List of Mesa/Boogie users

This is a list of musicians who have made notable use of Mesa/Boogie amplifiers in live performances or studio recordings.

Mesa/Boogie users

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

• Bad Religion ^[1]
• Rob Barrett of Cannibal Corpse ^[2]
• Blink 182 ^[3]
• Buckethead ^[4]
• Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac ^[5]
• Cliff Burton of Metallica ^[6]
• Bush ^[1]
• Les Claypool of Primus ^[7]
• Kurt Cobain of Nirvana ^[8]
• Chris Cornell of Soundgarden ^[9]
• Brad Delson of Linkin Park ^[1]
• Mike Derks of Gwar ^[10]
• Al Di Meola ^[11]
• Dr. Know of Bad Brains ^[12]
• Mike Einziger of Incubus ^[1]
• Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead
• Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters ^[13]
• Kirk Hammett of Metallica ^[14]
• James Hetfield of Metallica ^[14]
• Adam Jones of Tool ^[3]
• Mick Jones of the Clash ^[15]
• Richard Kruspe of Rammstein ^[1]
• Lamb of God ^[16]
• Alex Lifeson of Rush ^[17]
• Johnny Marr of The Smiths ^[5]
• Mick Mars of Mötley Crüe ^[18]
• Paul McCartney ^[19]
• Munky of Korn ^[20]
• Bradley Nowell of Sublime ^[1]
• Gary Numan ^[21]
• Ed O'Brien of Radiohead ^[5]
• The Offspring ^[16]
• John Petrucci of Dream Theater ^[14]
• Prince ^[22]
• Vernon Reid of Living Colour ^[23]
• Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones
• Todd Rundgren ^[24]
• Carlos Santana of Santana ^[14]
• John Sykes ^[25]
• Kim Thayil of Soundgarden ^[3]
• Mark Tremonti of Creed ^[26]
• Kanami Tōno of Band-Maid ^[27]
• Dean Ween of Ween ^[28]
• Brian Welch of Korn ^[20]
• Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones ^[29]
• Frank Zappa ^[5]

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