inspirations

[bluesrock70's]

Buddy Holly (esp in England) Chuck Berry

+1

[soundcreation]

. 'Here's another. 'Here's one more. 'NOW START A BAND.' None of this 'spend twelve years in the bedroom learning to shred' crap back in MY day. You started with the basics and learned the rest on the job. So let's hear it for the PUNX.

 

 

That's interesting you mentioned that cause I heard an interview with tom morrello one time and he said the same thing.....He thought when he was a kid looking up to guys like tony iommi and richie blackmore as well as clapton etc that you'd have to own a castle on a scotish loch to be able to be in a band but all that changed for him when he heard the clash etc.

 

I think it really is a generational thing. I mean all the guys I knew picked up guitars cause of guys like warren demartini, robin crosby, randy rhodes, smith and murray,,and all the rest of the metal guys.

[RaVenCAD]

Ace in the 70s, EVH in the early 80s, Slash in the late 80s, Kurt in the 90s.

End of thread, despite how depressing that 90's inspiration is..

[lowbrow]

Who do you think has inspired the most people to pick up and learn to play electric guitar?

 

 

It would have to be someone from the baby boomer generation, just by the fact that the shear number of boomers overwhelms gen xers and what ever other generation you want to bring up. So, I'd say Beatles. Even for electric, yes.

[Snambo]

Jimi H.

[Big Elipso]

In my day Ace Frehley was the man. Page and Hendrix had already made their mark (which I wouldn't realize until later in life). My 13 year old was awed by Kurt Cobain. It's kind of weird that Kurt Cobain would be looked at as any kind of guitar hero because he really wasn't. Great songwriter though...

[Tweedledee]

The existence of the vagina.

 

I think you're probably right and Cobain is high up there. I remember reading somewhere that guitar sales went through the roof during the whole "grunge" explosion, so that would make sense.

 

Now it might actually be John Mayer.

[twofoolsaminute]

Leo Fender

[ChrisGansz]

The Beatles more than anyone. And there still doing it.

 

 

+1 for the Beatles- and I'm not a huge fan!

[lukeswall]

Frank Zappa, Euroboy and Robert Fripp.

[Snambo]

Leo Fender

 

 

You get an A+.

[Dewysoss]

What inspires people to play guitar the most? The prospect of getting laid.

[intothevoid]

Unfortunately you nailed it there. Although it's hilarious when they find out they still need actual social skills.

[Athiest_Peace]

EVH, Randy Rhoads, Jimi, Keef, Clapton, Page, Ace. Although for me it was that guy in the guitar shop with his wild hair and ugly Yamaha shredding away and throwing in some twang...[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE]

[pianoboy3333]

For me and a lot of my friends it was actually David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. Yea I grew up listening to the Beatles, Clapton, Hendrix, but once I heard "Echoes" I wanted to learn guitar. I had been playing piano and bassoon for a while, so I loved the way he created melody within his guitar lines, it wasn't just some guy shredding, like Malmsteen or something.

[BootRoots]

Chuck Berry insipred guys like Clapton and Keef who in turn inspired guys like EVH who in turn inspired like......a {censored} load more people.

[BlackHatHunter]

Eric Clapton

[Vantango84]

Chuck Berry, Johnny Ramone... the whole punk thing got a lot of kids who knew they would be {censored} at guitar to not care about being {censored} and pick up guitars anyway...

[inkblot]

Whoever played the fingerpicked acoustic intro to Dust in the Wind.

[twisty571]

Where I grew up at it was AC/DC & Kiss & Ted Nugent. Nugent hunts up where I grew up & a lot of people love him in Michigan and he use to do a Christmas concert every year & 1/2 the time Kiss would to.

[csm]

 

My 13 year old was awed by Kurt Cobain. It's kind of weird that Kurt Cobain would be looked at as any kind of guitar hero because he really wasn't. Great songwriter though...

 

 

You might just be getting the point.

 

Not all n00B guitarists want to be shredders. Some of them simply want to grab a guitar, get up there and tell the world what life looks and feels like to them in something approaching song form.

 

(Whilst enhancing their sex appeal, of course ...)

[jjpistols]

why are people saying {censored} like "well for me it was..."

 

 

 

I'm talking about the world, people - it ain't about you!

 

 

 

I am not asking who inspired you. I am not asking who your favorite guitarist is. I AM asking: Who do you think has inspired the most people to pick up and learn to play electric guitar?

 

 

 

 

now twy again - this time, with feewing

[sabriel9v]

Dude, the Earth's natural vibrations and the solar system totally inspire people to play music man.

[jjpistols]

. 'Here's another. 'Here's one more. 'NOW START A BAND.' None of this 'spend twelve years in the bedroom learning to shred' crap back in MY day. You started with the basics and learned the rest on the job. So let's hear it for the PUNX.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if the topic was "which band inspired more people to start a band" I'd have to argue Ramones all day, even above The Beatles, who would be right up there

 

 

 

 

I'd still guess at least half the people inspired to pick up guitar by The Beatles went acoustic though, and never strayed - just a gut feeling, but I got a big gut

 

 

 

 

Tezmond - I doubt more than a dozen people said "I'm getting an electric guitar cuz the one dude from Dire Straits with the sweatband on his head plays guitar" - sorry dude, Knopfler is one of the tastiest guitarists around, but I don't think he has the mass appeal to be in the running -- I'm sure he's important to you, but this ain't about you

[twisty571]

if the topic was "which band inspired more people to start a band" I'd have to argue Ramones all day, even above The Beatles, who would be right up there I'd still guess at least half the people inspired to pick up guitar by The Beatles went acoustic though, and never strayed - just a gut feeling, but I got a big gut Tezmond - I doubt more than a dozen people said "I'm getting an electric guitar cuz the one dude from Dire Straits with the sweatband on his head plays guitar" - sorry dude, Knopfler is one of the tastiest guitarists around, but I don't think he has the mass appeal to be in the running -- I'm sure he's important to you, but this ain't about you

 

 

The reason I stated what I did was because that's what was popular up where I'm from & when I grew up,not the Ramones.There wasn't a big punk following but you bring in a hard rocker and everyone was there. I'd say AC/DC did more inspiring than the Ramones.