What great guitarists have you seen live?

[Mendocino]

Mine

Duane Allman
Jeff Beck
Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Pete Townshend
Steve Howe
Carlos Santana
Dickie Betts
Keith Richards
Jorma Kaukonen
Roger McGuinn
Mick Taylor
Neil Young
Muddy Waters
Nancy Wilson
Robin Trower
Peter Frampton
Patrick Simmons
Bonnie Raitt
Lindsay Buckingham
Todd Rundgren

I've seen more, but most impressed with these. I would like to see Jeff Beck and Steve Howe do a project.

[Land of Enchantment]

1. Yeah, rub it in.

Never lived in a big city, thank dog. Had tickets to see Stevie Ray but he was killed a couple of days before he was to get to NM. Clapton bailed as I recall--they switched helicopters.

[Mendocino]

5. I saw SRV in a 2500 seat venue.

We were about seven rows back, a little to the left. My ears rang for three days. Golly he was good.

Clapton I listed because I saw him, but he was just going through the motions that night (likely drunk). Muddy Waters opened and blew him away in comparison.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. I saw SRV on ladies night at the Cheatham St Warehousr

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in San Marcos, TX. It was 1980 I believe. George Strait played the same venue. He was an ag major at SWTSU at the time.

Also I've seen

Buddy Guy
Smoking Joe Kubek
Jimmy Vaughan
Dave Stewart
Dick Dale - King of surf guitar!
Chris Stein
Dickie Betts
Pete Townsend
Peter Buck
Carl Perkins
Billy Gibbons
Johnny Ramone
Neil Young
Chuck Berry (asshole!)
Charley Sexton
Doyle Bramhall II
Joe Ely

Some Texas folks who aren't super famous, but very good:

Carolyn Wonderland
Hamilton Loomis
Vince Converse
Tony Vega
Ian Moore

And I went to high school with singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen.

[chknltl]

51. I saw SRV at The Gorge just prior to his death.

There was a partial solar eclipse going on with the setting sun behind the stage. Those up near the stage wouldn't have been able to see it but we were far enough back to catch both 'shows'. I dunno, in retrospect it seems like a bad omen.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. Wow! You've really gotten around as an appreciator of culture.

Gatemouth Brown
Brian May
Robin Trower
Alvin Lee
Pat Metheny
Leo Kottke
Paul Stookey
Andy Summers
Tom Petty
Chet Atkins
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers circa 1980
Bruce
Little Steven
Todd Rundgren
Nils Lofgren
Pete Townshend
Dave Davies

Yes, this is what happens when you grow up in the big city. Everybody who's anybody and his dog comes through town in any and all genres of music. You get spoiled.

I think that's everybody but there might be more.

[Mendocino]

3. I forgot about Petty

but Mike Campbell IMHO, had the licks in the Heartbreakers.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. I saw them in 2014

but didn't know who was considered the best guitarist.

They were fabulous live. I actually went to see their opening act because I really like him--Steve Winwood.

[Mendocino]

7. I think Steve Winwood's

guitar playing is under rated and pushed down in the mix. While he was usually teamed with better perceived players like Dave Mason or Clapton, his organ playing and great vocals were his strong point.

[OriginalGeek]

20. Tom Petty was my second ever concert

in the early 80s and I've seen him a dozen times since then - including one of the tours he did with Steve Winwood which was absolutely exhilarating (he's done at least 2 with SW as the opening act that I know of). I love Steve Winwood.

My 1st show was the Beach Boys and I have seen thousands of live bands since then so I couldn't even begin to name them all but some of my faves are:
Jimmy Page (with the Firm and with Page & Plant where he played enough Led Zep material to smooth over the hurt of missing them in Dallas 1977)
Alex Lifeson
John Paul Jones - he really just plays everything - especially stringed instruments - so I couldn't leave him off a list.
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Steve Vai
Chuck Schuldiner
Trey Azagthoth
Buddy Guy
Unknown Hinson
The Reverend Horton Heat
the twin guitar attack of Glenn Tipton and KK Downing
and
the twin guitar attack of Dave Murray and Adrian Smith.
and I'm forgetting a boat-load of others but I have been pretty lucky in my concert experiences.

