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Thinking back on yesterday instead of trying to explain to someone why it took me so long to finish a certain song due to the guitar track and why I'm NEVER satisfied, I should have just showed her this list of guitarists I have seen live in my life lol

Who do you remember seeing live, I have REALLY been treated, I have seen some doozy's the best.

The first one I ever saw was Steve Howe the rest is not in order.
I've seen more but these were all really worth mentioning to me when I saw them.

Steve Howe 3x
Larry Carlton 2x
George Benson 3x - My favorite
Lee Rittenour 2x and met him once
Jimmy Page 3x - My favorite
Eric Clapton 3x
Joe Pass 1x
Steve Morse 2x
Al Dimeola 3x met him once and bought him a pizza
Pat Metheney 1x
John McCloughlin 1x
Carlos Santa 3x
Brian May 1x
David Gilmore 1x
Stanley Jordan 1x
Paco De lucia 1x
Mike Stern 1x
Martin Barre 1x
Neil Schon 1x
Pete Townshend 3x
Jeff Beck 1x
Robert Fripp 1x
Adrien Blew 1x
Peter Frampton 1x
Joe Perry 1x
Keith Richards 1x
Alan Holdsworth 1x
Ritchie Blackmore 1x
Dickie Betts 1x
Hughie Thompson 1x
Ted Nugent 1x


Can't think of the others right now.

Some Who I would love to see or would have loved to seen.

Chet Atkins
Segovia
Jimi Hendrix
Robin Trower - Could have recently but couldn't.
Wes Montgomery
BB King just because it's BB King
Robert Johnson
Hank Garland
Django

And on an on

Who have you seen live?

I haven't been to enough concerts in my life, but am satisfied with what I have seen. I have seen most of my guitar heroes who I will name, but I'm afraid that they aren't of the commercial nature. I'll start with the commercial guitarists and work my way down.

Steve Howe
Jimmy Page(for 15 minutes), the Zeppelin show was rained out due to a bad thunderstorm.
David Gilmour- Animals/Pink Floyd
Johnny Winter
Rick Derringer
Dicky Betts/Allman Bros.
Alvin Lee/Ten Years After
Frank Zappa

Lesser Known:

Doc Watson/3 times, once with the late Merle Watson
Norman Blake
Tony Rice/several times
Leo Kottke

I would love to see:
Chet Atkins
Merle Travis
BB King
Robert Johnson
Leadbelly
Duane Allman
Muddy Waters

Thanks Ben I can't BELIEVE I forgot Dickie Betts and now that I thought of him I saw Hughie Thompson with The Outlaws. Also the guys from Marshal Tucker & Molly Hatchet Oh wait the two guys from Skynard as well lol.

Let me go add Dickie to the list, he was FABULOUS.

Mine would be a long list.....

Eric Clapton (Cream)
Dickey Betts
Colin Hay
Jorma Kaukonen
Ted Nugent
Tommy Emmanuel
BB King
Buddy Guy
Rick Derringer
Roger McGuinn (drank champagne at his house)
Pete Townshend
Lindsey Buckingham
Carlos Montoya
Peter Tork
Peter Frampton
Dave Mason

....are the first who come to mind.

And you are joggin my memory:

Billy Gibbons
Sonny Landreth
Richard Thompson
Joe Bonamassa
Jonny Lang

Mike Caro! Saw him three feet away while he laid down this song ending lead!
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=5365963

Eric Clapton
Robert Cray
Pat Metheney, (played piano with during a soundcheck)
Carlos Santana
Chuck Berry, (played elec. piano with as part of a backup band)
Leslie West
Jerry Garcia
Paul McCartney
Dave Mason
Nils Lofgren
Jeff Beck
Alvin Lee
Tom Keefer (played piano with at his home)

Not known players who were great:
Pete Matea
Vince Pinto
Jack Verna
Frank Sides

Mike if I'd seen half of the guys on your list I would have stopped playing by now. There are only two guys that I've seen who would fall into the guitar hero slot:

Joe Satriani x3
Steve Vai x2

This was a good few years ago when all I wanted to do was to be able to play like these two guys. But once I got into playing acoustic my taste changed a lot but I can still shred with the best of them.

I’ve seen so many live it would take me ages to list (or even remember!) but some that spring to mind are:

Mark Knopfler (many)
Glenn Tilbrook (many)
Eric Clapton (2+)
Steve Howe (2+)
Nils Lofgren (2+) (I’ve had a couple of chats with him too)
Pete Townsend
Jimmy Page
Michael Schenker
Joe Satriani
John Petrucci
Brian May
Alex Lifeson
Albert Lee
The Edge
John Lees (who kindly let me see his studio and play some of his guitars)
Dave Edmunds

I’ll be back later

Hi Colin

I may have seen Yorma but don't remember that night lol

Adding to my list as I had more time to find some of my saved ticket stubs.

Andy Summers - The Police 2x
Edge - U2 1x
Mike Rutherford - Genesis 2x

Jimmy Page
Eric Clapton
Carlos Santana
Keith Richards
Jimi Hendrix
BB King
Robert Cray
Chuck Berry
Alvin Lee
Johnny Winter
Billy Gibbons

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/0/calvinstewart

The ones that impressed me the most and/or would be most-recognized by the fretheads:
• Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Prince
• Richard Lloyd (Television)
• Tom Verlaine (Television)
• Pat Metheney
• Eric Clapton
• Dave Gilmour
• Robert Cray
• Bo Diddley
• The Edge (U2)
• Vernon Reid (Living Colour)
• Richard Thompson
• Alex Chilton (Big Star)
• Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets x2)
• David Broza
• Bob Mould
• Eddie Hazel (P-Funk)
• Joey Santiago (Pixies)
• Sonny Landreth

Would love to see or would have loved to seen:
• Mark Knopfler
• Robert Quine
• Robert Fripp
• Terre Roche
• Billy Gibbons
and a billion others...

