Kevin Eubanks may be lame in his sidekick role, but he's a great musician and he's got integrity.
I saw him in Milwaukee a year or two ago at a street festival gig that he most have flown out on the weekend to do (he had Marvin 'Smitty' Smith from the Tonight Show and a couple of other guys). There were lots of people there who were all, "We love you Kevin!" and knew him from the show, and proceeded to play some of the most complex, amped-up fusion and M-Base shit that I've heard. Those people probably didn't know what hit them...that got him a lot of respect from me.