Which guitarists inspired you to start playing guitar?

[carlosmqr]

I dont really know who inspired me, but I remember being a kid and my dad listening to GnR and the solos from Slash always caught my atention and I always thought guitars were cool...but I started playing waaaay after, and I had no real inspiration that I can remember to be honest, I would listen to a lot of songs and always enjoy the guitars but no one in particular. But I have to say that after I started Syn and Zacky definitely made me keep up with the guitar, as I started to get more into it I started to really get addicted to play whatever Zacky V and Syn G played!

 

[lfbrl]

My Upstate New York roots are showing - Alex Lifeson from Rush and Rik Emmett from Triumph.

 

[Ed Seith]

My Upstate New York roots are showing - Alex Lifeson from Rush and Rik Emmett from Triumph.

Sounds like you're north of Albany, which kinda makes you more of a Canadian than a New Yorker. It's okay. My sister became Canadian, too. They're good people.

 

[Ed Seith]

What made me WANT to play guitar was Mark Knopfler's solo and outro in Sultans of Swing, and Gary Richrath's pick slide in REO Speedwagon's Keep on Loving You.

Once I finally got a guitar, it was Steve Clark and Phil Collen from Def Leppard and Dave Murray and Adrian Smith from Iron Maiden. Warren DeMartini from Ratt. Then in 86 or 87, I discovered Tesla, and that took over for a lot of years.

 

[baby11]

Barbara Lynn!

 

[Teddie]

Angus Young was the reason I wanted to learn to play and Randy Rhodes was the reason my first guitar was a flying V

 

[Bellah83]

A friend of mine started jamming riffs from Aenima. It blew my drunk mind. Bought a guitar a few days later. Seeing Syn live at a festival got my to start taking it serious some years later.

 

[Jared Lewins]

1. Ace Frehley kiss
2. Dimebag Darrell Pantera
3. Synsyster gates avenged sevenfold
4. Slash gnr.
5. Jimi Hendrix.

 

[Calvin Phillips]

I cant really give you an artist. I know I was made for music though. I'd play the coffee table like a piano every fucking night at the age of 4. So my parents have me a keyboard. I dont think the keyboard made it a year. They never got me another. I've tried all week thinking back and thinking who made me buy that guitar? I dont think it was any band in particular. I was just isolated from the world. I think my mental development was behind because of the isolation. I'd play the tonka trucks even when I was a hit older. I was just a lot more.. destructive with them. Lol them I'd go to my room and hit play on a CD. And sing along at top volume. Then the air guitars came. Then we bought a shitty 50 dollar one with an amp. I still have it. How that guy didnt get that guitar of all mine... I'll never know man. But that's when I jammed alice in chains a lot. I cant seem to remember why I got the acoustic though. I had it first. I'll have to keep thinking about it.