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Well, the title is self-explanatory. Ten albums only, that you would recommend as absolutely essential to other aspiring players. Actually, they don't have to be beginners, it's fair to assume a lot of 'advanced' guitarists might need some recommendations too. But to keep it interesting, a list isn't enough. Give some arguments why you recommend each album. The criteria are up to you, but try not to make it a list of your 'favorite' recordings.
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Instead, try to give arguments for why the recording is important as a historical or artistic document. My list:. Charlie Christian - Genius of the Electric Guitar (either the currently available 4-CD budget box set, or the out-of-print single disc compilation of the same name) Charlie Christian is, along with T-Bone Walker, the father of flat-picked electric guitar playing, in any genre. Though they have antecedents in the acoustic guitar world (the single-note solo style of Lonnie Johnson and Scrapper Blackwell), Christian and Walker were the first to play the guitar like saxophone and trumpet players, i.e. Virtuoso, flat-picked, single-note solos.
Before that, the guitar was not much of a solo instrument in Jazz, primarily used as a chordal instrument (see the work of Bennie Green in the Count Basie Orchestra). The electric guitar made it possible to hear the guitar above a Jazz orchestra, and gave it to the necessary sustain to play those ringing notes. Also, Christian is a double-innovator: not only one of the two fathers of modern electric guitar, but also credited as one of the original innovators of the transition in Jazz from Swing to Bop, which is ironic, considering that the guitar is usually not considered a 'primary' jazz instrument in the Post-Bop era. 2) T-Bone Walker, any compilation containing his 1940s and 1950s recordings, for reasons stated above. However, T-Bone is more of a strictly Blues player, but for that reason alone he deserves canonical status. Every subsequent electric blues player, from B.B. King to Eric Clapton to Jimmy Page owes a debt of influence to him.
3) Chuck Berry - The Great 28 (or any other suitable compilation of his early Chess work) Chuck Berry is the father of modern rock guitar, period, and is credited as such, from every from John Lennon to Keith Richards to Joe Perry. Berry took the 12-bar blues shuffle rhythm, sped it up, and blended it with hillbilly influences (think of 'Maybelline') to create an archetype of rock guitar. Subsequent players may have elaborated his approach, but none of them has improved it. 4) Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? An obvious choice, but younger players who don't understand what's special about Hendrix are doing so retrospectively from the perspective of 40+ years of subsequent history. In a word: feedback. Jimi was arguably the first to explore the implications of the electric guitar not simply as a louder or more sustained version of an acoustic guitar, but rather guitar + amplifier as instruments in their own right.
5) The Ramones - The Ramones (first album) Jimmy Page arguably originated the rapid, down-stroke power chord approach on 'Communication Breakdown' on the first Led Zeppelin album, but Johnny Ramone was the first to take up the gauntlet thrown down by page and codify it as an entire method of playing guitar. Whether covering 60s girl-group pop, surf anthems, or Tom Waits (!), Johnny Ramone hit upon the idea of reducing the role of the guitar in rock 'n' roll to its rhythmic essence, while allowing the bass to state the melody. He is the father of the cliche of punk guitar, but arguably no one did it as tastefully as him. 6) Gang Of Four - Entertainment! There's a certain cliche about 'white' guitarists legitimately playing 'black' music styles: either they have to be British (Keith Richards, Eric Clapton), or Southern boys (Steve Cropper, Duane Allman, Stevie Ray Vaughan) Andy Gill is an example of the former category. This is, essentially, the record that spawned a thousand imitators, some of whom (Red Hot Chili Peppers) are at least cool and secure enough to admit their debt to this album. While The Clash's experiments with Reggae and R&B always came off as well-intentioned tributes, Gang Of Four was the first group to make the choppy, rhythmic 9th-chord funk guitar sound an integral part of what was essentially a punk band.
Andy Gill's inspirations were Hendrix, dub reggae (from whence he derived the importance of space and not playing), funk, and the funky, low-down approach of British pub rocker Wilko Johnson into a seamless whole. Gill's intention was to be an anti-guitar hero, so he played a Strat-clone in bridge position through solid state amps to try to obtain the iciest, least-'warm', least-'rock' sound imaginable, but as a result ended up influencing everybody from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, to REM, to Rage Against the Machine, to the seemingly diametrically opposed genres of rap-metal and trip-hop.
7) The Rolling Stones - The London Singles Collection because 'Satisfaction' and 8) David Bowie - 1969/1974 (or if you prefer original albums, Diamond Dogs) for 'Rebel Rebel' because both 'Satisfaction' and 'Rebel Rebel' illustrate that the essence of great rock guitar is not virtuoso pyrotechnics (I love virtuoso pyrotechnics, but I'll listen to Jazz for that, thanks), but catchy hooks. Also, it has to be said, as much as I love Mick Ronson, Adrian Belew, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and all the other fantastic guitarists who played on Bowie albums, that's actually Bowie himself playing lead on 'Rebel Rebel' 9) Grant Green - The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark It pains me to compile a list that doesn't include Wes Montgomery or Kenny Burrell, especially since Burrell's 'Midnight Blue' is actually my personal favorite of all guitar albums, but I picked Grant Green for one reason primarily: so many guitarists talk about 'tone'. So much gear obsession is about trying to find the right 'tone', but usually, the 'tone' of most lauded guitarists sounds so indistinct to me, and can usually be attributed to the position of the pickup selector switch, type of amp, or pick attack. EXCEPT GRANT GREEN. Nobody sounds like Grant Green.
