Who should I be listening to ?? Advice needed

[Mr. B]

I bought Andy Timmons new CD a month ago, and it blew me away. It has been years since I have heard an instrumental album that I found that inspiring. I have been following Satriani and VAi for years, and I do like a lot of their stuff, although some of their music gets so far "out there" that I don't really enjoy listening to it over and over.

What other NEW names should I be listening to for good intrumental guitar playing? (someone suggested Gary Hoey ??)

By the way, I don't really like shred for shredding sake. I do appreciate what some of the speed demons can do, they are technically brilliant, and I'd give anything to be able to do what they do, but its not really something I would sit and listen to very long. Thats why I'm so impressed with Andy Timmons CD. He can burn up the fretboard when he wants to, but he is also a tremendous songwriter, and has so much feeling in his playing.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[ParaGuitarMedic]

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DANNY GATTON!
oh... sorry....Danny Gatton!

[t1r12003]

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You may want to check out something like Rhapsody where for only 10 bucks a month you have access to thousands of albums free to listen to on your computer and they suggest other artists in the same category. I found some cool music like this.

Vai and Satch are my favorites by far. I agree at times the music can get a little out there, more Vai than Satch, but the majority is amazing That being said, here's some others:

Gary Hoey - Blues, surfer music, shreds some too

Eric Johnson - Blues, one of the best guitar tones but I never did like his voice

Joe Stump - Has some Yngwie Malmsteen sounding speed metal classical stuff, but I like the ripping blues based stuff better, so pick through what you like

Steve Morse - Southern influenced instrumental rock

Jeff Beck - Some might say he started it all, his stuff is more fusion, can be wierd

[JohnnyGuitar]

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+1 on Steve Morse... he goes from country to jazz to metal in the same phrase... his Deep Purple things are also amazing.

Frank Gambale- jazz fusion... amazing sweeps.

Rusty Cooley- considerd one of the best metal shreders and shrd teachers today. Fast but a little too many scales and less feel. Same goes for Michael Angelo Batio.

Paul Gilbert- has a few good instrumental albums and he also played guitar in one of the best hair metal albums- "Lean into it" by Mr. Big...

Greg Howe and Richie Kotzen- have a good album together named Tilt. Richie is amazing - played on the only good Poison (IMO) and replaced Paul Gilbert for Mr. Big.

Blues Sareceno- I guess you don't get a signature SD pickup without having great chops.

Scott Henderson- jazz mixed with blues and shredding, with SRV tone.

[StrangeSound]

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I really like this tracks by Alessandro Benvenuti..check out "The Sense of change"

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=51774955

Prashant Aswani

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=20741851

Brett Garsed you will like!

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=45059046

Scott Hedges Check out "Slack hand Solo"

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=69831124

Lorenzo Venza

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=59345630

Michael Landau

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=102449863

or this video http://www.drummerworld.com/Videos/v...utatweaked.mov

I think you'll like Shawn Lane's "Powers of Ten" and "The Tri-Tone Fascination" album.

[Stevo]

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Good suggestions above

I will add Russ Freeman to the bunch. He leads "The Rippingtons". It's great, flowing jazz, even for people who are not crazy about jazz.

[devastone]

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Greg Howe's last disc, Extraction, with Victor Wooten and Dennis Chambers is really good, definitely more of a fusion flavor than "shred". Steve Morse, Gambale, lots of great players out there, some of the suggestions are a little too shreddy for me.

At the same time, I know I'm going to get flames for this, but Eric Johnson can annoy me. He really needs to learn to relax, in life and playing. I've seen him live a few times, he's an awesome player, but he's so uptight it seems to come through in his music.

[vinterland]

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Shawn Lane, nuff said.

[vinterland]

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Brett Garsed you will like!

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=45059046

I just found this guy by accident the other day. Good stuff, great feel to his playing.

[GuitarStv]

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Stanley Jordan!

[JohnnyGuitar]

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Stanley Jordan!

Wow, how could I forget Stanley...
+1000000

[ErikH]

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The Hellecasters. Not necessarily new but you have never heard anyone tear up a Tele until you've heard those three play together.....John Jorgenson, Will Ray & Jerry Donahue. Their first album, "Return of the Hellecasters", is a work of art. Check it out.

[Davey]

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Paul gilbert!!!

[StrangeSound]

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Guthrie Govan's "Waves" and "Slidey Boy"

http://cornfordrecords.com/index.php

Go to "releases" and click on the tracks on the cd.

I just found this guy by accident the other day. Good stuff, great feel to his playing.

I bought his solo cd "Big Sky" 2 weeks ago..great cd!

[bungalowbill]

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Jeff Beck