Favorite instrumental rock song?
 

All this talk of voice versus guitar in the 'Most Important Instrument' thread got me thinking of my favorite instruments.

As a guitarist I am very big on guitar instrumentals. Here's a few of my fav's:

Samba Pa Ti by Santana
Orion by Metallica
Classical Gas by Mason Williams
Dead Flowers by The Rolling Stones

What are YOUR FAVORITE instrumentals??

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Not really into rock as such, but any music Jimi Hendrix rippped his guitar on is untouchable.

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Apache by the Shadows (joke!)

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Albatross by Fleetwood Mac :)

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'Peaches en Regalia' - Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

- have to agree about 'Samba Pa Ti', it still brings the hairs up on the back of my neck.

- and Jimi Hendrix's version of 'The Star Spangled Banner', at Woodstock, ain't too shabby, either.

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Whats wrong with Apache!?!?! I love a lot of Metallica tracks

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instrumental..... *long exhale* ermmmm

stream of consciousness by dream theater is the only one i have ever listened to, really, besides metallica - orion. it's 11 minutes of pointless guitar and keyboard twiddling but it's fantastic :D

oh hang on, thought of some more... i love the liquid tension experiment albums too :) 2 albums of total instrumentalness...

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F*ckin In The Bushes - Oasis. Especially when it starts at the gig I went to in Manchester !!!

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don't untie the drummer, by some band a long time ago, cause I like the drums

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I'm so fickle

'Hideaway' - the version by John Mayalls Bluesbreakers 'featuring Eric Clapton'

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Dance with the Devil
Cozy Powell (ok I know it's not guitar, but it's still great)?

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You like drums.... Toad by Ginger Baker (Cream) .... a master at work. :)

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Most of satch's (joe Satriani) work, but especially the Work on the Extremist album. (Even saw him live on that tour)
What a night, Joe satriani, Stu Hamm on Bass and Adrian Legg in support.

Again I love Albatross by Fleetwood mac.

Flight of the wounded bumblebee by Extremes Nuno Bettencourt

If I had to pick one song though It would Be Satriani's "Rubinas blue sky happiness" A Piece he allegedly wrote for his wife and it has fantastic acoustic work in it.

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At the end of the day the majority of bands have an instrumental part in every concert that goes on well beyond a normal album track (some more than others)! If you want technical brilliance there is Richie Blackmore, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Jimmy Page, Steve Morse, Tony Iomi to name but a few. Then you have The Sabre Dance by Dave Edmunds, a much underrated instrumental.

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Ahh but we have forgotten the great Yngwie Malmsteen lol.

Not a fan of him but his neo classical stuff is bloody awesome.