Author Topic: What was your Guitar Ignition? (Read 35077 times)

Davey · « **Reply #60 on:** October 07, 2006, 11:47:13 PM »

i saw myself in the future after 15 years of playing guitar and i knew i HAD to get that good, so i went out and bought me a guitar.

the rest is history... and a bit of future

:roll:

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #61 on:** October 08, 2006, 01:29:14 AM »

Quote from: Dakine

Quote from: 38thBeatle
Nick, same as me- the rhythm was far more important than the lead stuff for me and that is still the case today. That said, I am now obviously playing lead but as I am most at home with blues, I am a little one dimensional but I love a wide range of stuff so thats ok.At the moment I am not playing much bass though I have been recording some new songs and it all comes back pretty quick.Incidentally, it is not easy to type all this as my cat has decided to sit in front of the screen.

As long as thats ALL the cat does, hey Rob ;) sorry mate.

Not played bass for long time (NEVER EVER should have sold that exotic,neckthru Wariwick :( :( :( ).

And as for the Blues, thats pretty much ALL I am concentrating on these days.
I say (for moment at least) ya can keep all those exotic and hitherto scales, gimme the mother of Rock! the BLUES SCALE. If I can attain any kinda 'gift' with this, then the rock,metal,blues ad infinitum world is mine I tell ya ahahahahahahahaha :twisted:

I love having a go at blues. I use my strat with the IT's and it's a lovely place to go!

It gets the rage away from you if thats what your looking for.

That Jeff Beck gig i went to was fantastic to listen to but also to see the effect he has on people in the audience too.

chrisola · « **Reply #62 on:** October 08, 2006, 02:53:43 AM »

Iron Maiden, Live After Death on VHS... Arian Smith = God

Queen was a big influence, as was a Planet Rock 4 tape set that had Born To Be Wild and other great tracks on.

and

i had to make a radio station for a class in secondary school, me and a friend added in a little music bit where we mimed \ sang to Live and Let Die (like Waynes World style funny program,... but on the radio.. and before the film came out in the UK!)... then we formed a band called 'Red Sands' and did a 'rock a long' for charity where we air guitared \ kareoke'd various bon jovi and maiden tracks to an audience of about 40 school mates! (the ONLY time i've ever 'performed' to an audience lol)

3 years later a guitar shop opened near me and i hung around it until i had a guitar for my birthday :D

Man... thinking about that brought back memories... like the another English project where me (and the same friend) had to write dialogue between 2 characters from a painting, and we chose 2 items of food as the characters :P

jt · « **Reply #63 on:** October 08, 2006, 02:54:43 AM »

:D Holy F**k Batman i cant believe i forgot to mention AC/DC in my response to this thread. :roll:

As it go`s i allways wanted to be Malcom Young, he allways looked to be having the most fun !

It was the power his playing conveyd that i dug. Check out "Live Wire" from the live at atlantic studios 77 for proof of how good Malc really is.

:D 8)

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #64 on:** October 08, 2006, 07:15:53 AM »

Quote from: chrisola

Iron Maiden, Live After Death on VHS... Arian Smith = God

Queen was a big influence, as was a Planet Rock 4 tape set that had Born To Be Wild and other great tracks on.

and

i had to make a radio station for a class in secondary school, me and a friend added in a little music bit where we mimed \ sang to Live and Let Die (like Waynes World style funny program,... but on the radio.. and before the film came out in the UK!)... then we formed a band called 'Red Sands' and did a 'rock a long' for charity where we air guitared \ kareoke'd various bon jovi and maiden tracks to an audience of about 40 school mates! (the ONLY time i've ever 'performed' to an audience lol)

3 years later a guitar shop opened near me and i hung around it until i had a guitar for my birthday :D

Man... thinking about that brought back memories... like the another English project where me (and the same friend) had to write dialogue between 2 characters from a painting, and we chose 2 items of food as the characters :P

