good list🍄🎸saw the notation, good idea, so many Duane guest spots - always did however love Dickey’s sit-in w/the MTB on Searching for a Rainbow
Clapton’s guest appearance on Go Back Home from Stephen Stills’ debut album

Jimi sits in on the album’s previous song, Old Times Good Times - in a relatively reserved role - whereas Slowhand Really steps out in his Go Back Home solo

Stephen plays most of the other instruments on OTGT, & masterfully too, especially (briefly off topic) his killer pipe organ solo

his use of the wah wah pedal on GBHome, same - he & Clapton blaze the song’s outro

those are 3 I can think of, there are many🎼🎸🎶

Great topic. But, I can’t handled think of any. 

one to throw out there is. BB King on U2’s Rattle & Hum. Song was When Love Comes to Town. 

Mark Knopfler sits in with Sting for some songs I saw on TV. 

Here is Mark with why he plays Les Paul for certain things and a Strat on others. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/3szsSr05PgE?si=_HxHYtJTlAFTsUd1

The Rolling Stones - Black and Blue

Wayne Perkins

Harvey Mandel

Ron Wood, who was not officially a Stone (just yet) is also on the album which was basically and audition for guitarists to fill the shoes of Mick Taylor.  Wayne Perkins is from my home town (Birmingham).  I got to see his band play locally many times.  I was privy to be a fly on the wall to hear some of his tales from this period.  Anytime I see a Rolling Stones book, I always flip to the index to see if Wayne is mentioned.  He usually is. 

Rolling Stones management went as far as officially proclaiming Wayne as the new guitarist.  Keith loved him and actually wanted him to join the band.  Ron Wood won out by virtue of being a fellow Englishman.  In Keith's own book, he says that Wayne was a far better player than Wood.  One of Wayne's storys is that he and Keith were actually writing music together, which angered Mick.  He says that Mick and Keith are basically husband and wife and that his presence caused one of their biggest fights.

Just before Wayne's tryst with the Stones, he was approached by Ronnie Van Zandt about joining Skynnyrd.  He says that they didn't need him and had bigger things happening.  I guess an American in the Rolling Stones would've been awkward.  Chuck became a semi-official Stone.  I don't think he's been around them on recent recordings or tours.  

I thought Chuck was still the Rolling Stones keyboard player and musical director...?

@jack_frost You're probably correct.  It just seems like the last few times that I've seen them on TV that I didn't see Chuck.  

My apology!

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@jack_frost You're probably correct.  It just seems like the last few times that I've seen them on TV that I didn't see Chuck.  

My apology!

Actually Rusty I think you're more accurate, I don't think that Chuck has been involved with them for several years now. He was not on their last album "Hackney Diamonds" at all.

He wasn't on Bridges To Babylon either. I wonder if he is no longer touring with them

Chuck's website indicates a possible 2025 European tour with the Stones, so I suppose he's still on board.  Hackney Diamonds seems to have been recorded with an all-star cast.

https://chuckleavell.com/2024/12/07/rolling-stones-to-announce-2025-european-tour-with-major-uk-shows-following-sold-out-us-gigs/

Sorry if I started any rumors.  Didn't mean to dismiss Chuck at all! 

So was Jerry a "guest" on that debut by New Riders or what?

Les Dudek on "Brothers and Sisters"

🎼He was sure a guest on Teach Your Children - I became a fan of pedal steel after that🎶

You already mentioned Larry Carlton with Steely Dan, but here's a side note on that subject.  I saw a documentary on AXS years ago on the making of the Aja record.  Donald Fagen said, "We must have tried 25 or 30 guitar players.  There were SO many good ones, but we just couldn't find anyone who could get the exact sound that we wanted.  Then Larry Carlton walked in."

@robslob I have seen Larry Carlton once at a theatre in Charlottesville, VA and the jazz number called So What was just outstanding if you like FAST!!! I like fast every now and then. 

Steely Dan, Gaucho

Mark Knopfler ... guitarist abuse in the 5th degree?

Becker and Fagan were notorious perfectionists.  Their records and recording sessions encumbered great expenses!  Sometimes, they'd use entire different bands for multiple takes of the same song.  The end result would likely be unnoticeable to the average listener.  Many of these takes just got scrapped.  Some of their perfectionistic practices became tantamount to mental abuse of players.  Case in point - one of my own heroes, Mark Knopfler was called upon to play on a song on their Gaucho album.  I'd read his accounts before - playing sessions that were many hours long - only to have several seconds of his playing end up on the track!  

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/steely-dan-mark-knopfler/

@rusty About 1974 I think it was I went to see Steely Dan, Z. Z. Top,  Lynyrd Skynyrd and Billy Preston at a football stadium in Charlotte, NC and Steely Dan was a no show. The other bands played. 

They announced from the stage that due to technical reason Steely Dan had to cancel. 

In the wake of that cancelation I read in various music magazines that Donald Fagen and Walter Becker did not enjoy playing live and being before large crowds. 

Later I read they were such perfectionists that they always heard little flub ups playing live that really irritates them and both men admitted they are hardcore perfectionists. 

Then I read they didn't enjoy recording with the rest of the band because lack of interest in getting absolutely every note perfect in the studio so Fagen and Becker who actually founded the band and were in charge ( The Eagles when the rubber met the road were controlled by Frey and Henley so Steely Dan wasn't alone) Fagen and Becker fired the test of the band, announced they were a recording band only now and they would bring in the absolute best musicians to support themselves in the studio depending on the track. 

