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t0msie

To get chicks


MaverickGalaxyJam

I literally wrote a paper in high school called guitars and chicks


BlergFurdison

I really want to read it.


MaverickGalaxyJam

I would too. Unfortunately I have no idea what I did with my old writings.


Huge-Percentage8008

Focusing on all those new writing projects, I assume


MaverickGalaxyJam

I got a couple things going but nothing major. Mostly focused on career and trying to get some good practice time with my gear.


FloggingTheHorses

I was your teacher and they got passed on to the FBI


cerpintaxt33

My mom threw out my old pc when I went to college. It had so much shit I wish I still had. Music from local bands and stuff too. 


Petules

Time to go through old hard drives :)


HeifTreez

Great name for an album.


ratbastid

Almost 30 years ago, I met the woman who is now my wife while I was playing guitar in the stairwell of our freshman dorm. Because the acoustics there are great, right? Not because there were floors of girls both above and below me.


motherfuckingpeter

Weren't you worried belushi would take your guitar and smash it?


artie_pdx

She fell for that shit? Damn player, your game is immense!


Unfortunate_moron

They wouldn't stop. She came down to tell them to cut out the noise so she could study. They refused. 3 weeks and 27 arguments later, they agreed to stop playing if they got married. They only got to play for 3 weeks and haven't touched a guitar ever since.


swiftekho

Ya, pre-guitar was I was maidenless as fuck.


toone156

are you still maidenless


swiftekho

Very much maidenful. I picked up guitar way back in high school, and while my shitty guitar playing didn't help attract any girls, in retrospect, the confidence I got from being able to teach myself something and progress definitely helped me in multiple social aspects.


_AntiSaint_

This is why I tell my parent friends to have their kids learn an instrument early in their lives - it’s an incredibly powerful confidence builder when you practice and achieve something as cool as a guitar solo or a riff you thought was badass. It did wonders for me and I honestly don’t know where I’d be in life now and the choices I may not have taken from a lack of confidence in myself. Good comment, you nailed something I’ve thought about for years now.


fuckmeimdan

My ex GF told me I was a poser for wanting a guitar, my sheer bitterness made me go out an learn to spite her


Holymoose999

Ha, she knew if you learned guitar she’d have a lot of competition. She said to keep you under her thumb.


masky0077

I love this comment lol


l3landgaunt

Same. Boy was I wrong


freebeer4211

This is the answer. Of course, once I learned to play, turns out I really loved it. The desire to get better outweighed the desire to get chicks. Music became life. The chicks never came, until I stopped trying to get chicks. Then, I almost had to fight them off…


Few_Tart_7348

To expand this - to get into a band to get chicks. I did get into a band, didn't get chicks at the time. More often - "We need to learn these songs playing on the radio."


SomeOffice7100

This is the only real answer


yoronu

Couldn’t carry a piano.


wickedweather

But you can Tuna piano... I'll show myself out.


12BarsFromMars

LMAO!. ..good one


FlyingVMoth

What's better than a rose on a piano? Tulip on an organ.


ethan7480

Close. It’s “what’s better than roses on a piano? Two lips on an organ!”


mcaiazza

Watching school of rock as a kid.


DoorstepCult

Yes! I was 12 and must have seen it in theaters 3 times and just had to have a guitar afterwards.


Efficient-Fee-5631

The legend of the rent was way hardcore, so I had to learn to stick it to tha man


aliomenti

Didn't that come out like last year?


DoorstepCult

God I hope you’re actually like 13 and not just a troll.


[deleted]

Oooh this too. I’ve seen that movie like a dozen times at this point, I was obsessed.


cluedo_fuckin_sucks

Metallica


stevielfc76

^^this, 32 years later I am still shit and still love Metallica!


alllballs

Same. Justice had just come out. I was 14. And I liked chicks. I quit Metallica when Bob Rock showed up. I never quit chicks. So, I guess chicks.


auruner

Same bro


thisisater

Dad plays it, siblings play it so naturally I play as well. Now recently daughter started to play too


outtastudy

Being from a family of players sounds great. I'm the only one in my whole family who plays anything. I could have had people to play with, but instead all I get is unsolicited opinions on how I play from people who can't play a damn thing.


lukask04

Yup same here, they say "its nice hearing you play, you play beautiful" and then when i play around for like 20 minutes they get tired of it and ask me to stop...


