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Which guitarists inspired you to start playing guitar?

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    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!
     

    Ed Seith

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    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.
     
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    Calvin Phillips

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    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.
     

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