[some guy]

6. Fewer than you

JB
SRV
Mick Taylor w/ John Mayall
Nancy Wilson
Joe Walsh

Plus
Leo Kottke
Joe Pass
A flamencio guitarist with the 2 above, whose name I forget (but the three of them individually and together was fabulous.)
Dave Davies w/The Kinks
Toy Caldwell (Marshall Tucker Band)
Pat Metheney w/Joni Mitchell and on his owwn band's tour
(So Joni Mitchell too, though I'm sure she dserves more than, 'oh, her too.')
Miami Steve Van Zant (does he count? He was fronting Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul It was really Nils who put Springsteen over the top. Born in the USA was the 1st album to include Nils.)
George Thorogood - are we counting him? Not sure I would, though I added him, so maybe I am?
Brian Setzer (same)
Steve Morse (Dixie Dregs)

As one who likes guitar gods, I feel like I should have a bigger list, which may be why I'm trying to stretch it. ?

[Mendocino]

9. The 2nd real concert I went to

was the Allman Brothers in Detroit February 1971. I was 13 1/2, went with my older brother, his good friend and the friends older brother, who wasn't real happy having me along. Screw um! They were playing the same basic set that appeared on Live at the Fillmore East. Can you imagine the effect that playing that had on me, just some kid? Now I'm pushing 60, but remember it very well.

Good Times!

[some guy]

17. I remember being

The unwanted tag-along. But never to cool rock shows.

I saw Greg Allman once; weird show, which brings to mind a different weird show I saw that included Kim Simmonds (Savoy Brown).

Greg Allman at a "festival" type show in an arena that seated about 5,000 or so. About 500 people showed up. There was a local (Denver) band, with a guitar player who reminded me of Tommy Bolin (but wasn't), another band that featured the younger brother of Michael Nesmith, and a version of the Greg Allman band, around 1981. The music was really good; I just kept thinking people should show up, but not many ever did.

It was a really good show; it just felt weird to be so short of fans.

I saw a different band that had got moved from a 1,000 seat hall to a bar. Kim Simmonds, Brian Auger, Tim Bogert, a drummer whose name I don't recall, but was listed as having played with Santana. Mage or something like that, they were touring as.

So, add Kim Simmonds as a guitar great I saw.

It's kind of weird to see greatness being ignored, but still putting forth the effort.

[gratuitous]

8. Let's see . . .

Stephen Stills
Dave Davies
Paul Simon
Davey Johnstone
Bruce Cockburn

[First Speaker]

10. My List:

...Charlie Byrd, Joe Pass, Kenny Burrell, George Benson, Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, Les Paul...that's who's coming to mind right now, though I'm fairly sure I'm forgetting someone obvious...

[Iggo]

11. A few, just from my iPod.

Angus Young
Joe Perry
Tony Iommi
Buck Dharma
Rick Nielsen
East Bay Ray
Ritchie Blackmore
Steve Morse
Mike Keneally
Vivian Campbell
John Petrucci
Dave Murray/Adrian Smith
Glen Tipton/KK Downing
Ace Frehley
Mark Morton/Willie Adler
Robin Trower
Brent Hinds/Bill Kelliher
Dave Mustaine
Chris Poland
Kirk Hammett
Michael Schenker
Mikael Åkerfeldt
Randy Rhoads
Jake E. Lee
Zakk Wylde
Carlos Cavazo
Warren DeMartini
Alex Lifeson
Daron Malakian
Rudolf Schenker
Mattias Jabs
Jeff Hanneman/Kerry King
Tommy Shaw/James Young
Alex Skolnick
Rik Emmett
Eddie Van Halen
John Sykes
Adrian Vandenberg
Steve Howe
Yngwie Malmsteen

And a whole lot more you never heard of...

[OriginalGeek]

21. I can't believe I forgot Tony Iommi!

and Rudolph Schenker! and a whole bunch of those on your list.

