Ben's Homemade Compilations

For years I've made tapes of my favorite tunes of the moment, or of all time, or of a certain style, or whatever. Now I do it with a CD burner. This time I thought I'd give you a peek at my extremely eclectic listening habits by running down the contents of some recent "favorites" CD's.
If you're interested and curious about a particular artist or tune, drop me a line and I'll give you the scoop. So here goes:

"Great Instrumentals 1":

3PM, "Banana Daquiri" with Jerry Peek, bass (Jerry played on Steve Morse's first solo album The Introduction.)
Bill Connors, "Lydia," "A Pedal"
Focus. "Hocus Pocus"
Joe Satriani, "Time"
Kalle Rademacker, "Eureka- I've Found It"
Larry Carlton, "Mulberry Street"
Marc Bonilla, "White Noise"
Mr. Big, "Screaming Blues-O-Mania"
Paul Gilbert, "El Becko"
Edgar Winter, "Frankenstein"
Tony Williams Lifetime, "Fred"

"Great Instrumentals 2, Plus...":

Eric Johnson, "Cliffs Of Dover (live on Austin City Limits)"
Tower Of Power, "Squib Cakes"
Michael Lee Firkins, "Laughing Stacks"
Stevie Wonder, "Contusion"
Allan Holdsworth, "Kinder"
Billy Cobham, "Lunarputians"
Lee Ritenour, "Captain Fingers"
Steve Vai, "Blue Powder"
Screaming Headless Torsos, "Word To Herb"
Stu Hamm, "I Want To Know"

"Fusion Fun 1":

Bill Evans, "London House"
Frank Gambale, "Credit Reference Blues"
Gary Willis, "Do The Math"
Vinnie Colaiuta, "I'm Tweaked/Attack of The 20-Lb. Pizza"
Jaco Pastorius, "Donna Lee"
Mahavishnu Orchestra, "Birds Of Fire"
Los Lobotomies, "Smell Yourself"
Mike Stern, "Ha Ha Hotel"