What song made you pick up a guitar?

[dekutree64]

I've always loved music and played keyboard instruments, but JerryC's Canon Rock is what spurred me to learn guitar as well.


But electrics really aren't that great as solo instruments, and I never got very good at playing (which I've since learned is because my strat's neck is just too darn narrow for my giant hands, and the frets on it were pretty bad so I had to have high action on top of that).

Land of Ice and Snow by Stratovarius convinced me to buy an acoustic, and I was hooked.

[Cabarone]

Wildwood Flower

[Finger Stylish]

Windy & Warm
Time in A Bottle

[Photojeep]

Chet Atkins playing Dixie and Yankee Doodle simultaneously (sometime in 1969)
John Denver (playing anything)
Jim Croce (also playing anything)

Best,
PJ

[Daveyo]

Tin man, America

[marc515]

Gloria- Shadows of Knight; first song I learned in 1965.
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[Oldguy64]

One I wrote.
Thought I'd learn to play and eventually write the music.
That was twenty two years ago.
I've learned a lot of music.
Still haven't written the music for that song.

[fitness1]

No individual songs, but Jim Croce and Harry Chapin in the early 70's - I knew I had to do THAT!

[Hurricane Ramon]

My father with his J45 in the early fifties was what got me interested in guitars when I was 4 or 5 after I started harmonica .

Louie Armstrong - Johnny & The Harmonicats were my first motivators to want to learn how to play music .

1956 I started guitar - ended in 1962 when 3 glass gallon milk bottle's smashed into my left chording hand and finger tips
for 36 years . 1958 I began trumpet .

Oct.12th.1998 the last shard(s) of glass came out and I restarted again a few months later when the
exit wound healed January 1999 -

¡ It's going on 18 years of fun !

I also picked up playing keyboard & drums as well

EZ :

HR

[Godfather]

Old Man, Neil Young and John Prine's Hello In There were two songs that moved me. 37 years later I decided it's now or never.

[jaybones]

Thinking back, probably Eyes of the World. Not the open chords but the barres.

Took my a few years but I finally have a passable version of it.

But it was equally probable that Uncle John's Band, with the intro melody was the one most accessible for a beginner and the one I got the most mileage out of.

[Kittoon]

The last 35 seconds of this song, when I was 10 years old. I bought the record album to get "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy however, the B side was anything but Bubblegum. If you want to hear the coolest blues riff ever recorded in the history of music jump to about 2:40 (prior to this point, the song sounds kind of like "Hawaii Five-O" meets Timothy Leary) This riff is the source of my love of reverb. I only have acoustics, and the only effects box I use is a reverb machine, (Strymon) but I weave this riff in as a coda often when in Em! -I have yet to find a cooler riff.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMubSCRObLI

[jhmulkey]

It wasn't a single song for me; it was two singer/songwriters with completely different backgrounds, styles, and subject matter: John Denver and John Michael Talbot. It was their records An Evening With John Denver and Troubadour of the Great King that I found among my dad's record collection in high school that made me want to take on the guitar.

[Glennwillow]

It wasn't one song that made my pick up the guitar. It was the sound of the guitars that Peter, Paul and Mary were playing and their entire first album.

- Glenn

[Kittoon]

Originally Posted by Glennwillow

It wasn't one song that made my pick up the guitar. It was the sound of the guitars that Peter, Paul and Mary were playing and their entire first album.

- Glenn

I play my take on "Bamboo" from that record my parents had.