Members FckStick Jones Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Frank Zappa, Euroboy and Robert Fripp. Winner of the "You've got to be {censored}in kidding me" award. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jjpistols Posted March 15, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Winner of the "You've got to be {censored}in kidding me" award. you don't remember all the kids at your school having Robert Fripp posters in their lockers?!?! kinda surprised I haven't seen Frampton yet, though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FckStick Jones Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 When I talk to kids who are just starting out, everyone of them mention SRV as a big influence. Tab book sales would be one of the best ways to measure this. If I had to bet who leads in that department it would be Metallica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dimmypage Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 I dont think there is one difinative answer but The Beatles,the Beach Boys.Jimi Hendrix,Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Eddie Van Halen have sold millions of guitars:thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jjpistols Posted March 15, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 When I talk to kids who are just starting out, everyone of them mention SRV as a big influence.Tab book sales would be one of the best ways to measure this.If I had to bet who leads in that department it would be Metallica. I would've guessed most younger people got into SRV after already playing for a bit Metallica seems a very good choice for the last 15 years, though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Who was it originally said that Jimi Hendrix sold more Strats -- a model which had become so unfashionable before he arrived that Fender were seriously thinking of discontinuing it -- than all of the company's sales and marketing teams? I know I've quoted it in the past, but I'd like to know who was first ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lukeswall Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Winner of the "You've got to be {censored}in kidding me" award. really!Seeing zappa play his SG on Baby Snakes was way cool. He does these weird things with his left hand. Fripp was a shock, seeing as he play sitting down and almost expression-less. Euroboy plain ROCKS. I forgot to add Randy Rhoads and Angus Young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dimmypage Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Who was it originally said that Jimi Hendrix sold more Strats -- a model which had become so unfashionable before he arrived that Fender were seriously thinking of discontinuing it -- than all of the company's sales and marketing teams?I know I've quoted it in the past, but I'd like to know who was first ... Probably George Harrison:lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whitegreyblack Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Every single person I know either learned every Metallica, every AC/DC, or every Nirvana, song when first starting, and really only wanted to do that when they first picked up the guitar. So for the 20-to-32-ish year old generation: Hetfield, Angus, Cobain, with honorable mention to Slash (arguably as high on the list as the rest). But if you go generations back, it's folks like Ace.... then prob. Page... Clapton... Keef... then probably going back all the way to the birth of rock n roll to Chuck Berry. There's a lot of variables here - genre (punk was a huge influence on a sheer number of kids picking up guitars as has been mentioned, not to mention the numbers of metal-lovin' guitarist wannabees), generation / age group, geographical location, etc. Definitely going to skew the opinions a lot. It's a bit too open of a question. But we love those kind of questions here at HCEG, don't we...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dewees Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 The Beatles more than anyone.And there still doing it. Yes, like it or not, it all goes back to the Beatles. Clapton, Beck, Page, Hendrix - It doesn't matter who you name, they would not have been able to push through anything like they did had the massive revolutionary engine of the Beatles not preceded them. The hugeness of it will never be seen again. But after the Beatles? I'd say Clapton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Frankly -- looking back at my own 60s teenhood, there was simply so much great music around, and so many great players, that it's incredibly difficult to say that any one of them tipped the balance. From Hank Marvin with The Shadows (who was my first guitar hero before the arrival of The Beatles) through my discovery of the Stones (and, through them, Chuck'n Bo and the blues greats like Muddy, John Lee'n all), The Yardbirds, The Kinks, The Who ... all the great Stax/Atlantic, Motown and James Brown stuff ... Dylan, The Byrds and all the folkies ... what I couldn't understand was how anybody growing up at that time could NOT want to play guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dcindc Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Sheer numbers? Elvis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted March 15, 2008 Moderators Share Posted March 15, 2008 Hendrix) Took 24 posts before someone got the answer:wave: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zapata Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 I guess it depends on the generation that was inspired by the player...If I was going for an all time inspiration I guess I'd go for the beatles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Minitruth Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 David Gilmour Mick Taylor BB King Albert King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted March 15, 2008 Moderators Share Posted March 15, 2008 I guess it depends on the generation that was inspired by the player... If I was going for an all time inspiration I guess I'd go for the beatles READ DA QUESTION!!!JJ said:Who do you think has inspired the most people to pick up and learn to play electric guitar?Every time a guitar walk out da door da salesman he say tank ya ta da Lawd Jimi:thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted March 15, 2008 Moderators Share Posted March 15, 2008 David GilmourMick TaylorBB KingAlbert King Minitruth you can has no cheezburga:cry: COZ YU IZ DA FAIL:poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zapata Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Sorry... my bad anyways I'd go for the beatles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members twofoolsaminute Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 I keep rolling it over in my head and I keep coming up with Page. Maybe Van Halen. Cobain...maybe, but grunge was kinda the death of the guitar solo. It became less of a flash instrument and more of a band instrument. But yes, a lot of folks started wanting to say what they had to say and cobain had a sort of everyman appeal that said "If this guy can do it, anybody can." So, I'd have to say Richie Sambora cause it got him into Heather Locklear's pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dparr Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Sorry... my bad anyways I'd go for the beatles Your in good company. The Beatles were a inspiration for Jimi too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frets99 Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Beatles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Highway_61 Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Beatles! Maybe, now that Frets has said it, we can agree that this is the correct answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted March 15, 2008 Moderators Share Posted March 15, 2008 Maybe, now that Frets has said it, we can agree that this is the correct answer. Nope, if Beatles were da answer we'd all be playing sitars, although some of us who don't cut our nuts properly are:thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BobbaFret Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Waylon and Slash. Helluva combo aint it. I cover both fairly well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tezmond Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 I was thinking in terms that the music was a) guitar based rock b)multi generational c)Popular So if a given group had a song in the charts say the top ten for ages then re emerged say 10 or 15 years later and a new generation got into them, then they would have reached a wider audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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