bigc wrote:I have playe the guitar for 17 years. I remember figuring out 'Dragoon' from Bitch Magnet's Ben Hur...I thought I was a god on earth.

Ooh! Me too!

The C to D chord change that comes at the end of the intro bit is instant rock-god material!

Gramsci wrote:When I was 18 I could play Blood Sugar Sex Magic note-for-note. I can barely remember my own name now...

I pretty much learned how to play guitar in high school via this record and the accompanying Hal Leonard tab book.

I know almost every green day song I know tons of nirvana and the first two weezer albums. I
most of the 90's bands that I listened to, I learned most of their songs

Posting on a messageboard of a fairly obscure studio, admitting how many hours you've spent learning other people's songs... can it GET much more geeky?

That being said, I'm a drummer, but over the past few years I've pretty much taught myself guitar by learning Guided By Voices songs. I know 10-20 songs maybe, I've never counted. It's fun to play "Keep Up With GBV" by getting hammered and trying to play along to their records, but I drink like a human, not a professional, so I have to do it for the spirit of the thing and accept that I'll sound lousy.

What else? Of course there's the mandatory Shellac riffs, but they just don't sound right on a typical guitar rig. I can butcher Jay Ryan's main melody part to "what is your landmass?" on bass. Um, yeah. Go nerds.

Grew up with...

I play 'Plush' by the Stone Temple Pilots really well. And I mean REALLY WELL. Hopefully the capitalisation helped you understand EXACTLY how WELL I can PLAY this SONG.
I play it in a variety of different styles; bhangra, bluegrass, blues, breakbeat, bossanova and er, brilliantly (which IS a style).

What's funny is that I often think I can play songs easily, but it turns out to be rather difficult. And the opposite can be true. For example, I was entirely sure I could play "The Winner Takes It All" by Abba on guitar, but it turns out to have some weird chords in it, and being primarily a bassist cuts down on my chord-knowing skill.

However, "Billiard Player Song" and "Carry On Wayward Son" I played completely accidentally the first time.

I only know how to play "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival because that's the only song worth knowing.

The self-titled Clutch record.

After playing the drums to it for months, I started learning the bass lines. After that, guitar.

I can play any part of that album on any instrument. Probably the vocals as well.