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04-20-2020, 02:47 PM
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Your most influential Electric Guitar Albums?
What are your most influential Albums that have Electric Guitars? These are the albums that made you want to pick up guitar, learn the songs, and jam along to the record/tape/cd playing.
For me, the first one was Iron Maiden's Live After Death. Live album based on the 1984/1985 world tour for the Powerslave album. I must have jammed to that a few hundred times over many years. How about you? 
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04-20-2020, 03:08 PM
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Many spring to mind, but here's a couple of special ones:
Wishbone Ash - Argus. One of the first bands I ever saw live, touring at the time in support of Mott the Hoople. I'd never heard twin lead guitar before (not consciously, anyway), and the sound just captivated me. Argus was the third album, and still my favourite. I learned as many of the riffs and motifs off that album as my fingers would allow. I still have the first copy I bought, but generally play the second one these days. The first is 48 years old  Jeff Beck - Guitar Shop. I was so besotted with this one, I recorded it onto both sides of a cassette so that I could listen to it continuously in my car without rewinding. Never did cop a lick off it, but I'm convinced that some of it rubbed off somewhere.
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04-20-2020, 03:24 PM
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Honestly, Gord's Gold and Gord's Gold Volume 2. That and Brothers in Arms.
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04-20-2020, 03:25 PM
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The Yes Album (Steve Howe's first).
Last edited by M19; 04-22-2020 at 05:49 AM.
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04-20-2020, 04:41 PM
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Hmm... that's tougher than most important influences. The earliest was probably The Allman Brothers' "Idlewild South." And a later one was SRV's "In Step."
PS... I might need to make an edit. I think the first album where I was amazed by the electric guitars was the Ventures' "Walk, Don't Run." Sweet album with Bob Bogle, Don Wilson and Nokie Edwards. Last edited by Kerbie; 04-20-2020 at 05:48 PM.
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04-20-2020, 05:30 PM
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Probably Zeppelin I. I was very young, buy my older brother brought that record home. I remember being absolutely mesmerized by it. My brother decided to get rid of all of his records back in the 80s, and I still have that album around somewhere.
CCR was a big influence on me early in life, as well. No particular album, but pretty much everything they did.
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04-20-2020, 05:45 PM
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Chris Isaak's "Self Titled" album which came out in 1987. (I heard "Wicked Game" on the radio from his "Heart Shaped World" album but the first album I purchased was his second "Self Titled" album).
This 25 year old Australian had heard nothing like "Wicked Game" or "Blue Hotel" up until then and it was a real game changer as far as my musical tastes and sensibilities were concerned. It was the first record that had a "sound" for me. (Transported me to a time and a place in the USA I wanted to explore further). Great album full of great songs and this wonderful marriage of Isaak's crooning vocals and James Wilsey's drenched lead guitar tones. (I too wanted to create a sound on a Stratocaster like James Wilsey and learn how to play "Blue Hotel"). I've heard so many great albums over the years but this album was probably the most influential and I still have the vinyl copy. Last edited by Steel and wood; 04-20-2020 at 05:51 PM.
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04-20-2020, 06:07 PM
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Led Zep I and II, Tommy (Who), Hendrix Electric Ladyland, Elliot Easton all Cars, Santana, all Beatles.
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04-20-2020, 06:33 PM
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04-20-2020, 06:46 PM
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Jimi Hendrix: Live At Monterey
Led Zeppelin: I, II, IV Johnny Winter: Captured Live Ted Nugent: Ted Nugent Boston: Boston Blue Oyster Cult: On Your Feet Or On Your Knees Jeff Beck: Wired SRV: Texas Flood, Couldn't Stand The Weather Earl Klugh: Trio Klugh/Benson: Collaboration Brad Paisley: Play
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04-20-2020, 06:55 PM
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Beatles - Everything up to and including Rubber Soul
Ventures - On Stage/Golden Greats Animals - Best of the Animals Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) CSNY - Four-Way Street Santana - Abraxas Allman Brothers - Fillmore East/Brothers & Sisters
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04-20-2020, 07:20 PM
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James Gang - Rides Again, Thirds, Live at Carnegie Hall
Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink..., So What? Allman Brothers - Beginnings, Live at Fillmore East Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street, The Captain and Me Wishbone Ash - Live Dates, Argus Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced, Second Helping YES - Close to the Edge, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Going for the One Camel - The Snow Goose, Rain Dances Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Focus - Hocus Pocus And so many more. Bob
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