OFFICAL ILX JOE BONAMASSA CELEBRATION THREAD

He’s just a prototypical blues guitar dork

to be fair he could have been talking about this pedal which is the worst pedal i ever bought and i can't believe i bought it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-N_Ar3xfak

lulz, that is at the top of my wish list right now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Someone on fb pointed out that Joe sells his own line of pedals. Further research revealed TWENTY-FOUR DIFFERENT JOE BONAMASSA DOG SWEATERS:
https://shop.jbonamassa.com/collections/dog-apparel

Protecting the blues? JFC

https://i.imgur.com/3pAJczv.jpg

lol his rig is so simple and bluesy it only takes nearly seven minutes to explain

https://youtu.be/UqB0fJLALd4

That TC Electronic 2290 Dynamic Digital Delay was originally owned by Charley Patton.

haha

I need to know when the theremin comes into play.

There was a vid upthread of him theremin-ing out. It's...exactly what you'd expect.

OMFG he is LARS ULRICH PROVE ME WRONG

Lars is so much cooler and more interesting than this guy

speaking of metallica, i saw them live a couple of weeks ago and i noticed kirk playing a battered les paul that looked vaguely familiar - then i remembered i'd read that kirk bought peter green's legendary '59 les paul and i spent the rest of the show trying to work out whether he was indeed playing a $2m guitar onstage

i guess what i'm saying is that i have become the thing i hate

Lars sipping champagne and auctioning off Basquiat paintings in Some Kind of Monster is so baller, metal nerds can't handle flossin on that level

Fun fact: Lars' godfather was Dexter Gordon.

yeah also maybe Don Cherry? at least i read him and Neneh Cherry were friends as kids

lars is very charismatic, imo, napster bs notwithstanding

the existence of this thread... i mean, the painfully boring interminable concert i saw on pbs 4 years ago was enough trauma, i never thought i'd be periodically reminded of this silly man and his constipated musical stylings.. it's just crazy, he's is doing is SO wrong. he is getting MUSIC wrong. music is supposed to lift you out of this brutal corporeal existence and create a supernatural experience.. it's not supposed to be like watching a guy bench press and admiring his beads of sweat and furrowed eyebrows.. gahh!

it's not supposed to be like watching a guy bench press and admiring his beads of sweat and furrowed eyebrows.. gahh!

this isn't the right analogy... i'm just mad at joe and wish i knew why

Its because he went down to the crossroads and then decided he wanted to be Clapton, and not even the Clapton of Cream or the Dominoes, but the Clapton of 24 nights at the Royal Albert Hall and wearing suits that cost more than the creators of the blues made in their lifetimes.

joe drove through the mcdonalds where the crossroads used to be and a minimum-wage emissary of satan sold him a blues-themed happy meal for the price of his eternal dignity

Bonamassa is the logical "tasteful" endpoint of that Guitar mag thread....avoiding the late 80s pyrotechnics but the concept of exhibition as an end-point aesthetic, who can only get that magical tone out of 'that' guitar....except he needs to own 326 identical copies.

now that you mention it i wonder if joe is consumed by burning jealousy at the thought of kirk hammett owning peter green's old les paul instead of him

But those guys were my guys – Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page. There's a certain sophistication to their approach to the blues that I really like, more so than the American blues that I was listening to. B.B. King's a big influence – he's probably my biggest traditional influence. I love Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and T-Bone Walker and stuff like that, but I couldn't sit down. I was always forcing myself to listen to whole records by them, where I'd rather listen to Humble Pie do "I'm Ready" than Muddy Waters, you know? I think, the English interpretation of the blues just hit me a lot better, you know?

I think Joe would be good at SHOCKING ILM confessions.

so he's def consumed with burning jealousy at kirk hammett owning peter green's guitar

he's such a normie he probably doesn't even know peter green

I just watched a really boring experimental guitarist and I'm suddenly much more sympathetic to Joe's views on effects pedals.

FP

yesterday there was a telethon giving away bonamassa tickets with lots of bonamassa performances shown. i had to wonder what corner of the music market i had just wandered into.

I just had a six minute Joe music video come up AS AN AD on Youtube.

Seems like he could make bank if he went Country.

I was just checking out Jim Suhler and Monkey Beat (Thorogood's second guitarist) and one track had a long, winding solo, partly Bill Nelson hyperspeed and partly that huge Hendrix-y sound Robin Trower got on Bridge of Sighs. It was an interesting solo and didn't really sound like the rest of the record, so I checked the credits and it's Bonamassa. So now I've actually heard something by him I like.

I get it too Eddie. But part of being a total musician is embracing all music and diving down the musical rabbit holes. I’ve listened to BB King to EVH to Frank Sinatra and back. I was 17 too but I knew Ron Wood played bass with the Jeff Beck Group. https://t.co/bSD1NshzWg

— Joe Bonamassa (Official) (@JBONAMASSA) December 3, 2019

incredible on-brand #content from our hero there

one must assume that as a total musician he is very familiar with billie eilish's own back catalogue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgE9JKHU-f4

Wow, Bonamassa's got pretty big ears I'll give him that

reads like one of those classic Introduce Yourselves posts

loving this take

First off, who is Billie Eilish? Most likely, she'll be forgotten in 10 years. BIGGER POINT is how Van Halen have ruined their legacy since the nonsense of firing Hagar in 1996, and then decades of inactivity and career missteps. Look to The Rolling Stones on preserving legacy.

— Wes Olesen (@WesOlesen) December 3, 2019

some GIRL would never have the lasting cultural legacy of *checks notes* Sammy Hagar???

the comments on that post are a goldmine of capital-t Takes

keenly awaiting Bob Lefsetz's take on Joe's take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkbn_X57VCw

may we be shown bonamassa tweets with very happy guys

Thank you for coming. We had a blast! 😎👍 https://t.co/m1KV5m2eV5

— Joe Bonamassa (Official) (@JBONAMASSA) November 23, 2019

baller-ass joe making it rain at the aurora music and pawn retirement sale

What a hoot negotiating with these 2 guys today at Aurora Music and Pawn retirement sale. Congratulations on 40 years in business. 😎👍 pic.twitter.com/1aQ2OJiEqr

— Joe Bonamassa (Official) (@JBONAMASSA) October 31, 2019

pretty sure Van Halen have ruined their legacy since hiring Sammy Hagar in 1985

are you suggesting Hagar is... Horrible

joe, what the hell dude

Good! I hope they throw the book at him. 😎👍 https://t.co/sG5VIoXsa8

— Joe Bonamassa (Official) (@JBONAMASSA) August 23, 2019

Sorry to swear on social media but... Fuck you!! I hope they find you and throw the key away for a long time. https://t.co/NyXirrd9xL

— Joe Bonamassa (Official) (@JBONAMASSA) July 27, 2019

Why people suck.... Why social media sucks .... right here... What a disgusting, imbecilic and dangerous thing to do. https://t.co/A77trYXEuu

— Joe Bonamassa (Official) (@JBONAMASSA) July 4, 2019

Joe is correct that ice cream is serious business

Do not ask if you can get a taste of Joe's bourbon-pecan in a waffle cone.

I bet I could totally pwn Joe Bonamassa in a trivia contest that covered Baroque music, 90s folk, Irish jigs, progressive jazz, synthpop, and children's music.

He probably knows more about boring blues shit by middle-aged white guys, tho. So I guess it's a tie.