Actor Kiefer Sutherland Cites JIMMY PAGE, ANGUS YOUNG As Guitar Influences
January 27, 2007, 17 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Paul Cashmere from undercover.com.au:
Actor Kiefer Sutherland says that he owes his passion for guitar to AC/DC's Angus Young and LED ZEPPELIN's Jimmy Page.
Sutherland, co-owner of Ironworks Studios in LA with Jude Cole, is a guitar freak and collector of Gibson guitars.
In an interview for Gibson Guitars, he says it was Jimmy Page who first inspired him to pick up a guitar, but AC/DC's Angus Young also fuelled the passion.
"I had an older brother, so most of the music I had listened to, whether it was the BEATLES or ELTON JOHN, were old records of my brother's that he would let me have when I was a kid" he says in the Gibson interview. "It wasn't until I heard the first Led Zeppelin record—and 12 was the perfect age to hear it—where it just made you want to fight everything (laughs). So I remember that, and I also remember Tom Scholz from BOSTON. He had a sound that I remember just being amazed by, just how powerful it was, how one guitar could carry an entire tune like that. People were creating these signature sounds with these guitars. And I was a huge fan of Angus Young, and T. REX as well. There were an awful lot of players that I loved, and they always had an edgier, dirtier sound".
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