List the things That Make You Want To Play Guitar

Hackmaster said:
& chicks will dig it.
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that was the first reason......

it also got me free beer----weed--- other illegal substances....and into parties that where WAAAAY above my pay grade .........

OH and I think the correct answer was for the "love of music and learning of a craft" right??? wasnt that on the test?
 
Well ok. I guess there was also the get the girl thing. Sure worked out for me. Nearly 40 years later she’s still with me.

Edit: I needed to add, I still have the guitar too.
 
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As a kid, I saw Blackmore playing and wanted to learn his craft. I would stay up all night leaning riffs from records.

Now, in the case of even my own kids, they would rather play "Rock Band" than really learn the guitar.

52 years old and I'm still driven from within...
 
Robert Herndon said:
As a kid, I saw Blackmore playing and wanted to learn his craft. I would stay up all night leaning riffs from records.

Now, in the case of even my own kids, they would rather play "Rock Band" than really learn the guitar.

52 years old and I'm still driven from within...
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I was lucky in that respect. My youngest (34 now) played all the video games. But when it came to guitar. Taught himself both bass and guitar. Way better at it than I am.
 
iblive said:
I was lucky in that respect. My youngest (34 now) played all the video games. But when it came to guitar. Taught himself both bass and guitar. Way better at it than I am.
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These kids (one is 25) like "Rock Band" mostly as a social platform. I am - and have always been - more reclusive.

It wasn't hard for me to hear a song on the radio back in the 1980's on a Monday night, record it on cassette tape, and have it ready to perform at a school assembly by Wednesday.

I'm still a little bit like that...
 
iblive said:
I was lucky in that respect. My youngest (34 now) played all the video games. But when it came to guitar. Taught himself both bass and guitar. Way better at it than I am.
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We still enjoy a few video games...mostly Silent Hunter and Combat Flight Simulator.

On Silent Hunter, I played it in career mode at 100% realism. We stopped playing not long before the move. My character had amassed more tonnage than any U-Boat ace in history.

Some of those missions took weeks to complete.
 
Robert Herndon said:
These kids (one is 25) like "Rock Band" mostly as a social platform. I am - and have always been - more reclusive.

It wasn't hard for me to hear a song on the radio back in the 1980's on a Monday night, record it on cassette tape, and have it ready to perform at a school assembly by Wednesday.

I'm still a little bit like that...
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That’s awesome. Something I cannot do. Since I’m pretty much a rhythm type, I can take a chord chart and once I know the song, pretty much sight read and come up with something. Probably owe that to Jr/Sr High Band.
 
iblive said:
That’s awesome. Something I cannot do. Since I’m pretty much a rhythm type, I can take a chord chart and once I know the song, pretty much sight read and come up with something. Probably owe that to Jr/Sr High Band.
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We didn't have a choice...I guess.

I remember hearing "Back in Black" over a guy's boom box at school one day. Never heard it before. Got our group together and we listened to it at lunch on cassette tape.

Within two days we had it down pat.
 
jtcnj said:
"Something's at the edge of your mind, you don't know what it is
Somethin' you were hopin' to find but your not sure what it is
Then you hear the music and it all comes crystal clear
The music does the talkin' says the things you want to hear"


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Awesome!
 
jtcnj said:
"Something's at the edge of your mind, you don't know what it is
Somethin' you were hopin' to find but your not sure what it is
Then you hear the music and it all comes crystal clear
The music does the talkin' says the things you want to hear"


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Darn those Canadian Bands they sure have a way with words.:)
 
I'm not sure I can explain what drives me to play exactly, though I know a lot you get what I mean.
The initial spark was a desire to make the noises that my heroes were making, and at first that was enough. But then something else takes over and you are driven to create your own noises and that gives you fuel. And as you progress you are driven to keep getting better. And before you even noticed it playing is so much a part of what and who you are it's as indispensable to your everyday life as sustenance and shelter. I simply cannot imagine a world without playing guitar.
 
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gball said:
I'm not sure I can explain what drives me to play exactly, though I know a lot you get what I mean.
The initial spark was a desire to make the noises that my hero's were making, and at first that was enough. But then something else takes over and you are driven to create your own noises and that gives you fuel. And as you progress you are driven to keep getting better. And before you even noticed it playing is so much a part of what and who you are it's as indispensable to your everyday life as sustenance and shelter. I simply cannot imagine a world without playing guitar.
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Agreed....
 
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