Joe Stump`s instrumental album, Armed And Ready, solidifies his firm hold as the most over-the-top rock guitarist known to man! Drawing on influences such as Ritchie Blackmore, Uli Jon Roth, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Schenker, Gary Moore and Yngwie Malmsteen for this tour de force of guitar histronics, Stump blazes through each of the eight tracks with a no holds barred attitude. To even fathom that some of these tracks are first takes can only boggle the mind of the talent necessary to be so inventive, forceful, dynamic and emotional in this type of format.
