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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
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 Posted - 09/07/2007 : 09:59:56
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I suspect that there is one song that made you really want to take up guitar/bass/drum machines (Kulten!) etc. One song that made you a rocker/hard rocker/punker etc. Before that music was not that important to you.
One other thing: Usually your parents didn�t like this song�..
In my case it was �It�s all over now� by the Rolling Stones. I was about 11-12 years old when it hit me like a meteorite. Then I started struggling on my fathers old acoustic, a while later glued a microphone inside it. There was no way back�. 
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/07/2007 : 10:29:35
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It has to be the first album by the Clash.
I had already started playing but wasn't really inspired and there wasn't any progress. Then I came across this album where I could actually learn every song. For a while I actually imagined I wasn't crap. A short while later I discovered Hendrix and was knocked right back down to earth again. 
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2007 : 11:52:10
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My mother is a big fan of the shadows,so growing up i'd here all the instrumental albums by them on in the house plus the fact all or most of the album covers have a red strat on them...!!! so at least i know where my love of strats and echo/reverb/delay and tremolo arms comes from... ....i suppose after that when i got a little older my grandmother bought me a guitar and being allowed up to watch 'the old grey whistle test' and 'late night in concert'on BBC2.. the two bands that stick out in my mind from that era is..i saw the bon scott version of AC/DC and the early version of dire straits and i was hooked....i remember sitting with a small cassette player with the mic jammed up to the speaker on the tv trying to record the gigs... .... |
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StratoSphere
Double Platinum Member
Canada
2232 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2007 : 13:31:02
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i remember the sole moment that i got into music. my older sister was watching Much Music (canada's mtv) and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came on. i know, how embarrassing.
a few weeks later i saw the video for "sweet child o mine" and i was blown away.
although i remember as a kid the local radio station would play Van Halen's "eruption" and i would always stop what i was doing to listen in awe. the tapping was too cool. i didnt find out it was VH until years later.
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Dirk
Platinum Member
Netherlands
1309 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2007 : 16:32:17
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| The Guns N roses pay per view concert in Paris came on TV some 14 years ago, that was the inevitable point in this time/space continuum that changed it all for me. |
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guirat
Silver Member
United Kingdom
186 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2007 : 19:21:27
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| I started on Bass, playing some basic Eagles & Johnny Cash basslines with a friend's band (~1985). When I got an electric guitar I think the first thing was probably some Status Quo - I remember learning the 'Big Fat Mama' bass solo on guitar (why I don't know, I just liked it). The first song I had to study to learn (from tablature) was 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You' or 'Stairway to Heaven', I forget which came first (~1987). |
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fuzzface
Bronze Member
United Kingdom
121 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2007 : 19:40:44
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Probably 'Crossroads' by Cream on the 'Wheels of Fire' album.
I'd been noodling around with guitars for a few years before I heard it one night on a really good, loud sound system and it blew my mind...
I've been trying to perfect playing it on guitar ever since and I still haven't succeeded.....  |
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
1418 Posts |
Posted - 09/08/2007 : 00:15:08
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| Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads TRIBUTE. I had been playing for a few years already, but when I heard that CD I wanted to become a guitar god, but then as I got older I realized unless you're born into it, there's a lot of practice involved in attaining god like status... |
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Right Foot Boss
Gold Member
USA
881 Posts |
Posted - 09/08/2007 : 05:50:34
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kulten
Gold Member
France
516 Posts |
Posted - 09/08/2007 : 17:19:03
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I play music since I'm a kid so I don't remember why I wanted to play...
but why bass sounds ? why am I a bass guitar player ?
what I can tell you is that Radio-Activity from Kraftwerk made me think : "yeah ! I must have a synth !" so I became an electro-maker.
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Originally posted by Goran
I suspect that there is one song that made you really want to take drum machines (Kulten!)
for drum machines too... |
Edited by - kulten on 09/08/2007 17:23:09 |
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mattoqua
Silver Member
Canada
438 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2007 : 04:11:02
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ive always just been around music
my stepfather was a bouzouki teacher, and he wanted me to learn so I could teach after a couple years. I really didnt want to though, so he paid me to take lessons from him. After a while, I just stopped with it.
A couple years later i heard nothing else matters (metallica), and thats when i stole my sisters guitar from her room and started playing.
Seek and destroy kept me playing, since i would always grab my guitar, not turn on the amp and pretend to play it. Now that i can, im too in love with my guitars to stop playing |
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Vim Fuego
Gold Member
Denmark
566 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2007 : 17:21:36
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Grew up on the Shadows.. then Dire Straits came along.. the rest is history.
Very similar to Franzoni in fact.. scary stuff
Cheers |
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
1418 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2007 : 20:09:15
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quote:
Originally posted by Vim Fuego
Grew up on the Shadows.. then Dire Straits came along.. the rest is history.
Very similar to Franzoni in fact.. scary stuff
Cheers
But then this influenced you somewhere on the way as well
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Vim Fuego
Gold Member
Denmark
566 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2007 : 13:35:43
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Hahhaaaa
Yes they sure did  |
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redundant
Silver Member
Turkey
247 Posts |
Posted - 09/13/2007 : 16:17:48
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Revolution - The Beatles (circa 1969)
I carried our portable record player (remember those?) down the street just to play it for my friends, caught hell for that from me P & M |
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Alien DNA
Bronze Member
Australia
90 Posts |
Posted - 12/30/2007 : 00:08:29
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| Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying. Need i say anymore. If you don't know it, find it! |
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What song did it?
