Instrumental Rock Events

1978 Eric Johnson Releases "Seven Worlds"
Seven Worlds is Eric Johnson's 1978 solo record after disbanding with his first band, The Electromagnets. The album was recorded in 1976 and 1977. Due to various disputes, general release...
1984 Steve Vai Releases "Flex-Able Leftovers"
Flex-Able Leftovers was a limited edition 10" vinyl EP by American composer and guitarist, Steve Vai. It was recorded from 1982 to 1984, and originally released in 1984 (see 1984 in music...
1984 Jan Steve Vai Releases "Flex-Able"
Flex-Able is an album by Steve Vai. This was his first as a solo artist, and was created in Stucco Blue, a shed converted into a studio in Vai's old back garden. It is very different than...
1985 Yngwie Malmsteen Releases "Marching Out"
Marching Out is an album by Yngwie J. Malmsteen which was released in 1985. In an interview with Sweden Rock Magazine, singer Jeff Scott Soto stated that he sings 'bög' ('faggot' in Sw...
1986 Eric Johnson Releases "Tones"
Tones was Eric Johnson's second solo album. It was released in 1986 by Reprise Records. Two of the tracks are re-recordings of songs from the (at that time) unreleased album Seven Worlds....
1986 Joe Satriani Releases "Not of This Earth"
Not of This Earth is the first full album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani. Numerous tracks off this album are still played live by Satriani. The original artwork used for...
1987 Joe Satriani Releases "Surfing with the Alien"
Surfing with the Alien is the second album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani, released in 1987. Surfing with the Alien contributed greatly to establishing Satriani's reputatio...
1988 Mar Yngwie Malmsteen Releases "Odyssey"
Odyssey is an album by guitarist Yngwie J. Malmsteen released in March 1988, With Joe Lynn Turner on lead vocals, with the three instrumentals being "Bite the Bullet" - a brief intro to "...
1988 Jun 11 Joe Satriani Records "Dreaming No. 11"
Dreaming #11 is an EP by Joe Satriani released in 1988 with three live tracks and one new studio track, The Crush of Love. Live tracks, taken from the Surfing With the Alien tour were rec...
1989 Oct 30 Joe Satriani Releases "Flying in a Blue Dream"
Flying in a Blue Dream is a 1989 album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani. It is his third studio album (Dreaming #11 is a mostly live EP). Tracks 3, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 13 also...
1990 Jul Steve Vai Releases "Passion and Warfare"
Passion and Warfare is a 1990 instrumental album from guitarist Steve Vai. It has been certified 2 times Platinum. It was written based on a series of dream sequences that Vai had when he...
1992 Jul 14 Shawn Lane Releases "Powers of Ten"
Powers of Ten is the debut studio album by guitarist Shawn Lane, released in 1992 on Warner Bros. Records; a second edition was released in 1993, containing a revised track listing and al...
1992 Jul 21 Joe Satriani Releases "The Extremist"
The Extremist is an instrumental rock album released by Joe Satriani in 1992 and re-released in 1997 with his entire Epic Records catalog. The track "Summer Song" was used heavily in a...
1993 Joe Satriani Releases "The Beautiful Guitar"
The Beautiful Guitar is a compilation album released by instrumental rock artist Joe Satriani in 1993. It was only released in Europe, and contained various softer, ballad-like songs (As ...
1993 Jul 27 Steve Vai Releases "Sex & Religion"
Sex and Religion is a Steve Vai album presented under the name of simply "Vai" and before then "Light Without Heat" but had to be changed due to copyright issues to the original name. It ...
1993 Oct 10 Joe Satriani Releases "Time Machine"
Time Machine is a double instrumental rock album released by Joe Satriani in 1993. The first CD comprises new, unreleased, and rare studio (such as tracks from Satriani's self-released 19...
1995 Mar 21 Steve Vai Releases "Alien Love Secrets"
Alien Love Secrets is an EP made by Steve Vai in 1995. It was written as a stripped-down guitar, bass and drums record with minimal keyboards. Alien Love Secrets was released in the middl...
1995 Oct Joe Satriani Releases "Joe Satriani"
Joe Satriani is a 1995 album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani. Produced by Glyn Johns, it showcases a more laid-back, bluesier sound with less use of effects than all of Joe'...
1996 Michael Angelo Batio Releases "Holiday Strings"
Holiday Strings is a cover album by American shred guitarist Michael Angelo Batio. The album features classical Christmas songs on acoustic guitar, and for every copy sold, $1.00 was dona...
1996 Sep Eric Johnson Releases "Venus Isle"
Venus Isle is Eric Johnson's fourth solo album, released in 1996. The song "S.R.V." is a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan. It features his brother, Jimmie Vaughan, as a guest soloist.
1996 Sep 17 Steve Vai Releases "Fire Garden"
Fire Garden is a 1996 album from guitarist Steve Vai. This is his fourth solo album, as Alien Love Secrets is an EP. Fire Garden is divided into two "phases". Phase 1, consisting of ev...
1997 Michael Angelo Batio Releases "Planet Gemini"
Planet Gemini is the second studio album by American shred guitarist Michael Angelo Batio, credited simply as Angelo. After No Boundaries, Batio appeared to take a more progressive approa...
1997 Jan 28 Ron Thal Releases "Hermit"
Hermit is a 1997 album by Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal that has since been discontinued by manufacturers.
