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Marc Bonilla | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 28, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Reprise Records
• ASIN: B000008DNO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,662 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Entrance

2. White Noise

3. Mannequin Highway

4. Commotion

5. Lycanthrope

6. Hit and Run

7. Afterburner

8. Hurling Blues Skyward

9. Antonio's Love Jungle

10. Razorback

11. Slaughter On Memory Lane

12. Exit

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Instrumental Rock Guitar Masterpiece, May 25, 2003

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Mike S (Front Royal,Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ee Ticket (Audio CD)

This cd is hard to find,but is one of the best insrumental rock cds that I own. The song SLAUGHTER DOWN MEMORY LANE,which was a minor hit on album rock stations in early 1992 will absolutely blow your mind; and you will never get tired of listening to the brilliant guitar work which is done with maximum feeling and craftsmanship. This cd also contains the hit single WHITE NOISE. Bonilla is definately up there in the ranks of Satriani,Steve Vai,Eric Johnson,Jeff Beck,Tony Macalpine,etc. Each song rocks and is well produced. A great cd to play air guitar to as well.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unjustly Ignored, March 13, 2007

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Moose KnuckleHead (wayne, nj United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ee Ticket (Audio CD)

I have hundreds of instrumental albums. This album is probably my favorite. Bonilla is a skilled guitarist who, unlike most shredders, can actually write great songs! Just as Beck's "Blow by Blow" and Ronnie Montrose's "Open Fire" were my favorite instrumental guitar albums in the 1970's, this album (and to a lesser extent, Bonilla's follow-up "American Matador) is at the top of the list for albums from the 1990's.

Guests include Ronnie Montrose and Keith Emerson. Bonilla and producer Kevin Gilbert created segues between the tracks which add a lot to the album (I wish that American Matador had them). Although the whole album is great, "Slaughter on Memory Lane" is absolutely spectacular!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing album - buy it, buy it buy it!, November 22, 2007

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Dave Chambers (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ee Ticket (Audio CD)

I bought this after hearing "White Noise" on the radio, and quickly found that song to be one of the weakest on the album. Which is unfortunate, because people will listen to the first song and think "oh, he's a shredder" and might get turned off, which is unfortunate becase though Bonilla can shred, he has an unusual breadth and depth to his playing.

Bonilla is a great technical player (of which there are many), but more importantly he plays with great feeling (rare).

It's a bit of a concept album - the 1st song ("Entrance") has a "boarding a rollercoaster" intro and the last song ("Exit") has an "exiting the rollercoaster" outro... the idea being that the album is a rollercoaster ride, hence the title (double-E tickets being the best rides at Disneyland). The songs range from metal shred to funk to organic bluesy ballads, and there is sound between the tracks that melds them together and eases you from one song to the next. This is less a collection of 12 songs than one continuous "ride" that changes along the way.

When I first bought it, I literally listened to nothing but this CD several times a day for three weeks straight. Sounds odd? Maybe, but the album really is that good.