I saw EVH but I hate him (not his playing, him as a person) so I generally don't count him but I guess he is a guitar great even though he's a shitty person who treated poorly my teenage crush, Valerie Bertinelli. Actually, I still have a crush on her. She and Betty are why I watch Hot in Cleveland.

When I saw Steve Morse he was with Deep Purple so that was a great show for me as I love him and them.


I'm terribly jealous of your Ritchie Blackmore. I hear he might be touring soon so I may have to travel to catch that.

[Iggo]

23. Seeing Ritchie Blackmore on the Perfect Strangers tour was a damn near transcendent experience.

Never even hoped to ever see Deep Purple play, then BAM, here you go Iggo, a new Deep Purple album out of nowhere!

Saw them twice. Once either at The Forum or at Long Beach Arena (or some other arena, after all this time it's hard to tell the difference just from the pictures in my head), and possibly the greatest concert I've ever seen at Irvine Meadows. Everybody loves Smoke On The Water, and so do I, but they did this huge rendition of Child In Time that it's hard to explain to a person who doesn't already love that song. I've seen Sabbath do War Pigs. I've seen Schenker do Rock Bottom. I've seen Trower do Bridge Of Sighs. But it's hard to beat Child In Time on that night in Irvine way back in the 80s.

[OriginalGeek]

35. It looks like England is the closest place to me

and that ain't very close lol. He's doing Rainbow and Deep Purple songs but it's only a handful of Europe and 1 UK date.

on the plus side, they will be filming it for video release at some point.

I could have seen the Perfect Strangers tour but can't remember why I didn't. Probably money or work or some other stupid shit I should have ignored and gone.

Come onnnnnnn lottery!

[Iggo]

36. "Probably money or work or some other stupid shit..."

That's what kept me from Queen. And also from Pantera.

[OriginalGeek]

38. lol, my wife sometimes gripes "You can't go to EVERY show you want..."

don't I know it - If she only knew how many I don't go to...

[Iggo]

42. Can't go to...wha...can't...wha...?

I don't understand her words!

[ProfessorGAC]

32. Another One

I saw you included Buck Dharma. My friends and i knew him. My dad was a high mucky-muck in a fraternal organization in our town of around 75k.

The city wouldn't allow the use of the ice arena in the summer for anything that wasn't locally sponsored so a Chicago area promoter (Dex Card) set up a deal with my dad and his organization.

Part of the deal was four back stage passes to every show, which amounted to 10 per summer.

BOC came through every year from my second year of high school to my 3rd year of college. (I left HS for college after 3 years.) One summer they stopped twice.

The first time we met him, he said "My name is Don." So, he was never Buck to us after that.

That guitar solo on Transmaniacon was fantastic. So was the fan picking thing he did at the start of the solo for Reaper.

[Iggo]

37. Saw them last year at the La Mirada Performing Arts Theater.

Right around the corner from my house, as though they came to me.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Of your list, I've only seen Bonnie Raitt, but I also got to meet her

I'm not a very big person, but I felt like a giant next to her, she's quite small, but very talented. I was supposed to see Fleetwood Mac, back in the day, one of my favorites, but my brother wouldn't wait for me, always regretted that.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

14. Keeping in mind that "great" can be a matter of opinion

Bonnie Raitt
Steve Howe
John McLaughlin
Al DiMeola
Paco De Lucia
Buck Dharma
Tony Iommi
Walter Becker

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Someone Mentioned Walter

Guy is really good but was almost without ego. That's why so many of the signature SD solos are played by someone else. Randall, Diaz, Baxter, Lukather, et al. Walter said he was afraid all the solos would sound too much the same, so he just got everything right and then called in someone else to play other ideas. Usually it was the other ideas that ended up on the record.

