Music-culture that has influenced me

I have been influenced and a part of a plethora of music cultures, but I will simply focus on at least one major one for this post. A music culture that I have been apart of is the guitar culture, I assume more specifically the western electric guitar culture, although with the internet I have become a part of an online guitar community that spans globally, the community I am apart of is based somewhere in Europe, an has members from all over europe, possibly Japan, China, etc.. The way the guitar culture has influenced me has been on my musical selections for casual listening, bands such as Van Halen-Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, SRV, a I could run the entire gammit. Being apart of the guitar community I haave also developed a love for all types of guitars, valuing the instruments, as collectables and things to revel at. Like a grease monkey for cars, I have been influenced by the guitar culture, spending countless hours at guitarcenter, making jokes on how people should stop playing stairway to heaven and smoke on the water at guitarcenter( especially if they cant play) and attending the dallas guitar show when it comes into town. You get your typically harley guys with cool beards, and old guys who are still in the 80's with there really tight leather pants.