Wildwood Story Time • Early Inspirations

[@WiserInTime]

Vaug--Han. I'm dyin'! LOL!

[@rjake61]

My older brother brought home a yellowish album with a real weird pic of 3 dudes on it. I was 7 or 8 at the time. I cranked the phono, dropped the needle in the middle of the album, and it scared the $hit out of me. Little did I know it was going to be one of my all time favorites. The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

[@chrisfarrugia5397]

Awesome.... thanks for sharing..

[@docsiltanen]

My father was a guitar player and singer and had a bluegrass band when I small, and that started it off. Then I discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd in his record collection, and that sent me in a totally different direction, wore those record out learning everything I could. Hendrix came in when I was 19ish and the whole world exploded……

[@DaveyWoodford]

A wonderful Watch , Koch u rule most things ! , BTW could u PLEASE do some demos of the Dumbles u have there in the store , WE ALL WANT IT, with many guitars. I'm sure a 68 min video will do us all just fine. xxxx DW xxxx

[@thedownsides]

First SRV album I bought was in casette format and I asked for Stevie Ray Vaug-han too. Then went home and listened to it and everything changed forever.

[@MontyCantsin5]

Can you make a video of Greg talking about his all time favourite albums (not just 'guitar' records/influences)? It would be interesting to hear the reasons for his choices.

[@crazyb3fan]

Hail to the Music Man RD112...my first amp as luck would have it! 1981 was the year I want to say. Didn't know what I was doing with it of course but nonetheless!

[@DannyStarr1976]

It's so interesting to hear about what is was like before the internet... my son is named Vaughan and we sometimes get people saying Vaug-hen

[@morddas]

I was really into KISS and AC/DC when I was really little in the 70s. Then hip hop got really big in the DC area where I grew up, so I was into break dancing and b boy culture. Later, I got really into Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms" when that came out, as well as VH "1984" and ZZ Top "Eliminator". So those few records made me want to play guitar. A bit later, I actually got a guitar (I was 12 I think) and got really into old Black Sabbath records, Metallica "Master of Puppets", and George Thorogood (of all people). But I was terrible and couldn't play any of that so when I heard punk rock (Sex Pistols, Subhumans, old Corrosion of Conformity), I decided that was right for me. Played in a bunch of punk and hardcore/thrash bands through high school and then I totally switched gears again after being introduced to LSD and have been listening to and imitating British blues and classic rock guys ever since. The Cream is still my favorite band, to this day.

[@EmilioConesa]

Your list of influences are exactly the same as mine except you didn't mention Super Sessions Mike Bloomfield.

[@theruley]

Green Day's Dookie album really got me into bass playing. I started playing bass as a teenager in the early 2000's and soon after I started, I thought that bass was kinda lame and was about ready to put the bass down and find something else to do for fun...then I heard "welcome to paradise" off the dookie album and went "holy smokes!" Because the bassline in that song is tight and interesting. Then I heard longview and really had to take a second look at what bass was all about.

[@howabouthetruth2157]

Dude..........if you're talking "bass"...........and "Green Day" is all you know to mention.........damn son.......you never did much searching at all, and you have a whole lot of learnin' & discoveries yet to find. Ya wanna REALLY FIND good bass playing? YOU GOTTA GET THE HELL AWAY FROM MAINSTREAM........except of course, going way back before your time. Let me help you out with just a little hint: "Green Day" is for GREEN HORNS........and one day you simply looked out of the tiny peep-hole in your front door & latched onto the 1st thing you saw. Same difference. Trust me.

[@soundknight]

um gonna check those out

[@chingasofarkaso]

I need that shirt. I need that hat. I need Greg's brain and his Telecaster with the Fishmans. Thats all.

[@krustybuzzard2477]

I need his fingers and youth.

[@krustybuzzard2477]

you mentioned all those great artists and I mean great. and you my friend imo take second chair to no one.

[@telecasteroil]

Amazing my MM RD112 lasted me 7 years of hard road miles , super great amp. After that it was a Vibrolux

[@BrazenNL]

Man, _everyone_ was using the Yamaha G100-212 at that time. Didn't they give 'm to everyone, too? E: Love this series!

[@BB2009LZ]

The II series is awesome! The I series, less so. My first commercially made guitar amp was a G30-112 that I bought in '77 and, while I liked it at the time, it was terrible. Lucky for me I traded it even up for a real '57 Fender tweed Princeton (which I wasn't smart enough to keep). I later owned a G100 II head.

[@3cardmonty602]

By hook or by crook" is an English phrase meaning "by any means necessary",

[@kmose1]

That's rad

[@jato1956]

Gotta whole lotta...Influences! And uses them wisely.

[@billyclub56]

Wish U had been one of my little brothers. Maybe I'd still have all my old albums - And I'd be hitting you up for free lessons!!

[@someweirdguy101]

5 older sisters..... that explains a lot about Greg!

[@maxpuppy96]

Music Man had some killer amps in the day, some way they were related to Fender

[@stonecole4703]

Jeff Beck Truth was 68.

[@ReileyWilliams]

The Black keys: Brothers.

[@ddkeegs]

Led Zeppelin 1, Aerosmith Night in the Ruts. Alan Holdsworth 3 sheets to the Wind. Anything Hendrix. SRV Texas Flood and Metallica Master of Puppets!

[@johnrichardson1867]

NO Jimmy Bryant??

[@YMESYDT]

Right now most of what I do is jazz based and it's funny when my friends say Wes or Django got them into music and I say "Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses"

[@thezoexperience1]

Vaug-han. Hahaha.