If you were stuck on a desert island and could only choose one album to listen that most do not know, what are you choosing?
For me, it’s Vincenzo Salvia and PJ D’Atri’s Follow the Power EP. Combining Salvia’s synthwave sound with tasteful shred licks from D’Atri, I think it is a perfect instrumental offering.
What album are you choosing?
I’m sorry, did you say synthwave shred? I’m about to go listen to this all the way through.
Hell yes I did. The only knock on it is that it’s not a full length!
I would pick Edwin Dare’s Can’t Break Me album. Jeff Kollman mixes shred with jazz and fusion lines. It’s one of my all-time favourite albums.
Eargasm, from Sykotik Sinfoney. Like Mr. Bungle, but a bit more lighthearted, and with shred guitar solos.
I find this a lot easier to listen to than Mr Bungle. It’s very well done.
That’s pretty great. I’ll have to listen to full album
This is cool. Thanks for sharing
They’re a lot of fun, imo. I first learned about them in my early teens, from watching a B movie called Bad Channels (scene included in link below, and that is also how they dressed for live performances). They were the only memorable thing from the movie for me. Decades later I’d actually figure out who they were, and purchased their only album and live dvd (signed by one of the members! haha).
The guitarist, Brian Young, would later spend a few years playing with David Lee Roth.
I’m worried that hearing something in pop music even a few hundred times will be enough to make it sound really tiresome, particularly for niche bands.
Reminds me of Abraxas Pool the underrated gem from a Santana-less reunion of most of the classic era Santana lineup.
Neal Schon, Gregg Rolie, Michael Shrieve, Mike Carabelllo, and Jose Areas with Weather Report alum Alphonso Johnson on bass.
Made a Spotify Playlist of everything mentioned except Abraxas Pool. I’ll probably be able to get everything together on YouTube in a bit and will update
This is cool. What a groove to open the album! Thanks for posting
Here’s a YouTube Playlist with everything folks shared. Enjoy:
It’s the only studio recording Shawn made with Jonas Hellborg, but it’s usually overlooked even by Shawn Lane fans. Much as I love Shawn, I don’t love Powers Of Ten. It has some great pieces, but it really suffers for the lack of real drums, and the middle section really kills the energy.
The second half of the Two Doors album with Bill Frisell is great, too.
Thanks, this is very useful!
My album pick would be Toy Matinee’s self titled.
I don’t even know how to describe this, is pop-prog a thing?
Kevin Gilbert is criminally underrated.
“Queen of Misery” is a masterpiece.
If Toto is Phil Collins
Toy Matinee is Peter Gabriel
If only he hadn’t passed so young. I still listen to Thud fairly often.
Regarding Shawn Lane, fans ought to check out Jens Johansson’s album “Fission”, as he’s featured on a few of those tracks (like the linked one below). “Heavy Machinery” is also great, and Allan Holdsworth is all over that one.
