Whats Your Favorite Instrumental Track?

[Marial]

Pretty much anything by Bill Frisell.

 

[NoiseNinja]

While, as I mentioned earlier, Yinxiangcheng by Tortoise is my absolute favorite instrumental track, and Tortoise is my absolute favorite instrumental band, these two folowing tracks come in on a shared 2. place:

Last Exit - Discharge

The Peter Brötzmann Octet - Machine Gun

 

[smogg]

Cradle of Filth - Castlevania is a fun one

 

[lmfreeman9]

The Allman Brothers since everyone's heard In Memory of Elizabeth Reed I choose
Instrumental Illness:

 

[ghostlau]

Apostrophe by Zappa and Jack Bruce. My favorite bass track from my favorite bassist. He got THE tone on that one! Bruce already had that famous overdriven tone, but he added fuzz on that one, WOW!

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[Silver Blues]

YYZ, La Villa, Malignant Narcissism, Leave That Thing Alone.

When Worlds Collide... omg what is the name of the band...

--Silvie

EDIT: Jimmy Swift Band. lol

 

[Turock]

Allman Brothers
Jessica
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Instrumental Illness

Jeff Beck
Cause We've Ended As Lovers

 

[The Owl]

Don't Let the World Pass You By by Jean Luc Ponty
Apostrophe by Frank Zappa
Fred by Tony Williams
Red by King Crimsom

OMG!! Were we separated at birth?

And I add

1) Jordrok - Anglagard
2) Ghost of The Mayfield Lodge - Brand X
3) Alaska by UK
4) The Mooche - Duke Ellington
5) Theme song from "KOJAK"

 

[The Owl]

Nice...and here's another from the same time frame-
"Scorpio"- Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band

1971/1972 were good years for Pop instrumentals!

That was indeed a magical time!

Frankenstein - Edgar Winter

 

[CrewsControl]

My favorite surf tune: Banzai Pipeline

The Astronauts

Ventures covered it too, as did many other surf bands. It's a Henry Mancini original.

 

[CrewsControl]

And then there's the guy from the Hamburger Train, right? (Primus)

 

[BaronVonHavok]

Cloudkicker
Ben Sharp
Cloud Sharp
Ben Kicker


I love Cloudkicker. And the best part is all his music is free. You can get it at cloudkicker.bandcamp.com

He even came out saying that he doesn't do it for the money. He has a job that pays the bills but people still donate money when they don't have to when buying his albums.

 

[pkstone]

I can't help thinking of lying on the beach in the late '60s when I hear Soulful Strut by Young-Holt Unlimited:

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My band is covering the vocal version (Am I the Same Girl), but I have a special place in my heart for the instrumental. Check out Eldee Young's sweet line on it! Reminds me of JJ.

 

[pkstone]

Check out Eldee Young's sweet line on it! Reminds me of JJ.

Sorry about the self-reply, but I just did a little Wikipedia consult (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_I_the_Same_Girl), and was shocked to see this:

Neither Eldee Young nor Red Holt is believed to have played on the track, which was the work of session musicians identified only as the Brunswick Studio Band.[2]

Maybe it *was* JJ doing some moonlighting! Anybody know anything more about who played bass on this classic?

 

[Spectrum]

Unless you limit it to rock it's impossible to say which is my favorite. Almost every jazz piece I like is an instumental, so whatever I've been into lately is probably it, usually Miles or Coltrane or both (All Blues album). For rock I'd have to go with something by Rush, probably La Villa Strangiato or Leave That Thing Alone. There may be "better" out there but this isn't about what's "best", it's about what your current favorite is.

 

[lmfreeman9]

Thanks for a lot of good music!

 

[JimK]

I can't help thinking of lying on the beach in the late '60s when I hear Soulful Strut by Young-Holt Unlimited:

A classic. Thanks for the taking me back in time...

 

[abstractart06]

Loran's Dance - Idris Muhammad
Birdland - Weather Report
Machine Gun - Band of Gypsys
Journey to Love - Stanley Clarke

 

[lfmn16]

Surfing With The Alien - Joe Satriani. generic bass line but smoking tune.

 

[southpaw76]

Zappa - Waka Jawaka


I don't know what I would have done without fusion