Phil Keaggy
Pete Townsend x2
Willie Nelson x7
Andy Somers x2
Jerry Garcia x5
G.E. Smith
Kerry Livgren

Lots of others, but these were the first that came to mind.

Oh yeah, I've seen Jerry (twice) and Willie (twice, also)!

Subjective topic. Good is opinion and opinion is based on surroundings and what mind altering chemicals you have recently put into your body while listening. I’ve been to some great concerts only to be surprised and disappointed when I heard a playback the following day. But all that being said:

• Mark Farner: Yeah you know I had to mention him
• Jimi Page 2X
• Jim Lea (Slade) 3 X
• Keith Ayers (Club Phred)
• George Harrison
• Eric Clapton
• Tony Iommi 3X Black Sabbath
• Jeff Beck
• Randy Rhoads 2X (Quiet Riot and Ozzy)
• Eddie VanHalen
• Mike Caro
• Chuck Berry
• Brian Setzer 2X (Stray Cats and Orchestra)
• Alvin Lee (Ten Years After)
• Steven Stills 3X

I don’t remember anyone saying anything about ‘good’ – it’s just who you have seen.
I've seen Slade a couple of times but JL was on bass both times.


A couple more after reading the other lists:
Andy Summers (x2 1980 & 2007)
Richard Thompson (numerous)

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Good catch, see what I mean about mind altering substances. I meant Dave Hill.

Ah yes I see

Carlos Alomar - I saw him on Bowie's Serious Moonlight tour

Not a list -- no time -- but I did get to hear, meet, and talk to Chet Atkins. Well, mostly he talked and I listened. For the most part it was about producing Elvis and Roger Whitaker. (sp?) It was at Christopher Parkening's house. A real evening to remember a looong time ago.

Also, Bonnie Raitt once asked me to go dancing, but that story isn't as interesting as it might seem.

Here is a quick list of what I can remember off-hand:

Albert Collins
Albert Lee
Alvin Lee
B.B. King
Bo Diddley
Bobby Black (steel player)
Bonnie Raitt
Buddy Guy
Bugs Henderson
Carlos Santana
Eddie Adcock
Elvin Bishop
Eric Clapton
Eric Johnson
Frank Zappa
Freddy King
Gatemouth Brown
Jerry Garcia
Jimmy Day (steel guitar)
Joe Satriani
Joe Walsh
Johnny Winter
Jorma Kaukonen
Keith Richards
Larry Carlton
Leo Kottke
Lightning Hopkins
Neal Schon
Pat Metheny
Ray Benson
Rick Derringer
Ron Wood
Roy Buchanan
Sonny Landreth

I'm going to see Clapton in a couple weeks. Boy, I hope he brings Derek Trucks! Probably not in Denmark, though. Still, looking forward to that, allthough I'm not that big on huge venues. I like small intimate concerts better, even with lesser known players. There are a billion guys round the world that are killer on their guitars, so great is not that hard to come by, even locally!

I've been to some workshops with Mike Stern, though. And one with John Abercrombie. One of the best promotion shows I've seen lately was the Aussie Tommy Emmanuel, whoo hoo! I think he released an album with Chet Atkins some years ago.

I would really love to see Brad Paisley, Bill Frisell and Ry Cooder, though.

I have also seen many......too many to name but some of the most memorable ones

Rory Gallagher
Gary Moore
Clapton
Al Dimeola
John Mcgloughlin
Alvin Lee
Frampton
Townsend
Jeff Beck
Jimmy Page
Brian May
Jimmy Lea and Dave Hill (Slade early days 69 when they were a punk band with short hair)

I guess that I got something of a private lesson from
Steve Morse.

Ran into him walking the floor of a NAMM show when I was 16, confessed my fandom, and he told me, "Come on and take a walk with me!"

Showed me a couple of little things once we got over the the Ernie Ball booth, and gave me some little bits of advice. One of the very nicest people that I have ever met. So generous with his time and just plain... NICE.

Never had the chance to see him play on-stage, but that little 5-minute private lesson was still pretty damn cool. And, more than 20 years later, I still cannot do a lot of the things that he showed me!

i have seen Joe Satriani like 8 times and Steve vai twice..

i met Steve Vai back in 94 and must say he is a very nice guy..very patient and cordial and actually visits with you

I originally read that one as:
ROY Wood.

Who is one that I really hope that I can see one day. Although, I don't know how much chance there is of that happening.

Willie Nelson
Emmylou Harris
Kenny Vaughan
Marty Stuart
Glen Campbell
Jamie Moses
Brian May
Janick Gers
Dave Murray
Adrian Smith
Richard Kruspe
Paul Landers
Phil Kaye (comedian who is also a musician)
Ed Tudor-Pole
James Hunter
Rachal Harrington (can't remember her partner's name)
Jon Randall
John Wheeler (also on fiddle)
Dale Reno (also on mandolin)

Some of the guitarists I've mentioned come from the same band (Richard and Paul are in Rammstein, and Janick, Dave, and Adrian, are in Iron Maiden)