your first guitar hero?

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For me it was Clapton. After I heard Disraeli Gears, I decided that I wanted to learn how to play guitar.
 
He doesn't get a lot of props but Phil Collen. What can I say, I really dug his style! And still do.
 
Rick Nielsen. I was six and my sisters had all their albums....

But then my step brother moved in and it was Tony Iommi all the way.
 

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My immediately pre-guitar heroes -
CC Deville and Phil Collen/Steve Clark

Most influential to me when I started playing guitar - Marty Freidman, Hetfield, Stone Gossard/Mike McCready

Kinda funny, as Def Lep is the only one of those I still listen to with any degree of regularity...

After playing guitar for a year, the list would have been heavier on Alex Lifeson, Jimi and EVH.
 
Keef. I bought "Exile on Main Street" when I was 12 and I immediately wanted a guitar...

EVH was definitely the guy who influenced me most though overall...

Steve
 
Has to be EVH for me.

Started listening to Van Halen at age 3, and when I started playing guitar I used to do the Eddie Van Halen spin thing in the mirror.

Yeah, I'm a loser.
 
Its hard for me to nail it down to one. When I was a kid in the 70's( I was 7 in 1970) there were SO MANY cool guitar players and they all blew me away. Looking back I could never get enough of Jimi, Jimmy Page, Robin Trower, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Richie Blackmore,Tom scholz ,Rod Price of Foghat, Mick Box of Uriah Heap, Martin Barre of Jethro Tull, Pat Thrall, Pat Travers, Neal Schon, Gary Richrath, The guys from Kansas and Styx, Michael Schenker, Uli Roth, Joe Perry,Eric Clapton, Ace Frehley, Tony Iommi, Peter Frampton, Thin Lizzy, The Allman Brothers and the list goes on...

However, it wasnt until VH came out with their first Album that I Knew that I had to learn guitar, no doubt about it. I had Guitar heroes long before he came around and wanted to play guitar because of them but when Eddie hit, Learning to play guitar became a must do situation...

Kage
 
My MOM!!!!!!




Seriously...
When I was about 10 my Mom played in a band. It was mostly covers and stuff and they used to gig at local biker bars and whatnot...just having a blast. I always saw how much fun she was having and thought it was the coolest thing. As I got older, she taught me how to play on an old beat up acoustic. She has alzheimers now and can't play anymore, but those memories of riding on the back of her harley to gigs and stuff are awesome.


Of course, I must say I was scarred for life when I actually got to the age where I could understand what the lyrics to "Shook Me All Night Long" were...ha ha :cry:


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my first "hero" was angus young. i was 6 when i heard highway to hell and knew i wanted to be in a band.
i also remember seeing kiss on 3-2-1 contact and that jus solidified the idea. i never dug ace too much but i LOVED gene simmons (of course, so did the entire planet from what i hear...). i didn't actually pik up a guitar until i heard master of puppets by metallica in 1986.
shortly after that, i moved to bass so, angus and gene was the first and it quikly moved to cliff burton and steve harris. :rock:
 
i know kurt cobain made me want to get a guitar.
but i would have to say tony iommi or dimebag made me want to play the most.
 
Ted Nugent
Joe Perry
David Gilmore
Alex Lifeson
Mahogany Rush guitarists. Can't think of his name now!
 
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