Quote:I'll add a couple more. Stevie Ray Vaughn at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa in 1987. The Greg Allman Band opened. They were good, but their guitar player (Dan Toller, I believe), didn't come close to Stevie. His soul poured into the strings, though the pickups and cord, and out of the amplifier.


Joe Satriani at Jannus Landing in St. Pete in 1988. Another show that left me wondering why I bothered playing guitar. It was like watching a magician.

Got to see Satriani, Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen at G3 a few years back. There is a level of guitar mastery that most cannot fathom until they experience G3.


Satch's "Engines of creation" and "Surfing With The Alien" are two of the best guitar rock albums ever produced... To see Vai and Malmsteen back him up on "Engines" was orgasmic.

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