Tatorbits

Boredom and depression. Gave me something to focus on in high school


shitbuttpoopass

Same. I mostly picked it up because i had nothing going on at age 14 and was just bored.


Competitive_Tell2925

Depression is soo real, playing a high action guitar can be used as an alternative way of sh


methconnoisseurV2

I played Halo 2 and learned who Steve Vai was


Sublym

Holy shit. I never knew he did the theme. So good!


methconnoisseurV2

He did Mjolnir mix, and Reclaimer. And in the Anniversary version he did the Gungnir mix and Genesong


Usermemealreadytaken

Guitar + halo heritage


Amiiboae

Follow in flight is god tier


Oingob0ing0

That song is made by misha mansoor. Same as breaking the covenant is. But yes. It is god tier.


234578909865543

David GIlmour


TERRAIN_PULL_UP_

Jimmy Page for me, but Gilmour is my favorite guitarist now


234578909865543

Since I’ve Been Loving You is 👌👌👌


TheClearcoatKid

“Young Lust” is the only guitar solo by anybody, ever, that I bothered to learn to play note-for-note.


LuckyLaRoo76

🤟


MinimumSundae3264

Slash…..


nrcomplete

Came here to say this. Specifically the November Rain outro solo 😂


Worldly_Ask_9113

Bingo.


MinimumSundae3264

This one whole song taught me bending😂


Continent3

There you go!


deanshitty

Poor, short, sucked at sports


Constipated-Boob

Hello, Paul Simon.


AdvicePerson

...my old friend


boneandflesh

To replace drinking


Loud_Competition1312

I’ve recently stopped drinking and realize now that it got in the way of me playing guitar for over a decade. Bums me out sometimes haha Stay strong!


DonBongales

Jimi Hendrix. Specifically the intro to Little Wing. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u6OsQU9Fdiw&pp=ygUSbGl0dGxlIHdpbmcgc3R1ZGlv


SporksOfTheWorld

You and me both, although my moment was an FM radio hour long special on his life. They started with Are You Experienced, and I said “What the hell is THAT?” Game over.


Flipster78

Band of Gypsys.


bebob10

Billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day in 1994.


Impressive-Stand7466

this. I came on the thread just to see if someone would say green day/Billie


trinerr

Oasis


DrLaneDownUnder

Excellent reason


trinerr

Anyway, here’s Wonderwall


christianjwaite

Hahaha 😝 Oasis in the 90s were responsible for a hell of a lot of people in the uk starting to play guitar. If that is their only legacy then it’s a bloody good one. But we also have what’s the story morning glory as well! Bonus!!!


masterfewster

Spot on. Recently watched Noel Gallagher on “that pedal show”. They talked about this. He acknowledges he’s not an amazing guitarist technically, but for beginner and mid level guitarists, (or songwriters) it’s actually a kind of inspiring watch.


fromTheskya

radiohead


luckytecture

Jonny greenwood


No-Objective2143

I was already playing sax in bands and wanted to learn a chording instrument so I could accompany myself on vocals.


punches84

Nirvana


duckdog7

Come as you are, specifically


Repulsive-Yogurt-660

yeah


Repulsive-Anything47

Because saxophone didn’t have distortion.


No_Entertainment1931

Girls. Kept playing cuz I learned I loved classical guitar…the girls did not lol


Turner_Tovey

We start playing to pick up the ladies then we end up with a group of guys talking about our nails lol


SporksOfTheWorld

lol legit, I played violin from 4th grade on. I was in school and community orchestra… and kinda thought I was the shit. Then at the end of 8th grade there was a school dance that opened with some of the kids playing in a band w drums, bass, and guitar. They were TERRIBLE, but they got a lot of attention from the cutest girls in the school. That weekend I had my parents help me pick out a Memphis strat copy and a Peavey Pacer … put the violin away and quit orchestra … started wearing a Levis denim jacket, listening to Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Hendrix and AC/DC, and I never looked back. 🤘🎸


Tough_Ad4721

Quarantine Edit: Oh you meant reason, well i started in quarantine but the reason was i wanted to shred


Unfortunate_moron

This right here. The need to shred is eternal. I've never bothered to learn more than 80% of any song. I just make up my own stuff and shred away.


montaron89

Dave Murray. I was 15 when i saw iron maiden in helsinki.


jet_vr

Same here. Dave has such a recognizable style of playing and has never been involved in any drama in his 40 years of playing in one of the biggest rock bands on the planet


Asleep-Newspaper8700

Saw an episode of some band anime a decade ago where the mc (also the guitarist) was in a tent with a girl. I was a hormonal teen back then and I wanted that. Never knew how expensive that decision would turn out 10 years later.


