The Collection: Who inspired the world’s most famous guitarists?

Kirk Hammett, Paul Stanley, Peter Frampton, and Charlie Starr tell Mark Agnesi who their guitar heroes are.

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In this special compilation episode of The Collection, host Mark Agnesi sits with four iconic guitar players—Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Paul Stanley of KISS, Peter Frampton, and Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke—where they talk about early influences and the first Gibson guitars that shaped their musical lives.

Join Mark as he chats with Kirk Hammett about The Beatles, Paul Stanley about Jimmy Page, Peter Frampton about Hank Marvin and Charlie Starr about his father and Rick Richards.

Kirk Hammett starts us off with a story of his cousin mimicking The Beatles’ “Baby You Can Drive My Car” on a guitar and how that led to a lifelong fascination with music. He talks about how his brother's red Gibson SG™ and amp really flew the flames on that musical fire and how he nailed the sound he was looking for when he got his first black Gibson Flying V™—the very guitar that would define the early sound of Metallica.

Paul Stanley takes us back to the golden era of rock in New York City and how seeing Led Zeppelin, Hendrix and The Who at the Fillmore East helped shape his approach as a rhythm guitarist "holding down the fort," as he puts it.

Listen as Peter Frampton talks about seeing Hank Marvin and his red guitar turned fascination into obsession. He talks about his journey to his first Les Paul™ and how he just couldn’t get enough of the sound of the guitar. Charlie Starr wraps it up with stories of growing up with a bluegrass-playing dad who sang songs on an acoustic every night. Listen as he talks about his first 1978 Gibson SG™ and how Charlie’s journey eventually led him to a Pearl White Les Paul Custom inspired by Randy Rhoads. But it was Rick Richards and the Georgia Satellites that made him fall in love with the Les Paul Junior™.

This is a must-watch if you want to know how some of the world's most famous guitarists got started with guitar!

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