looking for instrumentals

I've always thought Buckaroo was pretty darn cool.

Another instrumental that I like (and can sort of play part of) is pipeline

or if you're up for a picking hand workout, there's always Miserlou

Classical Gas
Walk Don't Run
Hocus Pocus
Sleepwalk
Jessica
Rock and Roll Part 2
Little Wing
Cliffs of Dover

Some are fairly easy and some are pretty difficult . All are great music .

A lot of my favorites are instrumentals, even if they have lyrics originally - like a lot of jazz standards.

But a rock one that's a lot of fun is Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein"

You want instrumentals?

http://goran.tangring.com/

Has most of the Shadows plus a couple of others from people like the Spotniks

I have a whole pile of instrumental stuff, so if you want anything particular, just let me know.

you guys are great. I have a lot to look at now.

A few more I've remembered:
Green Onions
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Bron-Yr-Aur
Mood for a Day
Little Martha
The Clap

And a few real oldies that make nice solo guitar pieces:
Bach's Boureee in Em
Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Greensleeves
Trumpet Voluntary (often attributed to Purcell; it's actually by Jeremiah Clarke)

A few more I've remembered:
Green Onions . . .

Green Onions was going to be my suggestion too.

Steve Cropper has always been a favorite guitar player of mine.
Green Onions with Booker T and the MGs is my top fav. it is straight forward to play, but no one can play the phrasing of Cropper.
my attempts sound 'spayed'.
thanks for the non typical suggestions. I appreciate this.

JJ Cale does a couple of fun ones.

He often opens shows with T Bone Shuffle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF6bBs_YCso

No Sweat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkc75b6SO_A

There's another called T Bone backwards but I couldn't find a link for that...
:)

There's also Albatross by Fleetwood Mac

Going Home by Dire Straits

The Patriot by Gary Moore

Cruel Sea, Peter Gunn, Hawaii 5-0 all by the Ventures, if I'm not mistaken

For any bassist looking for something, there was Stingray by Jet Harris & Tony Meehan.

Guitar Boogie by any one of a hundred guitarists.

San Ho Zay, Hide Away and the Stumble by Freddy King

Cavatina has been recorded by a number of people.

William Tell Overture

Hall of the Mountain King

Hava Nagila

Shazam by Duane Eddy

Take Five & Blue Rondo a la Turk by Dave Brubeck

Orange Blossom Special - there are several versions

Beck's Bolero by Jeff Beck

Green Onions with Booker T and the MGs is my top fav.
:D

Practically all the songs and musical pieces that Noteboat mentioned are also in my list.

I'll add some "generics" on styles and musicians. There is many good music to explore.

For example, lately I am listening a lot of jazz in different genres for guitar and other instruments (sometimes also with vocals). For guitars: from Charlie Christian to Pat Metheny (or even Mike Stern). For other instruments: from Armstrong to the latests bands, I enjoy a lot with many European young players (usually Scandinavian and Central European although there are many, many great Spanish bands and players) that play standards and also new compositions.

Others: Mike Oldfield (I have practically all his records), Vangelis, Kraftwerk...

I always preferred the instrumental music to the vocal (classical categories included!).

Greybeard - I think Cruel Sea was originally done by a British band, the Dakotas (as in Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas) but re-titled "The Cruel Surf" when the Ventures did a cover version.

Some others....

Rumble - Link Wray
Pipeline - The Chantays
Tequila - The Champs
Wipe Out - Surfaris
Diamonds, Scarlett O'Hara - both by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan
Time Is Tight - Booker T and the MGs (yeah, I know, the organ's the lead instrument, but it's a great guitar riff and who says you have to copy guitar instrumentals?)

Or alternatively, why not fool around with some chords 'till you've got a nice acoustic riff going - then turn up the echo and delay, start noodling and see what happens?

Try playing well-known songs in different styles - say, Brown Sugar in the style of Duane Eddy, or Albatross in the style of the Ventures....

:D :D :D

Vic

There's also

Albatross by Fleetwood Mac

Going Home by Dire Straits

+1 to just about anything on Greybeard's list, but especially those first two. Albatross by Peter Green in the original Fleetwood Mac is a timelessly beautiful song. Mark Knopfler has done a heap of good instrumentals for film scores and his album Screenplaying is a great CD featuring it. Going Home is the closing track.

Green Onions was probably the first vinyl album I ever bought, so I can't pass on Noteboat's suggestion of that one either.

Cheers,

Chris

There is always "Orange Blossom Special"