of the people listed so far i have seen live; the grateful dead (with both brent and vince), p-funk of sorts (saw george clinton and the p-funk all stars once and a group of people called 'original p' who are apparently not with george clinton any more), yes (in the classic lineup as 'anderson bruford wakeman and howe' and on the 'union' tour which was not as good), neil young twice (ragged glory and broken arrow tours), bob dylan, rush (presto tour), david bowie, zappa music in the sense that i saw project object which is a band of people like napoleon murphy brock and ike willis who used to play with zappa playing zappa music thou not any actual zappa, tom petty (into the great wide open tour), the cowboy junkies a couple times, nine inch nails (first lollapalooza, was kind of comic), ben harper, sonic youth at a festival in massachussets, the moody blues several times, janes addiction (lollapalooza) and gwar.