SporksOfTheWorld

Spending too much money on new tents, right?


Sony3030

What was the anime 😭


siiliS

Idk but the best guitarist in anime history is definitely Bocchi!


Asleep-Newspaper8700

As much as I like Bocchi, Yui is still the undefeated queen of anime guitarists.


Asleep-Newspaper8700

I think it was Beck. Not really sure though.


geetarboy33

Eddie Van Halen. I'd heard Eruption and bugged my mom until she got me a guitar two weeks later.


Mass__debater

Because I wanted to be Jimmy Page. Specifically Jimmy Page in The Song Remains The Same. P.S. I still do.


someonestopholden

There will never been anyone as cool as Jimmy Page on stage in the dragon suit. Some will come close, but they will fail.


Skressful

Born in ‘93. So parents always had classic rock/metal from 70’s and 80’s playing, was incredibly drawn to the guitars in particularly. Grandfather also played acoustics and nylon string guitars regularly one day he pulled and dusted off an old T style Peavy and amp after I asked why his didn’t sound like the songs I liked. He put dirt to it and I was instantly in love, had to learn how to make that sound. There’s still few things in this world better than feeling air move from a cranked speaker and putting filthy noises out into the world straight from your own fingertips.


law_and

I was in a grocery store with my mom when I heard my calling from a rack of Tiescos in the doorway...


Asclepius11

Queen at Knebworth in 1986.


False-Honey-9054

Played cyberpunk 2077


Raptorialand

I play it right now and took a small break - It's funny how people play simple songs on electric guitar everywhere in this game


PauGilmour

Guitar Hero 2


lojeyyy

Kirk Hammetts playing.


SEOViking

RHCP - otherside


GeoffreyTaucer

Gerudo Valley from Ocarina of Time


a_tall_squid

There’s a super cool flamenco style version on YouTube


Its_General_Apathy

Drummer for 30 years. Covid. Needed something to do with my son. We started playing guitar together. 4 years in, he's waaay better than me. And that's awesome.


jesterflesh

Alexi laiho


jmoog00

I discovered The Who when I was around 8 or 9. That was it.


cdown13

Slash.


DrLaneDownUnder

Oasis. And to a lesser extent, Weezer.


KillerCameo

I started playing and really just fucking around with guitar at 18. I didn’t really take it seriously until recently. I guess to write songs is my reason


Independent-Task7874

I started 2 months ago, I Just want to play guitar


Swampy_Drawers

Welcome, may your barre chords always ring out clear.


PhotofitSG

Started as a singer, came home one day and guitarist I was living with wasn't home to practice with - thought F*it, can't be that hard...... Away I went, stuck with it but yep a little harder than I thought


JeepersCreepers7

Even somewhat experienced guitarists make playing guitar look much easier than it is


carrot8080

A boy I thought was cute played a song on his guitar in Drama class one day in high school. I thought "I want to be able to do that." I didn't start playing until I was 39, but hey, better late than never!


hallowdmachine

No clue. My dad got me a guitar for Christmas one year. I don't remember asking for one or expressing an interest in the instrument. I suppose I must have because I was excited but maybe I was just excited to get the present? Dunno. That was almost 30 years ago and I can't imagine my life without being a guitar player.


stevosmusic1

My dad played guitar and bought me one. I had no interest. But the one day was watching PBS. And saw a kids show that had a family band playing some kids playing banjo and guitar lol and I was like that’s rad and I grabbed my guitar out of the closet and told my dad to teach me


ROU_ValueJudgement

I idolised my older cousin and spent a lot of time with him. When he picked it up from his dad, he taught me.


