Actor KIEFER SUTHERLAND Cites JIMMY PAGE and ANGUS YOUNG As Guitar Influences

January 27, 2007

Paul Cashmere of Undercover News reports that 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 Los Angeles 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".

Read the entire article at Undercover News.

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