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Why do you play guitar?; I want to know!
Topic Started: Jun 25 2008, 02:05 PM (318 Views)
Mattayus	Jun 25 2008, 02:05 PM Post #1
Newbie Posts: 17 Group: Members Member #8,619 Joined: June 19, 2008	Give me your reasons for why you play
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Bullet	Jun 25 2008, 04:19 PM Post #2
Admin Posts: 1,834 Group: Admin Member #183 Joined: January 13, 2007	Hard question. I know why I started.... I saw Slash play and he just looked so cool and I wanted to be like that. There are a few reasons why a continue to play.... 1. I love to play 2. All the attention you get (esp from girls ) and the fact you can amaze people 3. The fact that it has the potential to earn me big bucks in the future. I think that sums up why I play



Mattayus	Jun 26 2008, 08:36 PM Post #3
Newbie Posts: 17 Group: Members Member #8,619 Joined: June 19, 2008	Dimebag did it for me personally, when i first heard the opening riff to Mouth For War. To me at the time it was the heaviest thing i'd ever heard (it was the 90's mind!), so 10 years later i'm a metal connoisseur and teacher! Nothing beats being on stage though, it's that that keeps me going i think
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mynameisDavid	Jun 27 2008, 02:50 PM Post #4
Member Posts: 919 Group: Moderator Member #294 Joined: March 2, 2007	I think what started me playing was listening to Rob Zombie, That got me into guitar a lot and then turned me into listening to Slipknot. But the reason I play is 1.) I'd like to get involved with music 2.) I'd rather be the one playing than the listener. 3.) It's fun, creating music is like finding Waldo in the Where Waldo books, once you find him you've created the song, but once you turn the page another song is being written.



monwobobbo	Jul 8 2008, 01:06 AM Post #5
Posts: 610 Group: Moderator Member #8,625 Joined: June 23, 2008	i play because i love music and guitar particularily. the first guy that made me go wow i wanna do that was Richie Blackmore's playing on Highway Star. i was 10 when that song came out and it really blew me away. i didn't start to play until my later high school years. since then i've always stuck with it. oh and yeah the girls thing is cool to. (jdon't tell my wife)
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Tone Deaf Dave	Jul 12 2008, 12:04 PM Post #6
Newbie Posts: 4 Group: Members Member #8,649 Joined: July 7, 2008	Just for the fun of it. I just get a certain satisfaction from making nice music and getting better at it. Love learning too, there's something about that frustration than you get when you are trying to learn a particular thing, and then the satisfaction you get when you suddenly realise you are playing it perfectly. I don't get chance to play in front of other people too much these days (except at my mates house when we have all been out on the beer), so it's pretty much all for me. Just a personal thing for me.
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popfictionperfection	Jul 16 2008, 03:36 PM Post #7
Newbie Posts: 4 Group: Members Member #8,662 Joined: July 16, 2008	for me it was something i always wanted to do. i started when i was about fourteen, and played for about a year, before being so put off by my teacher that i wouldn't touch a guitar for another four years...i went out and bought myself a gibson last week, and i won't let anybody put me off ever again, i'm in love with it lol Edited by popfictionperfection, Jul 16 2008, 03:36 PM.



+�Pantera_fan	Jul 23 2008, 12:59 AM Post #8
Retired Posts: 289 Group: Retired Member #745 Joined: July 3, 2007	Mattayus Jun 26 2008, 08:36 PM Dimebag did it for me personally, when i first heard the opening riff to Mouth For War. To me at the time it was the heaviest thing i'd ever heard (it was the 90's mind!), so 10 years later i'm a metal connoisseur and teacher! Nothing beats being on stage though, it's that that keeps me going i think Way to steal my story But seriously theintro for mouth for war blew my face off at the time. The heaviest music I had ever listen to was what was on he radio, and then at 10 years old I hear that. I knew I had to be able to do what he was doing, The riff was in my head for weeeks man.
	15 years in the academy, he was like no cadet they had ever seen, a man so hard his veins bleed ice when he speaks he never says it twice the call him judge, last name Dredd so break the law and you'll wind up dead!!!


