Artist: Michael Lee Firkins Album: Blacklight Sonatas Year: 2007 Genre: Guitar Virtuoso, Guitar Instrumental, Blues Rock Format: 320 kbps mp3 Tracklist:
1. One Big Punch (Crying Stacks) (5:41)
2. Two Guns Left (6:02)
3. Black Betty (4:08)
4. I-680 Waltz (5:19)
5. The Horse And The Fly (3:05)
6. Now's Your Time Blues (4:21)
7. Theme From Sanford And Son (The Streetbeater) (6:23)
8. Took The Words Right Outta My Mouth (4:57)
9. Blacklight Sonata (6:59) The great webzine Metal Temple writes about Michael Lee Firkins' 2007 "Blacklight Sonatas" CD, "It's an instrumental album with a lot of blues guitar and a cover of Ram Jam's "Black Betty", with Michael Lee Firkins testing his vocal abilities once more. This is the only dark moment in "Blacklight Sonatas" that mainly has some nice blues vibe, a lot of good guitar moments and nice mixing work in the studio. The stereo panning of the guitars is a little bit hard, with two guitars shredding at the same time at your left and right speaker with the rhythm section in the middle. The best moment is the album's title track; a sad guitar is bleeding with a bottleneck sliding to a classical music scale and a brokenhearted almost mournful melody with a glimpse of light inside. A nice compilation of blues, country riffs and solos and with a nice selection of musicians that wade in, like Thomas Pridgen, Chuck Leavell, Michael Bland and more, "Blacklight Sonatas" is the perfect listening exercise for guitarists that want to play the music that Michael Lee Firkins knows very well."
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Artist: Jason Becker Album: Collection Year: 2008 Genre: Guitar Virtuoso, Guitar Instrumental, Shred Format: 320 kbps mp3 Tracklist:
1. Rain (3:12)
2. River of Longing (5:54)
3. Images (3:45)
4. Opus Pocus (5:39)
5. Higher (5:30)
6. It's Showtime! (3:48)
7. Altituides (5:41)
8. End of the Beginning (11:43)
9. River of Longing (Reprise) (4:15)
10. Meet Me in the Morning (5:23)
11. Air (5:39)
12. Electric Prayer for Peace (11:50)
13. Mandy's Throbbing Little Heart (1:22) Description:
Featuring Guest Guitar Performances By Michael Lee Firkins, Marty Friedman, Greg Howe, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, gripping virtuoso guitar licks and a glimpse at history as it was being made are the meat and potatoes of Jason Becker's 2008 album, Collection. Jason Becker still has a strong desire to compose, despite paralysis from Lou Gherig's disease, and Collection CD not only contains some of Jason's favorite moments from his Shrapnel and David Lee Roth recordings, it also features three new Becker compositions, each as impressive as anything he has recorded in the past. Jason has enlisted some of the largest names in instrumental guitar music to perform the parts that he hears in his head and has as many as three guitarists per track trading off riveting performances. Collection is exactly the kind of record that Becker fans have been waiting for!
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Artist: Steve Morse / Steve Morse Band Album: Introduction Year: 1984 Genre: Guitar Virtuoso, Instrumental Rock Format: 320 kbps mp3 Password:http://guitar-maniacs.blogspot.com/ Tracklist: 1. Cruise Missle
2. General Lee
3. Introduction, The
4. V. H. F. (Vertical Hair Factor)
5. On the Pipe
6. Whistle, The
7. Mountain Waltz
8. Huron River Blues Medley: Dark Water / Water Under The Bridge / Toxic Shuffle
Artist: Steve Morse / Steve Morse Band Album: Out Standing In Their Fields Year: 2009 Genre: Guitar Virtuoso, Hard Rock, Metal Format: 320 kbps mp3 Password:http://guitar-maniacs.blogspot.com/ Tracklist: 1. Name Dropping (4:57)
2. Brink Of The Edge (4:41)
3. Here And Now And Then (5:05)
