The song that switched your DNA to guitar.

equalsql

What was the one song, the single catalyst that turned your whole world upside down and wanted to make you play electric guitar beyond anything else in the universe?

Mutliple options do not apply here.. I just want to know the single instance/event that completely turned your world upside down!.

For me it was when I bought the single 'Hey Jude' and then stuck the B side on the record player.

It truly was one of those WTF! moments

Revolution: ...And it got me in the first - feckin' - three seconds!

thecolourbox

Notwithstanding the fact that in the 90s and very early 00s when I was getting into music, there no was not much guitar music and the music that was around was shite, one could argue it was the lack of guitar that got me into guitar.

But in terms of an actual song, White Stripes Hardest Button to Button got me playing

equalsql

thecolourbox said:

Notwithstanding the fact that in the 90s and very early 00s when I was getting into music, there no was not much guitar music and the music that was around was shite, one could argue it was the lack of guitar that got me into guitar.

But in terms of an actual song, White Stripes Hardest Button to Button got me playing

Gotta say. that video is amazing. I've never seen it before so thanks for posting it up.

Whitecat

Doubt it was just one but ‘Tom Sawyer’ (or maybe ‘Limelight’) by Rush would have been pretty powerful at the time I first heard it “properly”. 

TheBigDipper

I'd been playing classical guitar since I was 8 or 9. It wasn't a song. Her name was Judith...  I converted to electric at the ripe old age of 17. 

Actually, it might have been a song, too. Helter Skelter, probably. Or Highway Star, maybe. 

matdotcodot

I wish it was something a tad cooler, but it was definitely this.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1i5coU-0_Q

BRISTOL86

Quite late in life (and ages after the actual event) - John Mayer's Slow Dancing in a Burning Room from the live DVD

guitarfishbay

Whatever Iron Maiden song I heard first on Carmageddon 2. Probably Aces High

bigjon

Scuttle Buttin by Stevie Ray Vaughan - on a Radio One documentary on the Fender Strat in '88, about 3 months after I'd started playing acoustic guitar.

munckee

It was a specific riff in I am the resurrection. Still makes the hairs on my neck stand up. I can't play it!

thecolourbox

equalsql said:

thecolourbox said:

Notwithstanding the fact that in the 90s and very early 00s when I was getting into music, there no was not much guitar music and the music that was around was shite, one could argue it was the lack of guitar that got me into guitar.

But in terms of an actual song, White Stripes Hardest Button to Button got me playing

Gotta say. that video is amazing. I've never seen it before so thanks for posting it up.

Brilliant isn't it, think it was a Gondry one. I seem to recall they gave all the amps and drum kits to local schools afterwards as they obviously had a load spare...

chrishill901

Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up. Heard it when the Matrix came out as it’s the song at the end and it turned me onto rock music and the rest is history.

Majorscale

On a compilation tape cassette(!) called “Chart Hits” which was my first foray into music, one song stood out from the pop dross I’d only ever been exposed to. It was New Years Day by U2. I’d never heard a sound like it before and the loud guitars, drums and vocals just spoke to me. Still love that tune!

https://youtu.be/vdLuk2Agamk

Roland

Andante in C. It was the theme tune to a black and white TV programme called “Tales from the river bank”. I realised that a guitar could play both melody and accompaniment.

Maynehead

I’m really struggling to recall, but I think it might have been this:

https://youtu.be/GLvohMXgcBo

Caffeine_Vampire

Say Mama - Gene Vincent. I still play that solo at every available opportunity. 

Legionreturns

Without a shadow of doubt, this was the exact moment. It may have taken me a few years to get there, but it was nagging at me the whole time! 

LuttiS

My dad had a mix tape called guitar greats.. and the first time i remember talking about wanting to play guitar was listening to Sabre Dance by Dave Edmunds.. i said that i didn't want to do songs i just wanted to do things like this

Layla was the first song that made me realise that there was a sound outside of radio pop that i had been looking for, but Dave Edmunds was the guitar catalyst.

ICBM

Maynehead

guitarfishbay said:

Whatever Iron Maiden song I heard first on Carmageddon 2. Probably Aces High

Hell yeah, we share the same beginnings!

I did enjoy the Demanufacture tracks on Carmageddon 1 equally much though.

fastonebaz

AC/DC "Rock n  Roll Singer" on my dad's record player. 

"I can see my name in lights, and I can see a queue.  I've got the devil in my blood telling me what to do....and I'm all ears"

Kind of resonated with 12 year of me.