For me it started when a friend of mine started playin guitar when we were about 14 and he got real good real fast,could play VH and Rhodes and that stuff but I didn't start yet and then all of a suden one night I saw Ritchie Blackmore on a Saturday night concert on MTV (ah the good old days!)and he just blew me away with the things he did and I asked no demanded to have an electric guitar.I took lessonsat a music store with a lousy teacher but my friend was leaving his teacher so he told me I could go to him and thank god he did.I learned a lot from my friend's teacher like how he treated his students which would help me when I finally taught students years laterand then when I stopped I regretted it but I bought a few books and picked it up from there.But to be honest I always wanted to play the keyboards like Keith Emerson but then I guess trying to play like Blackmore,Hendrix and Iommi isn't so bad either isn't it?