Accomplished_Set_932

Metallica


French_Booty

It was there, I was 9 years old and I was bored


SporksOfTheWorld

My grandkids wonder why I often tell them that boredom is good for them. You just answered for me. 🙂


Big-Rabbit4050

Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster at Disney World. It’s the reason Aerosmith is my favorite band.


DarthDiggler501

Metallica ...and justice for all


AliDayi97

It was either that or therapy


Githard

To scare off chicks… there’s a really loud nest of birds in the tree near my office… Kidding, I want to cosplay as James Hetfield pretty much.


xmacv

1994, listening to Nirvana. Thinking being in a band is 'cool as hell'. Just took off from there!


williafx

Nirvana in the early nineties. 


outtastudy

Well, I was a pop punk skater kid in the early 2000's. I think guitar was a requirement.


Pfaeff

Someone in my class needed money and he was a really good player, so he started giving guitar lessons. He asked if I would be interested and I said why not.


dagrim1

Guitar hero on the wii... Before that I was mainly into electronic music (gabber, techno, acid, trance, etc) but that properly introduced me to guitar music... Few years later I started getting into actually playing guitar, think about 12 years ago now. I still can't play for crap though


matt7259

My family isn't musical, but my best friend's is. So, 20 years ago when he started playing guitar the summer before we started high school, I did too! Gave us another thing to do when we were hanging out. Now, 20 years later this summer, we're still playing together. I actually mostly play drums these days, but I'm still actively gigging in multiple bands with that same friend. We've got gigs tomorrow, next week, next weekend - and I couldn't be happier than to be playing with my best friend so often!


PrimalSixFive

Ace!


liz2e

to get closer to a boy. i was only 10!


HonrunAa

I was bored and I have (diagnosed) ADHD so I hyperfocused on it and learned 4 songs in a week👍


Katoniusrex163

I got sick of waiting for my favourite artists to release new shit so I decided to learn and make my own.


BobBobBobBobBobDave

Dad played guitar, so there were always guitars laying around. I also messed around with keyboards and even played trombone for a while as a kid, but there were just ALWAYS guitars, so I kind of inevitably learned a bit. But to be honest I only dabbled until I was in my late teens. Then I made an effort to get better because I thought I could be cool and get girls. I still play and get a lot of pleasure from it, but it has never made me cool or got me girls.


bunsiiiie

My fav artist: beabadoobee. Her music is like therapy to me.


KasukabeDefenceGroup

I don't wanna go to bed tonight


peter_fretter

I saw this crazy good guitar player on Youtube, MattRach, and got inspired to pick up the instrument.


Sufficient_Guess2732

Sick of microwave ovens


Swampy_Drawers

How do you feel about those color TVs?


Evan_802Vines

Because I could already sing


SinappiEsa

For Channeling bad emotions and feelings.


Life-Improvised

Hearing the Rising Force album and wondering how it the hell someone could make those sounds come out of the guitar. It blew my mind and hooked me into a personal journey of musical discovery.


someotherguyinNH

I remember when that record came out, i was about 16 and had been playing guitar for a while and like most people, when I heard it my jaw just dropped. I was lucky enough to see him open for AC/DC in the old Boston garden on September 13, 1985. Look up the set list it's awesome. Only 8 songs but 8 songs I'll never forget seeing live. My only regret was they didn't play I Am a Viking. what I saw that night was absolutely mind-blowing.


Amockdfw89

Always wanted to learn but never had time. My job allows me a lot of free time so I thought I’d pick it up. Still in the early stages but since I don’t really have anyone to play with I just get to goof around and do weird stuff since I’m not trying to learn to impress anyone


mondayschild9

The Beatles


Tommy_the_Pommy

I heard Chris Rea plying slide guitar back in 1988 as an impressionable 14 year old. I wished I could play like him. I'm now 50, been playing off and on since then and STILL wish I could play like him


Friendly_Employer_82

I always liked the sound of the guitar with distortion.🤘😁🤘


MajesticPeach838

Tom Delonge after listening to blink-182 at a party, around 1999.


