Topic: What song made you fall in love with what guitar?

Okay, so very specific I know. But was there one song that made you want to pick up a specific guitar?

For me the song that made me fall in love with the sound of a Les Paul was Dire Straits Brothers In Arms - still sets the hairs on the back of my neck off....that thick yet musical and harmonic tone coupled with Knopfler's tasteful melodies...the bar is set very high let me tell you!!

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I'll begin by saying this, heavy metal made it clear I wanted to play hard rock rhythm...not much for solos.
But, if we have to pick specific songs to match to specific guitars then I guess it would have to say Holy Wars...The Punishment Due (Dave Mustaine of Megadeth).  I immediately fell in love with USA Jackson Vs.  The USA Jackson KV-1 Dave Mustaine signature guitar to be exact.  But, truly, it is any USA Jackson.

It was my favorite guitar for SO MANY years until one day I sold it to pay for a family vacation to Disney World.  I definitely miss that guitar but would not trade the memories we made during that trip for anything.  I have sinced searched for another one exactly like "mine" but have come across only one and they want over 5K.  I paid $1200 and that came brand new directly from the Jackson Custom Shop.  Even if I had 5k I would refuse to pay that much for it.  I would simply ask the Jackson custom shop to build me a replica.  But that is all fantasy because I don't see myself coming across that kind of cash anytime soon.  It's fine, at least I have my "new" late 80s Ibanez RG560.  It's beat to heck but plays and sounds amazing. 

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I grew up around guitars, having two older brothers who both started young. I always liked guitar, though I didn't start learning until I was almost 18. I was always partial to Gibson's, Les Paul, ES335, etc. In 1977 I went to my first big concert and saw Queen. I knew very little about the group except that the tone of Brian May's guitar was different from anything I'd ever heard. At the time I didn't know that the guitar was home made, and I spent a few weeks trying to figure out what kind of guitar it was. This was long before the internet, so information was not easy to find. I remember finding out that it was a one of a kind, home made guitar, and I was disappointed that I couldn't own one like it. In 1993 Brian May worked with Guild to make a limited amount of the first quality copy of the "Red Special" and I placed an order several months before the expected completion date. It was the first new guitar I ever owned, and my first high quality guitar. I still own it, and its still in pristine condition, and I still love that violin tone.

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Rusty wrote:

I grew up around guitars, having two older brothers who both started young. I always liked guitar, though I didn't start learning until I was almost 18. I was always partial to Gibson's, Les Paul, ES335, etc. In 1977 I went to my first big concert and saw Queen. I knew very little about the group except that the tone of Brian May's guitar was different from anything I'd ever heard. At the time I didn't know that the guitar was home made, and I spent a few weeks trying to figure out what kind of guitar it was. This was long before the internet, so information was not easy to find. I remember finding out that it was a one of a kind, home made guitar, and I was disappointed that I couldn't own one like it. In 1993 Brian May worked with Guild to make a limited amount of the first quality copy of the "Red Special" and I placed an order several months before the expected completion date. It was the first new guitar I ever owned, and my first high quality guitar. I still own it, and its still in pristine condition, and I still love that violin tone.

Awesome. I had one of the Burns Red Specials about 10 years ago. Really nice guitar but I always found it way too fiddly on stage for me!!

Guitars: Fender American Original 60s Strat, Fender American Vintage 52 Tele, Gibson Les Paul Traditional
FX: Various including - Ceriatone Centura, Fire Custom Shop Carpe Diem
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5 (edited by NickelWound 2016-03-09 19:46:50)

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Stephen Stills with older Martin Guitars (which I have never been able to afford) and, much to my surprise, John Mayer on the DVD 'Any Given Thursday' doing 'Lenny/Man on the side' made me a Strat player for life. The clean tones and melodies he got off that production model SRV signature made me have to have a strat.

Here's a sample of the sounds he used to make. It's only audio since most of 'Any Given Thursday' seems to be blocked for some reason. If this doesn't make you fall in love with a clean strat I don't know what will https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74sMY_Zeir4

Re: What song made you fall in love with what guitar?

NickelWound wrote:

Stephen Stills with older Martin Guitars (which I have never been able to afford) and, much to my surprise, John Mayer on the DVD 'Any Given Thursday' doing 'Lenny/Man on the side' made me a Strat player for life. The clean tones and melodies he got off that production model SRV signature made me have to have a strat.

Here's a sample of the sounds he used to make. It's only audio since most of 'Any Given Thursday' seems to be blocked for some reason. If this doesn't make you fall in love with a clean strat I don't know what will https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74sMY_Zeir4

Totally with you on that strat tone. I was sold on Strats long before that though!!

Guitars: Fender American Original 60s Strat, Fender American Vintage 52 Tele, Gibson Les Paul Traditional
FX: Various including - Ceriatone Centura, Fire Custom Shop Carpe Diem
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Re: What song made you fall in love with what guitar?

Well after seeing my first concert " Black Sabbath" (1973) I just had to have a SG.....( War Pigs, Paranoid, Sweat Leaf, NIB etc )
The scream and sustain hooked me..humbuckers vs single coils
I still own that first Sg 1973 ( cost me 375.00 with paper route money) ....she has since aged very nicely & sounds even better
over the years your musical tastes change....but I'll never get rid of that 1st Sg.

And so castles made of sand melts into the sea, eventually.........

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Happy to admit my own error here: “La Grange” - but for some time thought it was recorded on a Les Paul, to then find it was recorded with a 55 Strat...

The Thin Lizzy harmony sound with two Les Pauls did get me though..

- it is interesting what you find out along the way, - both Tony Iommi and Angus Young using SG’s not made by Gibson, but by John Diggins of JayDee.

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It has to be the Fender Stratocaster as played by Hank Marvin on Apache. I was very young but I was hooked!

It was to be many years before I bought my first Strat and in the meantime (early 70s) I had an affair with an SG copy after hearing the Hot Rats album by the great Frank Zappa not realising that he had used an early Les Paul Goldtop with P-90s for most of the album. Willie The Pimp still ranks very high in my list of favourite guitar solos.

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The custom EBMM Dark Lord playing Django into Mountain Time.
I really miss that guitar!
Rick

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Not one song as such but when I heard UFO's Lights Out album I knew it was "guitar" music for me. Then a number of years later when I first picked up the guitar it was Michael Schenker that stood out for me.
Tastes have changed back and forth over the years but it's still "guitar" music for me, thank you very much...

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Fell in love with guitar thru Jimmy Page, Led Zep and his LP.   Later found out one of my favorite solo's was actually a telecaster but Les Pauls have remained my favorite.

Re: What song made you fall in love with what guitar?

None.  I liked certain guitars because of certain players and certain bands, but never really one song.

Re: What song made you fall in love with what guitar?

well the song was/is Led Zeppelin " Song Remains The Same/ The Rain " `73 was the year...

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Re: What song made you fall in love with what guitar?

"Rock & Roll" on The Song Remains The Same album. Loved Les Pauls ever since
"The Star Spangled Banner" really turned me on to Strats