5 Cool Albums your non-guitarist friends don't have

[pstring]

We guitarists listen to alot of bands/artists that average Joe consumer probaly doesn't have or apreciate, let's face it, the man on the street never heard of Vai, Malmsteen, Lane,etc... What, in your opinion, are 5 cool albums most normal folk probaly have never heard, that you think are cool? Here's my five non-typical picks
1. Splendid- Larry Coryell&Phillip Catherine
2. Hot Pickups- Arlen Roth
3. Waitress in a Donut Shoppe- Maria Mulduar( Amos Garrett, Ry Cooder, David Lindley on guitars)
4. Captured- Johhny Winter ( Never underestimate a guitar playing albino from Texas)
5. Return of the Hellcasters
What are your 5?

[lalimacefolle]

Hermit by Ron THAL,
man that guy is the songwriter of the century!!

Anything by Allan HOLDSWORTH
Even guitarists have never heard him, but dang!!!!!! have a listen.... http://www.gnarlygeezer.com

Live in San Francisco the Guitar trio
That album rocks, shreds, fires, goooooooooooooooooood, I wan't to play like them, only faster... Anyone can listen to it too!!

[Christoph]

Liquid Tension Experiment is one. Most of the stuff on that album would probably be considered noises by non-guitarists/musicians. It takes a "refined" ear to appreciate it.

[Benoit]

You know what? When I want to heard great guitar music I never turn to Malmsteen, Vai or satriani. I always put on some Steve Morse, Eric Johnson, SRV.

It strange cause I mostly listen to Powermetal. Bands like Blind Guardian, Helloween, Sonata Artica. For me good guitar music is almost always blues/rock oriented.

go figure...

[Psycho Amram]

Venus Isle - Eric Johnson
will be my favorite most of my friends never heard of him
and when i played it to them they got BORED :mad:

[pstring]

One album that went just about all over the world with me was Jackson Brown's Running on Empty, not a big time guitar album, but David Lindley's lap steel playing just communicates something I love to hear, I should have put it in my original post

[Incidents Happen]

1. Reckoning by the Grateful Dead
2. American Beauty by the Grateful Dead
3. Europe '72 by the Grateful Dead
4. Live/Dead by the Grateful Dead
5. DeadSet by the Grateful Dead

:)