1997 Jun 3 Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and Eric Johnson Release "G3: Live in Concert"
G3: Live in Concert is a live album and DVD by the G3 project, led by Joe Satriani. It was released in 1997 by Epic Records. This lineup of G3 includes Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and Stev...
1998 Mar 3 Joe Satriani Releases "Crystal Planet"
Crystal Planet is a 1998 instrumental rock album from guitarist Joe Satriani. It is likened to his classic 1989 release Flying in a Blue Dream in terms of sonics (returning from the blues...
1998 Jun Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal Releases "Hands"
Hands, sometimes spelt hands, is a 1998 solo album by Guns N' Roses guitarist Bumblefoot.
1999 Shawn Lane Releases "The Tri-Tone Fascination"
The Tri-Tone Fascination is the second studio album by guitarist Shawn Lane, first released in 1999 on Eye Reckon Records. A second edition was released in 2000, containing a revised trac...
1999 Sep 7 Steve Vai Releases "The Ultra Zone"
The Ultra Zone is a 1999 album from guitarist Steve Vai. This is his fifth full-length album, as Alien Love Secrets is an EP. The Ultra Zone is structurally similar to Vai's previous a...
2000 Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal Releases "Uncool" in France
Quirky and experimental modern-rock mixed with 70's lounge, flavored with innovative fretless-guitar and synth-guitar. Picture an urban metal band getting unruly at a karaoke bar, or Tom ...
2000 Mar 14 Joe Satriani Releases "Engines of Creation"
Engines of Creation is an album by Joe Satriani which was an experiment in fusing the "analog" instrumental electric guitar genre with the more modern "digital" music genres of techno, dr...
2000 Nov 7 Steve Vai Releases "The Seventh Song"
The Seventh Song is a 2000 album by guitarist Steve Vai. It is his first compilation album, but unlike a standard "greatest hits" or "best of" album, this one has an unusual twist: all of...
2001 Jun 19 Joe Satriani Releases "Live in San Francisco"
Live in San Francisco is a 2001 live album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani. Also available on DVD, including non-performance bonus footage (backstage, etc).
2001 Jun 19 Steve Vai Releases "Alive in an Ultra World"
Alive in an Ultra World is a live album by Steve Vai, recorded during The Ultra Zone world tour in 2000, and released in 2001. The songs compiled on this album were written specifically f...
2001 Nov 6 Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal Releases "911"
911 is the title of Ron Thal's fifth studio album released on November 6, 2001. 911 is the third album released under the name Bumblefoot. The album was originally slated for release u...
2002 Eric Johnson Releases "Souvenir"
Souvenir is an album by Eric Johnson released in 2002. It is a collection of previously unreleased material spanning 25 years. The album was unique in that it was only available for purch...
2002 Jun 4 Steve Vai Releases "The Elusive Light and Sound, Vol. 1"
The Elusive Light and Sound, Vol. 1 is a 2002 album that groups all the songs that Steve Vai made for movies, TV shows and the like.
2002 Jun 25 Joe Satriani Releases "Strange Beautiful Music"
Strange Beautiful Music is the eighth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released in 2002 on Epic Records. The fifth and tenth tracks notably contain Satriani's first recorded use of...
2003 Nov 18 Steve Vai Releases "The Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology"
The Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology is Steve Vai's compilation album that was released in 2003 (see 2003 in music). This two-disc compilation spans Vai's entire solo career, featuring th...
2004 Feb 17 Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Yngwie Malmsteen Release "G3: Rockin' in the Free World"
G3: Rockin' in the Free World is a double live album by the G3 project that was recorded at The Uptown Theater in Kansas City, Missouri on October 21, 2003. The album featured the touring...
2004 Apr 13 Joe Satriani Releases "Is There Love in Space?"
Is There Love in Space? is the tenth studio album by instrumental rock guitarist Joe Satriani, released on April 13, 2004. The track "If I Could Fly" is now the base of a lawsuit between ...
2005 Feb 22 Steve Vai Releases "Real Illusions: Reflections"
Real Illusions: Reflections is the first studio album since Steve Vai's 1999 studio release The Ultra Zone. The album was released on February 22, 2005. It is the first piece of a three p...
2005 Jun Eric Johnson Releases "Bloom"
Bloom is Eric Johnson's fifth studio release, released in June 2005. It was the first studio release since his 1996 album Venus Isle almost nine years prior. However in these nine years h...
2005 Oct 25 Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and John Petrucci Release "G3: Live in Tokyo"
G3: Live in Tokyo is another G3 live performance which featured John Petrucci along with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai in the 2005 G3 tour. It was released as double live album as well as DV...
2006 Mar 14 Joe Satriani Releases "Super Colossal"
Super Colossal is a 2006 album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani. It is his eleventh studio album recorded at Studio 21. It was also recorded at Armoury Studios in Vancouver, ...
2007 Jun 26 Steve Vai Releases "Sound Theories"
Sound Theories vol. I & II is a 2007 album by American guitarist Steve Vai. The album was recorded with the Metropole Orchestra in Netherlands in mid 2004-2005 and released on June 26, 20...
2008 Mar 31 Joe Satriani Releases "Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock"
Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock is the 12th studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani. The title has Greco-Biblical connotations. The initial part, Professor Satchafunkilu...
2009 Mar 10 Yngwie Malmsteen Releases "Angels of Love"
Angels of Love is an all-acoustic all-instrumental studio album by Yngwie Malmsteen, released on March 10, 2009. The album features nine all-new acoustic renditions of previosuly released...