your first guitar hero?

[mentoneman]

i think this was mine, and this video was the reason:


rock star or chinese gymnast--you decide

 

[Chubtone]

My first guitar hero. Still have his poster up in my store near my cash register.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R13Gu3fr6Ug

 

[SFW]

My first real hero was Andy LaRoque.

 

[GRK]

My cousin. No, seriously... I didn't even listen to rock/metal or anything like that back then. I didn't have any guitar heroes, any big bands, nothing. He's the reason I started playing the guitar. We were same age so I though I could pull it off too.

He taught me a few songs from Operation Ivy, The Vandals, some Rancid, Minor Threat, even some Jimi Hendrix songs that we both played half assed, etc.

Then he quit after playing for 3 years. I've kept going and going.

Must be the weirdest story around here

 

[mentoneman]

My first guitar hero. Still have his poster up in my store near my cash register.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R13Gu3fr6Ug

it was a close call between rik and ace for me...but i just wanted to look cool like ace, whereas i wanted to learn triumph "songs" and solos.

that tapping section at the end of shock me on the kiss alive II album was pre-VH1 (november 1977 versus VH I Recorded in 1977 and released in February 1978)

and i learned it on my ukelele when my sister's boyfriend left a guitar pick on the front porch and i instinctively started bouncing it high on the strings above the left hand to imitate the "sound" i was hearing, with no clue as to what i was doing technically.

fwiw kiss alive II went double platinum (2 million units)
and VH I went "diamond" (10 million copies sold)

 

[vultures]

The sometimes flamboyant..

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9bxiH8G0XIE

 

[lamppost]

Rhoads was my first guitar hero.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gGdstwaxhcU

 

[degenaro]

Jimi.

 

[guitarslinger]

it was either Dimebag or Marty Friedman. I'm not sure which.

 

[AmpliFIRE]

Jimmy Page/Ace/Kirk Hamster

 

[UltraGary]

Ace....quickly followed by Alex Lifeson. They both still have a place in my heart too.

 

[cyndicate]

I hate to say it but probably Kirk Hamster I was a big Metallica fan and that's what made me pick up guitar, then came the countless hours of f'ing up MOP and One

 

[gibson5413]

Alex Lifeson from Rush and Tom Johnston/Patrick Simmons/Jeff "Skunk" Baxter from the Doobie Brothers. First time I heard China Grove it kicked me in the tail (still love that tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTCyO9MpGUM). My brother bought 2112 and it was all over for me!

 

[K Odell]

Hetfield

 

[Marshall Law]

ACE

 

[MrDan666]

John Norum

 

[guitar_god123456]

adrian smith, hands down

 

[ratter]

15 posts in and I'm the first one to say Eddie?? Heck my 2nd guitar hero was Clapton and that's only because Eddie said so!

 

[bill]

Jimi Hendrix that is. Saw him live back in the day.

 

[ratkent]

Brian May, and not just because of his wardrobe.