Can you form a rock band comprised of famous musicians

I know I am forgetting some but...

Portugal The Man (hosted for two days/nights in Barcelona for a corporate event)
Foo Fighters (played our corporate event)
Dave Wakeling (same event as foo fighters)
Thomas Dolby (hung out at our booth for a while along with Mark Hamel and the guy who played Q)
Nick Mason (Pink Floyd, streamed his corporate event with Eric Idle)
MC Hammer (Hung out at our booth)
Brian McKnight (Gave him a quick hitting lesson ahead of the Richard Sherman Softball Game)
Young Rising Sons (our corporate event)
Dave Mathews (in vegas at a trade show...good friends with my marketing counterpart)
George Clinton and the P-Funks (our corporate event)
Weezer (not our corporate event but it was a small setting and we met everyone. Rivers was awesome.)

Boom! 

I'd still like to see everyone else's lists. 

What was George Clinton like? If Bootsy was there, what's he like? 

Wakeling seems like a good guy. 

This makes me completely jealous. I still push "Hyperactive" on my kids any chance I get.

One of Our Submarines is also very good. Even it the big opening hook sounds a loooooooot like the Six Million Dollar Man theme. (start at 2:40)       Also, I'd say your list is more interesting. 

I went to high school with Eddie Van Halen, and I knew those guys before they became famous (the band was called “Red Ball Jet” in those days). I also knew each of the Beat Farmers. I’ll leave those guys off the list.

This should be fun. I suspect I’m missing a few, but here goes:


Bass:
- Sting (We chatted one-on-one for about ten minutes, after a show at Madam Wong’s)
- John Patitucci (very big in the jazz world - I took music lessons from him before he hit the big time!)

Guitar
- Morris Tepper (he was Captain Beefheart’s guitarist, and he developed the “jangly guitar sound” before Marc Ribot became famous for it)
- Richard Berdice (the lead guitarist for Jules Shear’s band, “Jules and the Polar Bears")
- Greg Ginn (guitarist and bass player for Black Flag. His girlfriend was the lead singer in a friend’s band)

Drums
- Phil Seymour (he was Dwight Twilley’s drummer)
- Frosty (of the Naughty Sweeties, and before that he was part of a two-man band with Lee Micheals - just a drummer and a singing keyboardist, Do You Know What I Mean?)

Keyboard
- Dwight Twilley (we played foosball before one of his shows at a tiny little club. I kept asking him if he should stay off the foosball table to protect his hands, but he wanted to play, so I kept trying to make the ball jump off the table at him)


I know I'm missing a few... but it was fun to reminisce... there were so many interesting stories from those days...

Wow, Gainsborough, that list is even more impressive than Andy's. If it wasn't you, I wouldn't believe it.

Here's my best list to the best of my recollection.

Dave Alvin: I sat next to him at a concert in Covina and we chatted between songs during the show. I told him how much I liked "King of California", which is a really great album.

Rich Shea: No here probably knows him but he played guitar in Dave Alvin's band, The Guilty Men. He's offered to produce my songs if and when I get my act together.

David Olney: I've mentioned him before. My favorite songwriter. A very good friend of a friend of mine, we've met and talked multiple times at multiple shows. It was his concert where I sat next to Dave Alvin. He passed away in January; a great loss.

Sergio Webb: David Olney's guitar player and another guy I bet no one here has heard of, but a really great player.

Tom Paxton: One of the great folksingers and song writers of the 60's. He wrote "The Last thing on my Mind", "The Marvelous Toy", "I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound", "Whose Garden was This?", and also "What did You Learn in School Today", which was referenced on this site not that long ago. I met him just earlier this year at McCabe's in Santa Monica and we talked about his songs and his show, which was one of the best I've ever seen.

Dar Williams: Along with David Olney, my other favorite songwriter. She had some hits in the 90's; "When I was a Boy" and "The Babysitter's Here". I've met her several times at every show she's had over little more than the last 20 years. She's very generous with her time, and very politically thoughtful. And just a brilliant thinker and writer.

Richard Smith: One of the great fingerstyle guitarists of our generation. Famously played alongside Chet Atkins when he was still a child.

Bryan Bowers: The only person on this list who isn't primarily a guitarist. Bowers plays the Autoharp, like almost no one else, almost like a "real" harp, and also the mandocello, which like it sounds, is a cross between a mandolin and a cello. If you ever listened to Dr. Demento, you've heard Bowers' version of the Scotsman. I've heard him twice. And talked to him twice as well.

Steve Gillette: Wrote Darcy Farrow, which was recorded by Ian and Sylvia, and John Denver; Bed of Roses, which was recorded by Kenny Rogers; and Healing Hands, which was recorded by Don Williams, and many other great songs over the years. I first met him at a workshop in the late 70's or early 80's, and then we reconnected at a another workshop last year in Santa Cruz. I was set to attend another workshop with him again this March, which was cancelled just as the pandemic was beginning. We're in contact still, and I hope to see him soon, probably not next year, but hopefully the year after that.

Certainly not a list as impressive as the others above it, but it is my own; and I'm happy to have heard and talked to each and every one.

Since the thread has expanded to all w/ whom we've chatted:

Hung out with Billy Bragg for a couple of hours at a club in New Orleans. He was a lot of fun.

Chatted a lot with Dave Gomez the singer from the Paladins, between sets at one of their gigs back in they day. They were a lot of fun live.