[Little_Wing]

15. Do George Harrison & John Lennon qualify?

Saw the Beatles three times on their tours in 64, 65 and 66. Can't say I actually HEARD them, but did see them

A lot of the ones you listed (except Duane Allman who I adore but who died shortly before I was supposed to see the Allman Bros at Hollywood Bowl)

Stephen Stills
Bob Dylan
Robbie Robertson
Robbie Kreiger
Ronnie Montrose
Johnny Winter
Edgar Winter

Saw Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton all in the same night at the Cow Palace once. Great show.

Went to the first US Festival in '83 and there were tons of great guitarists and their bands, too many to list.

[PoiBoy]

16. I've been fortunate...

...living in a place where nearly everyone comes to play...


Jimmy Page
Jimi Hendrix
Carlos Santana
Jeff Beck
Jerry Garcia
Duane Allman
Dickie Betts
Keith Richards
Mick Taylor
Joe Perry
Neil Young
Peter Frampton
Steve Morse
Nils Lofgren
Dave Mason
George Benson
Joe Walsh
Davey Johnstone
Joe Pass
Kenny Burrell
Al Dimeola
Stephen Stills
Bonnie Raitt
Andy Summers


More...

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Darn

I forgot to mention Dimeola in my post downthread. How could i forget him?

[cemaphonic]

18. Saw David Grier a few weeks ago, and got to say hi to him after his set

Funny and charming guy. and a hell of an amazing guitarist.

Bill Frisell
Stanley Jordan
David Rawlings bunches of times

Got to sit in on a recording session with Roger Fisher (Heart's lead guitarist, before they turned into a pop ballad band)

Plenty of the classic rock dudes that were still touring in the 90s (Townshend, Gilmour, Van Halen, etc.)

[Paladin]

19. Stills and Young (when they were with Buffalo Springfield), Leo Kottke, and another guy....

Oh, yeah: Hendrix......

[MrScorpio]

22. Kazumi Watanabe

[KamaAina]

24. Jerry, Carlos

Not sure if The Radiators' Camile Baudoin qualifies as "great".

[Throd]

25. I used to catch Walter Trout at his regular gig in Huntington Beach.

His band used to play at a bar called Perq's on Main Street. For the price of a few beers I could enjoy one of the most amazing guitarists I have ever heard.

[blogslut]

26. Not many

Steve Howe
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Eric Johnson
Joe Perry
Carlos Alomar
Andy Summers
Rev Horton Heat
BB King
Prince

[MuseRider]

27. Emily Remler always comes to mind.

I saw her in a small, intimate room. I am not a big jazz fan nor am I a big guitar fan but I have seen so many I can't even count of both jazz and rock and even a few classical guitarists.

I mention Emily because she blew me away. She ate up the room and we were all just mesmerized. I have never heard anything like her since then and I hear a lot being a family of professional musicians. She died not too many years later. She was astonishing.

EDIT How could I forget?

I must add Andy McKee. He was my son's guitar teacher and the one responsible for his success. Andy is amazing. He is most popular overseas but what he does musically is something to hear. I don't even know how many CD's he has sold since those long ago days of weekly lessons.

[rawtribe]

28. Charo

And Frank Zappa.

[2naSalit]

52. She is/was a master player...

too bad she was blown off as some sexpot caricature rather than more noted for her true talent back in the day.

[Hoyt]

29. Mostly like players who accompany their own songs.

Bob Dylan
Roger McGuinn
Clarence White
Gillian Welch
Leo Kottke
Joan Armatrading
Joan Baez
Jorma Kaukonen
Ben Harper
Neil Young
Robert Randolf
Dave Van Ronk
Steve Stills
Lauryn Hill
Steve Earle
Richard Thompson
B B King
Doc Watson
Dave Davies
David Rawlings
Robbie Robertson

[cemaphonic]

46. That's a list I can get behind

Would have loved to be able to see Doc Watson and Clarence White.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Very Good List

I've seen a lot of them, but not Mick Taylor, or Bonnie Rait, or Duane.

I don't consider Richards or Young great guitar players, so even had i seen them, they wouldn't be on my list.

