Well most of the music i listen to doesn't have guitar as a leading instrument, but its all instrumental. I listen more to music where instruments like trumpet and sax, sometimes keyboards, are prominent. Malmsteen I can't dig, cause to me it feels like he's just missing the point of music. Santana is cool, I like his less popular stuff the most, the stuff he did with John Mclaughlin, his more fusiony stuff. It's all preference though, I also like listening to some vocal music. Check out Ella Fitzgerald, she blows me away.