You could play me five seconds of Grant Green in a blindfold test and I would recognize his tone. I love that tone.
Highlight of this album is the cover of Gershwin's 'It Ain't Necessarily So' from Porgy and Bess, which makes it sound like a raunchy, gutbucket, chitlin-circuit dance tune. 10) Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue Ok, fuck it, I'll list my personal favorite. Burrell was given free reign by Blue Note label head and producer Alfred Lion to determine the material and arrangement for this album, and he chose to dispense with any piano or B3 organ, fairly atypical for a jazz guitar album of that time (early-60s). But I'll try to give an 'argument': Burrell is one of the most accomplished guitarists ever, a consummate Jazz musician also capable of exquisite Spanish flamenco or Brazilian bossa nova, but when given free reign, what does he do? A whole album of the blues. And that's just who we guitar players are, isn't it? Whether rock, metal, jazz, or country players, we always return to the blues.
Television - Marquee Moon. Tom fucking Verlaine. Every 80s onward post punk guitarist is in debt to him.
Scorpions - In Trance or Virgin Killer. Proto-shred guitar. Inspired a lot of 80s thrash. T-Rex - Electric Warrior. Marc Bolan was a master of simple riffs and hooks.
Aerosmith - Rocks. Great hard rock riffs that inspired a lot of future metal heads to pick up guitars. Slash, Hetfield, etc.
Deer Hunter - Halcyon Digest. Great guitar playing with psych influences. Freddy King - Hideaway. Electric Blues geetar at its best. Joe Pass - Virtuoso. Great accoustic jazz. Duane Eddy - Have Twangy Guitar, Will Travel.
Awesome instrumental 60s stuff. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak or Live and Dangerous. Duel lead guitarists who artfully mix jazz voicings and power chords.
Also Phil is the man. Electric Wizzard - Dopethrone. Epic doom guitar playing. Shawn Lane: Powers of Ten - Shawn Lane is one of the most amazing guitarists to have graced this planet.
You may have to listen to it a few times to truly appreciate it though, as it's very jazz-fusiony. Guthrie Govan: Erotic Cakes - Guthrie is another fabulous guitarist, he can play any style and is quite humble, plus he has massive chops and is a fantastic teacher.
Mark Knopfler: Get Lucky - Knopfler is one of those guitarists who can do more with a few notes than most can do with a hundred. His solo albums are mostly laid back, but they all have great tunes on them. Eric Johnson: Venus Isle - For those that don't know EJ, his tone is one of the most beautiful sounds you'll hear and is very iconic in the guitar world. I chose Venus Isle because it's an album that is more like one continuous piece, it tells a story. Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek: Upojenie - Metheny is one of the greats of jazz guitar, this album with Anna Maria Jopek is very unique and is worth listening to. Steve Vai: Passion and Warfare - Classic shred, Vai was a student of Zappa and a close friend of Satriani. Great album, good variety of songs in that genre.
Joe Satriani: Professor Satchafunkilus & Musterion of Rock - One of my favorites from Satriani, the way it was recorded makes it a pleasure to listen to (crank it up, it's almost like vinyl). Awesome songs, Joe is a very melodic player with fabulous technical ability.Joni Mitchell 'Turbulent Indigo'. Joni is one of the most underappreciated guitarists ever. She almost gave up playing live because her song list involved around 50 different tunings, many of which she developed herself - this problem was solved when she learned that a guitar synth could recall each tuning digitally with a button press. Nobody sounds like Joni. She maintains an apparent simplicity until you try to copy or play along. Any Joni album would do, but 'Indigo' from 1994 is a masterpiece: and is my vote for the most brilliant recording of the past 20 years.
Robert Fripp (King Crimson) 'Discipline' from 1980 - by any measure, an astounding album. Robert Fripp is enough - but Fripp and Adrian Belew together means some truly unheard sonic fabric gets meshed. Analysis of time signatures is inevitable and easily found; but the technical precision digs out each unique compostion, never buries it. To the unitiated: for its relative accessibility. Then on to the some serious Fripp excavation: and finally, a masterclass in gtr:. Derek Trucks.
You pick an album. These days Derek splits his time between the Allman Brothers, and The Tadeschi/Trucks Band with his wife Susan - and the occasional tour with a fairly well known player by the name of Clapton.
