thread for discussion of guitarists i have only heard of because i read guitar magazines in the late 90s

No wai

poor joe stump up there all by himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWJLWHxKLUI

someone sold me a huge stack of classic rock magazines at the store (a magazine i love by the way because every other issue features an interview with nick mason) and i kept staring at this cover cuz how do you get to be on the cover of a magazine called CLASSIC rock and i have no idea who the hell you are:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EONW7Jn0zyA/TwTgEKMe8nI/AAAAAAAATAM/_hcUF1CgXSs/s1600/mainbanner_red_2.jpg

twice even...

http://jbonamassa.com/features/2013/classic_rock_magazine_joe_bonamassa_featured/images/share_joe.jpg

well it costs 500 quid to see him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh08Dum_HLw

can't read the year on the issue with the nu metal article.

July 2009?

or 2000?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CLASSIC-ROCK-July-2013-JOE-BONAMASSA-BAG-OF-BONES-CD-The-Who-DIO-Megadeth-NEW-/171059254247?pt=UK_Magazines&hash=item27d3ed13e7

2013!

lol i thought it might be 2013 but i was like that makes no sense.

all those brit mags are endlessly readable/entertaining if you are me.

plus, Classic Rock's sister magazine AOR is like the greatest magazine on earth.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/72/51/1a/72511a2bf16181209ef97f21eb080c01.jpg

AOR! Wow

i really need a venn diagram for classic rock and aor

a john bonnamasa show was on public tv like a year ago and it was so awful. the most boring torturous achey electric bluesy folk crap imaginable, seriously headache inducing. every song seemed at least 10 minutes long. i just wanted to tell him "alright, i get it, you're really good at acting all rootsy and bluesy, can you stop now?". at least satriani and vai dudes rock out and throw in some jazz flavor and stuff. This was just like an audience endurance test, totally "feel bad" music. Like grinding your teeth for 2 hours.

My wife has an Ayn Randian nut friend that was recently Bonnamasa, and I had never heard him. When I did hear it, I concur with the grinding teeth for 2 hours comment and I totally thought 'of course she likes this devil.'

recently = really into

Joe Bonamassa has been able to build up a pretty good sized live show audience, I think at this point quite a bit bigger than the shredder guitarists like Vai etc. At least going by some interviews I have read with the guy, he's a bit more aware of where he stands in the music biz. His audience is the first generation Humble Pie and classic rock bluze audience with some jam band crossovers. Bonamassa is a better guitarist and live singer than some of the SRV clones that came out in the 90s, he's got his niche. The dude has been working it like a day job since he was a teenager, so give the devil a bit of due. I don't think Bonmassa's as good as someone like Warren Hayes, who is a similar guitarist and has been live member with a bunch of the classic 60s/70s groups. Haynes is a pretty good songwriter and plays with a bit more restraint, which is saying something considering they like to play songs for 10-12 minutes a pop.

I like how these dudes all have songs where they do a very little interpretation of what the song title sounds like, e.g. Vai's 'bad horsie' and Bonamassa's 'slow train'.

I will see Mark Knopfler when he comes 'round, but I am definitely passing on the $135 ticket to see this dude.

dudes like Bonamossa are the worst -- the "tasteful" guitar mag showoffs -- because they fall short of anything, they are such jackoffs and terrible songwriters they can't actually convey anything real but they don't even provide the laser-gun ridiculous pyro of the more metal oriented dudes from the shrapnel records school, or vai, etc

http://www.americanbluesscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Joe-Bonamassa-and-his-Guitars.jpg

disgusting

file under: punchable faces

Lmao each one of those 12 Les Pauls sound completely different

just desperately want to see someone do a chris farley pratfall into all that

As already said, a lot of these guys deserve flak given everything at their disposal and choice of instrument, there's no reason why thry can't be at least serviceable in the songwriting dept

yeah, exactly, at least shrapnel-type dudes are trying to break the laws of physics via impossibly fast sweep picking and stuff.. they're going for a "whoa holy shit did you hear that, fucking awesome" response rather than dudes like bongmaster trying to earn an oscar for acting all bluesy. And I know there's plenty of quality rootsy stuff made these days that succeeds on musical terms rather than on this fake realness bs.

xp to upper mississipi

yeah, like this type of shit it too funny & awesome IMO

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJx4IyZgWtY

nice andrew wk cameo there

i hate to say it but jeff beck is kinda the model for this kind of behaviour. putting a band together as an excuse to play guitar solos. never had a great singer after rod. was never in a great band after yardbirds and the brief first version of the jeff beck group. but still...yardbirds greatness and Truth are waaaaaaaaay more than these latter-day dudes will ever come up with if they live to be a thousand.

i was just watching bonamassa on youtube the other day! i had a sick curiosity.

never heard of this guy but am lol'ing at this description from his webpage:

Joe Bonamassa is an American blues rock Guitarist, blues singer and blue music writer who has been giving live performances.

Yah Blow By Blow and Wired by Jeff Beck seem like ground zero for this stuff

i feel like jazz guys have more of an excuse. half their thing is noodling jazzily.

Joe Bonamassa is an American blues rock Guitarist, blues singer and blue music writer who has been giving live performances.

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, February 17, 2015 6:54 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a guitarist with a capital g

put some Bonamassa sauce on those chicken wings and FEED ME the BLUES

Well there's a slow train coming
Carrying the mighty worker hordes
Eighteen days in the cotton field
Enough to put a man out of coup d'amour
Woo, It's time to move on pretty mama
Woo-hoo, Yes it's time to move on as I go

As the steam from my slow train rises
It's time for me to get on board

Woo,
Woo-hoo

Oh man, I vaguely remembered reading this thread revive the other day, but thought you guys were talking about Eric Johnson at first, then I thought it was Kenny Wayne Shepherd, then I thought it was Derek Trucks! I kept searching all these dudes and couldn't find any recent posts! Finally I figured out it was Bonamassa.

Anyway, check out this lumbering shambles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xVqtaPMAfw

the part at 0:52 is supposed to be out of control. it is perhaps my favorite moment on Band of Gypsys. but dude switches on his 'they have to hear all of my solo notes clearly' overdrive at that point, and it just sounds sad.

cross posted this w/the david lee roth thread but the solo sections here must be the high water mark of....something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfFv6bc23o

ok around 13 minutes on is INSANE

i hate to say it but jeff beck is kinda the model for this kind of behaviour. putting a band together as an excuse to play guitar solos. never had a great singer after rod. was never in a great band after yardbirds and the brief first version of the jeff beck group. but still...yardbirds greatness and Truth are waaaaaaaaay more than these latter-day dudes will ever come up with if they live to be a thousand.

― scott seward, Tuesday, February 17, 2015 6:52 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Beck Bogert and Appice wasn't solo guitar wankery. Pretty good stuff too.

I am always secretly let down when I see Joe Bonamassa and he isn't an enormous fat guy wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

yeah he should look like popa chubby

He should make a record called Losing Bonamassa. Cover is him getting calcium pills from a doctor.

He should have a little hat on too and one of his records should be called "BBQ Blues" and the cover would be him with his guitar and a huge plate of ribs in front of him.

I kind of like the fake Bonamassa actually.