Various Artists - 1989 "Guitars, Practicing Musicians" Volume I

This thirteen-track CD, featuring 13 rock guitarists and bassists, was released through Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine. With a nice mixture of styles, it includes Steve Vai, Vinnie Moore, Billy Sheehan, Randy Coven, Paul Gilbert, and eight others.

Guitar's Practicing Musicians Vol. 1 CD was released Mar 26, 1990 on the Combat label. This thirteen-track CD, featuring 13 rock guitarists and bassists, was released through Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine. Guitar's Practicing Musicians Vol. 1 buy CD music With a nice mixture of styles, it includes Steve Vai, Vinnie Moore, Billy Sheehan, Randy Coven, Paul Gilbert, and eight others. ~ Paul Kohler. Guitar's Practicing Musicians Vol. 1 CD music contains a single disc with 13 songs.

Great CD with exclusive tracks unavailable elsewhere including a live version of Steely Dan Bodhisattva with a "?" listed as performing on keys and vocals who sounds a lot like Donald Fagen (wink wink nudge nudge)! Also solos from Allan Holdsworth on the Jeff Watson track. 

I used to have this on cassette a long, long time ago! What a rush! The Reckless Fable alone is worth the price (at the time I think that it was the only place you could listen to it; Steve Vai released the whole album on his label since). But you also have Steve Morse, Vinnie Moore, Billy Sheehan, Randy Coven, etc. etc!!! I'm glad I got my paws on this cd. Keeper for sure! If you're lucky enough to get a copy, don't hesitate! 

This is a good cd of hard rock instrumentals. This was put out in 1989 and The best tracks here are by 'buck dharma" of blue oyster cult. and one by 'Vinnie moore' , some tracks have that 1980's drum sound , some don't;. back then some songs would push the drums to the front and some do that as you would expect from a hard rock cd from that era. But others are just hard rock songs that are melodic in nature. I don't remember seeing this back then , but it's worth owning if you like hard rock from that era. Like I said some songs do not do the drums forward sound and you could place them in any decade from the 70's until now. others are just that type of song. A number of really good guitarists are on this one too. Leslie west and Vinnie moore are on here. Vinnie is currently the lead guitarist of UFO. A band which began in 1969! and is still making great songs. If you like instrumental hard rock from the 80's then this will be worth your effort in owning. I collect blue oyster cult music so I had to grab this one because it has bd on it. The sound is good too as this was digitally recorded back then. wait is it really that long ago? 

Track listing:

1 Giant Steps (Jennifer Batten) 1:37
2 Gamera Is Missing (Buck Dharma) 3:21
3 Born To Be Wild (Leslie West) 3:07
4 Free (Vinnie Moore) 4:47
5 Southern Steel (Steve Morse) 4:03
6 El Becko (Paul Gilbert) 4:12
7 Tree (Randy Coven) 4:15
8 Western Vacation (Steve Vai) 6:30
9 NV43345 (Billy Sheehan) 2:20
10 Bodhisattva (Elliott Randall) 4:37
11 The Snakes (Blues Saraceno) 3:33
12 Sixgunz (Vivian Campbell) 3:33
13 Rodo Lana / Play That Funky Music (Jeff Watson/Allan Holdsworth) 6:27