Top 8 Rock Instrumentals

I could've come up with a more creative title, but I got up at 5am today.

Typically, I'm all about the music and less about the lyrics (though, as I age, that polarity (and my hair) has begun to gray). Instrumentals still seem to be too much for me usually, like too much of a good thing. I need a melody. (Obviously, this is excepting of classical music.)

Still, some of my fave songs ever are instrumentals. There's some magic combination, I'm not sure what it is; it's almost where you almost forget that there's no singing or vocal melody at all. Here are my best examples of that:

1. Jessica - Allman Brothers

2. Flying - The Beatles

3. Overture - The Who

4. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Live At Fillmore East version) - Allman Brothers

5. La Villa Strangiato - Rush

6. Mo Better Blues - Terence Blanchard & Branford Marsalis

7. YYZ (love the Exit Stage Left live version) - Rush

8. Riviera Paradise (I was 15 when I saw this Austin City Limits version. Changed my life.) - Stevie Ray Vaughan

[6.] I was 16 when this movie came out. The title tune was so formative for me... the layers of emotion in the playing have stayed with me most of my life: