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

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.

It goes with out saying he would have a goatee

I read that description and thought "Maybe he's thinking of Duke Robillard."

Sure enough

http://www.barflyphoto.com/gallery3/var/albums/Groups-and-Bands-A-thru-M/Duke_Robillard_9_13_7.jpg?m=1306900244

Hey wait, guys, something just came in the mail.

It's from the federal government.

Looks like it's your...

http://www.rosebudus.com/robillard/graphic/PassportToTheBlues.jpg

Is John Mayer one of these guys? Like is he known outside of the guitar wank ghetto?

wait are we just going to act like that video ums posted is not the most ridiculous thing we've ever seen?

Duke Robillard! It's like I thought him into existence! I bet he's a fun guy.

I went down to the customs line
to see a woman there
she asked me if I had something I wanted to declare

I said "I love you baby, I want you to be mine"
She said "I'm sorry honey but you're in the wrong line."

Passport to the blues!
Oh baby, passport to the blues!
I bought a ticket to romance
but I didn't have a chance
all I've got is a passport to the blues.

This is your guitar speaking! (solo)

I should ghostwrite for these guys

oh, so where is the line where we wait to own this government employed woman

he has the blues because his dinosaur zoo-park failed

so the lyrics would probably reflect that

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2010-09/1284173039_duke-robillard-explorer-2000.jpg

Ha, he played on "Time Out of Mind"!

He looks like a pretty cool guy overall, wkiw

Also, many xposts

"Gotta a letter from the government the other day/I opened and read it, it said I had the blues/they sent me my passport or whatever"

"Overstayed my visa in the BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUES"

"I married that woman and all I got was a green card to the BLUUUUUUEES" *guitar solo*

permanent resident of the blues

holding dual citizenship in blues & rock

upon purchasing a turkey sub, I was given a ten sub punch card that's good for one free blues

I got no extradition treaty with the blues

that's so awesome that he's holding a Gibson Explorer on the Explorer album cover

http://mspmag.com/Blogs/The-Morning-After/April-2015/Concert-Review-Joe-Bonamassa/

"Halfway through guitarist Joe Bonamassa’s blistering show at the Orpheum on Saturday night (the second of two concerts here), it occurred to me that I wasn’t just watching a guitar virtuoso demonstrate complete mastery over his instrument. Rather, I was watching a true artist working hard to etch his name in history alongside other legends of the blues: Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, Lightning Hopkins, Roy Buchanan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan . . . and now, Joe Bonamassa."