Can you remember the moment of guitar playing that made you want to play

axisus

the one bit of guitar that really made me want to take up playing was on a live recording on the Friday Night Rock Show in 1983. It was Stevie Ray Vaughan live at Reading, he kicked of with a fiery version of Testify and I just though 'Man, that sounds so cool, I wanna play guitar!'

impmann

Opening chords to "Good Times, Bad Times" Led Zeppelin I... I was 13, I'd got a s/h copy of the album and had been strumming badly on a classical guitar since I was 6. That was the moment of "I want an electric guitar"

rossyamaha

Like so many it was this. 

William Williamson

Got told 'if you spent as much time with a real guitar as you do with that toy, you'd be excellent' when playing the old Guitar Hero game about ten years ago - after a few false starts I want to thank my dear old dad for inadvertently causing me to spend thousands of hours more playing the real guitar than the toy one, and spending hundreds more on gear. 

TTBZ

Voodoo Chile intro, Beat It solo and Smooth by Santana are the main things that stick out to me. I've never been able to get a strat to sound how I want it to though despite thinking Voodoo Chile is one of the best rock tones.

CHRISB50

I asked my mum and dad, if I could learn to play the drums. They told me to go forth.

So I chose guitar as they (can) have a volume control. 

Ravenous

Brian May at Live Aid.  Beat that!

(Combined with the fact I had just got a summer job and had money burning a hole in my pocket for the first time. Sadly I knew nothing and got a crummy Eros acoustic from a secondhand place.)

octatonic

Brian May at Live Aid for me too.
Queen wiped the floor with everyone that day and it changed my life.
Think of all the weddings that would have been slightly less shreddy had it not happened.
Makes you think.

p90fool

The James Bond theme. 

Rowby1

Hearing Sultans of Swing on the radio when it first came out. I'd already got into Deep Purple and AC/DC via my older brother but there was something about the almost lyrical quality of Knopflers playing on that single that made me decide that I should learn to play guitar. Think I would have been 14 at the time.

Strangefan

It was slash the guns n roses lyi tour in the early 90s in Paris, I then had a dream I was playing guitar in from of my class room and was really good,  that was all it took for me  

Cabicular

rossyamaha said:

Like so many it was this. 

ha
Absolutely... we must be about the same Generation

CountryDave

Queen's Greatest hits on an old C90 cassette in my dad's car (a green Hillman Hunter for those of a certain age). With a bundle of other stuff on the B-side, but the first track was Layla - that intro and Brian May's sound are the reason I wanted to pick it up.

usedtobe

Probably hearing the sweet on the radio, back in the 70's. I tried to learn, then, but didn't take to it.
 I didn't actually start until years later, when I started writing lyrics, and thought, hmm.. if I could play guitar, I could turn these lyrics into songs..

Sassafras

Listening to Lightin Hopkins and Blind Snooks Eaglin.

Tuscan777

I had a schoolfriend, James Oliver, who was (and still is) a great player, Once he'd shown me a few basics I was hooked. The Hendrix/Clapton/Moore/Malmsteen/Vai/Gilbert,...etc.etc.etc things all came after I'd started learning.

thomasross20

Coming home from high school to see Slash playing sweet child on VH1 CLASSIC

Nomad

An acoustic guitar with two strings.

Around age 13 or 14, after a steady diet of 24 Carat Purple, I happened to visit a mate one day, and he had an old acoustic with two strings on it (lower wound strings). He had worked out the notes for the opening riff to Smoke On The Water. I then had a go and got it after a couple of tries. There was no Aha! moment, no thinking about it, and no decision - I simply became a guitarist at that moment and had to wait until xmas to get my own.

A5D5E5

Nothing to do with a moment of guitar playing for me.  I started playing because I fancied a girl called who I knew played the guitar.  Turns out I liked playing the guitar but didn't really like the girl.

Flanging_Fred

My mate Luke had a crappy strat copy that he tastefully refinished with Hammarite (I shit you not!). It didn't interest me that much until he got a Custom Sound Colt amp which had DISTORTION! Suddenly he started to sound like that cool Lucozade advert (you KNOW which one) and I was hooked.

Sporky

My brother got to stop going to piano lessons if he took up guitar. That sounded like the best deal ever so I was in.