Electric guitars are cool. Was given a sunburst Zenta (old, cheap '70s Japanese make) at 13 or 14, much to my parents’ disgust. I only really learned a few Ramones tunes, but what did I care? I had to run the cable through a Toshiba tape-to-tape player and it gave me the odd electric shock, but it was so much better than having a Nintendo. And yes, girls do react to it (just not the ones I wanted)
First guitarist who made my jaw drop was Marco Pirroni from Adam & The Ants, he made so many other bands' guitarists sound puny and 1-dimensional (bear in mind I was 6 and just getting into whatever was in the charts, so didn't exactly compare him to Crass or Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, lol). I loved that bit at the end of "Ants Invasion" where he's scratching the strings and feedbacking, and it sounds like a bunch of insects are crawling around and going mental inside your speakers...I mean, I liked The Jam too, but how could Weller compete with this barrage?
Guitarists who sit on stools while they're playing make me sick.