What was the "1" song that "formed "you

NY Chief · Post by **NY Chief** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:49 pm

Grand Funk Live - Heartbreaker and of course Johnny Winter's Jumping Jack Flash.

JD · Post by JD » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:57 pm

I never even considered plucking one note before I heard Led Zeppelin I.

rich E. · Post by **rich E.** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:40 am

I used to "borrow" my dads ac/dc records to play on my cheap ass kids record player. I think it was 'Whole Lot of Rosie' that gave me the rock bug. Hendrix gave me the guitar bug though. Weird for an 80's kid i guess. All my friends were into Metallica and EVH...

rustyrat · Post by **rustyrat** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:15 am

Smoke on the Water, live version on the "B" side of the studio 45! Thats all it took.
RR

cole · Post by **cole** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:51 pm

This is definitely a loaded question...

I knew that music was something more than just notes on an AM radio when I visited my sister in Hamilton, Ontario Canada in 1976. All our family were on vacation and I was all of 8 years old...

I remember that day we left to come home, there were tearful good byes. I had never experienced sadness like that ever before...I loved my big sis...to me she was the coolest person in my world and getting on the highway when we left that morning, a song was playing on the radio that I never heard before. That song was "You make me feel brand new" by The Stylistics. Something in me opened up and that was the first time music touched me and I felt its power. Jesus, even today when I hear that one in the car I almost have to pull over....it still has that effect.

Years later when I had inherited my older brothers/sisters records I remembered many of the songs I heard when I was 5, 6, and 7 and 8 years old. There was one album in that collection "Caught in the Act" by Grand Funk, a live album that blew my mind wide open. It was so rock 'n roll. Then Supertramp, Boston, Aerosmith...well the album list goes on...they all had a massive impact on my development as a kid becoming a young teen. I just 'got it' y'know? I got that music bug.

Then at 15, I finally got deep into music playing guitar. My brother 'n law taught me the basics on acoustic guitar and it grew from there. So...a few years later I played my first live gig in a band, a stadium gig (a town dance to mark the beginning of the summer with hundreds in attendance) at 18 and just had the best time of my life! Afterward, there was a post-gig party and a girlfriend of one of the guys in the band even presented us with a cake with our band name on it...it was such a fun time that summer with girlfriends, buddies, beer and BBQ's...and music.

..and everytime I pick up my guitar today it all comes from that moment when I heard The Stylistics at age 8...I am 8 years old all over again and discovering the power of music for that first time...

...Music...rock 'n roll music touched my life and I believe as musicians we all have that epiphany with that one first song.

I believe in some way that making these excellent plexi Marshall replicas (I just completed my first, a Metro JTM 45) helps to get us back in line with a time when rock music was simply fantastic, and the gear used to play it was just as good. Perhaps we may never come into a decade like the 60's or the 70's again when things (most things) were really alive and we lived in a not-so-complicated world.

I digress...

But I answered the question posed nonetheless.

Cole.

jerrydyer · Post by **jerrydyer** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:54 pm

That is tough. How about "Power" from Blackmore and I was at the second row. And of course since I picked up the guitar in 1978, Eruption had a big influence or is that a given?

jngreene79 · Post by **jngreene79** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:36 pm

Pete Towshend anyone?

Tone Slinger · Post by **Tone Slinger** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:44 pm

Eddie Hazel "Comin' Round The Mountain". The whole song . Buddy Miles on drums, Cordell Mosson on Bass. Eddie really pimp's out the phase 90 and echoplex on that one. "Funkadelic "Hardcore Jollies" 1976 release, first track. No album credit though, sure he made a dolla though. Havent heard it ? Then Listen up !

62sg · Post by **62sg** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:23 am

Always loved music as a kid, [late 60's]...and wondered even at age 6 or 7 how the Beatles and even the Beach Boys got some of those "weird" sounds coming outta that ole needle ! And, it was the aggressiveness of the guitar on some early to mid 70's records
[Kiss Alive, 75, Detroit...BTO...Deep Purple..] that really got me thinking about starting to play.
But what really put me over the top was 'Live Bullet' from Bob Seger [75]...and the playing of Drew Abbott on that particular record. The solo on"Travelin Man/Beautiful Loser"....imho, kills ! And the energy from that album still knocks me out.
Is really too difficult to pinpoint ONE song, but a few come to mind:
'Smoke on the water'....especially the live version...and especially anything from Scorpions "Lovedrive" record.
My other influences:
Michael /Rudolph Schenker....Gary Moore...Blackmore...Frampton...Paul Chapman....
Could go on & on, but only had one cuppa coffee and cannot remember them all !!!

Tone Slinger · Post by **Tone Slinger** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:24 pm

Agreed, lots too many to list. The solo in "Rock and Roll all Nite" off "Alive" always got my attention. Ace really introduced me to that Marshall/Humbucker crunch. Another album that got me was "Band Of Gypsies" . "Machine Gun" in particular. For some reason Kiss "Alive" and "Band of Gypsies" kind of has a similar sound. Kramer production and Marshall amps, pentatonic based riff's played heavy ?

Tone Slinger · Post by **Tone Slinger** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:44 pm

Michael Schenker's playing on the "Obsession" album by UFO. "Pack it up and go " fuckin floored me. "Born to Lose" also cuts to the bone. I was a kid who saw that album cover and had to take a listen.

BrownSound1 · Post by **BrownSound1** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:53 am

Difficult, but I remember my folks listening to a Chuck Berry record and Johnny B. Good coming on...that made me want to play guitar. However, it wasn't until I was at a friend's house and his big brother popping on a record that I was just enamored with playing. That album was Van Halen's first, and the song was Eruption. I haven't been right since then. Funny thing is, I don't play like EVH that much. I'll credit that to diving head first into Led Zeppelin. All of their songs spoke to me, if that makes sense.

awangotango · Post by **awangotango** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:54 am

Bad Co - "rock steady"

Skoora · Post by **Skoora** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:19 pm

Queen - The Game / Dragon Attack
10 years old and those solo breaks just ripped me a new one. The tone he got still does.

AC/DC - Back In Black
Let There Be Rock is now my favorite but BIB was the first one that made me want to switch from playing drums to the real deal.

Guitar Adjuster · Post by **Guitar Adjuster** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:59 pm

Foghat---slow ride as a teenager and seeing Johnny Cash live in the LA Forum in 1969 when I was 9 years old, that's all it took.