What inspired you to play the guitar?

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What made you think: “You know what, that’s it, I’m going to learn to play the guitar”?

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Watching the concert film “Let’s Spend the Night Together” Watching Keith Richards did that for me.

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To play in a band and pick up girls. It worked. Played in bands for over 10 year and met my wife 43 years ago and still together. We both play guitar and jam with friends 2 - 4 times sometime even more a month.

Music is the best gift you can give yourself.

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What originally inspired me was getting dumped by a girl years ago and thinking my world was ending so instead of being depressed I thought you know what I’ll express myself with music. So I bought a guitar online from this website (Troy Stetina, the guy who trained the guitar player for Creed) and began annoying everyone around. Didn’t care and I still played. Years later I met my wife and found Justin guitar. Nobody covers their ears in horror anymore. I play now because I love expressing myself and being on stage. After I’m long gone , the music I left behind will still be here.

Jeff

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and here I was hoping for a poll :open_mouth:

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I had already heard Alice Cooper ‘Schools Out’ on album before it was released as a single at my cousins, and Jimi Hendrix Experience album. I also loved The Moody Blues ‘On The Threshold of a Dream’ which I bought aged 12. The final catalyst was seeing Jimi Hendrix on Top of the Pops in 1970 playing Voodoo Chile release in the UK posthumously.

I was hooked on guitar from the age 11

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It was so long ago, more than 40 years, I can’t remember exactly. Almost certainly was the music I was listening to and particularly the guitar stood out more than other instruments. Maybe it was Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits.

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I was a teenager in the 60s. Practically every block had a garage band. A couple of friends and I decided that we should do that. I bought a Harmony Silvertone electric guitar and small amp from the Sears catalog. The other two never followed through. I learned the E chord and that was pretty much it. I put the guitar and amp in a closet and never touched it again. One of my younger brothers sold it (he denies it to this day but I know he did. I even know who he sold it to) while I was away in the Army.

Fast forward to 2016. I had retired the year before and decided I needed something to occupy myself. I remembered the unfulfilled attempt from the 60s. I bought a Dean Zelinsky Tagliare (Strat clone,) discovered Justin. That’s the story.

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listening to the shadows playing Apache still like that music and I eventually learnt to play albeit on a cheap acoustic I got for Xmas in 1965/66.

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100%

I tried to learn many years earlier, it didn’t stick. Then saw a good friend pick up the guitar and saw how quickly he progressed and that compelled me to try again. Many times my wife has said she’s so glad I picked up the guitar. The people we’ve met, the experiences music has given us are just magic.

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I played piano for many years, no thoughts of guitar. As a teenager base guitar was the cool thing to play anyway but that got vetoed by my parents. My guitar epiphany came when I listened to Trouble by Ray LaMontagne - not just the song, the entire album. Just a guy with an acoustic guitar but getting all these emotions across.

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I dabbled with learning a couple of times, once when I was about 8 years old with a left handed guitar that was in our house and once when in college. I played a lot of competitive sports growing up and was looking for a hobby once I got too old , so decided to revisit playing guitar. I am so glad I did as I will be able to play longer than I could play rugby for :rugby_football:.

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For me? Watching ‘Married at first sight, NZ’. Such sh!t on TV made me decide not to waste any more time on that and ‘waste’ waaay more time learning guitar, only it turned out not to be a waste!

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To seem cool and pick up ladies (16 years old at the time)… but that turned out not to be necessary at all, I was already nice enough of myself… :sweat_smile: because I found my current wife without me playing the guitar for a few years then (29 years ago) :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Greetings

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You love my polls don’t you?

I keep seeing people saying this, is this really a thing? I have a friend who told me that playing the guitar makes a person interesting.

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Fortunately, I didn’t need it as I wrote… but it works both ways… some people looking for a relationship don’t even think about dating/marrying a musician, etc… but since I really started playing the guitar here With Justin … after a 2(?) year period of when I was16 years that didn’t make any sense… this is now my mailbox on Valentine’s Day…

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Some people like love/need musicians :smiling_face:

Greetings

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That’s weird :neutral_face::sweat_smile:

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Only for a rock star in a successful band otherwise it’s a myth.

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Sounds like you’ve never played in a band

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When I was in an all-male band, there was a girl for me at every gig, without fail. When I was in a band with a female front person, it never happened, ever. Black and white, chalk and cheese, poles apart.

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