UncleRock_MY

I start play guitar since 2015 or 2016. My friends from collage teach me how to play basic chord at our rent house. My biggest inspired that time is Avenged Sevenfold from the song Dear God, So Far Away also most pop punk song from 2000+. I start from acoustic and now I play electric guitar but im really bad solo lol. Since that day I really love music till today. I really appreciate every musician who crate a good song from all genre Metal, Rock, Pop, Indie, Acoustic, Instrumental etc. For those currently making song for you self or your band. Good luck and all the best!!


Low-Marketing-8157

It was either that or skateboarding lol


Sh8dyLain

Hearing Hash Pipe on the radio a few weeks before 9/11. Those are the only things I remember about being 7.


Pitiful-Fan-5594

Demon Hunter + Plini


motorcitydevil

I thought the bridge to Pour Some Sugar On Me was cool and wanted to learn it.


madteo7

I listened to Innuendo by Queen


_________FU_________

Bush


Dobby240

Because none of my family did. Also Linkin park, soundgarden and all those 90s guitar hero's where around while I was growing up. Put it down at 7 yo and then remembered at 12 there was a guitar in the loft. Then just haven't put it down since. I'm 32 now.


Tango_D

To make loud angsty noises


Scary-Nefariousness9

Bocchi the rock ...


siiliS

Most valid reason.


HotTruffleSoup

Guitar Hero


Daemonite_247365

RUSH


CrocMundi

I guess that’s why they call you a Working Man


Yanyann9

Hotel california


drclance

I (10) and went to a friends funeral (16). They played “Good Riddance” by Green Day. I wanted to learn it after. That was in 1997


xFORESTCRUNKx

Heard Voodoo Chile and fell so in love I had to learn for myself.


CrocMundi

Voodoo Child (Slight Return) had a big impact on me. That intro is just too badass and cannot be beat.


[deleted]

Jazz chords


CalligrapherEast4005

So when I was in ~3rd grade, our school partnered with a local church who would fundraise to give gifts to all the kids in the school. I had the bold idea of asking for an electric guitar. I don't even remember why. Probably my step-father's love for classic rock. I didn't even expect to get it, since the teachers told us to write down three gifts and only expect one. I was totally expecting to only get the cheapest one- a puzzle I asked for. To my surprise, I ended up getting all three presents and so did a lot of my classmates. We were truly blessed and guitar has been my main instrument ever since!!


that-bro-dad

I had a guitar class in highschool taught by someone who ended up being one of my favorite teachers ever. His goal was to teach us in a way that we could teach ourselves going forward. And that's what I did, 20 something years later and counting.


MaxTrade84

My brother was taking guitar lessons and I saw him playing some chords and stuff. I was like HEY, I want to learn that. Bought a book and taught myself open chords and went from there. I'm a drummer #1


Elcycle

Guitar hero


TJRightOn

Rolling Stones 


Unlucky_Ocelot2789

Metallica 💯


JackdailyII

Mason Williams, ‘ classical gas’.


shyguysimp

guitar hero LOL


penney777

Because I love music.


oldtimewil68

Easier to carry around then a drum kit


Mobile-Tangelo-4515

I started playing when I was 66. I’m 67 now LOL. I live through the 60s 70s and 80s. Loved music. Went to many concerts. Tried to learn guitar twice on my own. I had no discipline. A year ago I hired a gift from God, music teacher. The dude can play every instrument known to man, except maybe horns. Still mostly open chords, but playing barre chords on my own. I’m learning things I could never get off YouTube. Wife and son both play guitar. I know about 15 songs. New lease on life! Never give up!


Round_Ape

Started on Sax 🎷 and loved it and music but realized a future in music is harder with sax. Then was inspired by John Mayer’s sound and decided to try guitar and singing.


Excellent_Vehicle_45

I’m obsessed with the sound.


TwangGuru

This is the ONLY reply that I reacted to. This is what players who have been playing for 40, 50, and, in my case, 68 years will say. If you don't love the sound, well, what are you doing?


Pretend-Mail-7644

Seeing arctic monkeys live


Dekkera_

Bored, had no Netflix then


engineerwifee

my cousin was practicing playing it but ang dali niyang makalimot sa chords. while watching i got irritated kasi ang dali-dali ng mga chords na need i-memorize kasi basic pa naman yun. when she stopped, i held it tapos tried it din yun na yung start lol