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2013/10/09 14:19:48
bayoubill
I two Am still working on the Rolling Stones song Satisfaction witch is the 1st song I ever almost learned. At the moment I Am playing Plush by Stoned Temple Pilots
2013/10/09 14:30:20
gswitz
My old man liked the dead. After playing some drums and bass, I learned ripple on guitar. I can no longer play it very well.
2013/10/09 14:31:13
Rain
My cousin played a little bit of guitar and taught me how to play a very basic version of Twist and Shout when I was 6 or 7 IIRC.
 
Then some arsehole friend of my parents smashed my guitar during a party so a few years passed before I could get a new guitar, an electric this time. I was 12. I cannot remember the exact first song, but I'm pretty sure it was something off of Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil.
 
My first band's repertoire consisted of nothing but songs from that album... 
2013/10/09 14:35:49
Rain
That and the "Symptom of the Universe" riff... That was like the heaviest thing in the universe and I didn't seem to get tired of playing it. 
 
It's still one of the first things I play when auditioning the gain channel on any amp. It just flows out... :P
2013/10/09 14:58:05
Beepster
The theme to Beverly Hills Cop... well the main riff. I was visiting my mom and she had a dilapidated El Degas acoustic guitar that had wicked high action and three half rotten strings on it. I started messing around on it and figured out the melody line on one string. She gave me the guitar to take home with me and eventually I talk my dad into getting me some lessons... which were really expensive and pretty much useless. Like $30 for a half hour to be shown one... string... at... a... time. Eventually my uncle loaned me his tele copy and Fender Vibrato Champ (great guy... got himself killed riding his motorcycle... sad). Then I started learning real songs. Earliest ones were Stairway (so cliche but I swear I didn't torture music store employees with it), Sweet Child of Mine, One (Metallica), Dee (Randy Rhoads). Crap like that. Some of the older skids at school started inviting me over to jam (and watch them get drunk) and I learned some Ozzy tunes and other metal stuff. The most challenging though was Edgar Winters Frankenstein... but the Overkill version.
 
Then there were the cheesy ballads the girls used to ask me to play. Patience, More Than Words, To Be with You (Mr. Big)...
 
It was all pretty horrendous. Being a metal/rocker kid in the late 80's early 90's in a small town without much exposure to underground stuff led to some terrible musical decisions... however I learned to play and as I got older always got asked to join the cool guy bands. When I hit the big city I may have been a massive cheeseball but I still got gigs and eventually my horizons broadened.
 
Fin.
2013/10/09 15:15:45
auto_da_fe
First song I learned to strum was Let it Be (guitar)....eventually learned it on Piano too.
 
First lead solo was Led Zep - Tangerine (it was transcribed in a book a friend had)
 
First song in a band was April Wine - Tonight is a Wonderful Night 
 
JR
2013/10/09 15:19:23
Rimshot
Wipeout on drums.
This not the original but fun to watch:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ms3t_the-ventures-wipeout-killer-live-ve_music
 
Rimshot
 
2013/10/09 15:37:30
spacealf
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2013/10/09 15:53:00
Beepster
spacealf
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Had my guitar in hand and played it. lol
2013/10/10 00:36:02
57Gregy
My older brothers started teaching to play bass lines when I was 10 or 11. The theme to Peter Gunn was the first one.
Bad Moon Rising was probably the first song I learned the chords to.
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