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guitar_dude18
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09/06/2001 10:49 pm
My favorite's are:
1. To Live Is To Die-Metallica
2. Without Wings-Corrosion of Conformity
3. Dee-Randy Rhoads
4. Orion-Metallica
5. Call of Ktulu-Metallica
6. Sisters-Steve Vai
7. For the Love of God-Steve Vai
8. Little Wing-SRV
9. Vampires-Godsmack even though some words are spoken I think of it as an instrumental

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09/06/2001 10:56 pm
Doees anyone else think that the words, few as they are, ruin Fade To Black by Metallica. I mean itds the only Metallica song I like and Id like it alot more a s an instrumental.
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09/07/2001 11:20 am
here we go..

1)Vai - For the love of god
2)Satriani - always with you always with me
3)Deep Purple A 200
4)Anything by SRV

can't think of any others now
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09/09/2001 1:46 pm
Heres are mine

For the love of god STEVE VAI
Extremist JOE SATRIANI
Hideaway (Eric clapton
eric johnson (zap)
carlos santana (europe)

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09/12/2001 3:08 am
I'm dissapointed, damn, im downright heartbroken to see that no one has put this one up here yet. You should all feel ashamed after not honoring a great guitar legend who was lost before he even made thirty. I think its a beautiful work of guitar art, and it gives me chills just to listen to an amazing classical work done by a hard rocking guitar player.

Of course I'm talking about Randy Rhoads and his classical guitar piece "Dee". May Randy's soul rest in peace.
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09/12/2001 3:11 am
whoa hey im sorry, i read over it again and Guitar_dude18 did mention Rhoads. Right on man, hes one of my favorite guitarists and I think he deserves alot more respect than he gets.
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09/14/2001 3:21 am
Originally posted by Christoph



For the Love of God - Vai



There are so many instrumentals that come to mind, but with this song it definitely has a way of taking you on a strong and long journey. The God's of thunder were definitely with this man dutring the overal writing process. When you have the ability to reach someone through sounds (without words) that really say something special about what you're capable of as a human being.

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09/14/2001 6:28 pm
Black Star - Yngwie Malmsteen

A brilliant neoclassical work
Work hard...Play hard...Break a string...:mad:

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08/22/2006 9:27 am
SRV's "Little Wing" definitely!!

I'm a little torn between admitting to liking the neo-classical brilliancies of Yngwie J. Malmsteen, or keeping it to myself...as I've noticed there aren't very many mentions of his name here (I think I noticed one). Among my notable favorites are: "Black Star", "Trilogy Suite", "Flamenco Diablo", "Blitzkrieg", "Arpeggios From Hell", and "Echo Etude", with more to follow I'm sure...

Eugene's (Vai?) rendition of "Paganini's 5th Caprice" from the movie "Crossroads"====> I've been at this one for a couple 'o years and still haven't got it the way I want it....oh well, forge ahead...

All of Metallica's Instrumentals.

Paul Gilbert's made for guitar version of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons"

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08/22/2006 4:14 pm
My top 5 favourite instrumentals in no particular order...

Metallica - Orion
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
Vinnie Moore - Defying Gravity
Joe Satriani - War (or a track from Strange Beautfull Music which I forget the title of)
Steve Vai - Tender Surrender

There are a lot more I could mention seeing as I almost exclusively listen to instrumental music.... but anyway, these are the ones that jump to mind at this moment
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08/22/2006 4:39 pm
+1 for mentioning Vinnie Moore dude, I prefer 'As time slips by', but man he's good...

At the moment, my top 5 would be:

As Time Slips By - Vinnie Moore
Circles - Joe Satriani
Summer Song - Joe Satriani
Nottingham Lace - BucketHead
Apathy - Bumblefoot

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08/22/2006 4:42 pm
I agree with just about everyone so I'm not gonna post the same stuff. So I'm gonna add Vai's Building the Church to the list. I perfer the live version he did with G3 because the ending whammy bar riff is longer and better.
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08/22/2006 4:47 pm
Here are a few I like, in no definite order. I also like a bunch of classical music that I haven't listed here, because then the list would be huge.

  • Tears in the Rain - Satriani

  • Revelation - Robben Ford

  • For the Love of God - Steve Vai

  • Blue Moon - Tommy Emmanuel

  • Always With Me, Always With You - Satriani

  • Samba Pa Ti - Santana

  • Little Wing - SRV

  • Villanova Junction - Hendrix


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08/22/2006 4:53 pm
2 that pop to mind

Freeway Jam -- Jeff Beck

Testify - SRV
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS]But it goes to eleven....[/FONT]
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08/22/2006 7:35 pm
Freeway Jam is the goods! Love the little keyboard solo at the end as well.

Two that come to mind for me are "Meeting of the Spirits" by the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Pink Floyd's "Careful With That Axe, Eugene".
"It's all folk music... I ain't never heard no horse sing!"
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08/22/2006 8:35 pm
OH MAN!!!!

Yo9u just reminded me of another great instrumental by Pink Floyd....

One of these days -- The works album -- The backward cymbal kicks A-uss!!

Freeway Jam has to be an all time fav for me. It's actually the bass that does it for me. I am working on a cover and since my keyboard playing sucks the big one I, unfortunately pay it no attention (I know shame on me:)
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08/22/2006 9:54 pm
Just to name a few I haven't seen yet:

Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
Flying - the Beatles (very groovy song, it always relaxes me)
Moby Dick - Led Zep

And also, a bunch of Greasy Knots jams that turned out pretty cool, like "Separation," "Bassline AB200," and one we did last night with me playing bass and Michael playing guitar which I like to call "F-f-f-funk."
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08/23/2006 7:42 am
Thanks for reminding me about the Floyd guys - totally forgot about 'Marooned'.... genius... whammy pedal use at it's best....

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08/23/2006 6:00 pm
Originally Posted by: earthman buck

Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd


*kicks self for not mentioning this song* :)
I tried to rep you, but to no avail!
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08/23/2006 6:13 pm
moby dick-zep
one of these days-floyd
La Villa Strangiato-rush
orion-metallica
take five-dave brubeck
losfer words(best title :D )-iron maiden
beck's bolero-jeff beck
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