Who was the guitarist who inspired you to start playing??

Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen,Jimmi Page,Angus young,Randy Rhoads,

Angus inspired me to pick it up.

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Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Tony Rice

Jimi Hendrix and John Frusciante

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Eddie Van Halen
and Jimi Hendrix

I guess I should mention along with EVH is Chet Atkins, Hendrix, Jerry Reed, Wes Montgomery, Larry Carlton

John Frusciante
Mike Einziger
Angus Young

Oh, i forgot to mention Slash...

Nancy Wilson, and of course, The one and only Mrs. Sidney Pratten.....Guitarists get 100 Natalia points for being able to identify her.....

Let's see, that would be the guy whose band played David Cassidy's "I Think I Love You" at my primary school talent show, and woke up the stuff of every pre-pubescent hottie in the auditorium...

Tony Iommi, Joan Jett (in attitude more than skill), Randy Rhodes, Jimmy Paige and Rich Robinson (from the Black Crowes).

Might sound corny but.............

James Taylor to me is awesome in his own aspects.

Kenny Wayne got me pumped up on wanting to play again also.

My recent trip to Seattle, seeing Lucky For Nothing play and have fun with it got me excited also. www.luckyfornothing.com

James taylor has some good tunes...Handy man is one I like.

Wasnt a guitar player twas a band... THE BEATLES
followed by Sabbath and Trower.

I forgot to mention my uncles.....geeeez They're actually the one who really got me going...



[Edited on 10/23/2004 by ricoboc]

I should mention my father...He just strums and sings however he played in a band or two when I was growing up...Hes great at a party...People love that stuff.

I think it was more bands that got me started to at first. I'll probably lose some cool points for this one but o'well.Kiss really got me wanting to rock but then after i got playing awhile i realized they really werent that good musicly just good entertainers.then guitar players like RANDY ROADS,EVH,DAVID GILMORE,VIVIAN CAMBELL ect....really started to inspire me. :giggly:

Early kiss had excellent songs...Great songwriters...Songs are easy to play however they are fun as hell to learn and play.I like all the bands you mentioned except cambell...peace

Kiss does have talent,like you said more on the song writing side and i think really as entertianers.I guess when i started getting serious about guitar i leaned more toward the tech. players.
I think i really like well rounded bands the best.

Well, just the idea of rock got me into guitar but, as i got better i started to listen to better music. For me its more about the guitarist that fuel me to keep going like: Kirk Hammet, Zack Wylde, Stevie Vay, Jade Punget, Stevie Harris. Also bands that fuel me: Iron Maiden, Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Ateryu, AFI, Megadeath, The Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains, Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave.
Theres many others.

I remember learning all kinds of madien when I was teen...Number of the beast and run to the hills are my favorite...I wasnt a die hard fan however I have almost all there records on LP...not CD...I like madien however alot of their songs sound similar...I like the art work on the album covers.

for me it was jimmy page.

Always a good choice.

I was inspired by two of my close friends who have been playing for a while. I went to their house a few times and heard them play and I said to myself, "I wanna do this!" Peace out!

Been there...done that...I seen people play and said the same thing...I have to be able to play like that.

I went to a Boys State weekend event, and I saw two guys playing guitars and singing a song they wrote during one of the events. I made my decision to get a guitar to learn on.