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

61 different "world t-shirts", each with a graphic of bonnamassa superimposed on the flag of a specific country with "[country name] JOE BONNAMASSA" printed underneath

Not having a face is a worthy thing to have the blues over IMHO.

no-face blues band

The prophets foretold us of this t-shirt

huge bonamassa fan
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/s306x306/e15/10946415_1474316346157100_1706398953_n.jpg

ooof

http://www.jbonamassa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=10244

I know some might think this is stupid but.........on saturday 23rd of may im getting a new tattoo.....

which is gonna be the head of Joe's gibson guitar with bonamassa written on it.

Very cool. I like it. My wife and I have matching JB tattoos. I have the sheet music for the main riff of Bridge To Better Days on my rib cage and my wife has it a little smaller on her side also.

i saw a huge bus ad today for a Joe Bonamassa show at the Shoreline. who the fuck listens to this guy

He's Branson entertainment for boomers.

https://simpsonswiki.com/w/images/thumb/7/7b/That%27s_Familiar.png/250px-That%27s_Familiar.png

I hate him so much. BonaMASTURBATE, amirite?

Johnny Hiland:

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

unfortunate camera angle in that clip makes me want to CGI a chained Princess Leia in there.

Oh man I'm in my small remote hometown visiting family and MICHAEL ANGELO BATIO is playing at the historic theater north of here for $20 on Sunday. I found out when I heard an awesome radio ad.

http://www.calumettheatre.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/unnamed.jpg

Are we 100% sure that isn't a picture of Nigel Tufnel?

Actually it kind of looks like Micheal McKean with Tufnel hair

why go back to dual guitars once you've gone quad?

joygoat if you were really our friend you would ditch your family to go to that and tell us about it.

http://www.ernieball.com/bonamassa?utm_campaign=20150801&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Ernie%20Ball%20Presents%20The%20Bonamassa%20Experience&utm_campaign=20150801

http://images.epiphone.com.s3.amazonaws.com/News/Features/2015/20150901_joeb/N_090115A1.jpg

This might be obvious, but it occurred to me that what unites pretty much all of these otherwise disparate guitarists is the idea of the guitar as an end in itself -- the primary purpose of playing the guitar is to display one's ability to play the guitar. This may include concepts like "creativity" and "mood," and not just pure "chops," but the ultimate meaning of the act is still about a kind of virtuosity, rather than about projecting an image or creating atmosphere or adopting a pose or expressing a feeling.

Reb Beach

the same thing goes for all the bitter jazz dudes posting about real musicians on Facebook...their whole angle of approach to music is "i play music because i'm good at music and it's good music because i'm good at music", with very little thought about how it relates to anything outside of itself.

What I don't really get is that the likes of Steely Dan showed a way to incorporate jazz chords, harmony and composition into a coherent whole - many of these guys might not be a Fagen in the songwriting dept, but it seems beyond a lot of these guys to even get a Steely-lite setup going

I remember a guy called Jan Cyrka having a tutorial column in one of the UK guitar magazines in the '90s. It turns out that since then he's been partly responsible for the theme tune of The Jeremy Kyle Show.

What I don't really get is that the likes of Steely Dan showed a way to incorporate jazz chords, harmony and composition into a coherent whole - many of these guys might not be a Fagen in the songwriting dept, but it seems beyond a lot of these guys to even get a Steely-lite setup going

― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, September 15, 2015 4:33 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It just seems like a different, uh, circuit? I mean most of them probably lack either the ability or the desire to write great songs, and a steely-lite band without great songs is kind of pointless. A lot of them have sort of showcase bands and play at a lot of guitar festivals and the like. These bands are super boring. There are some musicians e.g. in fusion that sort of tread the line I guess, and it's hard to say why a Weather Report or Mahavishnu Orchestra record is good vs. like a solo fusion record by a pure guitarists' guitarist, but I guess a lot of it comes down to composition, self-editing, willful effort to create a sound and concept and not just a vehicle, etc.

