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Points: 356 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 26 2016 at 16:05
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.
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I would recommend a few instrumental albums that probably fall into Post Rock/Math Rock...

Wide Eyes
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It was not mentioned if it was just guitar only and no other instruments, but anything pretty much by the California Guitar Trio (all guitar).  Guitarists mentored by Robert Fripp.
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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.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 27 2016 at 05:05
Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

Pat Metheny Group
 
Pat Metheny Group has some great recordings, but to get his guitar playing in its purest form it's worth hearing some of his solo albums. I like New Chautauqua and One Quiet Night in particular, some beautiful contemplative playing.


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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.
 
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Richard Bishop, from Fingering The Devil:
 
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Originally posted by Mascodagama 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'.
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never been much on this stuff man... but one album certainly does jump to mind
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Originally posted by micky 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.

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"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. 
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A little mainstream, but I feel the late, great Ronnie Montrose's Open Fire fits the bill here (produced by Edgar Winter).
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Points: 20671 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2016 at 13:41
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Jeff Beck....Blow by Blow and Wired are both excellent.
I also think Sargasso Sea by Abercrombie is nice as well as some of his others and of course Towner has some great ones too.
I like Liquid Tension Experiment also.
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Points: 15352 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2016 at 18:32
One of my favorite instrumental guitar albums is from this maestro

BERND STEIDL - psycho acoustic overture

I've been contemplating suggesting this for symphonic prog. 

 Does anyone else think it could be on PA?



















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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by micky 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.
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Originally posted by timothy leary timothy leary wrote:

Dave Bainbridge Veil of Gossamer
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