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Ok, what was I listening to in the days of yore? When I was a young, free and single student of Art and Design...

Lindsay Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac.

Mark Knopfler

Dave Gilmour

It has changed since then. I like more relatively "unknown" guitarists that aren't usually in the mainstream music industry.

Sam Price39072.2590162037

I hate to date myself but I'm in the same camp as Old man. My heros were:

The Ventures - wish I could remember the name of their lead guitarist.

Jorgen Ingmann - remember the song Apache in 1961?

Jose Feliciano - saw him at his first coffehouse appearance in L.A. in 1963. He played Malenguena and Flight of the Bumblebee and it blew the audience away. (me too.)

Wes Montgomery... need I say more?

Carlos Montoya - my introduction to Flamenco guitar, which led to:

Sabicas - marvelous, intricate and always in compas.

George VanEpps - wonderful 7 string guitar - walking bass line, great soft jazz.

Andres Segovia - bought my first classical LP of him in '62 and promptly wore it out listening to it.

Chet Atkins - Mr. Smooth

Doc Watkins - and still going strong.Peter J39072.3190046296

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Peter

First heard Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Scuttle Buttin'" back in 1984 and I actually had to sit down after hearing it. After that my school work went South but my guitar playing improved :)


A few others that really change my life.

The Beatles


Buddy Holly



Jimmy Page

Tony Rice


Merle Travis


The most influential without a doubt was the late Hank Garland.

Colonial Tonwds39072.3284027778

Hmmm. Dual guitarists actually got me wanting to play guitar.

Frank Hannon and the other guy from Tesla. (but they were great guitarists!)

Mark Ford and Rich Robinson from The Black Crowes (awesome in concert!)


When I heard those guys that's when friends told me about original guitarists, Hendrix, Clapton, Page, insert original guitar hero here.

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Come on guys, I know I'm old, but nobody's mentioned Les Paul yet. I
doubt I was even in school yet when I heard the incredible and highly
polished Les Paul and Mary Ford recordings. They were as smooth as silk
and flawless. At the time my father owned about 3,000 78 rpm records
and I can clearly remember 3 or 4 of theirs in that collection that I would
play over and over. "Waiting for the Sunrise" I think was the name of my
favorite.
Craig S.

Classical piano until 1954 when an interest in jazz took over. That reigned until I met Jesse Fuller who taught me slide guitar in 1960 and it has been down hill ever since.

Bests regards and happy holidays.

CK

Well if I look atthe first LP I ever bought - Deep Purple - Machine Head, which I still listen to a lot (and my kids love it as well), gotta be the one and only Ritchie Blackmore.

Shortly thereafter one of the local neighbour hood kids and I discovered the first Nugent and Aerosmith albums ... toss in some Kiss Alive, BTO, Yes and finally Eddie ....

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Tony Karol
www.karol-guitars.com
"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

Gotta vote for Eddie V and Angus, maybe a little Frampton too.

This guy: Rik Emmett. Now if I can find one of those elusive Framus Akkerman guitars...

WarrenG39072.5102546296

I have lots of favorites since I first heard Steve Howe, but I still love his playing.

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"Building guitars looks hard, but it's actually much harder than it looks." Tom Buck

First...

I am with Lance... Sort of, but mine was Gene (yes, I realize that is a bass, but it is a bass GUITAR, and I was probably 10).

After that Angus

After that Eddie

After that SRV and Clapton

After that a bunch of old dead blues guys

Now... so many I can't even name them.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

in order... two are easy, but who are those other guys?

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John Watkins
CNC Guitar Parts

Oh geez, almost forgot...

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John Watkins
CNC Guitar Parts

Ever since I saw him on the Gong Show in '76 I've been a huge fan and he completely changed the way I look at stringed instruments.

...I think Arnt will share my opinion that it doesn't get much better than this.

Altogether now.. "Tiptoe through the tulips.......



Colin

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I would say Phil Keaggy 1st,then Dicky Betts,Duane Allman,Clapton,Knopfler,Blackmore,Hendrix,and about a hundred more!!

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

Dave hill of Slade hasn't had a mention yet.......



after him there was Gary Moore (from up the road)

Mark Knopfler

the Pat McManus of Mamas Boys......All Ireland Fiddle champ at 14 but a great celtic rock guitarist too.....


Yngwie Malmsteen

Steve Vai

Joe Satriani

Merle Travis

Clapped out Eric

And recently

Tommy Emmanuel & Robert Randolph
But the real inspiration?

another bloke from up the road.

George Lowden

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I couldn't get my pics to go up so i'll try again later.Kevin Gallagher39072.480150463

Wow.... so many.

Just a few:

George Benson
Roy Clark
James Taylor
Eric Clapton
Hadley Hockensmith
Phil Keaggy
George Harrison
Vince Gill
Keith Urban
Chet Atkins
Dan Tyminski
Ron Block
More than these guys, my teachers, and the guys I've jammed with through the years....

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

It would be easy to write a long list. In fact, I started one, but the question is about "your first." And my very first guitar hero was definitely Paul Simon.

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John Cavanaugh
Saint Paul, MN
"What could possibly go wrong?"

First, well this may date me a bit. I won't even attempt all the electric rockers, but these were my acoustic heroes.

Pete Seger
George Harrison
Arlo Guthrie
James Taylor
Don McLean
Glen Campbell

Don A39072.5053472222

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Don Atwood
Arlington, VA

He was not my first, Hesh pick my first, but one of my mid teen guitar heros

Yeah Don....Glen Campbell was a great guitarist for sure. I totally forgot him on my list, and he should be there.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

[QUOTE=John Watkins] Oh geez, almost forgot...

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Michael Schenker UFO!
and
Pat Travers

use to play Snortin' Whiskey,Drinkin' Cocaine back in day

and LanceK39072.5267476852

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