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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Taking off from thoughts being shared in another forum, was there a particular artist or two who influenced you to pick up a guitar or to develop a specific style?
Mine were James Burton, Carl Wilson, the Ventures (Bogle, Wilson and Edwards), and Dick Dale. Later on, John Denver was also an influence and it is interesting to note that James Burton was a member of his touring and recording band from '77 on. |
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| I guess the first person I ever saw who looked cool holding a guitar was George Harrison. Then came the guitar solo on You Really Got Me (whether it was Dave Davies or Jimmy Page or Big Jim Sullivan - who knows, who cares?) and I was hooked. It's been downhill ever since. |
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Location: closely held secret | Beatles, Stones, Fogelberg, Hodgson... |
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Location: North Carolina | Bob Shane |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Girls |
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Location: SoCal | My Uncle Thomas.... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Moody. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ...or Knopfler |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | In chronological order: Chet Atkins, the Everly Brothers and the Ventures. |
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Location: NJ | Ringo Starr. |
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Location: Indiana | Beach Boys and Ventures. I actually learned to play of of 2 ventures albums, "Learn to Play with the Ventures".Worked for me.
Bill |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Kevin Lacey*.
(* Names have been changed to protect the innocent.) |
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Location: South Windsor Connecticut | The late great Harry Chapin. Not the greatest guitar player I know, but either am I. His songs and style were the best.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Jose Feliciano. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Not Tiny Tim? |
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Location: Jet City | well...
my list is WAY different.
Alex Lifeson
Rik Emmet
Randy Rhodes
And all the local guitar heros in the East Bay Area (SF) like:
Brad Gillis
Mark McGee
Dan Chauncey
Vinnie Moore
Ross Alexander
Brian Roundtree
Alex Scholnick
Kirk Hammett
and so many more... |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | My cousin Craig Swan, Jorma Kaukonen, and James Taylor. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | A guitar playing friend in college talked me into it. He noticed my left hand was double jointed and convinced me that I would be able to finger nearly impossible chords with ease.
I'm still playing 25 years later, but he was dead wrong about the chords. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | July 1991, Johnny Carson played SRV's Riviera Paradise over a photo tribute to his son on the Tonight Show. I've been a music and guitar fan all my life, but that was the moment. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Mel Bay.
That's probably why I don't play any better than I do! |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Riviera Paradise - great tune. |
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Location: big island | i was most influenced by one who really wasn't much of a guitar player but that did not seem to matter. his name was/is elvis presley. anybody ever heard of him? |
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Location: NJ | Unfortunately, all too often . . |
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Location: Veedersburg, Indiana | I'd say Bob Shane from the Kingston Trio. When I started folk music was all the craze and the Trio were the biggest there was. After that pretty any of the folk/country/soft rock singer-songwriters. |
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Who influenced you to take up the guitar?