Also there are a lot of session guys who can play a wonderful solo on, say, a Steely Dan song but can't or don't really focus on putting their own really conceptually sound band together. Some of that may just be a professional or economic choice, i.e. you can make a nice little living playing these guitar shows and festivals and teaching and selling your instructional books and videos and not have to suffer the whims of the music marketplace by trying to make it as an "artist."

there are a lot of session guys who can play a wonderful solo on, say, a Steely Dan song

any many, many more session guys who can spend a day trying to play a solo on a steely dan song, only to have it scrapped a day later, and then made fun of in an "classic albums" episode 25 years later.

Tony Macapline has cancer :(

nice to see the O.G. guitar mag virtuoso crew takes care of their own :)

http://loudwire.com/steve-vai-zakk-wylde-john-5-lead-benefit-for-tony-macalpine/

imagining these guys hearing a conch shell-style summons of two-hand tapping.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/438pam/ama_hey_i_am_john_petrucci_from_dream_theater_ask/

Things like adding MIDI, a direct CabClone, having two graphic EQ's and two lead channels really make this the only Boogie I will ever need.

I just had a very entertaining hour clicking through this thread. I'm friends with a guy who used to be into some of these and used to try and defend Satriani to us ("he's quite tasteful actually, well, compared to Yngwie") but I'm happy to say that he's a Creedence fan now. Had another friend whose sister gave him a present of the G3 Live in Denver DVD (because he played guitar) and we watched it while stoned, which was hilarious for a while, although in the end I was worn down by the sheer quantity of notes.

G3 Live In Denver being a gig featuring Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and Yngwie Malmsteen, first on their own, and then in a titanic three way display of wank, containing some amazing unintentional moments of hilarity.

Here's Vai being tasteful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY8wyKuLY2k

TWO graphic equalizers

so many mids to scoop....so many mids

three necks, two equalizers...

one heart

Ha, I was going to defend the Vai clip until I got to about the 4:25 mark.

holy hell, that one chord he hits on the 12-string is the worst thing ever played on a 12-string by anyone, ever.

Can't deny envying his chops at the same time.

Joe Bonamassa shits all over ZZ Top's "Just Got Paid" for 12(!) minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLl800ezYVY

This seriously almost made me physically ill.

vai's faces are so great, i particularly liked 3:38 - 4:00

Omg dying at vai's obnoxious facial scenes

i just spent like 5 minutes trying to come up with a succinct description of bonamassa's look. i think he looks like he should be wearing an earpiece while guarding the ramp to a luxury yacht.

http://i.imgur.com/Scv5fb6.gif

what's the general consensus in here on wank rock gods like Vai, Satriani, Malmsteen? They were really idolized by guitar magazines in the 90s. Bought 'surfing with the alien' based on how much Satriani was mentioned and gave it away after a week.

Topic: Bonamaglossary

this is something that was started back on March 11, 2004 on the fansite. Since Joe's forum now allows bring thread to the top, I've moved it here. I didn't copy every post however.
There's been some terms that folks have come up with since, please add them if you have them.
some of the previous entries lose a little meaning without the 'smilies' from the other site...
anyway

Mar 11, 04 - 6:33 PM
Bonamaglossary

hope John G. whom I believe is the one who coined the term Bonabaptism finds his way here

Bona(anything)-means its ALL good

Bonabaptism - Your first Bonamassa show, or any show if you sin alot and need to be born again

Johio - that dang blasted state that gets way too much Joe time, unless you live there and then its not enough

Joe-maha Bonabraska - where Garth and MattR live.

the Wing - if you are here, you are under it

Bonamalessons - what you learn at a show or a '03-'04 Blues in the Schools presentation

Bonaddicted - what you sick fans reading this are!!!

hey fix these and/or add your own or one you heard somewhere

Peace,
Joe's most Bonafflicted fan

well Joe is certainly using Bona-seum often on his instagram etc.
like I said its ok because its Joe but its driving me nuts. I prefer Bonamuseum or even Bonamasseum....mumble

Joe Bonamassa shits all over ZZ Top's "Just Got Paid" for 12(!) minutes:

Well, to be fair, during those twelve minutes he also shits all over Whitesnake and Zeppelin.

Bona-useum?

Bona-rrhea: the irreparable psychic damage caused by a Bonabaptism

Bona-drag: when Joe's blues jam drags on for too long, causing all concert attendees to ask, "He's not playing any more, is he?"