Your Shadows?

As far as i can recall, it was the Shadows who strongly advised me to love guitar music, especially solos and instrumentals, the most

Who are your Shadows?

Jimi, i loved his leads but fell in love with his rhythm guitar.

The Shadows:wink: - and a year later: Booker T. & The MG's.

Cool.

Man, Jimi, Booker T

Just gimme that pure guitar music, that ineffable sound

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The Shads ,Duanne Eddy .Bert Weedon ,Scottie Moore ,though I didnt know who he was at the time ,just Elvis's guitarist , Booker T .Later Wes and Geaorge Barnes ,

Fresh Cream rocked my 15-year-old world.

Chuck Berry and the Bluesbreakers got me started.

Instrumentally it would have to be the Ventures and Duane Eddy.

Scotty Moore, The Beatles, Pete Townsend

SRV

Nirvana made me want to pick up the guitar, but hearing "Live Dead" a few years later made me want to actually know what I was doing...

I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by music and musicians in my early years.

My dad played and started me out young. One of my earliest memories of a song that he turned me on to was Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry. Shortly after that, we moved to Tennessee and I was surrounded by the influence of all the greats of country singers of the early '60's.

Crazy about Don Rich and Del Reeves guitarist, George Owens.

I do nothing like him at all & never tried to learn his stuff note-by-note or even close...but think it was Hendrix that made me want to pick up a guitar when I was about 17. Took a few more years before I could even afford one.

The Ventures

My parents

The Shadows and Wilsey. I wish Wilsey and I were still friends as we seemed to have so much in common. :o(

The clipping proof--->http://gomezamps.com/WickedClipping.mp3

Sorry, it's an impromptu old DR-07 live recording. Gain setting obviously too high.

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