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Originally posted by baltassoc
If you're going for classic stuff the kid has a chance of being able to play pretty much immediately, try Neil Young. Harvest is a great album to start with. Plus it has "Alabama" on it - the song that prompted Sweet Home Alabama.
More inspirational choices include:
Cream, "Disraeli Gears"
Jimi Hendrix Experience, "Are you Experienced?" or "Electric Ladyland". I also think the album "Blues" is very good, especially for a young aspiring guitarist.
Buddy Guy, "Buddy's Baddest" or "Damn Right I've Got the Blues"
Richard Thompson "Small Town Romance" - best folk guitarist in the world. The bootleg Live at the Bottomline is actually better (but difficult to find), but this is very good, live and acoustic. May be a little slow for 13 year olds. OTOH, it's the album he'll pick back up five years from now and think "Damn. My aunt is not only smokin' hot, she sure can pick a good CD."
The Yardbirds, "Greatest Hits, Volume 1" Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, were all in the Yardbirds.
AC/DC, Back in Black. I think this album defines heavy metal.
Note: I haven't really thought about lyric suitability for an early teen here. There are some mature themes here, especially with the blues albums and AC/DC, but I think you're okay.
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Back in Black is not heavy metal. AC/DC is more just hard rock. Black Sabbath defines heavy metal. Christ, I'm a fucking tool...
The kid should have these...
1. Stickey Fingers/Exile/Beggars/Let it Bleed
2. Two From the Vault (Smoking Dead at its finest)
3. Axis: Bold as Love (just because the title tune is that fucking great)
4. Tyrannosaurus Hives (this is the best modern rock has to offer)
5. Led Zeppelin Box Set
6. Back in Black/Highway to Hell/Powerage (like it or not, AC/DC is one of the bigger incluences on music in the past 25 yrs)
7. Everything by Janes
8. Metallica - Master of Puppets
9. Straight Outta Compton/Chronic 2000/Hello Nasty/Takes a Nation of Millions
10. Velvet Underground - Any one of their records
11. Neil Young - Decade
12. Dylan - Live 1966
