Favourite instrumental songs

Bugman · Dec 2, 2016

George Benson's cover of Bobby Womack's Breezin'.

teamtickleguy · Dec 3, 2016

Focus - Sylvia

A real feel good track, I particularly like how the musicians look to be thoroughly enjoying themselves as well.
(It's worth checking out another of the band's tracks "Hocus Pocus", which mostly instrumental but features vocals, although not sung.....more like wailed.

Something for the Celtic lovers - The Corrs with Mick Fleetwood - Toss the Feathers

Talking of Mick Fleetwood, 'Albatross' is probably one of the more famous instrumental tracks.

Here's an obscure one I came across listening to late night radio

weezl · Dec 4, 2016

Satch is definitely my favorite artist of all time. Check out the song Time.

Bator · Dec 4, 2016

Bator · Dec 4, 2016

Bator · Dec 5, 2016

The other link failed that you posted and I love The Art Of Noise, especially that one, so I'm going to repost the original video in hq. Hope you don't mind.

weezl · Dec 5, 2016

Another one by Satch

Bator · Dec 5, 2016

Can't have Satch without this

weezl · Dec 5, 2016

Bator said:
Can't have Satch without this

I love that song!

TicklishBlackGuy · Dec 5, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKJSpM5VD-Y

one of my favorites

Bator · Dec 6, 2016

More Satch

rdhd · Dec 6, 2016

that Joe Satriani really should learn how to play a guitar..... he might then be good.... just joshin' - he's done a few great ones

The Internet · Dec 7, 2016

rdhd said:
that Joe Satriani really should learn how to play a guitar..... he might then be good.... just joshin' - he's done a few great ones

I met Joe's parents!

When I was younger - so much younger than today - I used to work at Tower Records, and one day this nice older Italian-American couple came in, looking a little lost, almost like tourists, so cute. They were just like my own grandparents, they could have been neighbors, in fact this was nearby where my grandparents lived so there you go.

Anyways, this couple is slowly looking around, so I go up to them and ask them if they want any help. And although I don't remember the beginning of the conversation (probably just like "no, we're just looking", or something like that), the lady touches my arm and says "Do yooooou know Joe Satriani?" And I said, "Yeah, of course." And like the cats that ate the canaries, talking over each other, so proudly: "We're his parents!" They were just beaming!

I certainly appreciate Joe's playing, although I wouldn't say I'm a fan. And it would have been very like me to say that when they asked me! "Do you know Joe Satriani?" "Yeah, but I wouldn't say I'm a fan!". I'm SO happy I didn't, can you imagine? They would have been crestfallen! They were so sweet! As I said, I knew Satriani was no slouch! I was just buying other records at that point. Anyways, I took them around and really talked their son up.

"Do you sell much of Joe's music?"

"Oh yeah....all the time!" They turned to each other, smiling proudly, almost cooing. Adorable.

I'm a Zappa fanatic ("another great Italian!"), and I knew that Joe was Steve Vai's guitar teacher, so I asked "Do you know Steve Vai?"

"Oh suuuuure, we know Stevie for years!", almost as proud of Steve as they were of Joe! They start telling me Steve Vai stories "Do you know that when Stevie was only 14 years old he....." (I don't remember anything they told me, though!)

Going out on a limb - and trying to get on a subject that I knew more about! - I asked "You know Steve plays with one of my favorite musicians, Frank Zappa, do you know Frank?"

"Who?"

lol.

A nice memory.

*********************

Frank Zappa (with Steve Vai): Stevie's Spanking

(it's the anniversary of Frank's passing, I just remembered. There's a guy who I sure wish had been around all through the last 16 years, right? Right.)

Bator · Dec 7, 2016

CapturedDoll · Dec 7, 2016

The "Cape Fear" Soundtrack.

Part of me has always wanted to tie up a lee... and make my entrance to this soundtrack... right as the trumpets begin... EPIC.

The Internet · Dec 7, 2016

CapturedDoll said:
The "Cape Fear" Soundtrack.

Part of me has always wanted to tie up a lee... and make my entrance to this soundtrack... right as the trumpets begin... EPIC.

Great score! Great entrance! You know you're in trouble when you hear that music! Eyes bulging out as Captured Doll slowly approaches, lol.

Doesn't De Niro tickle the f**k out of Illeana Douglas in that one? It turns horrible quick, though, tickling is probably not what most remember from that movie!

