The song that switched your DNA to guitar.

tone1

I think it was seeing the album cover of 12 Gold Bars by Quo.... I remember being intrigued by the finger shapes and mesmerised by the tracks on it..... Single song though is difficult to pinpoint though... I’ll have longer think

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Gold_Bars

MagicPigDetective

From one of the first albums I bought; The Concept by Teenage Fanclub, the rhythm guitars sounded so good, and the solos just made me want to play a guitar. ..... also a picture of a turbo rat in the tape sleeve got me thinking about how they might have made the sounds. Still one of my favourite songs. 

https://youtu.be/7JYH1pVbqpQ

fob

I wouldn't consider guitar the instrument I wanted to play beyond anything else but there are two songs that made sure I was going to learn at least the basics: Like @matdotcodot, one was Johnny B Goode; although Back To The Future was still err... in the future, so endless repeats of a Best of Chuck Berry album helped there. Although, then and now, I'd struggle to think of anything much cooler.

The other was one of the greatest riffs of all time:

robgilmo

This, the fun they look like they are having!

octatonic

"We've done four already, but now we're steady and then they went, 1... 2... 3... 4...,"

Bellycaster

Not a song, but a Band. Queen/Brian May was the reason I wanted my first Guitar for Christmas back in 1986.

SimonC

munckee

In the supermarket yesterday my 14 year old daughter said she had started listening to nirvana. I got very excited and bought her it on vinyl on the spot. Whether it will inspire her to play guitar I don’t know as she has stopped playing once already. Yesterday evening I went in her room and she was sat cross legged on the floor listening to it. 

Im not sure why that made me so happy but it feels like the passing of a torch or something,

viz

Rainbow’s All Night Long with Graham Bonnet, Monsters of Rock, live at Donnington, 1980. 

zepp76

I was into Maiden and Sabbath from a young age but the one song/video that turned me onto guitar and more specifically Les Paul's was Gary Moores Still got the blues. I remember it airing on MTV and just thought yes! That's for me! It wasn't  until nigh on twenty odd years later that I'd own one.

TTBZ

For all the shit music my dad listened to, he did have some good stuff. When I first heard that I was hooked. Strangely I hate playing strats, but think that song has one of the greatest rock tones of all time. So raw and real sounding.

the_jaffa

munckee said:

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

Which bit?

munckee

the_jaffa said:

munckee said:

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

Which bit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbU7oVz0Uq0

The bit that starts between the 2nd and 3rd choruses from 2:38 to 3:00.  I don't mean I can't play that riff I mean I can't play the song.

Philtre

punchesjudy

Nirvana and the obvious Teen Spirit?? Though I first heard them through my older brother so could've been anything from Nevermind or maybe even Bleach I guess. 

axisus

For me it was 1977, Santana's She's not there was riding up the charts and the guitar playing was so exciting! Brilliant track

the_jaffa

munckee said:

the_jaffa said:

munckee said:

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

Which bit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbU7oVz0Uq0

The bit that starts between the 2nd and 3rd choruses from 2:38 to 3:00.  I don't mean I can't play that riff I mean I can't play the song.

Ah, yeah, that bit. Almost 30 years later and I’m still just struggling through playing the song. Can just about do something recognisable but nothing like accurate with all the little extra riffs around the chords

Philly_Q

This song which first made me aware that the remarkable sound I was hearing was - specifically - an electric guitar was Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits.

The song which made me decide I actually wanted to play electric guitar was this.  And I've spent much of the last 40 years wondering why I'm so obsessed with something which I'm so fucking useless at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya0lTEBVY4w

scrumhalf

Foxy Lady - I was about eight when I heard it for the first time, and I've never been the same since.

exocet

It was probably one of the following. 

Black Betty - Ram Jam or Life's Been Good To Me - Joe Walsh