Do you have a 'go to' album when you want to hear some great instrumental guitar playing?

axisus

I dug out my favourite yesterday for its first airing in a while, as always it was a fabulous experience - Thomas Blug Live in Raalte. Great melodic pieces and lots of lovely stratty tones (mostly with a reasonable amount of gain). Thomas has a great touch and feel playing guitar, and the songs, anywhere between 6 and 10 minutes long are full of passion. It's a sublime record.

What do you guys go for?

Jero

Erotic Cakes - Guthrie Govan
Remarkably Human - Nick Johnston
Perpetual Burn - Jason Becker

Blueingreen

I don't listen to a huge amount of instrumental guitar and I'll have a different go-to in a year's time, but I gave Mark Lettieri's Spark and Echo a listen a while ago and I'm surprised that I'm still sticking it on from time to time maybe a year later.  Reminds me of Blow By Blow era Beck, proper tunes and arrangements and the guitar is always placed in service of the music.

viz

Passion and Warfare 
Greg Howe's Introspection
Kiss my Axe - Al di Meola

Redlester

The key Jeff Beck albums- Blow by Blow, Wired, and Who Else?. 

I'd include Mahavishnu Orchestra because of McLaughlin, but for a pure guitar freakout, the Love, Devotion, Surrender album with Santana is great. 

I love Pierre Bensusan too. His best of is a great place to start. 

KDS

Satch flying in a blue dream, put it on at least once a year, sounds ace

thumpingrug

Passion and Warfare
Ghosts of Pripyat
Paris Texas 

KDS

thumpingrug said:

Passion and Warfare
Ghosts of Pripyat
Paris Texas 

Forgot Paris Texas +1

Leiversalone

Surfing with the Alien

Philly_Q

I'm struggling to think of anything totally instrumental that I listen to regularly.  But a few things I like:

My Sleeping Karma - all albums (instrumental apart from a bit of chanting)

Earthless - From the Ages (mostly instrumental)

The Mermen - A Glorious Lethal Euphoria (surf prog)

Jennifer Batten - Above Below and Beyond (more varied than most shred albums)

Chris Poland - Return to Metalopolis

John Paul Jones - Zooma

Nitefly

Mine would be Julian Bream and John Williams' "Together" album.  I think I first got it on vinyl in 1970. 

The "Spanish Dance" (was it by Falla?) and the "Pavane for a Dead Princess" were my favourites.

drofluf

The Clap by Yes, or to be honest most pre 1980 Yes.

Gordon Giltrap’s Fear of the Dark

Bert Jansch, especially Anjii

scrumhalf

Any of the great Freddie King instrumentals.

The version of Driving South on the Hendrix BBC sessions album.

Paul Gilbert on Beehive Live.

Yngwie's early demos.

EricTheWeary

Not that many for me either but 

Freddie King - Let’s Hideaway and Danceaway
Jim Campilongo - Orange 
Jerry Donahue - Telecasting 
Los Straitjackets - Jet Set 
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages ( for anyone who watched the recent Andertons interview with Carlos Santana one of his heroes - although the Captain hadn’t got a Scooby who Sonny was)

My desert island choice from those maybe Ask the Ages. 

https://youtu.be/jks0N05l4OY

octatonic

Two Drink Minimum - Wayne Krantz
Tales From the Bulge - Mike Landau
Erotic Cakes - Guthrie Govan

Philly_Q

I forgot Roy Buchanan (I know he provokes mixed feelings around here).  I would probably go for this album, it's one of those old-fashioned Polydor compilations but I listened to it for years and it's got a great selection of tracks.

BahHumbug

+1 for Jerry Donahue - Telecasting
Allan Holdsworth - Sand
Martyn Heyne - Electric Intervals
Adrian Legg - Guitar for Mortals

All fab in their own different ways.....

Gizmo

Marty Friedman - Dragons Kiss

Greg Howe - Greg Howe

Allan Holdsworth - Wardenclyffe Tower

Nick Johnston - Wide Eyes in the Dark

leonardo guzman - Now (just an EP but dam some killer tunes and playing on this)

Tony MacAlpine - Concrete Gardens

Marco Sfogli (anything)

Planet X (anything)

i could really go on and on !, id take instrumental stuff over vocal any second of the day, ive even got a few cd's that have the 2nd discs as just instrumental mixes where i haven't even listened to the vocal versions (last dream theater for example)

fob

CountryDave

Nitefly said:

Mine would be Julian Bream and John Williams' "Together" album.  I think I first got it on vinyl in 1970. 

The "Spanish Dance" (was it by Falla?) and the "Pavane for a Dead Princess" were my favourites.

+1 for Bream & Williams.

Also don’t mind Craig Ogden and of course Passion and Warfare.

The Hellecasters is also a bit good.

StefB

Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction and/or Rust in Peace depending on mood.