4. Relentless Encroachment (4:53)
5. John Deere Leter (4:41)
6. More To The Point (4:27)
7. Time Junction (5:14)
8. Unnamed Sources (4:29)
9. Flight Of The Osprey (3:19)
10. Baroque 'N Dreams (3:14)
11. Rising Power (Live) (9:25)
12. Name Dropping (4:57)
13. Brink Of The Edge (4:41)
14. Here And Now And Then (5:05)
15. Relentless Encroachment (4:53)
16. John Deere Leter (4:41)
17. More To The Point (4:27)
18. Time Junction (5:14)
19. Unnamed Sources (4:29)
20. Flight Of The Osprey (3:19)
21. Baroque 'N Dreams (3:14)
22. Rising Power (Live) (9:25)
Artist: Steve Vai Album: The Burning Bush(VaiTunes#5) Year: 2010 Genre: Guitar Instrumental, Guitar Virtuoso Format: 320 kbps mp3 Tracklist:
1. The Burning Bush Download#1 Download#2
Artist: Buckethead And Friends Album: Enter The Chicken Year: 2005 Genre: Avant-Garde, Guitar Virtuoso, Experimental Rock Password:http://guitar-maniacs.blogspot.com/ Tracklist:
1. Intro (0:15)
2. We Are One (4:01)
3. Botnus (3:24)
4. Three Fingers (2:58)
5. Running From The Light (4:42)
6. Coma (5:38)
7. Waiting Here (5:43)
8. Interlude (0:18)
9. Funbus (3:25)
10. The Hand (4:24)
11. Nottingham Lace (6:33) Download#1
Artist: Greg Howe / Richie Kotzen Album: Tilt Year: 1995 Genre: Progressive Fusion, Guitar Virtuoso Format: 320 kbps mp3 Tracklist:
1. Tilt (5:27)
2. Chase The Dragon (4:59)
3. Tarnished With Age (5:10)
4. Outfit (4:14)
5. Contusion (6:25)
6. I Wanna Play (5:42)
7. Seventh Place (6:26)
8. O.D. (4:52)
9. Full View (5:57)
"Tilt" features the twin talents of super guitar shredders Greg Howe and Richie Kotzen on a CD released in 1995, when it seemed Shrapnel Records was releasing a new fusion oriented CD every week. The songwriting on "Tilt" was more or less evenly divided between Howe and Kotzen, with a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Contusion" thrown in for good measure. If you're not a fan of vocal songs, don't worry about the lone vocal number "I Wanna Play" - the vocals are quite sparse - the song being dominated by funked-up guitar and clavinet. A phine phunky phusion effort pheaturing two of progressive fusion's stalwarts. Download#1 Download#2 Download#3
Artist: Van Halen Album: The Best Of Both Worlds Year: 2004 Genre: Guitar Virtuoso, Hard Rock Format: 320 kbps mp3 CD1:
1. Eruption (1:43)
2. It's About Time [#] (4:14)
3. Up for Breakfast [#] (4:56)
4. Learning to See [#] (5:15)
5. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (3:48)
6. Finish What Ya Started (4:24)
7. You Really Got Me (2:38)
8. Dreams (4:53)
9. Hot for Teacher (4:42)
10. Poundcake (5:20)
11. And the Cradle Will Rock... (3:33)
12. Black and Blue (5:27)
13. Jump (4:03)
14. Top of the World (3:54)
15. Oh, Pretty Woman (2:53)
16. Love Walks In (5:11)
17. Beautiful Girls (3:57)
18. Can't Stop Lovin' You (4:07)
19. Unchained (3:29) CD2:
1. Panama (3:32)
2. Best of Both Worlds (4:49)
3. Jamie's Cryin' (3:30)
4. Runaround (4:20)
5. I'll Wait (4:42)
6. Why Can't This Be Love (3:48)
7. Runnin' With the Devil (3:36)
8. When It's Love (5:38)
9. Dancing in the Street (3:45)
10. Not Enough (6:48)
11. Feels So Good (4:32)
12. Right Now (5:22)
13. Everybody Wants Some!! (5:09)
14. Dance the Night Away (3:09)
15. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love [Live] (4:43)
16. Panama [Live] (6:39)
17. Jump [Live] (4:20) Download#1 Download#2 Download#3
Artist: Don Ross Album: Don Ross Year: 1990 Genre: Guitar Virtuoso, Acoustic Guitar, Finger-style Format: 320 kbps mp3 Tracklist:
1. Groovy Sunflowers (3:35)
2. Zarzuela (5:39)
3. Thin Air (4:00)
4. Bluefinger (3:17)
5. Carolan's Quarrel With The Landlady/Micahel And Juliana (6:33)
6. Lucy Watusi (3:27)
7. Wall Of Glass (5:57)
8. Enka (6:03)
9. August On The Island (3:29)
10. Little Giants (4:34)
