I had a couple of false starts before ignition.
The first record that made me sit up and realise it was a GUITAR making that sound was Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits, in early 1979. Before that I'd liked bands like Slade, ELO, Abba(!) etc and obviously I knew they played guitars, but I never really thought about the noises on the records and how they actually made them.
Later that year I got Rainbow's Down to Earth, then got into Purple and Ritchie Blackmore became my first guitar hero - I started to think about learning to play.
But IGNITION was in 1980, with the first Michael Schenker Group album, especially the song Lost Horizons. Awesome! What a sound! That year I got a cheap Les Paul copy for Christmas (Flying V copies - especially black & white striped ones - were hard to come by in Swansea) and I was away...
... unfortunately after ignition I STALLED going round the first corner and never really got started again. I never became the Welsh Michael Schenker. Went to Uni, got a job, never practiced as much as I should have. Never even became a half-competent guitar player. But I still love it, and I'm still playing (using the term "playing" loosely), still dreaming, still GASing, still blowing money on equipment I can barely use, all these years later.
