31/10/2007 12:59:19

I was at school in the sixties, House of the Rising Sun was the Landmark (played fingerstyle) being a rite of passage if you wanted to be in the guitar playing set! A good way to learn chord changes in a hurry.

Do you mean Anji by the Stones or the Davey Graham one later played by Bert Jansch - I saw Bert play it the late sixties, very much a landmark.

My local guitar shop has a lead with a mains plug one end and a jack plug on the the other for those wanting to play Stairway to Heaven, and Smoke on the water!!!

24/09/2007 20:16:32

The original release was a bit before my time, but the Led Zeppellin acoustic stuff really turned me onto the fun you could have with an acoustic guitar and opened the door to so many other artists old and new, so I'd say Bron-Y-Ur (Spelling??)

Of more recent vintage the first Tony McManus album....

22/09/2007 09:56:06

I think House of the Rising Sun was one of the earliest I can remember, when I first started playing. Once I 'could' play and was playing the folk clubs I remember ISB's October Song was one I wish I could play and this upstart kid in my local club played it beautifully - He was (and still is!) Dave Stewart.