Which band inspired you to pick up an instrument?

[Raamie]

Black Sabbath, Iron maiden, RATM, TOOL, Pink Floyd, Pantera, 

 

Bands like that made me want to learn an instrument and I just love the deep sound of a Bass guitar so I decided on that.

[chapmak]

No so much a band or song, but playing Rockband a few times.  I liked doing that and thought there is probably some software out there to learn how to play a real guitar.   Then the idea faded again until we had our son's B-day at Chuckie Cheese and they had Rockband, and then decided to just DO IT.  So I  here I am about 2 years later and still loving Rocksmith and playing about every day.   Wish they had this about 20 years ago instead of starting in my 40's.

[Casey_P1]

I'd say mostly Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold since i mainly listen to those two bands.

[hellohello]

Kirk Hammet and Metallica. To be precise Kirk's solos. Playing them in Guitar Hero was fun, but not enough anymore :)

And already in Rocksmith (as I started to learn how to play with RS2014) - 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson. That song blew my mind. If there is a difficult song I want to master, it's that one. Mr. Fripp is a beast.

 

While I always liked sound of bass, it was Rocksmith Championship that made me pick one up.

 

I am a music listener a lot since I was a little kid, I used to play the smurfs in that long plays at 6 or 7. Later at 10 I used to listen to the old records from my father like Glen Miller. Was at 13 that I would like to play battery like Iron Maiden. but my father just grunt in disagreement.

So like you was pretty late in been interested in playing guitar ,after playing Guitar Hero.

At first was fun GH, but later realized how unreal was to play that toy with programmed sounds that really inspired to play guitar for real,so it wasn´t all the music groups that heard before just that silly video game. :P .

Never imagined how hard it would be. So there´s me right now struggling to play guitar right after spending quite some time with RS since almost the first release. So history repeats again somehow like Guitar Hero.Ha,ha,ha. :D :D :D Ah the irony.

[QOTSANINSOADKORN]

Nine Inch Nails originally...

Beside You In Time - 2007 Live Lineup...

• Trent Reznor — lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, tambourine
• Jeordie White — Bass guitar, guitar, keyboard, vocals
• Alessandro Cortini — Synthesizer, guitar, vocals
• Aaron North — Guitar, vocals
• Josh Freese — Drums

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In Recent Years Though it was Gojira

 

Jean-Michel Labadie = Excellent Bassist

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_wcx0CPJA4

[QOTSANINSOADKORN]

Black Sabbath, Iron maiden, RATM, TOOL, Pink Floyd, Pantera, 

 

Bands like that made me want to learn an instrument and I just love the deep sound of a Bass guitar so I decided on that.

Yes, Iommi & Butler have done so much for music :)

Black Sabbath Live "The End" Tour was Epic as F*CK!!!

Loved every moment of the show...

[thejukebox]

Joe Satriani.

[Guest oushuehue]

T-Square, amazing jazz/rock fusion band and totally underrated at least out of Japan..

Fear Factory, who can forget that Carmageddon intro

[The_Missioner]

pink floyd !

[clark4999]

My inspiration is kinda complicated. Id say the first guitar centric song that made me think "god I wish I could play that" and had me air-guitaring in the shower, was Crazy Train, and that was when I was like 7. But, when I started playing COD zombies and heard the easter egg songs they just blew me away and made me actually want to learn how to play. I heard Im Not Ready To Die by A7x and then got into them and that was the deciding factor, discovering a7x, my all time favorite band. Just listening to syn's solos was enough inspiration to want to learn how to play lol

[Gythral]

Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple/Raindow), Brian May & Jack Bruce (Cream)

[AMOlson]

Bass - Rush, Geddy Lee all the way. Grew up with 'em, my first concert was Hold Your Fire. When the most recent generation of rhythm games was about to come out, I thought real hard and decided why bother with a little plastic toy when I could learn to really play. Got a bass and now own 4 of 'em and 2 guitars. Love bass. 

 

Guitar - A7X, Synyster Gates. Longer story there. Was happy playing bass, but kept looking over the fence wishing I could figure out that chord thing. Then I tried Bat Country on bass and it was fun, listened to some of their stuff, especially Nightmare, and bought the 3 pack. Still on the fence, then I was really bored one afternoon and watched Synyster Gates' master class at Guitar Center. Now THAT is guitar playing, more classical/jazz than chord/chord/chord. Hmmm ... maybe ... ended up with a good guitar with a gift card from buying my fretless and ... yeah. I still swear I'm going to be able to play Afterlife before I die. Just as long as I don't have to play chords.

[riverrat53]

Always wanted to play guitar, piano. For as a group , has to Pink Floyd, like Elvis and many others. 60"s-90"s. After those years most groups are just want to beees, lol. Young people need to hear what good rock/roll is, songs that have meaning. Most of the groups and song i've heard today are junk. some have put out one or two songs that's good. I guess I am a bald headed hippy, lol

[zyxalis]

I guess I've been lurking long enough, so my first post will be to be to say my inspiration was Rocksmith itself. 

