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I am doing a survey on who was the inspiration for the most people it could be well known people or people you know i or anybody else would not know.
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My inspiration(s) for playing are in this order: JP Cormier (My Uncle - www.jp-cormier.com), Doc Watson, and Chet Atkins. As well as my father (www.josephcormier.tk) peace
my inspiration for playing is u mr. fretty. if you didnt have that strat when i first met you then id probly be a fat pile of crap. thanx dude. believe it or not u actually changed my life <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">
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j.p.cormer is awesome.from cape breton island.he plays a number of instruments.and very well.watched him live a number of times.puts on a real good show.also from the cape is john cambelljohn who plays blues guitar.or matt minglewood who never dissapoints on stage. cheers fromm the east coast of canada badeye
im really in to the blues
yeap i'm into blues music as well. i"ve collected blues albums and c d,s for over 20 years.my favorite blues artist has to be sonny terry and browmie maghee.also like charlie musslewhite who plays great harmonica blues.b.b.king,lightnin hopkins,dutchie mason,downchild blues band,powder blues,,way to many to mention.ij j.p. cormier ever comes to your town go see him,he will not dissapoint. have a good one.. badeye.
my inspiration for playing was my cousin. my sister had just got a guitar and my cousin came round and played a time for heroes(libertines) and i really wanted to play it just like him.
when i actually started learning guitar(i taught myself) i realised lots of the chords in that song were barre chords and so i couldnt play it straight away (or soonish) but i stuck with it and now i can play that song and tons of others. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">
well thats about it
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ps. to new guitarists: stick with it and practice. you'll be really glad you did. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">
My inspiration for playing was an old neighbour of mine called Jim, he was a retired forestry worker. He used sit in his flat most of the day playing the blues, he always had the door open so I could hear him playing, he gave me quite a few cds ie. Peter Green and the Splinter Group, Little Feat etc. He had a good collection of Guitars and when he left to go and live with his daughter in Hampshire he gave me a Yamaha 12 string as a present on the understanding I'd learn to play it. I've been learning for about a year now and mix practice with playing a few tunes I've learnt, I play every day, I even get up early to play Guitar before I go to work which puts me in a good frame of mind. I've got 3 Guitars now, they're only cheap ones but they play well, I'm building my own collection and am about to buy an electric guitar which should be fun.
So big thanks to Jim for inspiring me.
Hope everyones having fun
Chris
<img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_redface.gif" border=0 alt="Embarassed"> <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_sad.gif" border=0 alt="Sad"> to tell the truth, I don't know. It all started in 73-74 and in 1973 I went to university for 7 years, the time needed here to become a medical doctor. The band my brother (2 years younger) and I did start up, has got a lot of succes in our country (BELGIUM). To be honest I played on a cheap acoustic guitar, BUT with an electric pick-up, and my younger brother (tried at least) played more lead and even more solo(for what it's worth). I had to give up playing because of the university, but I did money aside to purchase in 1978 my first more decent guitar, an acoustic yamaha, cost: 300$. I am convinced that I was influenced, certainly by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, together with Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deep Purple too, because at that time they were, still are, my heroes. So I just can't put them in a ranking system: CCR CSN&Y Deep Purple. It was also the beginning of glamrock, hardrock (t-rex, bowie, led zeppelin)
Hey Gitaardocphil I had the the chance to see Crosby,Stills and Nash at Woodstock 94'.What a thrill it was standing on the side of a hill when they sang Wooden Ships.They are truly great misicians.I have all their albums on cd and play frequently.there will never be another music era like the 60's and 70's.
take care....Badeye.
The night I saw Slash standing on Axls piano playing November Rain I knew I had to play guitar.
I knew I had to play guitar when I saw a tape of Hendrix playing "Axis - Bold as Love".
danspr
danspralthough I did not start playing right away I believe it was after watching the beatles on the ed sullivan show. I was about 7 years old but I knew one day I would take up the guitar
Adam Jones from TOOL.
No one...I repeat...NO ONE can do the things he does.
Dm
this guy i know called em
when we started tlaking about guitaring he told me that he went to school with saun morgan (singer/guitarest from seether)
i was like thats pretty awesome dude
and ever since then he has inspired me to play 
Gary Moore.
Blues rules...
my dad inspired me to play guitar....ever since i was a child i saw him playing his guitar like a pro and i automatically liked the sound of it....i was itching to get my hands on it when i finally told him that i want to play the guitar and he was happy beyond words.....hes been teaching me for almost 5 years and i am proud to have a cool dad like that...
cheers
saba
Brian Robertson and Scott Goram in the fantastic days of the best Thin Lizzy line up. What a sound the best I ever heard. Live and dangerous the best album in the world.
so I would say Thin Lizzy as a whole were my inspiration to play guitar.
By the way I am 45 have been playing 5 months and loving every minute of it. It took me a while to get going but I am now......
My inspiration is my guitar teacher, rick. hes the best guitarist ever. i dont understand y he isnt famous! hes awesome! he'll be in the middle of a sentence and he'll stop, and play a lick or a riff. he rocks
Watching Mitchel Everleigh solo in my school musical. Great stuff.
Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Jose Feliciano, Joan Baez. I play piano too, but I always liked guitar better with voice.
And chord voicings are nicer on guitar.
good question! honestly i dont think i am entirly sure... i think there must be a mix of a few things that inspired me to play, i guess that just seeing my fav bands play and seeing that they have gone out and made a name for themselves made me want to pick up the guitar in the first place and it really just helps me to stick at it. so i think it would be a mix of seeing them play at shows and also if it werent for my cousin chris, i probly wouldnt be playing now! so yer, mainly those two things inspired me to start playing and just inspire me in every day life too.
millie
I'd have to say Dimebag Darrel, Alexi Laiho, Matt Heafy, Corey Beaulieu, and Kerry King.
This week Jimmy Reed an old chicago blues player.
Bootlegger.
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