What song started your guitar journey?

[The Watchman]

Heart of Gold

[fazool]

Well, this can be answered two ways:

This was the first song I was every taught to play




But this was the song that defined my guitar obsession and the first song I ever played live

[phydaux]

1973, I was eight years old and constantly listened to American Pie on my dad's eight track player.

[rampix]

John Denver's song Country Roads had just started getting radio play and a friend was learning the rhythm. He asked me to sing it while he played. After a first time solo he joined me with vocal harmony the second time through. He thought we sounded great together and offered to sell me a guitar and teach me to play. That was 50 years ago and I've never stopped playing.

My late friend Steve is on the left. Thanks for a lifetime of music my old friend, RIP.

[cedartop52]

G-L-O-R-I-A

[Rusty55]

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[Godfather]

For me it was Old Man. Still don’t have it right but its “campfire close”

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[DfwTF]

I am a little younger I guess. For me it was the entirety of Live at Luther College by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds.

I was a senior in high school when it came out. It blew my mind. I immediately asked my Dad to teach me how to play. (Funny story - I was at Tone Shop in Addison, TX and a guy next to me started playing the outro to What Would You Say from this album. I started playing it with him. It was also his inspiration for taking up guitar.)

[eljay]

Honky Tonk on the Beach Boys "Surfin' USA" album. Carl's Jaguar playing captivated me. In fact, I have a Fender 62 RI Jag that I'll never sell, though I rarely play it these days.

[KevWind]

Not a specific song simply the love of music started my guitar journey

However THE
First song I learned on guitar , in 1964 was this one ---and what a journey it has been

[mawmow]

Well, it was in high school, well before the internet era...

A nice three chords love song from a great French
singer/songwriter from Quebec province of Canada :
Les Immortelles / Jean-Pierre Ferland
This guy is still alive and working...

Then, the guitar arpeggios of The House of Rising Sun.

[Mirosh]

House of the Rising Sun - Animals version (though a high school friend played me Dylan's version on his first LP - I thought it was rough, not very musical.)

I figured out 3 chords on my $8 sidewalk sale guitar. It seemed close enough. Now I would call my version rough, not very musical. But a good start.

Addendum: Dave Van Ronk deserves more credit for this song's fame than is generally given.

[nobuzz67]

Originally Posted by Ryan51

The song that really made me want to get a guitar was "A Hard Days Night". I didn't find out until years later a twelve string was what I was hearing.

Don't know if you've ever seen this, but if you haven't, you might find it interesting.

[generalliamsayn]

Originally Posted by ewalling

'Glory of Love' played by Big Bill Broonzy. I was pretty much messing around with guitars until I heard this at the age of 28. At that point, I knew where I wanted to go: ragtime blues-style picking. I've got into other things since, but hearing that song was a guitar life-changing moment for me. I wanted to do things like that on the guitar.

Same for me when I heard Hot Tuna's first album - especially Jorma's take on 'Hesitation Blues'.

Life-changing indeed!

[fpuhan]

FIRST song? Wow, I don't remember, but it almost certainly had to be a Beatles number. In April 1964, the Beatles occupied the top five songs on Billboard's Hot 100:

1: ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’
2: ‘Twist And Shout’
3: ‘She Loves You’
4: ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’
5: ‘Please Please Me’

But others have listed the songs I actually learned to play first: House of the Rising Sun (The Animals), Gloria (THEM) and some other easy 3-or-4 chord songs.