compl3x

Anyone here like Instru rock? Joe Satriani, Steve Vai etc...? I have 2 Satriani albums and one Vai album.

Satriani: Surfing with the alien & Flying in a blue dream

Vai: Passion and warfare.

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r0ckl0bster

way more into instrumental stuff like post rock than satriani type stuff
but apreesh

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Samoid

i love satriani and all kinds of instru

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SoundDevastation

about 1/4 of what i listen to is instrumental rock, i can't stand vai or satriani though... im far more into post-rock, noise-rock, math-rock, doom, stoner etc.

Joel007

I have about half of Satriani's Albums. The only Vai I have is on my G3 collections (I have all the G3 DVDs). Vai is a bit too visually flashy at the expense of the sound I think.
Everyone I've met who likes instrumental guitar is a guitarist. I guess it comes with the territory

Hyper

Liquid Tension Experiment blows solo guitarists out of the water. Except maybe Vai. Vai is good.

compl3x

I'm not a guitarist.

Knight_of_Nights

I don't necessarily like instrumental bands, but I don't mind listening to it or normal bands that have instrumental songs. However, it can't just be a group of people that don't have a singer. They need to at least show off or make something stand out.

Kingmob

I like a lot of instrumental bands.

I dislike muso guitar wankery. So Satriani, Vai, etc can go boil their heads. It just lacks and real song writing or dynamics. It sounds more like demo cd's to show off the new range of Boss effects pedals.

What really gets me is Robert Fripp spends all this time pissing about on big guitar hero tours with those losers, when he could be playing Red and Lark's Tounge by King Crimson instead.....

nuraveonthebloc

there's plenty of good instrumental rock which doesn't involve wanking of the fretboard. check out 65daysofstatic, they're good guitar music, but there's also electronic stuff in there and they're amazing live.

Joel007

Satriani used to sing, and although it does make the solos stand out more, i prefer the melodic instrumental songs. He's done some amazingly emotive or catchy songs without words, which takes just as much skill as lyrical songwriting.

SoundDevastation

65daysofstatic are a massive disappointment IMO. Great ideas on the first album then did absolutely nothing with them to make two rather boring follow-ups.

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Kingmob

Indeed, I was saying I hate muso guitarist bands (dream theatre included) and that's coming from a guitarist. In fact, I've heard some of satch's singing and its almost as bad as the album Steve Vai did with Devin Townsend...

...But not quite.

My brother recommended me 65 days, I've downloaded a couple of records, but not had a chance to really listen to them yet.

There was a band from Dublin called Killing Spree who we put on in Edinburgh a few years back. They did a sorta riffy shellac/melvins type instrumental jam, they were awesome, didn't need vocals at all.

compl3x

I will check out 65daysofstatic.

Kingmob

I've listened to them a bit more now. First album is really strong.