Recommend guitar wanking stuff!

[Alex78]

guys, I need some new music...preferably instrumental prog metal type stuff...

albums I like:

John Petrucci - Suspended Animation
Gordian Knot - both albums
Jason Becker - Perspectives, Perpetual Burn
Stride - Music Machine

Vai, Malmsteen and the whole Shrapnel stuff(other than Becker at least) doesn't do much for me unfortunately... what I'm looking for is a combination of technical skill, emotion and good songwriting. instrumental albums can be hard to listen to but I think the albums I mentioned are really enjoyable.

edit: I forgot Liquid Tension Experiment...like them a lot

thanks....

 

[RedinTheSky]

Spastic Ink : Ink Complete is the best. That is all.

 

[Sadguru]

Maybe you would like some Satriani? Not exactly instrumental but still...

 

[RedinTheSky]

instrumental albums can be hard to listen to but I think the albums I mentioned are really enjoyable

Vocals with this type of music are usually incredibly terrible.

 

[Rocky Raccoon]

Definately check out "Music for speeding" by MArty Freidman, right up your alley..

 

[metal_wrath]

You might like Tony Mcalpine's stuff which I haven't really got into yet, but his album Violent Machine is pretty good. Actually I should check out the albums mentioned

also definitely check out Eric Johnson's albums. Mindblowingly virtuosic with great songwriting, and alot of his songs are instrumentals

 

[Stimuli]

John 5
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy

 

[Manbient]

obviously Cosmosquad. Not so obviously, Alejandro Silva. But seriously though.

 

[derbeder]

Greg Howe is definitely worth checking out if you enjoy this stuff. His solo albums Parallax and Five are more jazz-fusiony than the more neo-classical later album Ascend (with Vitalij Kuprij on the keyboard). So choose your style here. All are great albums for the genres. He also has an album with Victor Wooten and Dennis Chambers called Extraction.

Vitalij Kuprij is a classically trained Ukranian pianist and keyboardist who as a child won nation-wide competitions. His neo-classical albums are much better than those of Malmsteen and co. His solo album (High Definition) with Greg Howe is probably his best. Extreme Measures and VK3 were also enjoyable. He also played in a band called Artension.

 

[Kir-ir-Bannog]

Kane Roberts LOL

 

[Talking Meat]

Definitely Tony MacAlpine. Edge of Insanity is great, its so 80s you can smell the hair spray, but his compositions are really nice.

Charlie Hunter is a jazz player, maybe not what you're looking for. But he has hall of fame chops, and at least his first two albums are full of great songs.

 

[still day]

this guy is about as far away from wankery as could possiblly be.. unless you count that he's on Vai's Favored Nations label, but he has the best wrt tone and
and vibe in my books..Johnny A. is absolutely stellar in every regard guitarwise!!!

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

paco de lucia, the man in my sig, extremely technical flamenco guitarist (although not wanking at all)

check out 3 albums that feature paco de lucia, john mclaughlin, and al di meola (look it up on wikipedia)

 

[still day]

al di meola and stanley clark on Return to Forever's "Romantic Warrior"

 

[Stimuli]

OHM - trippy jazz fusion band with ex-megadeth guitarist Chris Poland...

 

[illidurit]

what I'm looking for is a combination of technical skill, emotion and good songwriting.

I forgot Liquid Tension Experiment...like them a lot

lmao

 

[Alex78]

thanks guys! now let's hope I can find some mp3s of those bands...

 

[x_OPETH_x]

uh....how come nobody mentioned ALLAN HOLDSWORTH ?!!?

cmon...this guy's not from Earth..

he's had an illustrious Solo career, along with playing on albums by Soft Machine, Gong, Bill Bruford, Tony Williams Lifetime, Jean-Luc Ponty, and he's also going to be on a few tracks of the new Planet X disc...

my highest recommendation, this guy is so badly underrated, and in my opinion one of the, if not THE most creative guitarist ever to live...

 

[daz436]

lmao

i was scrolling down to post exactly that lol

 

[CAIRATH]

OHM - trippy jazz fusion band with ex-megadeth guitarist Chris Poland...

There's also Return to Metalopolis, a solo record by Chris Poland in similar vein. I personally cannot get into any of this stuff whatsoever (including that album), but if you're into that I suppose it might be worth checking out.

And why has no one mentioned Jeff Beck yet?