I lost interest in Steely Dan at that point. I like to hear the best a band can do on studio recordings but this isn't a band according to my definition. 

Jeff Skunk Baxter was picked up by the Doobie Brothers I think. 

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Les Dudek on "Brothers and Sisters"

Don't know how that one didn't come to mind!  

Tommy Bolin

Billy Cobham's Sprectrum

Alphonse Mouzon's Mind Transplant

Moxy's self titled album

Bob Dylan - Mike Campbell "Empire Burlesque"

Johnny Cash - Tom Petty & Mike Campbell "Unchained"

@robertdee In their defense (they don't need ME to defend 'em!) NOBODY crafts better studio produced music than Steely Dan!  NOBODY!  I saw them 3 times in their most recent years and they always bring that studio quality live.  Full band - horns, pianist, keys, trio of background vocalists, spare guitarist (Becker was thought of as the bassist, but he was a blistering guitar player!).  one of the few acts that replicate their studio sound live.  But yeah, I've read that they didn't necessarily enjoy playing live shows.  

I'd guess that they might not be much fun to hang with, but their sense of humor was something else too! 

@rusty Oh don't get me wrong. Their albums are slick. You can tell they put the work into them 

They were back playing live last year opening for the Eagles. But illness forced Steely Dan off the road before the Eagles tour ended. 

Don Henley said he and Glen Fry are huge Steely Dan fans and they and the Eagles put little messages to each other in a few of their songs. 

I was in Manhattan about 10 years ago when the Empire State Building saluted Steely Dan. The tower lights were synced with their music but you had to tune to a participating New York FM station to hear it. 

@stephen Only events that BB and the ABB shared in April1972 (that I can find record of) are the Mar Y Sol Festival and the Baltimore Civic Center.  Can't find specific dates or media to support either.  Good case for Sherlock Holmes or the X Files?

@oldcoot I bought those 1970's Columbia albums Les had because I noticed his name on Brothers and Sisters. Les played electric guitar on Ramblin' Man but Dickey played both solos. And Les played excellent acoustic guitar on Jessica. 

The Say No More album from the 70's had my favorite Les Dudek original on it. Old Judge Jones. Here it is years later doing it live. 

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@stephen Only events that BB and the ABB shared in April1972 (that I can find record of) are the Mar Y Sol Festival and the Baltimore Civic Center.  Can't find specific dates or media to support either.  Good case for Sherlock Holmes or the X Files?

I think the Mar Y Sol connection is that they were at the same festival, not sure that they played together. They definitely did on 4/8/72, I've enjoyed listening to that quite often. It's possible they played together in Puerto Rico but five songs have circulated from that with the ABB, and BB isn't on any of them.

@oldcoot My findings were based on a rudimentary Google search.  I was hoping to find a video or audio sample.  Sure wish i could get the bugs worked outta my time machine!  Makes one wonder why the powers that be never arranged a BB sit in at the Beacon at some point?  

Back on topic:

Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstacy and Katy Lied

Rick Derringer - Chain Lightning and Show Biz Kids

Derringer did sit in with the ABB at the Beacon - I forget what they played. (or at least I think I thought he did.  Can't find that either!)

Little Feat self titled first album Ry Cooder on three songs

Strictly studio, opening it up to stage would be ridiculous.

Apologies for immediately violating the NO ONSTAGE rule -but my Rick Derringer with Allman Brothers search landed me on this clip.  Dickey Betts at the Lone Star Roadhouse - One Way Out with Rick Derringer.  Looks like Jack Bruce was somewhere on this show. 

Hopefully a live show sit-in thread will start so I can verify whether Derringer actually did make a Beacon guest appearance.

Sorry again for violating the rule! 

while I did see the notation at the top, can’t help mentioning Dickey’s guest spots on Pedro Arevalo & Friends Too

the two songs he’s on, My Baby’s Gone & Things ‘Bout Coming My Way, are great on this stellar acoustic oriented CD

had had it in mind - noted the parameters in 1st post but still decided to go w/it

Rusty’s post above shows it too, a little wiggle room in these threads isn’t a bad thing 

Pedro & Friends Too is studio but w/very much of a live feel so where that might fall…

not thru the cracks, this is Too good an album for that

My apologies guys. I'm 78 years old now and get crossed up more than just a few years ago. I didn't notice the no live show rule when I linked several up above. 

I've been following the ABB since 1970 and tried to read everything about the band from 1970 forward and years ago I remember Dickey saying he got aquatinted with Rick Derringer in the mid 1960's when Dickey was in a band called The Jokers. If I remember correctly Dickey had moved from his native Florida to Indiana and the Jokers and they played shows with Rick Derringer and the band Rick mentions in Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo is the Jokers Dickey was in. I think that is how it went. 

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I didn't notice the no live show rule when I linked several up above. 

nothing was specified until later on about no guest guitarists at shows - I’d mentioned a few such in-concert appearances too

it’s all good - the initial post mentions bypassing Duane, Dickey, Derek & Warren in guest spots

later noticed, the list does include just studio songs - mayb that was the tip-off 

Laura Nyro Beads of Sweat

Duane Allman

(trying again to get the thread back on track! 😉 )