mynameisDavid	Jul 23 2008, 02:55 AM Post #9
Member Posts: 919 Group: Moderator Member #294 Joined: March 2, 2007	Pantera_fan Jul 23 2008, 12:59 AM Mattayus Jun 26 2008, 08:36 PM Dimebag did it for me personally, when i first heard the opening riff to Mouth For War. To me at the time it was the heaviest thing i'd ever heard (it was the 90's mind!), so 10 years later i'm a metal connoisseur and teacher! Nothing beats being on stage though, it's that that keeps me going i think Way to steal my story But seriously theintro for mouth for war blew my face off at the time. The heaviest music I had ever listen to was what was on he radio, and then at 10 years old I hear that. I knew I had to be able to do what he was doing, The riff was in my head for weeeks man. Welcome back dude!



+�Pantera_fan	Jul 23 2008, 03:48 AM Post #10
Retired Posts: 289 Group: Retired Member #745 Joined: July 3, 2007	elvis face thankyou very much elvis face
	15 years in the academy, he was like no cadet they had ever seen, a man so hard his veins bleed ice when he speaks he never says it twice the call him judge, last name Dredd so break the law and you'll wind up dead!!!


Running Cheese	Jul 24 2008, 08:37 PM Post #11
Member Posts: 24 Group: Members Member #8,680 Joined: July 24, 2008	Well I started due to the big influence my dad had on me. He played guitar for a few years and had a Tokai Strat in green. I looked at it and thought 'Hey, that looks cool!' I was about 9 at the time. He told me I wouldn't stick to it and I suppose he was right therefore, I delayed it. A few years later at age 14 I begged and begged until I eventually got a guitar! I remember that it was a Cruiser (by Crafter) classical acoustic. Since then I progressed and eventually got to the gear I have now . I continue to play for a lot of reasons though. 1. The thrill of playing onstage. There's nothing better! 2. The way you can impress people through playing. 3. The way you feel when you learn something new and master that riff you've been practising for ages! etc... I could go on all day!
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KeMiKaL	Aug 7 2008, 09:38 PM Post #12
Newbie Posts: 5 Group: Members Member #8,719 Joined: August 7, 2008	I played guitar on and off for a few years, until I started listening to Machine Head and System and heard some of their killer riffs, it inspired me to be able to play like that and so I guess thats why I play... That and the attention you get just by having a guitar is awesome
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phill1883	Aug 18 2008, 12:10 PM Post #13
Member Posts: 36 Group: Members Member #8,740 Joined: August 15, 2008	Well personally for me, I was a very uncharismatic teenager who had no luck with girls (I had massive hair, spots diddnt wash much and was the only metaller in a 5 mile radius). There was this other kid in school who could play wonderwall on his accoustic, and girls fancied him...so I decided that the guitar is the key (not the personal hygiene issues or the small family of birds that no doubt called the mop on my head home) ...I learned to play wonderwall and some other crap...still no luck with the ladies so I decided to dump the accoustic got a cheap ibanez and tried to play like James Hetfield. After a few years I got really bored playing covers and having them criticised because I always deviated from the way the original was played (on purpose) so I started writing stuff in the style of Lamb of god...then I got bored of people likening my style to LOG so I enthused that with some of the accoustic stuff I was writing for myself at the time.....now I write for myself, I love to experiment with harmonys, strange melodies, time sigs etc...to me writing a song that I (and my band) like sounds like me and noone else is more rewarding then anything else I do...lets just hope that when we start gigging this material other people like it too. The girls still dont like me



mynameisDavid	Aug 19 2008, 03:24 AM Post #14
Member Posts: 919 Group: Moderator Member #294 Joined: March 2, 2007	phill1883 Aug 18 2008, 12:10 PM Well personally for me, I was a very uncharismatic teenager who had no luck with girls (I had massive hair, spots diddnt wash much and was the only metaller in a 5 mile radius). The girls still dont like me Same here


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