Author Topic: The Reason I Learned To Play The Guitar (Read 1919 times)

jt · « **on:** January 16, 2008, 01:14:55 AM »

:D I was listening to my iPod & this came on.........all the memories came flooding back.

This is the song. This is the guitar playing I love. This is the solo i always wanted to play. This made me pick up the instrument.

I defy anyone hear of any age group not to get a shiver down the spine when the beat picks up & that 1st 4 notes of the solo kick in.....

"Yer i`m in Heaven Now !"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mioGewkWVdo

:D 8)

shaman · « **Reply #1 on:** January 16, 2008, 01:54:13 AM »

cool...they did a lot of work in Muscle Shoals,Al-I live 45 minutes away-every time i gig there, we get to play some LS..and then fights break out!

38thBeatle · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2008, 07:39:31 AM »

I am old enough to have seen them live with Ronnie singing.

_tom_ · « **Reply #3 on:** January 16, 2008, 12:27:40 PM »

I absolutely cannot stand that song, it does nothing for me :\ Will probably be burned at the stake now for saying that on a guitar forum :lol:

If we want to discuss what got other people into playing, for me it was a Led Zeppelin remasters tape that my dad had, and Santanas 'Smooth'.

MDV · « **Reply #4 on:** January 16, 2008, 12:39:33 PM »

No one particular song for me. I've loved guitar music (among others, but guitar in particular) for as long as I can remember. I always wanted to play but never got round to it.

Dad gave me a guitar (that I still have, albeit with the living sh!t modded out of it) when I was 14, and some very dry lesson books. I got bored in about 2 weeks.

2 years later, at 1am, both of us drunk, my now-bassist (friend since infant school: we're both 25 now) said he'd started learning to play and picked up the guitar. Mum played as a kid and her old acoustic was lying around as well. I grabbed it.

He taught me Smoke on the Water on the low E, one finger: 0-3-5-0-3-6-5 etc :lol:

That'll do me, I thought :!: I started learning riffs I enjoyed and techniques I liked the sound of and away it went.

gwEm · « **Reply #5 on:** January 16, 2008, 12:53:07 PM »

i love free bird, great song. i like this version: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CkTQUtx818w

Tellboy · « **Reply #6 on:** January 16, 2008, 02:06:06 PM »

Oooo - yes - used to love listening to that.

Always used to drool over all those old Gibsons they used to play.

38thBeatle · « **Reply #7 on:** January 16, 2008, 06:26:01 PM »

Freebird was not my favourite-I quite like it but I preferred other stuff they did. The live album is pretty good-especially if you get the deluxe version. As I have said before, it was The Beatles and The Faces that got me into playing and in particular Ronnie Lanes playing on "Stay With Me". I remember saying " thats the bit I want to do" (meaning the bass). I was about 11 I think but didn't actually start til I was 15.