"! I felt on top of the world!! YOU all know that feeling! And you thought they'd all laugh at Boston! HAH!! Whitefang I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 Oh, yes. And that first album WAS a Ricky Nelson album. But I would be hard pressed to recall the title these days. Whitefang I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbox Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 Hmmm... I think it was The Monkees first album; but then again, maybe that's why I'm a keyboard player! Hey guitplayer, were you referring to WISM in Madison? I used to love that station when I lived there in 6th grade! Sorry to crash your forum! As you were... Enthusiasm powers the world. Craig Anderton's Archiving Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan_Frenchie Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 Strangely not a guitarist LP : Bob Dylan first LP, guess it was to impress on the girls ... Stan. Love + Learning + Music = LIFE !!! (some money welcomed as well ...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 Originally posted by Stan_Frenchie: Strangely not a guitarist LP : Bob Dylan first LP, guess it was to impress on the girls ... Stan.NOT a guitarist LP? Listen closely to "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" and "In My Time of Dying"! He's not GREAT, but he's no SLACKER either! Whitefang I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outrider Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 The genesis of my playing was not an album...it was a video. "Cum On Feel the Noize" by Quiet Riot. I taped it and must have watched it a million times. A 13-year old's rock star fantasy. Then I bought Def Leppard's "Pyromania" and my fate was sealed. I still enjoy listening to that album from time to time...it's a good snapshot of mid-80's hard rock before it got silly. Sadly, it took 3 more years to convince my folks to let me buy my first guitar! One of these days I'm gonna change my evil ways... one of these days... http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Band.gifhttp://www.weidenbach.net/images/storage/headbang.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbrock1san.rr.com Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 Other albums that influenced me at the time (mid 70's) were- Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffitti". I stole quite a few licks and ideas off this album. It has great guitar arrangements and variety, and Jimmy Page and JP Jones never sounded better IMHO. "Ten Years Gone" still really gets to me. Robin Trower "Bridge of Sighs" A true classic and Robin didn't she away from his Hendrix influence on this one. Very tasteful use of effects on this album. You can't get sounds like that with today's modern digital processors. Jon-Luc Ponty- "Enigmatic Ocean". Beautiful melodies and harmonies and it was a little more accessible listening experience than most 70's jazz-fusion albums for me. Alan Holdsworth, Daryl Stuermer, and Jon-Luc trading solos on many of the tracks.....need I say more. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young- "So Far". Great acoustic guitar playing that still impresses me to this day. Steven Stills never seems to end up on the list of guitar greats. That's a shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrave Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 OK, I'm old. First was Les Paul, his work on the electric really was something new. All I'd ever heard before him was some C&W stuff. My parents had a compilation album of some jazz stuff. Lot's of different folks. I loved that album. I was just this morning listening to Pete Rugolo's version of "The Shrike", very cool tune, it was one of the cuts on that album. Anyway, another one of the cuts on that LP was a Charlie Christian thing. I'd never heard the guitar played the way Christian played. After that it was Ellis, Burrell and later Wes Montgomery. When I first heard Hendrix's playing I couldn't believe anyone could get those sounds out of a guitar. But, during the same era as Hendrix I heard Jose Feliciano and he is IMHO one of the greatest living guitar players. The best sounding acoustic guitar in the world is the one in his hands. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ME: "Nobody knows the troubles I've seen!" Unknown Voice: "The Shadow do!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonez Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 Metallica's ...And Justice for All. I can't think of anything else where a guitar actually sounds pissed off like on this album. Even the acoustic parts in To Live is to Die are full of feeling. What a masterpiece. This album changed my life. MOTU Machine www.voiceofdoubt.com/motumachine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteandproud87 Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 The it wasn't an album that made me wanna play. It was Pantera's song Cowboys From Hell. The riffs are completely awesome. Dimebag is the man!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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