Instrumental Collection: The Shrapnel Years

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Instrumental Collection: The Shrapnel Years
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Compilation album by Richie Kotzen
Released June, 2006
Recorded 1989-2003
Genre Instrumental rock
Length51:10
Label Shrapnel
Producer Jason Becker, Mike Varney, Richie Kotzen
Richie Kotzen chronology
Ai Senshi Z×R
(2005) Ai Senshi Z×R2005
Instrumental Collection: The Shrapnel Years
(2006)
Into The Black
(2006) Into The Black2006
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Instrumental Collection: The Shrapnel Years is a compilation album by guitarist/vocalist Richie Kotzen, including instrumental songs from several albums through his career.

Richie Kotzen American guitarist, singer, and songwriter

Richard Dale "Richie" Kotzen, Jr. is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. Kotzen has a prolific solo career, with a back catalogue of more than twenty album releases, was a member of the glam-hard rock band Poison from 1991-1993, Mr. Big from 1999-2002, and since 2012 has been the frontman of the band The Winery Dogs. Kotzen was signed to California-based Shrapnel Records from 1989 until 1997.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Richie Kotzen

No.TitleLength
1."Squeeze Play"4:38
2."Strut It"4:10
3."Unsafe At Any Speed"3:14
4."Cryptic Script"3:55
5."B Funk"4:19
6."Acid Lips"4:45
7."Hot Rails"3:35
8."Slow Blues"4:21
9."Pulse"6:20
10."Dose"5:58
11."The Answer"1:19
12."Conflicted"2:11
13."Unity (Jazz Bee Bop Instrumental)"2:43

Personnel

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Wurlitzer American company of music boxes and instruments

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass instruments from Germany for resale in the U.S. Wurlitzer enjoyed initial success largely due to defense contracts to provide musical instruments to the U.S. military. In 1880, the company began manufacturing pianos and eventually relocated to North Tonawanda, New York, and quickly expanded to make band organs, orchestrions, nickelodeons and pipe or theatre organs popular in theatres during the days of silent movies.

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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