[blackdog71]

I am mostly influenced by the 70,s with artists such as Led Zep,Thin Lizzy,Boston,Yes etc fueling my early enthusiasm with music which has ultimately turned into obsession. Mainly I would expect influences to come from the years you were a teenager, but I have noticed from a range of music forums that teenagers of today are increasingly looking further back in the musical archives.

Which decade sparked your interest ? And Why?

50's
60's
70's
80's
90's
00's

[Dewy]

70's why?! Because I'm a guitarist...

Guitar Driven Rock and back to basics with the acoustics... Boston, Zepplin, Aerosmith, Beatles (well... I play it all on guitar), ZZ Top, Rush, yikes, the list seems endless.

It was the Era of True Guitar Legends

[Stratrat]

70's would be my decade of influence for all the reasons Dewy listed.....but I love listening to a lot of 80's music even though it was more synth-driven than guitar oriented.

70's was definitely the era of the guitar virtuosos.

[D-Dawn]

70's...thats what I grew up with!

[eddiez152]

60's For me,
Kindston Trio, Peter Paul & Mary, Lightfoot.
These people had a large infulence in folk music and probably started
more people playing guitar than anyone. Finger pickin.

[GT]

Well, for me is Heavy metal era. Old shread virtuoso and incredible composition decade. Yea, even the Glam was cool. For me it was more about the Rock icon Idol movement. Man, the ROCK (Heavy, Trash, pop, Hard, etc) was the music that was on the radio. It had everything! Technique, composition, vocals, image, girls who loved you because you were a guitarist!!! That was the reign of ROCK. The top!!! From there....on 90´s hip hop killed everything Even the Grunge movement comited cannibalism.....

so 80´s for me!

[Alrightmax]

90's, not only did I grow up in this Era, but this is when hardcore and metal really exploded.

Edit: I mean, metalcore, not hairmetal

[jacobp]

I also have to say 90's/early 2000's.
For one, this was when i first started to really get into music. And i still listen to the grunge and alterna-rock that came out of this time. Though the 70's was the era of the guitar gods, i really like the sounds that came out of the 90's, even if the playing wasn't as good as some earlier era's.

[jrowe]

60s definitely, because most of my favorite guitarists emerged then. Bert Jansch, Davey Graham, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Eric Clapton (on the Beano LP, and in Cream), Hendrix

[kittie1823]

I really don't have a decade as such, but my two favourite guitarists are Eric Clapton and James Dean Bradfield

[coldethyl]

Definitely the 70's for me. Most of my fondest musical influences and memories come from that era.

[TwistedLefty]

65-75 was my most influential "decade"

[GotDeeBlues]

Tough to nail it down. The fifties had me exposed to big band and swing from my folk's collection, later early rock from older brother and sister. Sixties hooked me up with rock, blues, folk and country as I got out on my own more.

[X4StringDrive]

The past 4+ decades as I like most everthing, Weened on country, gravitated to oldies then to rock and like the progressive stuff now. guess you could call me a "progressive oldie from the country who likes rock and roll".

[starsailor]

A bit difficult to choose, torn between 60s and 70s, because of guitarists like Santana, Hendrix, Peter Green etc and The Beatles of course always been a fan of George Harrison. I think the 70s was the era of the Guitar band but these have made a strong comeback in the last Decade, think the 80s was sort of lost to the synthesiser although we did get the Edge out of them. I think the end of the 70s was important because of punk I think the punk movement shook the foundations of the Concept album brigade and made people realise that anyone can have a go all they needed to do was pick up a guitar.