Guitar players - when you began what did you REALLY wanna learn?

[HEyHEY]

Three things, I wanted to learn the solo from Looking out my backdoor, the intro to Mr. Tambourine man (byrds version) and the hook to ticket to ride.

[eyepaddle]

1. The Outro solo to

Let There Be Rock,

and then Judas Priest's All the Way

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. I wanted to get laid.

It didn't work.

[HEyHEY]

4. Chicks don't dig raffi man

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. They dig Raffi more than me.

[eyepaddle]

8. I can't afford to donate yet

(student with sudden medical problems) so could you do a favor? You should post a poll and find out which member of the band gets the LEAST action.

My money is on the guitarist, hands down goin' away!

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. HA! Nah, that might be taken as a sex thread.

Regardless, I'd guess it would be the drummer. I mean, he may GET groupies, but he's usually not bright enough to know what to DO with them.

[eyepaddle]

12. bah-doom-tum-tssshhhhh!

Comic rimshot (for the drummers out there!)

[greendog]

18. What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend?

.....homeless.

[eyepaddle]

20. That is a classic

that NEVER gets old!

[mr_hat]

3. House of the Rising Son.

[flamingyouth]

5. "The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness" by the Feelies

And I'm so glad it's basically only two chords.

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Holy Christ, "Crazy Rhythms" is a fucking incredible record.

The solo in "Moscow Nights" is amazing.

[flamingyouth]

15. I know - I love that album

When we got the promo of the reissue at our college paper, I snatched that puppy up before anyone else could see it.

[Twillig]

6. I wanted to learn how to play

like Jeff Beck does on Led Boots

It's better to learn how he plays on Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.

Other than that I wanted to learn Aerosmith's version of Train Kept a rollin'

[eyepaddle]

11. Led Boots was my favorite Beck tune

until I heard his more recent "What Mamma Said." Incidentally; the sound sample "did y'all hear what mamma said" was from the movie "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, world." I thought that was sorta cool!

[Twillig]

16. I did not know that!

LOL. I can picture it in my mind now.

I really think he's invigorated himself. I like his albums Jeff and Who Else? and You Had it Coming a lot.

Suspension from 'You Had it Coming' is a beautiful thing. I can see his fingertips on the strings if I listen closely.

[eyepaddle]

19. I hadn't seen that movie for about 25 years

but it was on last week; I think, anyhow I caught the end of it, the whole crew is together Ethel Merman is being abrasive and her son let's loose with DID Y'ALL HEAR WHAT MAMMA SAID!" I was stunned.

Back to Jeff Beck though--is Jennifer Batten still with him? I saw them on tour five or six years ago, and was floored.

I suppose I could always check with my brother, he's an absolute Beck fanatic. (hey do you remember a day when you said "Beck" and everybody knew you meant Jeff?

[LudwigVan]

13. I play bass. I still think I count.

It was Rush, Iron Maiden and Metallica when I started out in the 80s. I was such a headbanger (and unfortunately, a naïve neocon, until a 10th grade hist'ry teacher made me see the light).

[Floogeldy]

14. EVERYthing

I was lucky enough to have had two buddies that had been taking lessons, and they showed me all of the Stones and Beatles stuff I could handle, which is what I wanted, along with Yardbyrds, Standells, etc . . . .

I remember working hard on my own to figure out how to play Incense & Peppermints and What Condition My Condition Was In. EUREAKA!!!!!

[mitchum]

17. "Search and Destroy" and "Cortez the Killer"

[Liberal_Andy]

21. Tell Me Why and Southern Man

from After the Goldrush