What song made you want to play guitar ?

usedtobe

When I was a lad, and first wanted to play, it wasn't any particular song - it was the whole 70's glam rock thing, that made me want to play. I didn't really see it through, though, and decided to try again when I was 18, so I could set my own lyrics to music.

Bogwhoppit

Theme from Trumpton

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKgjYlL1anQ

mike_l

Niallmo said:

Layla - IIRC it was used on a Vauxhall Nova advert some time in the eighties. It sounded amazing. I always thought that if I could play that I could truly say I could play guitar.

IIR Poxhall couldn't/didn't want to afford the copyright costs on the Clapton version, so had a new version recorded and the riff is *slightly* different to differentiate it from the original.

 

underdog

It was appetite for destruction, though it wasn't hearing the album it was watching my brother's vhs of Gn'R live at the Ritz, they play the whole album through. I remember thinking how cool the guitarist with the big hair was, how he commanded the stage while just playing guitar.

I must have gone on to watch that tape a few hundred times after that, was quite chuffed to find the whole show on YouTube the other week.

RocknRollDave

Where The Streets Have No Name

vasselmeyer

The opening riff from "Money for Nothing". It just floored me.

Kebabkid

"Jailbreak" by Thin Lizzy, but really, it was the whole "Live and Dangerous" album!
Van Halen's "Eruption" too.

TTony

What song ?

What "song"???

Are you mad?  

I didn't start playing guitar because of a song.

It was because of a girl.

(Well, girl*s* in general probably, rather than any one in particular).

kelvinburn

The rhubarb and custard theme music originally Then "Alive" by Pearl Jam which also introduced me to Jimi Hendrix "Rainy Day Dream Away"

underdog

kelvinburn;187561" said:

The rhubarb and custard theme music originally



Then "Alive" by Pearl Jam which also introduced me to Jimi Hendrix "Rainy Day Dream Away"

Pearl jam probably my all time fav band, while everyone though nirvana were the saviour of music I always rather listen to Eddie and co. Yellow Ledbetter is an excellent nod to Hendrix.

Lixarto

Not everyone

Megii

If anything, I think it might have been this one actually - my cousin (same age as me) played guitar, and was into Simon & Garfunkel - I guess there was some influence. And I always liked this song...

monquixote

TTony said:

It was because of a girl.

(Well, girl*s* in general probably, rather than any one in particular).

This is the Gene Simmons approach I remember him saying he formed a band after seeing the Beatles on TV not because he liked their music, but because of the number of screaming girls in the crowd. 

I actually succeeded in this mission by impressing my future Mrs at the age of 16 with a rendition of Cigarettes and Alcohol and Don't Dream It's Over (using my recently purchased chorus).

Back to the question at hand the riff I really remember wanting to play was Sweat Leaf. It's just so brutal sounding. 

RocknRollDave

underdog said:

kelvinburn;187561" said:

The rhubarb and custard theme music originally



Then "Alive" by Pearl Jam which also introduced me to Jimi Hendrix "Rainy Day Dream Away"

Pearl jam probably my all time fav band, while everyone though nirvana were the saviour of music I always rather listen to Eddie and co. Yellow Ledbetter is an excellent nod to Hendrix.

Whilst in fact Alice In Chains were better than both bands

CHRISB50

I didn't even want to play guitar. I wanted drums. Unfortunately there was zero chance of my parents ever allowing a kit in their house so guitar came in second. I think Hey Joe (Jimi's version) did it for me. I still remember hearing JH for the first time sitting in my mum and dads living room, going through their old records. An important moment in my life.

underdog

RocknRollDave;187598" said:

underdog said:

kelvinburn;187561" said:The rhubarb and custard theme music originally







Then "Alive" by Pearl Jam which also introduced me to Jimi Hendrix "Rainy Day Dream Away"

Pearl jam probably my all time fav band, while everyone though nirvana were the saviour of music I always rather listen to Eddie and co. Yellow Ledbetter is an excellent nod to Hendrix.




















Whilst in fact Alice In Chains were better than both bands

AIC were great for a bit, but not for long enough sadly. There's very few bands out there with the quality of output PJ produce, also excellent live.

DiscoStu

Many songs made me 'want' to play guitar, but Metallica's 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' was the first thing my mate showed me how to play. I couldn't believe how simple the intro and verse riffs were and he had a chorus pedal too which added to the magic. Just like the record!!

I bought a guitar, we learned the whole song and then I learned the rest of Master of Puppets. That was my 'beginners lessons'.

albanov

Well... I got a bass for christmas, because it looked like it might sound like 'holiday in cambodia' by the Dead Kennedys. And I liked the look of the guy from Dinosaur Jr's Rickenbacker. Then I bought a Hohner strat copy because I liked the jaggy sound in something or other by Wire I'd heard on a Melody Maker cassette, and logically thought I might need a smaller guitar to do that….

oddball

Dogs by Pink Floyd

dilbert

Originally, it was the Shadow's "Wonderful Land", then "Layla", then "Sultan's of Swing". If it wasn't for my wife buying me an acoustic for a Xmas pressie in 1998, I probably wouldn't have started yet 8-|