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crowzero

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Is it possible to find a guitar solo album? i mean something like Van halen's eruption and Virgin steele's pulverizer but in a full song and album, no drums, keyboards or other instruments only electric guitars.

Not that i don't like Joe satriani or Buckethead's album, is just that the kind of instrumental rock have already built too much space in my music collection and it is time to find something rare.

I remember listening to only drum solo tracks in one complete album but never come across a guitar solo album.

Any information or comment will be welcome.
 
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crowzero said:
Is it possible to find a guitar solo album? i mean something like Van halen's eruption and Virgin steele's pulverizer but in a full song and album, no drums, keyboards or other instruments only electric guitars.

Not that i don't like Joe satriani or Buckethead's album, is just that the kind of instrumental rock have already built too much space in my music collection and it is time to find something rare.

I remember listening to only drum solo tracks in one complete album but never come across a guitar solo album.

Any information or comment will be welcome.
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Hmmm, :scratch2: I think what you're describing would be pretty difficult to come by in a "rock music" context. I love Yngwie Malmsteen's first Rising Force record, and there are many great things from Vinnie Moore, and Satriani and Buckethead as you mention, but yeah, those are all multi-instrumental rock records generally speaking. If you're willing to step outside of the heavy, rock instrumental genre, there's a great solo electric guitar album from jazz/avant-garde artist, Sonny Sharrock. Check out samples here. I absolutely love it, but it could be an acquired taste as the tone is drenched in reverb and distortion, and the pieces themselves often verge on noise and extreme experimentalism/improv (see "Kula-Mae"). I find it to be a very engaging listen, but I can certainly understand that many people would not. Patience and repeated listenings most likely required. :)
 
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dmax99 said:
Check out the Hellecasters.
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Those three were great. I saw them in a small venue here in SD. They played live so well it sounded like their record. Amazing given the rapid pickin and bending. I saw Albert Lee at that same venue a year earlier. He is another great guitarist that did some trade offs with Steve Lukather at that show. Steve was bowing to him. I always thought he'd be a perfect fourth for The Hellecasters. BTW, both those concerts were filled with guitarists. My guitarist friend pointed out to me that Dave Mason was right behind my left shoulder at The Hellecaster show.
 
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John Jorgenson is currently performing Django inspired Gypsy jazz with a quintet that bears his name.I've seen them perform a couple times at a small venue,he puts on one helluva show.
 
While not a solo guitar album, per se......give a listen to:
"Friday Night In San Francisco" by Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin and Paco DeLucia (on Columbia Records).
It's an amazing recording of three incredible guitarists blazing away together and individually. And, they're all obviously having the time of their lives.
 
Just about anything by the late Danny Gatton, just about knocks my socks off!
He does just about everything from rockabilly to jazz, often at the same time??

Steve
 
gearhound said:
Just about anything by the late Danny Gatton, just about knocks my socks off!
He does just about everything from rockabilly to jazz, often at the same time??

Steve
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Famously good guitar player. He was in Guitar Worlds 100 fastest guitarist as well. I need to check out more of his work, it can be a little difficult to find.

I can recommend Sonny Sharrock - Guitar, I found a cd copy at goodwill, and picked it up because it looked neat. It is a very cool album, entirely guitar, no other instruments...the only thing is he overdubs himself. It's an experimental album by a jazz guitarist who uses distortion. I'd liken it to Zappa in nature, long, beautiful compositions...his "Voice" really shines in his playing, and it being all guitar is a bonus:D
 
gearhound said:
Just about anything by the late Danny Gatton, just about knocks my socks off!
He does just about everything from rockabilly to jazz, often at the same time??

Steve
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I was in my favorite record store last year, the owner handed me an album and said buy it. He was right...Danny Gatton-Redneck Jazz
 

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Before I read all these good suggestions here I was thinking maybe you should make your own 'playlist' of various artists and burn a CD of them.
 
Thanks they are all great musicians. I think i'm gonna go for Sonny Sharrock's space ghost first cause i never heard guitars being played like that, though it has drums and doesn't thrill like Malmsteen's stuff but it's something new to me.
 
A lot of Stanley Jordan's stuff is some good jazz style solo guitar work, played in an unconventienal way. He plays using both hands on the fretboard in a weird finger picking\hammer ons and pull offs.
 
jonman said:
A lot of Stanley Jordan's stuff is some good jazz style solo guitar work, played in an unconventienal way. He plays using both hands on the fretboard in a weird finger picking\hammer ons and pull offs.
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Just listen to auntumn leaves from youtube, it was fun to watch his one hand on one guitar technics.
As my ears are way too addicted to guitar distortion, i'm going to take a long hesitation to go buy clean sounding guitar solo album.
Thanks anyway that i learn of another guitar hero.
 
A Danny Gatton CD of out-takes was produced locally in the Washington, DC area, years after his untimely death.


It's called......Portraits.
Freakin' awesome, IMO!
Steve
 
Vini Reilly did a bunch of great solo guitar stuff, mostly on Durutti Column records. Mostly softer, intricate stuff, though. Probably not for Van Halen fans. Sonny Sharrock rules. It still blows my mind that Black Woman was his first album.
 
crowzero said:
Thanks they are all great musicians. I think i'm gonna go for Sonny Sharrock's space ghost first cause i never heard guitars being played like that, though it has drums and doesn't thrill like Malmsteen's stuff but it's something new to me.
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Yeah, his Space Ghost work is pretty fantastic...the show it's attached to isn't bad either, but I don't think they would have gotten nearly that same feel if Sharrock hadn't of rocked out that opening.

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Sonny Sharrock rules. It still blows my mind that Black Woman was his first album.
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Haven't had a chance to play that one. He is a really out-there player, hugely talented, though not in a mainstream way. I'm surprised that his first album was in '69, with that type of music (i've heard a couple tracks)...impressive stuff. Apparently he always considered himself "a horn player with a really ****ed up axe" (his words).

"Ask the ages" is also really grand, though it's defintely more of a full-house, with a more tradional approach, well, as close as Sharrock could get:yes:.
 
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