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If they are ever playing in your area and you love great live music, you simply must see Zappa Plays Zappa.

Just saw them Monday night here in Atlanta and they absolutely killed live. Very rare to see that level of musical skill displayed by younger musicians in this day and age. Frank would be (probably is somewhere) proud of Dweezil's brilliantly successful attempt to expose the music of his father, perhaps one of the greatest 20th century composers America has ever produced, Frank Zappa.

If you like rock, jazz, classical, avant-garde, funk or whatever type of music, you would do well to check them out.

They have some video up at their site: http://www.zappaplayszappa.com/

These threads are always fun. This one surprises me in the one act that is missing. I'll put him on top of my list-might be showing my age here, but of few of the shows I've seen of his have been amazing.

1. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

and now in no particular order.

2. the Replacements
3. the Who
4. Rolling Stones
5. Tom Petty
6. North Mississippi All Stars
7. Allman Bros/Gov't Mule/Derek Trucks (none of the members of this family of bands have ever let me down)
8. John Hiatt
9. Taj Mahal Trio (2008 show in a Minnesota prairie casino rivaled any old Foghat show for sheer energy and volume)
10. Stevie Ray and Double Trouble - probably deserves to be first, I only got to see him twice

That is a very nice list there Jorge!

This wasn't easy at all. Could easily double the list!

- in no particular order

For Rock:

The Beatles
Bob Seger
Tom Petty / Heartbreakers
Genesis with and without Gabriel
Phil Collins and Company
PInk Floyd
Police
Elvis Costello
Eagles
Green Day

For Blues:

BB King
Albert King
Freddie King
SRV
Joe Bonamassa
John Lee Hooker
Muddy Waters
Fleetwood Mac
Christone Ingram
Markus King Band

For Jazz:

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Louis Armstrong
Charles Mingus
Jeff Lorber Fusion
Grover Washington Jr
Pat Metheny
Dave Brubeck
Al Di Meola
Ben Webster

For the I don't have a category/name for this genre:

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (aka Sting)
Jeff beck
Eric Clapton
The Corrs
Enya
Brian Culbertson (kind of like Jazz but not really)
Steely Dan
Chris Botti
Dave Mattews
Chris Stapleton

Honorable mention:

The Doors
Fleetwood Mac (Buckingham Nicks era)
Chris Cornell
John Mayer
Larry Carlton
Eric Johnson
Billy Strings
Allman Brothers
John Scofield
Joe Cocker
Traffic
Led Zeppelin
Roxy Music (Brian Eno)
Nora Jones

Hmm...10 will be tough, but here are the one's that first sprang to mind...in no particular order:

Tom Waits
Oscar Peterson
Marcus Miller
Cowboy Junkies
Tragically Hip
Yo La Tengo
Nine Inch Nails/David Bowie
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood
Sigur Rós
Ron Carter

Guess I can’t follow directions very well. I was having too much fun. Not really a list of the top ten all time.
Sorry
Jeff