Sounds like a good story Chris! :D

It's interesting that you say it brings back memorys too. I'm trying to remember old riffs and stuff I learnt years ago and once you start..... 8)

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #65 on:** October 08, 2006, 07:17:15 AM »

Quote from: Davey

i saw myself in the future after 15 years of playing guitar and i knew i HAD to get that good, so i went out and bought me a guitar.

the rest is history... and a bit of future

:roll:

:lol: :lol: 8)

fps_dean · « **Reply #66 on:** October 08, 2006, 08:51:35 AM »

Quote from: Twinfan

I've got no idea what mine was! I started playing when I was seven or eight years old. I've just always wanted to play guitar!

I started at seven too I'm fairly sure... maybe before that even, I don't really remember... I think the day my father bought that ol Epiphone acoustic was shortly after my 7th birthday and the next day he started teaching me chords.

Dakine · « **Reply #67 on:** October 08, 2006, 11:56:27 AM »

Quote from: Johnny Mac

Quote from: Dakine
Quote from: 38thBeatle
Nick, same as me- the rhythm was far more important than the lead stuff for me and that is still the case today. That said, I am now obviously playing lead but as I am most at home with blues, I am a little one dimensional but I love a wide range of stuff so thats ok.At the moment I am not playing much bass though I have been recording some new songs and it all comes back pretty quick.Incidentally, it is not easy to type all this as my cat has decided to sit in front of the screen.

As long as thats ALL the cat does, hey Rob ;) sorry mate.

Not played bass for long time (NEVER EVER should have sold that exotic,neckthru Wariwick :( :( :( ).

And as for the Blues, thats pretty much ALL I am concentrating on these days.
I say (for moment at least) ya can keep all those exotic and hitherto scales, gimme the mother of Rock! the BLUES SCALE. If I can attain any kinda 'gift' with this, then the rock,metal,blues ad infinitum world is mine I tell ya ahahahahahahahaha :twisted:

I love having a go at blues. I use my strat with the IT's and it's a lovely place to go!

It gets the rage away from you if thats what your looking for.

That Jeff Beck gig i went to was fantastic to listen to but also to see the effect he has on people in the audience too.

HAHA,
do'nt mean when playing the 'blues scale/notes' it aint on 'modern' channel on the Mesa :twisted:

mecca777 · « **Reply #68 on:** October 08, 2006, 10:54:08 PM »

Everyone keep 'em coming! I love reading people's stories about their early inspiration on the guitar.

For me, it was a way of staying close with my dad after my parents divorced. On weekends my brother and I would stay at his place, but he would often go out on the Saturday morning to see his girlfriend of the day, leaving us in front of the TV. As soon as we heard his car pull off, out came the Hendrix and Rainbow LPs and down came the prized Strat from the top of the bedroom cupboard, and Rich and I would take turns trying to work out "Hey Joe" or "Smoke On The Water" so that we could show off to him when he got back. After that my dad would take us to the local library and we could choose tapes and CDs to get out and listen to in the car; I used to pick any heavy metal CDs that looked like they might be cool, which was how I ended up hearing Megadeth, Ozzy and Michael Schenker for the first time. This inevitably resulted in a desire to play the guitar forever, which remains unabated seventeen years later. :)

(Incidentally, my policy of selecting any CD that looked like heavy metal did have the unfortunate side-effect of giving me a life-long love of Warlock/Doro, but that's a small price to pay for the gift of rock.)

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #69 on:** October 09, 2006, 12:18:54 AM »

Quote from: mecca777

Everyone keep 'em coming! I love reading people's stories about their early inspiration on the guitar.

