How did you get into guitar playing?

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how ya'll started this endeavour?

I was 12 y/o when I listen to Green Day's Longview at MTV for the first time, instantly fell in love with the band and bought the Dookie Cassette. 3 months later I asked my mom for a guitar as a xmass present. It was a classical guitar....started taking lessons and a year and a half later got my blue MIA strat and a Marshall Valvestate VS100 combo..... then discovered MEtallica and that got me deeply into guitar.....

how about you?
 
My dad played but it was music I hated (at the time) like CCR, Jim Croce, Clapton. Then my neighbor started playing and was jamming Iron Man and that was it for me.
 
Found my dads bass in the basement from when he played in his late teens. The screws holding the bridge to the body were warped, so the bridge was on a 45 angle. After fixing that, i proceeded to play it with 30 yr old string into pc speakers :lol: :LOL: . Saved up for a fender rumble 60 bass amp and got new bass strings. The new strings sounded so different, that I had to forget that I had to relearn the previous week or 2 of playing. The following xmas, I started guitar.....
 
I was 6 years old.......it was 1977 and this man was my Idol!!
Other Kids were listening to "Mary Had a Little Lamb"....I was listening to COLD GIN!! :lol: :LOL:
Never looked back. :rock:
Got my 1st guitar at 12 years old.
 
Hung out with my best friend's older brother and friends. Started young - music was a huge scene in the 70's. But the guy that totally hit me between the eyes was...
 
Started listening to this cat called Eddie, it was over after that...
 
Just about everyone in my family played an instrument or sang.I cant recall a time when I was growing up when there was not a guitar and a piano in our home.Both of my older brothers played and were always very cool about teaching me stuff and letting me jam on thier massive album collections.I knew a few chords and simple melodies from a pretty young age but didnt become fully addicted until I was 11.Rush had just released 2112 and my older brother Mike bought it and turned me on to it.A passage to Bangkok just blew my mind.Later that day I went back and gave it another listen.Something about that riff just got to me and I had to learn it.So I grabbed a guitar and started trying to learn it.When my oldest brother Mark got home I showed him what a guitar badass I had become that afternoon.He sat down with me and showed me how to play it correctly.Now, 35 years later, I still love guitar as much as I did that day.Sometimes that is a blessing, and sometimes it's a curse, but I wouldnt change it for anything.
 
Appetite For Destruction is to blame for this whole thing. It was one of the coolest guitar albums I'd ever heard.

That whole year, all we did was sit in the basement trying to copy Slash. That was it.
 
Iron Maiden made me do it. Dave Mustaine n Alex Skolnick made me better. Then I quit for 10 years. And Godsmack made me start all over again !!!
 
saw rush on the permanent waves tour with casey orr (rigor mortis/gwar) and some other kids from jr.high. wanted to be geddy lee. played bass for 5-6 years. switched to guitar after playing with walter in rotting corpse (baddest rythym player i ever met).

stopped playing for almost 4 years. when darrell died i felt like i owed it to him to get back to it.
 
Seeing Carlos Santana & Return To Forever in the same week in 73 did it for me. Bill with his technical skill and Carlos with the feeling.
 
I started a bit later than most of you. Nobody ever played music in my family although I was a huge fan of it. I was 15/16, my buddy played guitar and we thought it would be fun to play in a band so I quickly picker up the bass. We found a drummer and the three of us played together (along with a couple different guitar players) for about 4 years. Now I've been bandless for about 2 years. Started really playing guitar when my band stopped playing together so yeah, just about 2 years now.

I prodomintely listened to country at a young age. Then it was the doors and from there it went through classic rock, into 80s metal, into more modern metal, and now it is all over the place. I am so glad that I got into music. My children will grow up with it and hopefully it continues through the generations.
 
Mailman1971":pz8zj9gu said:
I was 6 years old.......it was 1977 and this man was my Idol!!
Other Kids were listening to "Mary Had a Little Lamb"....I was listening to COLD GIN!! :lol: :LOL:
Never looked back. :rock:
Got my 1st guitar at 12 years old.
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Same for me except I was 12 years old and my first record was rock and roll over and it went from there.
 
Friend of mine told me he was going to buy a drum set and start learning how to play, so i said "Ok, ill learn guitar and we can jam" Got a cheap piece of crap strat knock off and a chord book. Sat there for a month learning chord shapes etc. Had some Guitar World type mags that had Tabs. One of them was For Whom the Bell Tolls. Once i actually played the main riff along with the CD, the hook was in me so deep there was no getting it out =)
 
Wow, my story is much less inspiring. I played football 24/7. Broke my shoulder up pretty bad in a game - to the point I couldn't throw with the velocity to keep playing. Big void in my life obviously. At a party one of my lineman was drunk and going around asking people if they could sing. He had a band and was looking. My friend volunteered me. I was bored. Sang for about 7 years before I touched a guitar. Was in my late 20's. Got tired of guitar players, so I learned. :lol: :LOL: :lol: :LOL:
 
When I was 10 y/o, a buddy was learning guitar we got into punk rock like old AFI, Dead Kennedys, Rancid, etc. He told me one day that i was going to learn bass, and we were going to start a band. I got a fender combo and Squier for Christmas, and it changed my life. Eventually, my family moved to the mountains and in 9th grade, I got into legal trouble and couldn't attend public school anymore. I was really getting into metal of all kinds (especially accessible black metal, like Borknagar), and managed to talk mom into getting me a guitar. I took to guitar like it was cocaine, and within a year had started playing in hardcore bands, touring around the midwest and east coast. I was exposed to philosophies and people that people my age couldn't even imagine. I grew and learned so much more than I would have sitting in a desk.
 
Listening to Master of Puppets did it for me. Aged 13. I then had to learn everything on it. I spent days just playing along to "Orion".

-C
 
This. ~15 y.o. My cousin and I were sure we were going to be rock stars so we both got guitars with plans of starting a band, with him on vocals and rhythm, me on lead. Pretty shortly therafter we figured out that he couldn't sing and wasn't going to take the time to learn the instrument. I figured out that

a) I couldn't play sports

b) I couldn't sing

c) I wasn't good looking

So, I figured the only way I was going to get laid was to learn to play guitar and join a band. The rest is history....

...except I'm still trying to get laid. :no:
 
Had a friend who took lessons and a had a cool Strat. I got a Strat and started taking lessons too. Then I heard a VH record and was convinced I was going to be as good as Eddie. So 24 years later, I'm not nearly as good as Eddie, but still love playing.
 
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