Your most influential Electric Guitar Albums?

[pieterh]

Rush - 2112 & Permanent Waves
Dire Straits - Communiqué & Making Movies
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here & The Wall
Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues
The Beatles - Help & Sgt Pepper
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare (in my dreams!)
It Bites - Once Around the World

And as Bob says, so many more...

[rockabilly69]

Jeff Beck's - Blow By Blow
Allman Brothers - Beginnings
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 1
Beatles - Abbey Road
Johnny Winter - Johnny Winter And
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud
Rory Gallagher - Adainst The Grain

[rmp]

For sure these 6, changed life for me.. at the time anyway....

Are You Experienced (Hendrix)
Live at The Fillmore East (Allman Bros)
Machine Head - (Deep Purple)
1st Zeppelin album
Blow By Blow (J. Beck)
1st Boston album

[frankmcr]

Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by Bob Womack

YES - Close to the Edge, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Going for the One

I'm just happy to know that someone else thinks as highly of "Tales" as I do

[ghostnote]

Man, so many influences, a lot of 'em already listed in this thread by other obviously great connoisseurs of music. But here are a few:

Allman Brothers - Idlewild South, really almost any of theirs
Rolling Stones - all of their records had great guitar tones.
Beatles - so inventive, great voicings, changed guitar tones on every record.
James Gang - Joe's da man. Also liked later Gang with Dominic Troiano.
Cream - Fresh Cream. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that.
Freddie King - Holy crap! Who's this guy?
Jean Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger. Daryl Steurmer is a monster player.

I could go on, but enough for now.

[Lockback]

Cream: Disraeli Gears
Blind Faith: Blind Faith
Jimi Hendrix: All of his albums but particularly Electric Ladyland
Johnny Winter: Second Winter
Jeff Beck: Blow By Blow

[Mr. Jelly]

John Mayall's - Beano
Live at the Fillmore - Allman Bros
Dick Dale

[M Sarad]

Grateful Dead Skull and Roses

[Daveyo]

Jeff Beck,blow by blow
Robben Ford,talk to your daughter

[JStotes]

Several were influential but these kind of formed my playing.

All early Beatles
then:

James Gang, Rides Again, Thirds

Mark, Don, and Mel, 1969-1971

Amazing Rhythm Aces, Stacked Deck, Too Stuffed to Jump, How the Hell Do You Spell Rhythm

Elvin Bishop, Let it Flow

Outlaws, Outlaws and Hurry Sundown

Pure Prairie League, Two Lane Highway

Many others, but these had a lasting effect.

[3notes]

Grateful Dead ..... Europe '72, Mars Hotel.
Santana ..... 2 songs.... Samba Pa Ti and Europa.

But I ended up with an acoustic guitar for the next 2 or 3 decades playing mostly my own music. No regrets. 100% electric these days.

[Tahitijack]

My pick are a whole bunch of Ventures albums.

[Gordon Currie]

Originally Posted by eatswodo

I'm just happy to know that someone else thinks as highly of "Tales" as I do

I guess there are three of us. Man that album was slagged by Rolling Stone and others on release!

[Gordon Currie]

Originally Posted by ghostnote

Jean Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger. Daryl Steurmer is a monster player.

Joaquin Lievano and Peter Maunu played guitar on this album, Daryl had already left the band. On the subsequent tour, Jamie Glaser replaced Peter Maunu.