Then Satch and Vinnie Moore caught my ears also.
What I am meaning is I would pick things that they had done and then play them my way. I think the only song I ever learned note for note was "Always with me, Always with you", to me that is one of the nicest guitar instumentals I have ever heard to this day. It's also not really that difficult to play.
Needless to say there was no way I would have been able to play that 6 months into playing ;)