What song made you want to play guitar ?

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  • RichardjRichardj Frets: 1538
    Equal parts 'Layla' and 'Apache'.  Mind you at 11 yrs old 'Smoke on the Water' was essential playing!
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  • BellycasterBellycaster Frets: 5834
    For me it was Queen's Greatest Flix video when I was 14. My Sister's boyfriend(now husband) at the time had hired it out from the Library and left it at our house at the time. I stuck it on as I liked a bit of Queen, but was somehow captured by Brian May's Guitar playing unlike I was before. That was it, I wanted a Guitar and started listening to loads of Queen that I'd not heard before.


    Brian May was my first inspiration and I still love his work.
    Only a Fool Would Say That.
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  • MonstronautMonstronaut Frets: 193
    Are You Gonna Go My Way by Lenny Kravitz. I'd already gotten into guitar music but I HAD to learn guitar after hearing this. Still sounds great.
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  • Blood sex sugar magic by rhcp. As in the whole album.

    When I heard that, i remember thinking it was the best thing I'd ever heard. It's still right up there.
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  • KerpunkKerpunk Frets: 75
    It was more the possibility of impressing the ladies that got me into guitar. 
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  • IamnobodyIamnobody Frets: 6887
    Kerpunk;187315" said:
    It was more the possibility of impressing the ladies that got me into guitar. 
    And presumably you are now a full-fledged fanny magnet and have to beat hoards of women away with a shitty stick!?
    Previously known as stevebrum
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  • LixartoLixarto Frets: 1618
    "Cheap Thrills" by Frank Zappa. I was 6.
    "I can see you for what you are; an idiot barely in control of your own life. And smoking weed doesn't make you cool; it just makes you more of an idiot."
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  • citizen68citizen68 Frets: 172
    Voodoo Chile by Jimi - wakka chikka wakka chikka
    Seemed like a good idea.....

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  • RolandRoland Frets: 8592
    Andante in C, which was used as the theme tune for 'Tales from the riverbank'
    Tree recycler, and guitarist with  https://www.undercoversband.com/.
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  • NeilNeil Frets: 3594
    Purple Haze by Jimi.

    I had never heard anything like it before.
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  • daveyhdaveyh Frets: 681
    Gimme All Your Lovin' by ZZ Top
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  • KerpunkKerpunk Frets: 75
    edited March 2014
    Iamnobody said:
    Kerpunk;187315" said:
    It was more the possibility of impressing the ladies that got me into guitar. 
    And presumably you are now a full-fledged fanny magnet and have to beat hoards of women away with a shitty stick!?
    No this magnet couldn't pick up a paper clip :P

    But to a 14 year old boy the possibility was enough.
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  • GSPBASSESGSPBASSES Frets: 2335
    edited March 2014 tFB Trader

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  • A_T_WA_T_W Frets: 66
    edited March 2014
    Song wise I think it might have been Can't Stop by the Chili Peppers, that was the first difficult riff that I really set myself the task of mastering. And I've just about got it now! :P

    Performance wise it was this, which made me really wanna be a proper, fleet-fingered guitar hero. It also firmly placed blonde Telecasters as the most desirable guitars in my head, an opinion I have barely changed to this day


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  • p90foolp90fool Frets: 31371
    Kerpunk said:
    It was more the possibility of impressing the ladies that got me into guitar. 
    That was my main motivation too, and like most other teenage musicians I was sat in a darkened room practicing guitar and getting a wanker's tan while everyone else was down the beach shagging. :(

    I did make up for it though :)
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  • cruxiformcruxiform Frets: 2533
    Anarchy In the UK by the Sex Pistols circa 1982 when I heard it at a friends house. I was 13 at the time and I immediately knew I wanted to play a guitar.
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  • DeadmanDeadman Frets: 3853
    ThePrettyDamned;187314" said:
    Blood sex sugar magic by rhcp. As in the whole album.

    When I heard that, i remember thinking it was the best thing I'd ever heard. It's still right up there.
    Same here. I was playing Apache Rose Peacock earlier!
    Changed everything for me one Saturday morning back in 1991 when I saw Under the bridge on The Chart Show.
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  • bazxkrbazxkr Frets: 610
    Highway Star on Made in Japan.........

    Cheers
    Baz
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  • Voodoo Chile (slight return) - Found it in my uncle's record collection in the late 80's. Never heard of Jimi until that point - what a revelation
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