Listen to live - this song is an instant lift no matter how deep the gravity of any given day. John McLaughlin - again, pick an album, but 'Inner Mounting Flame' is a start.
McLaughlin was 17 when he played on 'Jack Johnson' by Miles Davis; and shortly thereafter Miles told him to move on - it was time to form his own group. The result was Mahavishnu Orchestra, the original and untouchable (complete) fusion of jazz and rock. Personally, i prefer when McLaughlin formed - here live at the United Nations - and began merging his style with Indian classical traditions. However, 'Mahahavishnu Orchestra' is the place to start as this 1972 attests. Keith Richards 'Exile on Main Street'. Not a monstrous Stones fan - but always respected and enjoyed their stuff. After i heard Richards' fantastic 'Talk is Cheap' recording, i decided to have a closer look at the Stones catalogue.
I had long heard that 'Exile' was arguably their best album. No doubt about it - and it may even be the greatest rock album ever released.
Richards is the man and nobody can crank out a riff quite like him: here's because it's the first song on the recording and the whole brilliant mess follows it. Here are mine in no particular order Jimi Hendrix - A Band of Gypsys 'Machine Gun' is so good. This is Jimi at his best Hot Tuna - Hot Tuna Jorma and Jack from Jefferson Airplane play at a small club on this live album. WAY better than anything Jefferson Airplane put out in my opinion. One of the best live albums I've ever heard. Leo Kottke - 6 & 12 String guitar A must listen for any aspiring player. Can't believe he was only 21 when he made this.
Almost makes me want to put down the guitar for good. Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Lost Trident Sessions John Mclaughlin is one of the most virtuosic guitar players to ever pick up an axe. This is a wild ride. Mississippi Fred McDowell - The Alan Lomax recordings Great blues record recorded by the legendary Alan Lomax. Beautiful in it's simplicity, McDowell has a great style. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik A brilliant record. Frusciante is a beast.
Robert Johnson - Complete Recordings A must listen for any blues lover. Influenced generations of musicians including Hendrix and Clapton. A lot of mystery surrounding him as little is known about his life and how he became such an innovative player.
The White Stripes - De Stijl/Elephant Love him or hate him. Jack White can play. The Beatles - Abbey Road/Let it Be/Rubber Soul/ Take your pick Can't really wrong with anything they've done. There is a book out there called 'The Beatles Chord Songbook' and has every song by them with their chords.
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Really helped me a lot when I started playing guitar. Django Reinhardt - The Best Of The king of gypsy jazz guitar. Love the feel of his playing. Learning that he only had 2 working fingers in his left hand makes his playing even more remarkable. NOFX - Punk in Drublic. My favorite punk album, personally, but choose your own favorite and learn some power chords so you can play along. Guiltless pleasure to this day, despite my tastes expanding radically since the 90's.
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Live at Montreux Disc 1 (July 17, 1982). All the tracks are great, but these versions of Texas Flood and Dirty Pool are such powerful slow blues on the electric guitar, and were a huge inspiration for my own soloing. John Mayer - Continuum. This is his most mature and best album in my opinion, with Stop This Train in particular as a great challenging song for singer/guitarists to learn. Paul Gilbert - Silence Followed by a Deafening Roar. Guitar driven instrumental rock at its finest. Great inspiration for mastering some more advanced techniques like high-speed legato and two-handed tapping.
Muse - Absolution. I consider this a masterpiece of tone, technique, and songwriting.
The instrumental version of this album is possibly better. Jimi Hendrix - Any Live Recording. Particularly anything that has video, too. Must I explain further?. King Crimson - Discipline. Two master guitarists in Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew. Multiple time signatures superimposed upon one another, Belew's howling solos, and Fripp's total mastery and relentless precision combine into one of the most influential albums on the past three decades of progressive guitar music.
Frank Zappa - Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar. What happens when a trans-dimensional, time traveling guitarist goes back to 1981 and assembles a squadron of the best musicians on Earth to save the universe? Answer: Shut Up 'n Player Yer Guitar. Buckethead - Population Override/The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell. An enigmatic man/robot of prolific output, these two albums were released in March and April of 2004 respectively. Bluesy jam-rockers will definitely enjoy the mellower style of Population Override. If you're more of the face-melting shredder persuasion, The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell seems to packs in more musical ideas per song than are on most full albums.
So much of Buckethead's work has influenced me, but just as much as his music I am inspired by his unbelievable versatility and never ending output. My reddit name is not a tribute by accident.
The aim of Creative Guitar 1 is to help any rock guitarist who feels stuck in a rut. The book focuses on refining playing techniques, explaining the nuts and bolts of theory in an accessible manner, as well as how to practice efficiently, and even demonstrates lots of new licks.
This book promotes a self-sufficient approach to learning that will give guitarists new artistic directions in every aspect of their playing. The accompanying CD features detailed examples of penatonic patterns, minor arpeggios and backing tracks so the guitarist can apply these instructions to their individual style of playing, helping them to become more creative musicians.
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