For me, it was a way of staying close with my dad after my parents divorced. On weekends my brother and I would stay at his place, but he would often go out on the Saturday morning to see his girlfriend of the day, leaving us in front of the TV. As soon as we heard his car pull off, out came the Hendrix and Rainbow LPs and down came the prized Strat from the top of the bedroom cupboard, and Rich and I would take turns trying to work out "Hey Joe" or "Smoke On The Water" so that we could show off to him when he got back. After that my dad would take us to the local library and we could choose tapes and CDs to get out and listen to in the car; I used to pick any heavy metal CDs that looked like they might be cool, which was how I ended up hearing Megadeth, Ozzy and Michael Schenker for the first time. This inevitably resulted in a desire to play the guitar forever, which remains unabated seventeen years later. :)

(Incidentally, my policy of selecting any CD that looked like heavy metal did have the unfortunate side-effect of giving me a life-long love of Warlock/Doro, but that's a small price to pay for the gift of rock.)

Nice one Dude and welcome to the forum! :D

Guitars, we love em!! 8)

Muso · « **Reply #70 on:** October 09, 2006, 10:54:18 AM »

I got into guitar from listening to Space Oddity by Bowie, kinda weird I was just really facinated with that song (I used to smoke a lot of pot). Anyway things just developed from there, working my way through "the complete rock and pop guitar player vol 1" learning such classics as YMCA lol and Mul of Kintire onto crazy stuff like Jason Becker and Greg Howe. I got obsessed with Jason Becker/marty Friedman stuff for a while just all those harmonies and arpeggios, pretty silly really!

Muttley · « **Reply #71 on:** October 09, 2006, 04:47:08 PM »

My ignition started with a slow burning fuse.

As a kid my favourite bands were an eclectic mix of Adam & The Ants, Queen, Duran Duran and The Specials. I always mucked around playing air guitar and such, but it honestly never occured to me to try and get a guitar (money was tight in our house). After several years I somehow acquired a nylon stringed acoustic (I think my mum bought it from someone she worked with) and started noodling around learning a few (a very few) chords. At the time though I was really distracted with writing games on my Commodore 64, so it didn't get the attention it deserved.

A year or so later I discovered the Friday Rock Show one night, with the sadly missed Tommy Vance (TV on the Radio! :)) presenting. I can clearly remember some of the bands he played that night. Saxon, Budgie, Marillion, AC/DC being a few. I was blown away by some of the guitar work. Then a friend of mine leant me a mix tape that he'd done which included tracks by Warlock, Dio, Magnum (and some others I can't remember).

That was it really. I bought an Ibanez (some kind of SC strat copy, no idea what model) from said friend who had inherited it from a flat his parents rented out (the band living there had done a runner without paying the rent and left some stuff behind :lol:). £50 I think it cost me. Then mum came to the rescue once more and managed to get a small Carlsbro practice amp from someone she worked with (£80ish). This thing was so cr@p that if you cranked the gain all the way up (the only way to get it even slightly distorted) it used to pick up police radio. :lol:

Then I started listening to Iron Maiden, Kiss, Metallica, Yngwie Malmsteen, Marillion.

The rest is pre-history...

Muttley

Brow · « **Reply #72 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:37:14 PM »

I originally started playing guitar when I was 8 (I can't remember 'why' though) but soon quit when I moved up to 'big school' :lol:

It's 1 of my biggest regrets in life so far! :oops:

What got me started playing again was KISS Alive, early Aerosmith and Guns n Roses albums. It also gave me the desire to own a 'proper' Les Paul :D

Muttley · « **Reply #73 on:** October 09, 2006, 08:23:01 PM »

Quote from: mecca777

(Incidentally, my policy of selecting any CD that looked like heavy metal did have the unfortunate side-effect of giving me a life-long love of Warlock/Doro, but that's a small price to pay for the gift of rock.)

Nowt wrong with a bit of Doro... or a lot even! *drools* ;)

Muttley

DeanS · « **Reply #74 on:** October 09, 2006, 08:44:22 PM »

Oh, and I'd add Richie Blackmore-Deep Purple....... and how could I forget Uli Jon Roth- Scorpions- wonderful player