# Rock instrumentals
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-instrumentals/277509
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 1, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-instrumentals/277509 "2004-12-01T16:23:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-instrumentals/277509/41 "2004-12-05T03:24:57Z")
**Big Bad Voodoo Lou** hit the nail on the head as usual.
Speaking as a nearly 40 year old instrumental music fan (via **Link Wray** , I’m going to plug a few more…
**Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet** (now [Atomic 7](http://shadowy.brainiac.com/a7-main.htm))
**Huevos Rancheros** (now [The Ramblin’ Ambassadors](http://www.mintrecs.com/bands/speak/ramblin/ramblin2003.html)
and
[Removal](http://www.newmusiccanada.com/genres/artist.cfm?mode=longBio&Band_Id=6373)
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### Author:  [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-instrumentals/277509/42 "2004-12-05T07:24:27Z")
Wow, no one mentioned The Ventures! They pretty much own the genre. (Well, there’s The Shadows in the UK.)
I think the instrumental had it’s heyday when real DJs made their own programming choices, and they didn’t always time their shows exactly, which forced them to slap on their personal fave new instrumentals near the end of the hour and/or their shift. That’s precisely what made “Wild Weekend” a hit a couple of years after it was recorded.
The best series of albums I know of for great old obscure instrumentals is _Strummin’ Mental_ .
I have no less than 6 versions of “Apache” from the 60’s… my fave one is Jorgen Ingmann’s…
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-instrumentals/277509/43 "2004-12-05T09:40:50Z")
I still say that the finest instrumental album is **Mark Bonilla** ’s _EE Ticket_.
Out of print. New copies are unavailable. Didn’t get the attention it deserved.
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