Instrumental guitar albums

Mike Oldfield's creatively-named album Guitars from 1999 was recorded using only guitars, although he kind of cheated by also using a MIDI guitar. It's not very progressive, but I enjoy it.

Martin Barre's best album Stage Left is brilliant.



Lots of different styles of guitar playing. Martin uses a different guitar for each track. The last track does have vocals though, which is a pity, as it does spoil this great album.

Staying on an ECM tip, here's something from Ralph Towner's Solstice:

Mascodagama wrote: Staying on an ECM tip, here's something from Ralph Towner's Solstice:     Sublime record. And what a band! Ralph Towner, Eberhard Weber, Jan Garbarek, Jon Christensen.

^ Very good album indeed
When it comes to 'completely' guitar oriented albums, my winner is Manuel Goettsching's 'Inventions For Electric Guitar'.

never been much on this stuff man... but one album certainly does jump to mind

"Self-Contained" by Peter Banks is sublime.  He picked up the "Jem" guitar model from Ibanez and sounds a great deal like Steve Vai.   Highly recommended. 

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Jeff Beck....Blow by Blow and Wired are both excellent.

Mascodagama wrote: micky wrote: never been much on this stuff man... but one album certainly does jump to mind Wow, that's one of the first jazz albums I ever bought on vinyl. I would have been about sixteen, and they played a track - I think Eleanor Rigby - on a breakfast radio show that didn't normally feature any music, someone must have been impressed by his prodigious technique. I couldn't believe what he was doing, ran out and bought it the next Saturday. Still got it but I must not have listened to it in a decade. I'm going to dig it out for a spin.

yep same here.  As I said.. most of the time that kind of stuff bores the hell of out me but this album connected and connected HARD. I was visiting my father in Tucson where he was living with his.. oh I don't know.. 4th or 5th wife and he whipped that album out one day played the Eleanor Rigby song and as soon as I got home I immediately got it.

Wish I still had it..  likely lost in the great album purges for beer money of the mid 90's when young Mick discovered some things were more importantly than music.