Just a few i've seen that you don't have on your list:
Joe Satriani
Eddie Van Halen
Adrian Belew
Robert Fripp
Leo Kottke
Ralph Towner
John Fahey
Jimmy Page (but not really that fond of his electric lead work)


Also, since you mentioned Nancy Wilson, if you saw Heart in the early days, you also so Roger Fisher. He was kind of messed up and Howard needed to play his parts at some shows, but that guy was really skilled and played very interesting stuff.

[Mendocino]

34. I saw Heart three times,

Roger seemed rather undisciplined. He was great one show, okay at another, then seemed lost at the third. I don't know if he had abuse problems, but maybe he was one of those guys who could really rip, then be unable to duplicate it. I liked Nancy a lot, fine acoustic work and some leads, but like almost every guy, I had a crush on her.

[cemaphonic]

41. I posted upthread that I sat in on a recording session with Roger Fisher

And inconsistent is spot on. During the practice/arranging session, we weren't sure it was going to work at all, but when it came time to lay down tracks, he absolutely nailed it in a single take.

[becca da bakkah]

39. I Agree With Everyone Else's Favorites.....

but, besides Zappa, my personal nostalgic favorite would be Mike Bloomfield. I saw him perform at a small club in San Francisco Bay area, about 1978. He was incredible. Died too young, and too soon.

[NV Whino]

40. Andreas Segovia.

[Tobin S.]

53. Why the hiding smiley. He's awesome!

A friend of mine showed me some of his stuff recently. Here's a piece by him. This is one man playing one guitar. I can't wrap my head around how he's doing it. It sounds like two guitar parts.

[NV Whino]

55. Because everyone else was posting pop/rock/whatever

I heard that piece on the radio just a couple of days ago. Good stuff.

If you like classical guitar, check out Los Romeros, a father and three sons. Saw them live, too. Pepe is the outstanding player. The others are merely excellent.

[Tobin S.]

57. 10-4. I'll check them out.

The friend I referred to in my previous post is my wife's cousin. He's a classical guitarist and I love to hear him play. He's been sending me some of his favorite songs and the piece by Segovia was one of them.

I'm more of a new alt rock and metal guy, but I've never really given classical a chance until now. I'm still not a fan of orchestras, but I do enjoy that classical guitar.

[trof]

43. Rufus Moseley.

He was the best man at my wedding
He can just play the shit out of a six string and twelve string guitar and a five string banjo. Claw hammer.
Not at the same time, understand, but individually.

I accompany him on one of my M. Hohner 'Echo Harp' harmonicas.
The Echo Harp has a double set of 'over and under' reeds pitched an octave apart.
The sound is a lovely tremolo.

They're also what I call 'double bit' axes.
Two sided.
Key of 'C' on one side, 'G' on the other.
Also an 'E' and 'F' one and an 'A' and 'D' one.

We mainly do Blue Grass and Folk.
Just for our own amusement.

[Tikki]

44. These:

Billy Zoom
East Bay Ray*
Mick Jones
Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Dave Edmunds
Carlos Guitarlos
David Hidalgo
Louie Pérez
Cesar Rosas
Bo Diddley
Chuck Berry
Captain Sensible/Brian James
Dave Alvin
Doug Sahm
Drake Levin
Joan Jett
Johnny Ramone
D Boon

there are more, I am sure.....
*

Tikki

[PufPuf23]

45. some guitarists

Frank Zappa
Carlos Santana
Jerry Garcia
Duane Allman (Allman Brothers was opening act for BB King and Buddy Guy Bands at Fillmore West, I had never heard of them)
Mike Bloomfield
Eric Clapton (Cream)
Mick Taylor (Small Faces with Rod Stewart)
Neil Young
Randy California
BB King
Buddy Guy
Adrian Belew
Dick Dale
Tom Petty
Jorma Kaukonen
Roger McGuinn (was not impressed by Byrds, Mike Bloomfield and Friends interrupted the Byrds 2nd set and played a 3rd set at Fillmore West when the Byrds were booed off the stage).
Elvin Bishop
Robin Trower
Billy Gibbons
Johnny Ramone
Chuck Berry
Alvin Lee
Dave Davies
Clarence White
Richard Thompson

etc

I haven't seen live music since 1994.

