Who was your inspiration to play Rock n' Roll?

[Javy]

 Who was your inspiration to play Rock? A band? A single musician? Or just someone who made you want to play Rock music?
             I would have to say my mom was my inspiration to play Rock music.
             She would always listen to classic rock and I loved it!
             I would always try to drum along with whatever was playing.

[Genesis]

Slash.

[Skeba]

I've always wanted to play and sing... But until I was 21 I was just too lazy, and had a shitload of excuses so I didn't pick up the Guitar. At 21, I had the whole summer off, and had no excuse not to, so I did.

No ultimate source of inspiration really. If I had to point something out, I'd have to say my brother was a huge influence on me. (if he can do it, so can I.. )

[AXL 20]

when i was like 10 i was really into the scorpions so that would be why i picked up the guitar. I never practiced so my dad cut me off so i played for fun a little bit dropped that and then i was 13 so I picked up bass cause of Duff and this year I had to drop the lessons because of my coinciding hockey schedule and this poast summer i bought a microcube amp to fool around with and i just lost all interest in bass so im selling it and now my guitar influence is slash. sadly, I suck.

[Thorazine Shuffle]

I was 8 or 9 and Guns just came on the scene in 87.? My Dad bought "Appetite" the day it came out after hearing "Jungle" at like 2 in the morning.? I heard "Sweet Child" that day and knew I wanted to play like Slash.? My Old Man bought me a guitar the Christmas of 87 and I've been playing ever since.? Never could figure out that trick of playing while drunk off whiskey though.

[GNR_Green]

The top-hatted one.

[Sakib]

Slash n Izzy. GN'R were the first band i ever heard that made me wanna perform stuff.

[Carlos_f_Rose]

Izzy Stradlin, Slash, George Harrison, John Lennon, and more.

[misterbrownstone]

ramones

[emmigrant]

Axl and Layne

[D]

A high school buddy of mine named Teddy Lewis.

Id see him at school playing guitar and the way people flocked to him made me want to be able to do that.

So i became friends with him, found out we were 2nd cousins* Who knew* and started playin guitar.

famous wise, it would be axl,Slash,Prince,Richie Sambora,Jon Bon Jovi, paul stanley,Joe Perry,Steven tyler

[Jonathan]

My guitar teacher, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters and Slash.

[mikegiuliana]

slash was my mine even though i can't play worth a shit.. he was the reason though I bought a gibson epiphone in the early 90;s

[McDuff]

The Original Guns N' Roses are the reason why I am a musician

[MeanBone]

steven adler! 
just kidding.
slash

[Carlos_f_Rose]

Good joke... Steven is cool you know...

[Irish rose]

GN'R

But i'll have to thank my family especially my dad for blaring guitar solos at 4 in the morning on the stereo!! although it annoyed me at the time I actually think its the reason I like guitar so much!!

[Grouse]

Queen!, well Brain may mostly and ofcourse slash, and Jimmy Hendrix the list just goes on and on.....but basically it was Brian May who got me into guitar

[journey]

My older brother inspired me. He was a drummer from the time he was eleven years old. He taught me how to play the drums or how to keep a beat, in my case.

[makane]

Hurriganes, Aerosmith, Ramones, Neil Young, Hanoi Rocks, Guns N' Roses and Adlers Appetite.

[MR W,AXL ROSE]

that guy with the curly hair who always smokes a fag and wears a top hat,duff adler or dizzy stradlin,cant quite remember his name.ah,axl hudson,no,gilby sorum,no,teddy finck,no.ah i remember,SLLASHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

[SuperMike]

Guns n' Roses, Metallica, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix

[Verse Chorus Verse]

The top-hatted one.

Yeah, same here. :/

[rock4life]

Jimmy Page and Slash mainly.

[Axlfreek]

John Lennon and Jimmy Page

[gnr_kid]

Ozzy Osbourne,Randy Rhoads,Zakk Wylde,Josh Freese,Axl Rose,Bill Ward and many more!

[WhosGilby?]

Metallica and seeing Iron Maiden live

[Mr.Goodtimes]

my uncle bought me a decent japanese strat ripoff, i used it on my fender bullet reverb for a while and then quit...my guitar teacher made me hate playing guitar with all these shitty o susanna songs...

so a few years later i picked up a drum kit, used pearls with 4 sabians for 500 bucks. I got hooked immediately. Started gettin into the misfits and other punk like the stooges, pistols, dolls, ramones etc. Started my first punk band which really was nothing...

Started getting bored with punk so i started gettin into lots of classic rock. Stones, Floyd, Bowie, AC/DC...

This eventually led me to get into GNR heavily, the crue, old aerosmith, really good hard rock....

and then i started the band im currently in, and take it totally seriously and i never started taking it seriously until i hit up the gunners...

so really, GNR inspired me to write and continue drummin...

[kaasupoltin]

Well.. whole Guns n' Roses. Yes. And of course: Albert J?rvinen / Andy McCoy / AC/DC.. People dont know anything about great rock n' roll if they haven't heard any Hurriganes Just listen to it..

[Backslash]

my reasons for picking up the guitar are Slash, Izzy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page, and Bob Dylan. 

[johngnr]

Hearing led zep IV playing from my brothers room after my dad bought it on a business trip 

Going to a zep tribute concert sitting on the second row and feeling the sound waves from the bass amps go straight through me. Amazing. 

[IzzyYouj]

GnR, Aerosmith and Motley Crue.

[ssiscool]

slash and Sir Jimi Hendrix

[Dont Try Me]

Slash is the reason I started playing. But I discovered great musicians along the way: Hendrix, Page, May, Finck (can't stop listening to his intro from PC, hard to catch, great!)

[Eliminator]

when I heard the offspring's the kids aren't alright i was really like, wow, this is the shit, I want to play guitar! Later on I discovered there were way better guitar players then (than?) Noodles....... at the moment I'm a pretty big fan of SRV, Slash and zakk wylde.

[Butch Français]

Slash was the one who made me wanna pick up a guitar when I was a kid, so I did.
then later, Shannon Hoon made me wanna be a singer, so I started singing.
then I wound up in a band as the drummer, with Chad Smith as my big inspiration.

but basically, Slash made me wanna be a musician. ALL HAIL SLASH!

[ZhouGongjin]

Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Janick Gers.. from MAIDEN.. best band fucking ever. Maiden got me into everything else.
Slash.. of COURSE.. and lastly but not leastly.. Mr. Randy fucking Rhoads.. crazy train 

Gods.

[Matatata]

It's been mainly Guns n' roses. I first played the piano and I even had the Appetite for Destruction Songbook (for Piano). It was kind of fun, but it only really rocks if you play the riffs on a real electric guitar, so I grabbed my sister's acoustic-guitar and that was the beginning... Later I played lot's of the Metallica-stuff too, because it is, in a way, quite easy (except Kirk's solos of course).

Rock On

[da_pope]

First time I heard the Sweet Child O' Mine riff I knew that this is what I wanted to do. I went out and bought a guitar the next day. Didn't even know who the guitarist who wrote that riff was just that it was in my playlist as "Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses"

And they say axl is the heart of the band