Playing the guitar has always been on my bucket list, but as ya get older, the stuff on the bottom of the list tends to stay towards the bottom and ya know, there is always a other reason to not spend a few hundred on a new (basically solo) hobby, one that I wasn't even sure I would stick with. (*cough* *cough* Scuba diving..)

 

So the wife and in-laws were pestering me on thanksgiving about what I would like for Christmas. After going a few rounds trying to convince them that I didn't want/need anything and trying to steer them to spend their money on their grandchild, it basically went down that Rocksmith would be something I most likely would never get for myself but if they insisted, that would be an excellent gift they could get me. I figured once I had the software, I would worry bout picking up a second hand guitar someday.

Well, christmas day, there it was, Rocksmith with the cable *and* from the wife, a brand new Rw Jameson strat knock off!   

 

Been playing since and I'm really happy with my progress. Keep in mind your talking to a guy that didn't know that you fret adjacent to, not on top of the fret when I started six months ago, to now (finally) being able to fret confidentially without having to look at the neck, is just great! 

I tell people about Rocksmith, and liken it to Golf. You can play all day and just duff it all over the place, but you make one great shot and that's all it will take to get you to come back tomorrow. Finally nailing that riff you've been grinding on, same thing! 

 

edit: Forgot to add, Epic by Faith no More. Thats the song. If I can 100% that one, then I will say I can play guitar. till then, I'm just messin around.

[david665]

I've listened to rock/metal since the '70's, but 1987 was the catalyst year.  There were a lot of great albums that came out that year.  It was a mix of George Lynch on Dokken's Back for the Attack and Vito Bratta on White Lion's Pride that really made me want to play guitar.  George has a spectacular legato and Vito is the staccato side of that coin combined with 2 hand tapping.  Given that, my favorite band for many years is 70's era Black Sabbath.

 

My tastes have expanded to include 50's music such as Bill Haley, punk like the Misfits and blues ala BB King.

 

The stuff my band and I was putting together ended up sounding a bit like a Godsmack/Black Sabbath mash-up

[lilstrats]

 

The Cult and Guns N' Roses

Good call. Slash made me pick up my first guitar

 

Rocksmith made me get a bass

 

Yeah I'm thinking of getting a Bass...what with all the Rush customs and RHCP...I want a bass badly but I recently got a new guitar so it's not in the stars for me...yet ;)

[ZePanzerMaus]

For me it would have to be Guns N' Roses and Pantera. Dimebag Darrell is my guitar idol :purple_heart:

[MancRanger]

First for me it was Green Day. But I feel more influenced by Muse now.

[Sunderlol]

Red Hot Chili Peppers introduced me to music and playing bass.

But things got really serious when I discovered Soundgarden. MAN, instantly wanted to play drums.

[82PE175]

GnFnR's!

I thought John Connor ripping around on his dirt bike blasting "You could be mine" was so cool.

 

[RoR]

Really hard to put it down to one band.. My parents brought me up on Queen, Pink Floyd and Dire Straights and i always loved guitar solos. When i got a little bit older i was listening to a lot of Nirvana, Green Day, Metallica and a bunch of Nu-Metal, still loving the guitar sound and solo's.

I would say I've had three real eureka moments or songs that have really motivated to learn to play. These being:
RHCP - Under the bridge, not even sure why think its partly the video and the intro.
Metallica - One, love the song and kirk's solos.
I lost my dad last year to cancer and after going through some of his stuff realised how much his music meant to him especially Pink Floyd and Dire Straits which made me want to pick up my guitar that has been gathering dust for months....and here i am.  :)

[alexniver]

album American idiot. I'm a Chinese. Green day show me something different. Let me to think

[RoyaIBlood]

Foo Fighters/Nirvana

Dave Grohl really

Such a nice guy and I just wanted to play because of him

[Wickedwolf]

I had a guitar for years and it sat there collecting dust and I used to listen to a lot if AC/DC and I was starting to get bored if the same songs but about 2 months ago I heard this awesome some on the radio I looked to see what it was called and it was 'Animal' ( have you got the hint yet), so I listened to the end and I was like "please say who that was by and the song ended and they said "that is the classic Def Leppard with 'Animal' and I decided when I got home I would look these guys up, now I had heard of Def Leppard before but I just never listened to them anyway I searched YouTube for Def Leppard and the amount of songs they had that were so good was unbelievable, and today as I'm writing this I have grown a real bond with Def Leppard. I have watched a movie about them, seen a documentary, watched a full love concert on YouTube and I would love to go see them for real they may be older now but hell they still rock.

 

The bottom line is Def Leppard was that band that inspired me to pick up the guitar and I love watching Phil Collen on the guitar.

[Gwyn]

It definitely has to be Iron Maiden for me. Although the real inspiration came from a friend who suggested I pick up an electric. Hardly looked back since.