[IDemo]

47. Todd Rundgren and Tommy Emmanuel

[WinkyDink]

48. Brian May, and.....

Duane Allman
Stanley Jordan
Keith Richards
Mick Taylor
Neil Young

[GReedDiamond]

49. Going back to the early 1970s...

...and in no particular order, either by "greatness" or chronology:

Mick Taylor
Keith Richards
David Gilmour
Rory Gallagher
Greg Ginn
Billy Zoom
Todd Rundgren
D.Boon
Gary Lucas
Pete Townshend
Jorma Kaukonen
Chuck Berry
Jerry Garcia
Robbie Robertson
Frank Zappa
Jerry Harrison
Joni Mitchell
Robbie Krieger

[chknltl]

50. Juli Morgan

Who da hell is that? Well no, she is not the greatest guitarist I have ever seen. Those honors would have to go to Joe Satrianni, Stevie Ray Vaugn, also the guitarists for Yes, The Who, and Ten Years After, all circa 1970s.
Juli Morgan was a young lady who was allowed into a club I was playing pool in one Tuesday evening. I was a photographer for that club, documenting all the grunge era bands that played there but Tuesdays were reserved for bands nobody knew, bands that were lucky to draw their closest friends. While playing pool I was invited into the very vacant band area where I got to see a three piece no vocals band that featured a 19 year old Juli Morgan on guitar. She had only been playing for a couple years but she wowed the hell out of me. Juli's goal was to someday open for Joe Satrianni, by the time she was 21 she did just that-below is from that very show. By the way, she had only been playing guitar for a bit over 4 years here, to me that's darned impressive.

That show was back in 1995, shortly after Juli put away her guitars to focus on being a mom and I lost track of her. Recently Juli has re-emerged 20 years later, she's dusted off her old guitars, she is going to a music academy. Here she is doing the solo for Roger Waters's Comfortably Numb:

So that is who Juli Morgan was and is today, no not the best guitarist I've ever heard but one of my favorites and one I was happy to have worked with for a short while.

[Tobin S.]

54. Impressive.

I've never heard of her. She's very good.

[dembotoz]

56. saw jimmi and some others but there was this flamingco (sp) guy that was special

[greendog]

58. Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, Albert Lee, Eric Clapton, Dan Crary, Richard Thompson

Michael Hedges, John Abercronbie, Ralph Towner, Bonnie Raitt, Muddy Waters, Dave Edmunds, Jerry Garcia, Steve Stills

[GoCubsGo]

59. Pete Townshend and John Entwhistle.

I consider bass players guitarists, too.

I also haven't been to many concerts.

[Snellius]

60. Jimi Hendrix

at the old Winterland (I think). It was almost like he wasn't "playing" guitar. Playing an instrument. It was him. It was more like he was singing through his guitar. I have never heard anyone who get so much and varied emotion out of almost a single note.
Also great, but few remember, was the old Big Brother and the Holding Company, before Joplin was famous, when they went off on one of those obligatory 30-minute trip interludes under the lava lamp light shows that went on forever.

[annabanana]

76. ah.. Joshua Light Show

I saw Hendricks at Fillmore East on New Years.. 2nd show

[Joe Bacon]

61. Frank Zappa

First concert I ever went to, back in 1973...

[Lizzie Poppet]

62. A short list:

In no particular order:

Joe Satriani
Eric Johnson
Akira Takahashi
Stochelo Rosenberg (in Paris!)
Richard Thompson
Prince (one of the most underrated guitarists on the planet)

I'm trying to set up a trip to Japan a bit later on in the Spring to see Mitsuru (of a band called Bridear). At about 22 years old, she's already one of the best metal players I've ever heard...and I'm thinking she's going to become a very, very special player.

A lot of the players on your list are certainly some of my faves...I've just never seen them live.

[OxQQme]

63. Not only live, I changed his diapers

I may be a little biased as he's my son.

