1st song to make you wanna play a guitar?

[Edgar Frog]

The 80's rock, metal and thrash made me want to play the guitar. Can't really nail it down to one song otherwise.

 

[guitarzan2525]

 

[jimmyjames]

More Than A Feeling was the lightswitch song, that got 11y.o. me seeking out guitar-centric songs, even though that song is the perfect blend of lyrics/vocals, rhythm, melody, introspection and power

 

[SlapHand]

Thats an easy one for me. I was 12 in 1972 when I bought Uriah Heep’s Look at Yorself.

The track July Morning grabbed me and I knew I had to get an electric…

 

[Dean Swindell]

dad was creating a monster. To Dad.....

Haaaa!!! I guess he kinda did!

 

[Matthews Guitars]

It was no one specific song. But with so much good early 80s guitar oriented music going around at the time, the attraction was obvious. What wasn't so obvious to me at the time was just how hard and how long you'd have to practice to get anywhere near as good as the players I was hearing on the radio or seeing on MTV.

 

[tonycaster]

this! and I've been lucky enough to play it along with Paul many times on a live european tour

 

[bullhead]

I blame these 3 riffs.

 

[Thevenin]

Blasting from my dad's AMC Hornet, I liked Black Betty by Ram Jam. Shortly thereafter I remember Iron Man on a TV program Night Flight, and Def Leppard High n Dry was in there too.
A kid at school gave me copies of the first four VH tapes, and it was all over.