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Originally Posted by crounsa810
Title kinda says it all. Who has sat in with the band and disappointed you either because they didn't add anything/didn't live up to how you thought they'd be guesting/they played on a bad song/were Danny Barnes? Doesn't necessarily need to be from a show you've seen either.
It pains me to say I was disappointed by Gary Clark Jr. His sit ins on Can't Stop and Watchtower kinda meander along and he doesn't show off his chops nearly as well as I would've hoped to see with the band. Mike McCready was pretty disappointing in 2013 too. Not sure if the tapes really do it justice but it didn't really sound like he contributed much.
Stanley Jordan came out at my Scranton 2012 show and while I was excited at first considering how he elevated great songs that year, him showing up on Can't Stop and leaving the stage right after was a pretty big bummer.
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I can't at all speak to these specific guest appearances, but one thing I've noticed about a lot of artists I truly find mind-blowing as both artists and humans is, when they are guesting with someone else, yes they want to add something to what the band is doing and play off of them, create music that feels great... but they also do NOT want to "show off" or be so "stand out" that it's distracting from the band, so they almost play it down, almost mute themselves a bit.
I've noticed that from a few artists as guests with other people, like it seems teh balance to find is really adding your flavor or your artistic stamp but in a way that lifts the whole song up, not that just makes you look like the biggest rockstar or best ____________ on stage at the time.
No idea if that plays into the guests being named here or not, but I think of Mike McCready and as a major PJ fan, clearly he COULD blow it all away, but I"m not surprised he didn't. Haven't seen his appearance but I could totally understand him playing it down a bit.