His stage name was "The Chet" when he played with Eels (he's in the black vest on the Letterman show)

Here he is on stage with Steve Perry

Here he is in front of 50,000 festival goers on one of his tours around the world

Here he is buried in amongst a yuuuge production

?list=PLTSe78PuZgRd5EKygpM6e2O4jSKud8oI2

In addition to touring with Lucinda Williams 2007-08

Two gold records on his wall.

Proud? You betcha.

Yeh. Those other guitarists up list are awesome too. :0)

He has currently been hired by the Jayhawks.

btw, if you live in Portland, Or., you might want to keep your eyes open for Love Gigantic as he's there too.

[Miles Archer]

64. Zappa, Betts, Haynes, Howe, Manzanera, Fripp, Hackett.

3 Zappa shows (the "Flo & Eddie" band, the "Roxy & Elsewhere" band, the "Bongo Fury" band.

Allman Brothers with Dickey Betts & Warren Haynes on the "Shades Of Two Worlds" tour

Yes on the "Going For The One" tour

Roxy Music at some point after they reformed following their initial breakup

Robert Fripp playing guitar on Peter Gabriel's first solo tour

Steve Hackett's final tour with Genesis in support of "Wind & Wuthering."

[Skittles]

65. people I haven't seen mentioned

Randy Rhoads, Jimmy McCullough, Alvin Lee

[seanjoycek476]

66. Clapton in 2008

It was awesome.

[clarice]

67. Leo Kottke, David Gilmour, Ritchie Blackmore, Randy Rhodes ,nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

68. Frank Zappa, Andres Segovia

Different styles.

[Number9Dream]

69. Off the top of my head...

Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page
Martin Barre
David Gilmour
Steve Howe
Frank Zappa
Tony Iommi
Jeff Beck
John McLaughlin
Al Dimeola
Paco Delucia
Pat Metheny
Dickie Betts
Pete Townshend
Dave Davies
Steve Hackett
Johnny Winter
Buck Dharma Roeser
Peter Frampton
Leslie West
Ralph Towner
Robin Trower

[sharp_stick]

70. A few

Mark Knopfler
Eddie Van Halen
Pete Townshend
Joe Satriani

[Recursion]

71. My list

Dick Dale
Ian MacKaye/Guy Piccioto
Roger Miller
Amy Ray/Emily Saliers
Mike McReady/Stone Gossard
Dicky Betts
Jeff Buckley
Brian Ritchie (if you count bassists)
Les Claypool (ditto)
Ed O'Brien
Daniel Rossen
Doug Martsch
Bob Weir
Trey Anastasio
Jeff Mangum
Chan Kinchla
Michael Houser
The Edge
Peter Buck
Todd Fancey

[Jokerman]

72. My list:

From Your List:

Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Pete Townshend
Dickie Betts
Neil Young
Muddy Waters
Nancy Wilson
Peter Frampton
Patrick Simmons
Bonnie Raitt

Also:

Buddy Guy
BB King
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Perry
Lonnie Mack
Taj Mahal
Joe Walsh
Billy Gibbons

[callous taoboy]

73. These:

Jorma Kaukonen
Walter Becker
Joe Pass
Joe Walsh
Eddie Van Halen
Neil Young
Leo Kottke
Lindsay Buckingham
Jon Herrington
Larry Carlton

These are just a few.

[cliffordu]

74. Well...

Andre Segovia
Carlos Montoya,
John Fahey,
Leo Kottke
Kenny Burell
Richard Rankin
Ralph Towner
Danny Gatton
Roy Clark
Jim Hall
Doc Watson
Merle Travis
Taj Mahal
Tony Rice
Frank Zappa/Steve Vai
Bonnie Raitt
Tal Farlo

And Carlos Santana when he was about 15, in Lake Tahoe with a band called 'NO, Absolutely!' Playing Beatle cover tunes.

And a great unknown guitarist: Bill Whitcomb, fingerpicker extraordinaire. Shared the stage with him many times.
I used to play pretty fucking well, too, thinking about it.....

[annabanana]

75. Hendricks. . . eom