Favourite guitar albums?

[Stevepage]

Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Carcass - Heartwork
SRV - Texas Flood

These stick out to me at the moment.

[gwEm]

Good call steve - how could i have forgotten eric johnson ;) :)

but i am a closet fan of old surf instrumentals

[Nolly]

Instrumental-wise:

Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
Andy Timmons - Resolution
Greg Howe - Extraction
Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger
Marco Sfogli - There's Hope
John Petrucci - Suspended Animation
Ron Jarzombek - Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement

[Lew]

Ron Jarzombek - Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement

I'm only familiar with some of his stuff with Spastic Ink (from youtube no less) but WOW!  :o

[dave_mc]

Yea, I think I meant solo guitar albums but the threads taken a nice direction, so carry on :p

thanks. :) everyone's nicked most of my choices now, so i'll just +1 the vai, satch, eri johnson, timmons, srv, moore and govan etc. nominations and raise you tony macalpine and malmsteen. :D

[Philly Q]

Ron Jarzombek - Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement

I'm only familiar with some of his stuff with Spastic Ink (from youtube no less) but WOW!  :o

I've got an album he did with a band called Watchtower - always found it pretty hard work to listen to.

[Lew]

This is genius  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhP4lg28fs0

[Philly Q]

OK, instrumental stuff.  A few mentioned already:

Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien (haven't heard his more recent stuff, but still my favourite of the ones I know)
Eric Johnson - Tones and Ah Via Musicom
Vinnie Moore - Mind's Eye (better tunes and more melody than other shred albums I bought in the '80s!)

A few others I like:

Chris Poland - Return To Metalopolis
Jennifer Batten - Above Below And Beyond
Chris Haskett & Brandon Finley - Nonfiction
John Paul Jones - Zooma
The Mermen - A Glorious Lethal Euphoria

I'd love to include some Roy Buchanan and Richie Kotzen, but most of their best albums have vocal tracks!

[Nolly]

Ron Jarzombek - Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement

I'm only familiar with some of his stuff with Spastic Ink (from youtube no less) but WOW!  :o

Seriously Lew, you should check it out! I'm not sure I've ever actually listened to it from end to end, but it is insane throughout.

[martinw]

GCB - Chris George Band.

He's the Marshall demo guy and has an instrumental album out. Check it out!  :)

[choucas09]

The Beano album has already been mentioned, but Peter Green didn't exactly come up short on A Hard Road, the follow up album. I love this track The Supernatural.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFFqffopb8

[dheim]

yngwie j malmsteen : rising force (i'm not a great malmsteen's fan, but this one blew me away...)

joe satriani : flying in a blue dream (not sure if it's really my satch favourite, but it's the first i heard and some song has become a guitar standard for me)

[Fourth Feline]

Another vote for :

Robin Trower : 'Live'
UFO : 'Strangers In The Night'
Thin Lizzy : 'Live And Dangerous'
Pink Floyd : 'Pulse'

And adding :

Be-Bop Deluxe : 'Live In The Air Age'  ( Especially the track - "Adventures On A Yorkshire Landscape" ).
The Brian Setzer Orchestra : 'Dirty Boogie' .

For guitar instrumentals :

Larry Carlton : 'Last Nite' ( at the potato club ) and 'Sapphire Blue '.

Also, for profound guitar inspiration heard as a session on another musician's album :

Marc Ribot for his work on Tom Waits : 'Raindogs'.

 :)

[choucas09]

Yeah I thought about posting Saphire Blue. For my money Larry Carlton's got it all, but he never shoves it in your face. The bottom line for me is musicality. And not necessarily in a technical way.

[nfe]

Ron Jarzombek - Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement

I'm only familiar with some of his stuff with Spastic Ink (from youtube no less) but WOW!  :o

I've got an album he did with a band called Watchtower - always found it pretty hard work to listen to.

Was it a Jehova's Witness release?