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Can any of the membership recall an exact time when you wanted to take up the guitar. Whilst always a Shadows fan since Apache I would say that watching the 'Young Ones' was the defining moment when all of a sudden The Shadows were playing The Savage. That was it for me!

Miming playing the guitar intro to Buddy Holly's 'Rock Around with Ollie Vee' with the kid next door, in his dad's shed. We both realised we needed a guitars rather than the pieces of wood we were doing an early version of air guitar with. We got our first acoustic guitars shortly after that.

Hearing the intro to 'Cumberland gap' by Lonnie Donegan!!
Mike

I can remember and I'm sure I was only nine or ten badgering my parents to get me a guitar. I'd heard Skiffle music and that seemed to put a light on somewhere and make me want to play guitar, I was onto rice however and only with more constant badgering when I was thirteen did I get my first guitar for the massive cost of two quid with guitar tutor thrown in as well. They did'nt for one minute ever believe that I'd stick with it but I've proved them wrong in the long run nearly fifty years later and still doing it

Hi

I'd go along with any solo by Vince Gill. I have two Musicman Albert Lee Guitars a BFR with Trem and a standard one. They are awesome!!

I think hearing Apache for the first time and also the Savage from the Young Ones. It was amazing in the age of black and white!!

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Stuart

In between wanting a guitar and getting one, I was staying at my Auntie's in North Wales and went to Rhyl for a day out. I went to Dreamland, the big amusement park, and won a plastic ukulele playing Bingo on one of the stalls there.
I'll NEVER forget that moment when I tuned it up, following the instructions, carefully placed my fingers in the positions indicated, and strummed that first chord. It was mind-blowing to hear that perfect combination of notes ringing out from what was, in reality, just a plastic toy. This was the REAL defining moment when I knew I HAD to have a guitar.

mine was probably seeing the Rapiers perform in i think 1995 with Brian Lee, they blew me away and it was them that got me in to the Shadows and Hank Marvin

Seeing Bill Haley and The Comets playing Rock Around The Clock. The guitar solo in that was the first time I saw anyone
play like that.