Bands And Albums.

Check Dick Dale and Stevie Rae Vaughn with Pipeline ..fabulous together
Strat heavan,,
The Astronauts with Baja
the Challengers
and anything by Jeff Beck.
The Shadows and Ventures...a wonderful genre ..

yeah man, how 'bout John Petrucci from Dream Theater? I liked Glasgow Kiss, and I think the guy is an INSANE guitarist.

Brian Eno was the master of instrumentals. He did a bunch with Bowie in the late 70s and his Another Green World album was chock full of interesting synth-driven instrumentals, this before his hardcore ambient phase too.

Eno's vocal songs are pretty cool too. And Philip Glass recorded some fine symphonic works based on the Bowie-Eno series.

You can't be a real UPS driver, no porn mustache lol.

Kyuss' thee ol' boozeroony. Josh Homme from Queens of the stoneage and Them Crooked Vultures was the guitarist in Kyuss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMAUQoFO4Q

Fugazi - formed from minor threat. Sweet and low.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pv_umwe_Oc

Camel - "Music Inspired by the Snow Goose" is an awesome instrumental album. Very Pink Floyd-ish. I highly recommend it.

Other great instrumentals are:
Dream Theater's "Erotomania"
-"Overture 1928"
-"The dance of eternity"

Liquid Tension Experiment

"An evening with John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess" - My favorite is "State of Grace" (which can also be found on the first LTE album)

Yngwie Malmsteen's "Rising Force"

Gregg Bissonette's CD "Submarine" features Steve Vai, Steve Stevens, Robben Ford, Joe Satriani,... and others.

the Savatage/Trans-Siberian Orchestra instrumentals are worth a listen; Underture, Mozart and Madness

i have all those except the greg bissonette cd - great choices

elagant gypsy - andy timmons
for the love of god - steve vai
transylvania - iron maiden
schindler's list soundtrack
any liquid tension experiment
instrumedly - dream theater (live at the budakan)

...to forever embrace the sun - skycamefalling
hidden track - fragment on "...angels never came"
the astronauts are sleeping (enter) - her space holiday

instrumental bands:

Godspeed You Black Emperor
A Silver Mt. Zion
American Football
Theory Of Abstract Light

and a bunch more I cant think of right now

Brian Eno was the master of instrumentals. He did a bunch with Bowie in the late 70s and his Another Green World album was chock full of interesting synth-driven instrumentals, this before his hardcore ambient phase too.

He's good, but Eno gets pretty boring after a while, at least to me, I cant listen to an entire album

Steve Vai, Liquid Tension Experiment/Dream Theater, Gary Hoey, Stanley Clarke, Brave Young....some stuff been jammin to.

Tangerine Dream

Vangelis

Fresh Aire (Mannheim Steamroller)

Peter Gabriel

ELP

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

Jean-Luc Ponty

Mike Oldfield

Jean Michael Jarre

Kraftwerk

Rick Wakeman

Those are the few that come to mind, when I think instrumentals.

"Soul Finger" is by the Bar-Kays

Love instrumentals and a lot of my own original material tends to be instrumental whenever I put a complete song together from my own stuff. I love a wide array of instrumentals from Morricone compositions and "Romanze" to "Green Onions" to surf tunes, both classic and contemporary to "Little Boy Blues" to "Coast to Coast", "La Villa Strangiato", "Losfer Words", Eric Johnson, Satriani, "Chase the Ace", "T.O.L.", etc.

Thanks for bumping this. Been searching for instrumental stuff at the request of an art teacher on another forum. I've made some mix tapes of all instrumental stuff (yes, cassette is still my main media!). It's amazing to listen to 20 different bands making music without vox. That's what it means, mang.

I've never been able to write lyrics to save my life so 98% of what I write is instrumental.

Too bad Vinny is reluctant to share his music here on BM cos his stuff absolutely kills and he's a great and talented multi-instrumentalist!

I've never been able to write lyrics to save my life so 98% of what I write is instrumental.

Too bad Vinny is reluctant to share his music here on BM cos his stuff absolutely kills and he's a great and talented multi-instrumentalist!

As well as a multi-profilist?