This makes me want to smash my guitars.....

[Axe]

......set fire to the heap and then bury the remains in a deep, deep hole.

While, I'm not a huge fusion fan, I do love Al DiMeola's Mediterranean Sundance. My first guitar teacher was really into him. Here I was, barely able to play an Em and he's trying to get me to play insane Spanish-style runs. I fired him after three sessions.

Watching Di Meola, De Lucia and McLaughlin play Sundance live is both fucking awe inspiring and depressing at the same time.

Check out 2:45 -- shred=tastic.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cadbYIzhqQ[/video]

[100 watt]

I have a disc with that on it I need to listen to some time when ever I get all my stuff back home.

[GAS KING]

I don't care for that, but the skill and talent to play that is impressive.

I really dig Mahavishnu Orchestra though.....the raw powerful energy of that band leaves me in awe.

[The Anomaly]

OP, this is my go-to, when I start to think I'm pretty good, and need to be put back in my place.

Shit is so good, makes me tear up a little, no joke.

[phrophus]

Al di Meola's first coupla albums are pretty good. He's far from my favorite player, and I actually think McLaughlin and de Lucia are better, but he can definitely play.

[atrox]

yes. "Friday Night in San Francisco" is one of my go-to discs

[100 watt]

OP, this is my go-to, when I start to think I'm pretty good, and need to be put back in my place.

Shit is so good, makes me tear up a little, no joke.

Ive listened to stuff that's actually made me do that.

Ive learned to play stuff & it's made me do that. A buddy of mine made a recording of me (that I didnt even know he was recording) dicking off to some Hendrix stuff one day. I was throwing some stuff from Jimi's "Woddstock Improvisation" in it, & was nailing some stuff, that I really didnt know I could do that well. I got kinda choked up listening to it lol.

[Placemat Jackson]

Yeah his alternate picking is ridiculous