What person/band motivated you to pick up the guitar?

[strings2wood]

single song that makes me want to be a better player - Lindsey Buckingham playing "Big Love" live - sounds like 3 guitars and he is doing vocals on top of it all.

He is such a great "picker"- especially when you try to do what he does!
Never Going Back Again
Bleed to Love Her etc.
I love the dynamic of that live version- blistering start-slow arc- killer bridge and the screaming at the end.
Perfect live performance.

I'd give a vote for LOTS of Pat Simmons acoustic work:
e.g. Slat Key Soquel Rag
South City Midnight Lady
Black Water

or Jimmy Pages:
Bron-Yr-Aur

Lets hear it for the guy who
showed us Open D or G weren't the only interesting open tunings!
C6 tuning. KILLER.

Joni Mitchell- Amelia and all Larry Carlton"s fills.
It's too hard to name just one for me Donnel.

[thesjkexperience]

I went back and listened to some CSN&Y and CSN and it reminded me of the Byrds "Mind Garden" which I think is Crosby and what a huge influence that song and "What's Happening?!?!" (which isnt Crosby singing, but the song feels like him).

I have been on an acoustic feel/mood all summer and have been opening some long forgotten influences. I also finally tried DADGAD tuning (a Jimmy Page favorite). If you haven't do it now. I bet you write three songs in the first hour

We all know who our influences are, but in the late '80s I had formed a new band in California and the drummer loved how I switched between a Hendrix/Trower feel to a psychedelic mid '60s sound all the way to Neil Young. Which was funny because I had never listened to Neil let alone study his style. He loaned me a few CDs and sure enough! One of the songs I brought in the day he said something was a dead ringer for for a NY tune I had never heard. And all this time I thought I learned from Jimi and Jimmy during the midnight movies

[strings2wood]

I went back and listened to some CSN&Y and CSN and it reminded me of the Byrds "Mind Garden" which I think is Crosby and what a huge influence that song and "What's Happening?!?!" (which isnt Crosby singing, but the song feels like him).

I have been on an acoustic feel/mood all summer and have been opening some long forgotten influences. I also finally tried DADGAD tuning (a Jimmy Page favorite). If you haven't do it now. I bet you write three songs in the first hour

We all know who our influences are, but in the late '80s I had formed a new band in California and the drummer loved how I switched between a Hendrix/Trower feel to a psychedelic mid '60s sound all the way to Neil Young. Which was funny because I had never listened to Neil let alone study his style. He loaned me a few CDs and sure enough! One of the songs I brought in the day he said something was a dead ringer for for a NY tune I had never heard. And all this time I thought I learned from Jimi and Jimmy during the midnight movies

Nice post and DADGAD is great- used in a lot of Irish stuff too.

I know Crosby and Young used: DADDAD for
"Music is Love"from Crosby's first solo album
"I I Could Only Remember My Name."
I used to have a great Crosby chord book where all the chords and open tunings were actually right,
lent it to someone who conveniently forgot to give it back before moving away

This site is pretty good:

http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/ ... unings.pdf

it's great to get on an acoustic binge.
can also be lucrative in the right duo/ trio combination.

[hawaii121]

Mentioned before... Seemed like a good place for this... Larry Carlton trio playing this weekend on Oahu! I feel inspired just holding my tickets! Sorry for gloating!

[zornshorn]

Actually, "B-Sick" sounds like an awesome name for a DJ/MC!

[strings2wood]

or Bill doing a cameo on t.v. with Jennifer Garner.

Sydney: "Do u think ewe meyet B sick with that thing up ur noze?'

Bill: "Purrhaps. Hvn't I scene ewe sumwear b4?
Rn't u 1 of the chix that put me in hoztibul?"

Sydney: "N odog, eets the drugs. Ur dlerious.!"
Bill: "I hav dayzha voo now and zahn and my Hans r trem bling,
but I kud sware eye no u......"

Sydney: "I'll page for Dr. Stiv. He shud b hear sune enuf."

[melodichaotic]

Ahh Simon, you are a master with mis-speeled wurdz, and a poet with pictures...I must say, inspiring enough to make ME want to do sum hans zhtans, mice elf.
But seriously, this great thread has unfortunately gone , that 4z shorn.

Having said that, I will absolutely agree and commend Donnel for bringing up Lindsay Buckingham--a HIGHLY under-rated player, singer, songwriter, AND, a someone who is a bit trickier to detect who his influences are, and that says a lot.

Without question, a highly original improviser who is sensitive 2 sonic space and nuance.

[zornshorn]

Actually, "B-Sick" sounds like an awesome name for a DJ/MC!

And of course a Google search reveals that there already is one.

[Johnson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60J6Hlvf ... re=related

at exactly 4:24