It says Elmer Bernstein, but it's actually the great Bernard Herrman ("Psycho", "Citizen Kane", "Taxi Driver", millions of others....) and it's his original score from the first version (which is even better than the Scorsese version). Because Herrman was dead by that time, Elmer Bernstein conducted it (I believe).

I used to put on the Planet of the Apes soundtrack between bands......sounded great blasting in a club!

Jerry Goldsmith: The Search Continues from "Planet of the Apes"

CapturedDoll · Dec 7, 2016

The Internet said:
Great score! Great entrance! You know you're in trouble when you hear that music! Eyes bulging out as Captured Doll slowly approaches, lol.

Teehee... exactly! 😉

Doesn't De Niro tickle the f**k out of Illeana Douglas in that one? It turnis horrible quick, though, tickling is probably not what most remember from that movie!

No. She's just drunk and laughing. I thought that too when first watching this movie when it came out. When that scene started: To think THAT was exactly what was about to happen?: My eyeballs were glued to the screen. (Can you imagine when I saw the handcuffs come out?: *drooling* + *jaw hits floor*!! Afterwards I did always think that's what he might have been doing to her to "get her in the mood". 😉 Trapping the fly for the spider so to speak. Which makes it just that much more terrifying... to play with someones emotions and body... and then THAT happens... WOW.

It says Elmer Bernstein, but it's actually the great Bernard Herrman ("Psycho", "Citizen Kane", "Taxi Driver", millions of others....) and it's his original score from the first version (which is even better than the Scorsese version). Because Herrman was dead by that time, Elmer Bernstein conducted it (I believe).

I used to put on the Planet of the Apes soundtrack between bands......sounded great blasting in a club!

Jerry Goldsmith: The Search Continues from "Planet of the Apes"

I do the prefer the remake's version. But both are great in their own ways.

Bugman · Dec 7, 2016

Carlos and the boys.

Bohemianne · Dec 13, 2016

One of my most favorite tumultuous execution of dissonance. Makes my soul want to run amok and explode into sub-atomic pieces, whatever that means... 😀

Tenebrae · Dec 13, 2016

The Internet said:
I met Joe's parents!

When I was younger - so much younger than today - I used to work at Tower Records, and one day this nice older Italian-American couple came in, looking a little lost, almost like tourists, so cute. They were just like my own grandparents, they could have been neighbors, in fact this was nearby where my grandparents lived so there you go.

Anyways, this couple is slowly looking around, so I go up to them and ask them if they want any help. And although I don't remember the beginning of the conversation (probably just like "no, we're just looking", or something like that), the lady touches my arm and says "Do yooooou know Joe Satriani?" And I said, "Yeah, of course." And like the cats that ate the canaries, talking over each other, so proudly: "We're his parents!" They were just beaming!

I certainly appreciate Joe's playing, although I wouldn't say I'm a fan. And it would have been very like me to say that when they asked me! "Do you know Joe Satriani?" "Yeah, but I wouldn't say I'm a fan!". I'm SO happy I didn't, can you imagine? They would have been crestfallen! They were so sweet! As I said, I knew Satriani was no slouch! I was just buying other records at that point. Anyways, I took them around and really talked their son up.

"Do you sell much of Joe's music?"

"Oh yeah....all the time!" They turned to each other, smiling proudly, almost cooing. Adorable.

I'm a Zappa fanatic ("another great Italian!"), and I knew that Joe was Steve Vai's guitar teacher, so I asked "Do you know Steve Vai?"

"Oh suuuuure, we know Stevie for years!", almost as proud of Steve as they were of Joe! They start telling me Steve Vai stories "Do you know that when Stevie was only 14 years old he....." (I don't remember anything they told me, though!)

Going out on a limb - and trying to get on a subject that I knew more about! - I asked "You know Steve plays with one of my favorite musicians, Frank Zappa, do you know Frank?"

"Who?"

lol.

A nice memory.

*********************

Frank Zappa (with Steve Vai): Stevie's Spanking

(it's the anniversary of Frank's passing, I just remembered. There's a guy who I sure wish had been around all through the last 16 years, right? Right.)

This is a very cute memory indeed! I wouldn't say that I am a fan of Zappa, but I think the man is genius. Really belongs to a genre of his own, sort of. He is very, very revered in France, I don't know if you know that.

I know Joe Satriani because he has done a collaboration with my favorite singer :bubbleheart: