Who or What?

[PapaBear]

Who was the Artist or what was the sound that made you decide you had to try and play guitar, early on I really dug Steve Marriott on Humble Pie's "Smokin," album "Thirty Days in The Hole" was a favorite, but I think it was when a friend turned me on to CSN&Y that really did it particularly Neil Young and Steve Stills contributions on "4 Way Street"

 

[burlew]

"Lazy".
Deep Purple
Machine Head, 1972?

 

[Boysie]

my home was burglarized and my stereo and records were stolen so I decided to make my own music so I went out and bought a guitar.

 

[Boysie]

Who was the Artist or what was the sound that made you decide you had to try and play guitar, early on I really dug Steve Marriott on Humble Pie's "Smokin," album "Thirty Days in The Hole" was a favorite, but I think it was when a friend turned me on to CSN&Y that really did it particularly Neil Young and Steve Stills contributions on "4 Way Street"

One of my favourite albums also my favourite csny album. Coincidently it was one of the records that was stolen. I had to buy it again and I still have it.

 

[artyman]

Hank Marvin of "The Shadows" and Apache was what inspired me, nearly sixty years on and I still haven't nailed it.

 

[arock]

Had already started messing around with acoustic guitar, but Neil Young's After The Gold Rush is what really got me interested in trying to get serious. Was not playing electric at that point. Frank Marino of Mahogany Rush is what got me interested in electric guitar. First time I heard Land of a 1000 Nights my mind was blown!

 

[tommytubetone]

I really liked the 60's British Invasion groups, so any of those probably got me interested. The first solo I was inspired to learn was from this song. This is worth it just for the dance moves in the background.

https://youtu.be/L-yaT6fWTP4

 

[sloslunas]

This is the one that got me off the couch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSIS0o7vtPE

Steve

 

[PapaRaptor]

This!

 

[CaptainMoto]

 

[CaptainMoto]

I really liked the 60's British Invasion groups, so any of those probably got me interested. The first solo I was inspired to learn was from this song. This is worth it just for the dance moves in the background.

https://youtu.be/L-yaT6fWTP4

Ahhh, Johnny Rivers.
I've got a few of his albums hanging on my studio wall.
Back in those days, we'd hear a song on the radio, then go to the Record Store to buy the 45 single.
My buddy and I listened to Johnny Rivers "Memphis" so many times, I was almost positive the needle had worn it down to the point that we could hear the B side

 

[LeftyJohn]

Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare followed soon after by Joe Satriani's Flying in a Blue Dream and The Extremist.

 

[ervjohns]

Probably it was Bob Dylan, folk was achievable for a beginner

 

[Jack]

Smokin' that wacky tobaccy and listening to Led Zeppelin's double-live album over and over and over. Funny how much time I spent thinking about taking up bass instead of guitar, because I knew guitar would be really hard.

 

[BigMike]

Hank and Duane Eddy for me. Although I remember watching Bert 'tune a day' Weedon on British TV and thinking "that doesn't look too hard". How wrong I was

 

[Ted_Zeppelin]

Jimmy Page, Angus Young, Ted Nugent and Rod Price (Foghat) were the first guitar players that I really got me interested in the instrument and good music in general.

 

[artyman]

Hank and Duane Eddy for me. Although I remember watching Bert 'tune a day' Weedon on British TV and thinking "that doesn't look too hard". How wrong I was

I had a copy of Bert Weedon's "Play In A Day" probably could have had a claim under the Trades Description Act, he was a good guitarist though and released his version of Apache before The Shadows, tough theirs is really the definitive version.

 

[Mickey Duane]

Beatles
Rolling Stones
George Harrison
Neil Young

 

[Many Moons]

'Need Your Love So Bad' by Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac. My eldest brother had their greatest hits album and I used to play the living daylights out of it when he was out.

 

[BigMike]

'Need Your Love So Bad' by Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac. My eldest brother had their greatest hits album and I used to play the living daylights out of it when he was out.

First blues song I learned to play. Pete doesn't always get the credit for his part in the British blues explosion but he was right there at the centre of it.