andrewjbryson
No particular order.....
1 Joe Satriani - Made of Tears
2. Joe Satriani - Love Thing
3. Steve Vai - KmmPeeDoWeee
4 Steve Vai - for the love of God
5. Guthrie Govan - Fives
6. Michael Angelo Batio - China
7. Marty Friedman - The unreal thing
8. John Petrucci - Damage Control
9. Eric Johnson - When the Sun meets the sky
10. DC Slater - Believe
NorioDS
Hey Andrew ?
Love Thing is an all-time favourite of mine. It has to be the track that converted me into a JS-freak.
BUT, I hate the album version. The live version just has so much more to offer. What say you?
AlanRatcliffe
Hell, How do you narrow it down to 10 tracks? I can't narrow it down to ten artists , and I could fill a CD's worth of favourite tracks for each!
Anyway (no particular order):
Allan Holdsworth - Devil Take the Hindmost
Steve Morse - The Introduction
Frank Zappa - Sinister Footwear 2
Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
Bumblefoot - R2
Steve Vai - The Attitude Song
King Crimson (Adrian Belew & Robert Fripp)- Discipline
Michael Hedges - Hot Type
Paco de Lucia - Gitanos Andaluces
Mattias Eklundh - Smoke on the Water
Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy Suite Op.5
Bozzio, Levin, Stevens (Steve Stevens) - Duende
Mahavishnu (John McLaughlin) - Vision Is a Naked Sword
Jeff Beck - Where were you?
andrewjbryson
Norio :
Same here (Love thing & Live in San Francisco converted me from being a Tool fan to a Satch fan)
wierd i know...
Love thing album version rocks ? / live in san francisco was my favourite one
Alan:
Shot , now I got sum new tracks to download ...
All satch fans..... I recommend checking out DC Slater on myspace ,
Similiar to satch, slightly different tone (he uses Ibanez wif 2 Evolution p-ups) really nice stuff
Satriani
My goodness, as Alan put it, IMPOSSIBLE to narrow down to 10, how about 100?
I am tempted to put nothing but Satriani tracks on here (of which I have over 60 tracks anyway), but in no particular order, I'll give it a shot. These are songs that inspired (and still do) me to this day
1) Gary Moore - Still got the Blues (melody and feel)
2) Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien (Crazyness and inventiveness)
3) Steve Vai - For the Love of God (no comment ?)
4) Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
5) Joe Satriani - Ten Words
6) Joe Satriani - Always with me, Always with you
7) Queen / Brian May - The Show Must Go On
8) Steve Vai - Hand on Heart
9) Dream Theater / John Petrucci - Lie (Awake Album) MAD Solo
10) Dream Theater / John Petrucci - Another Day (Images & Words Album)
I am betraying Satch for not putting him as all 10, but oh welllll
NorioDS
I'll start my list...
(No particular order whatsoever)
1) Petrucci - Glasgow Kiss (Love the scottish-guitar sound. Very unique)
2) Satch - Crowd Chant (Awesome energy)
3) Metallica - Orion (Awesome composition. God bless Cliff Burton!)
4) Andy Timmons - Cry For You (AMAZING ballad. And most of it was improv done in one take!)
5) Vai - Hand on Heart
6) Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
7) Satch - Masterclass Song (No idea what it's called but I used the backing track for my recording -- his is SO much better!)
8) Vai - Blue Powder
9) Vai - The Audience is Listening (Love the rebellion in this tjoon ?)
10) Wes Montgomery - Green Peppers
(I'll add to this later -- no ways I'm stopping at 10!)
Guy-Onraet
Guthrie Govan - Waves
Bret Garsed - Undoing (live version)
Shawn Lane - Grey Flying Pianos
Guthrie Govan - Sevens
Shawn Lane - Hardcase
Greg Howe - Improv over "Birds Eye View" (vid on his website)
Frank Gambale - Spikes Song
Steve Vai - Under it All
Steve Vai The Riddle
John Petrucci - Lost without You
AlanRatcliffe
Great list there Guy!
Guy-Onraet
Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
Great list there Guy!
thanks alan
i should have said Magnus Ollsen - "None/Secret/Hat/Tower" as well.
Anyone else know any great Fusion guitarists?
AlanRatcliffe
Anyone else know any great Fusion guitarists?
Allan Holdsworth, Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, Dave Martone, Andy Timmons, Scott Henderson, Mike Keneally, Steve Morse - that's all I can think of now.
Guy-Onraet
hmmm, i must checkout Mike Keneally
AlanRatcliffe
Another ex-zappa band member. He's Vai's second guitarist, keyboardist and silly hat man in the first G3. Also did the album of Vai piano reductions. Does a lot of vocal oriented stuff himself, but when he cuts loose on guitar...
Guy-Onraet
Christophe Godin
holy...!
AlanRatcliffe
Yeah. Forgot about him - Bumblefoot's always raving about him and they often gig together in Europe.
Reinhard
Top 10 in no particular order
1.Fleetwood Mac-Albatross
2.SRV-Lenny
3.Shadows-Apache
4.Peter Gunn theme
5.Vyf Ster theme music
6.Carlos Santana-Europa
7.John Mayall's Blues breakers with Eric Clapton - Steppin Out
8.Freddie King-Boogie Funk
9.John Mayall's bluesbreakers with Peter Green-The stumble
10.Mike Bloomfield-Albert Shuffle
Wessel
1.) Cacophony - Speedmetal Symphony
2.) Cacophony - Concerto
3.) Racer X - Technical difficulty
4.) Michael Angelo - Prog
5.) Eric Johnson - Manhaten
6.) Joe Satriani - Midnight
7.) Edie Van Halen - Eruption (obviously)
8.) Yngwie Malmsteen - Blackstar
9.) The Faceless - Akeldema
10.)Stratovarious - Stratosphere
AlanRatcliffe
OK. Reinhard, I now know exactly what music turns you on. Melody over technicality, eh? No Ventures? The Shadows' F.B.I.?
Albatross is one of my all-time favourite guitar instrumentals.
Reinhard
Yeh you got it Alan ? The Shadows have so many great tracks, I just went with my favourite. Sleepwalk is another.
I will have to check out the Ventures, can't recall anything by them at the moment.
AlanRatcliffe
Best known Track of the ventures is probably Wipeout.
I basically started on the Shadows, we had tons of 8-track tapes of them when I was a kid. Even had some of their vocal stuff (you don't wanna know...). Always used to do Apache at pub gigs - one for the old folk, y'know?. ?
sepheritoh
Nice list Wessel!
For me it is emotional content and melody over speed and show.
In no particular order my list should include:
Reptile - Eric Clapton
Parisian Walkways - Gary Moore
Europa - Santana
Samba pa ti - Santana
Sarabande - Yngwie Malmsteen (Everything from his concerto suite is fantastic)
Ricardo Galien - Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez (The Adagio is the most well known, but all 3 movements are equally great)
I'll think of more later.
