First Guitar Song

Now I know there is probably some Group I should be directing this question to0 but you seem like good people;

What is the first guitar song you learned?

"Happy Birthday" or "Mary and her Lamb" any one those lame songs don't count, I want the one that you were first pround to play in front of others.

I want to learn a song, getting bored of chords and the other musical terms
Be gentle

Stairway to Heaven.

Don't look at me like that.

Hawaii Five-o Theme. (There's a Music Board).

"Gepetto" by Belly. Stop laughing, bastards.

Even worse: I learned House of the Rising Sun.

I play bass guitar and the first song I ever learned was "Hey Joe". It is a Hendrix song and my guitar teacher insisted that I learn it.

I think it was the intro to Sweet Child O' Mine.

knockin' on heaven's door, and
straight to hell by drivin'n'cryin

same song all day long

It might have been "House of the Rising Sun" too, for me.

I do know I figured out the "Rebel Rebel" riff and was very pleased with myself.

Can't remember offhand, but I think it was either 'Mother' or 'Goodbye Blue Sky', both by Pink Floyd.

Them Good Old Boys - Merle Haggard

Iron Man!

von bondies - c'mon c'mon

no- bullshit the first one was:

NIN - eraser

both real easy...

[Edited on Jan 29, 2005 by magnified]

ode to joy

Britney Spears - "Oops, I did it again"

I just couldn't get the High F.

Deep Purple, Smoke on the water. Quickly followed by Pipeline.....

Then I went to Alice in Chains Right Turn, and Tom Petty Yer so Bad!

Yea, so that's all I know that's why I put em all up.

Bombtrack on bass by Rage Against The Machine. The first song on guitar I learnt was Somebody's Cryin' by Chris Isaak... and that damned F major chord pissed me off for weeks.

i dont play the guitar but the first song i learned and only song i know is nirvana, the one that goes " come as you are as you something as you something something something. its easy as shit

Susie Q

The first song I learned on guitar was "Easy Way Out" off of Elliot Smith's Figure Eight.

lil' devil - the cult. eventually i learnt that whole album (electric). it wasn't hard but damn it was fun to play.

i figured everyone would say smoke on the water...cause that's what i'm saying.

Besides all the "lame songs" I first learned, the first real song was a Green Day song, but I don't remember which one. The Green Day songs I have learned have mostly been pretty easy and sounded kinda cool.

"House of the Rising Sun" was the first thing I learned how to play absolutely correctly (i.e., arpeggiating the proper voicings with the right nuance), but I was butchering tons of stuff for years before that.

Anyone else still have their Mel Bay, "This is the pick" book - that very first guitar primer that has been a classic for, what: 50+ years?

Black Sabbath - snowblind