OFFICAL ILX JOE BONAMASSA CELEBRATION THREAD

open goal nonetheless nicely slotted home by the boy matthewk there, brian

stan, you're probably thinking of blind (and dead) wite bloozeman jeff healey, as featured in sam elliott hairstyle showcase roadhouse

I probably do, yeah - the perpetual sunglasses don't help, though.

tbh i'm grateful the sunglasses keep us from seeing his eyes - like a couple of raisins dropped in a bowl of porridge, they are

MatthewK - applause.

Jeff Healey was a wite bluesman, it is true. However, he could defensibly say "I don't see color."

I'm not about to Google image search this, but I feel like this guy and Donald Trump, Jr. are kind of doppelgangers.

This dude is the patron saint of the blues lawyer.

Whenever you see an old white dude who just rediscovered his love of music 9 times out of 10 it's because he saw that fucking PBS Red Rocks Wite Man's Tribute to Da Blooooooz.

While I can't make it to the end of the vid to confirm, I find it interesting how the cello player sucks all the guitar-face out of the room, leaving our hero to be the subdued one

I found that video very pleasing, not least because the shitty recording makes both instruments sound like cats scratching frantically at the door - it's almost a "shreds" video for large stretches.
Disappointed he hasn't collaborated with André Rieu though, a match made in heaven.

It's fucks me up that .the second age as this dude.

Oops

It's fucks me up that I'm the same age as this dude.

joe bonamassa should would make a great elendil in peter jackson's 97-hour film of "the silmarillion".

JOE BONAMASSA YOU ROCK! you've always been there, even when i was really feeling down. especially when i was feeling down. and i'll never be able to pay you back for that ride you gave me to the airport later that night, because your peak hour rate is total bullshit and i'm still unemployed

I'm sad that the fanpage glossary failed to list my coinage "Bonamasturbate."

http://www.musicradar.com/news/joe-bonamassa-using-pedals-that-make-you-sound-like-everything-but-your-guitar-is-fking-lazy

“I’ve really gotten over pedals. I can’t keep up with this craze of boutique pedals that make you sound like everything but your guitar. I can’t get my head around it. So you don’t want to play a guitar [properly] so you buy a box that makes it sound like an algorithm, like you just fired up your computer and you can spend the night staring at your fuckin’ shoes? C’mon man…

“I know I’ll get shit for saying this, but it’s fucking lazy. It’s insulting to people who spent 35 years playing and learning, like a lot of players. And we continue to work at it! These guys can barely play a chord but call themselves soundscapists. Get the fuck outta here! It’s bullshit. There’s so much masking and spin going on there. Can we get real for a minute? What do you actually play? Pick up an acoustic guitar… try that!”

looking forward to a Shields/Bonamassa collab in 2027

Very skeptical of anyone who considers themselves a musician that doesn't —or, in this case, refuses— to see the potential in all types of music gear. Fine to say, "I don't really like to use effects pedals", but to just assume somebody who does is somehow lesser talented and/or knowledgeable just because of that is pretty flawed logic. I mean, I could say, "People who only rely on a guitar and an amp for their tone are destined to continue falling back on blues cliches to the point of becoming boring and predictable."

Also, the way he talks about pedals implies that he doesn't actually know much about what he's trying to talk down to. Referencing specifically, "pedals that make you sound like everything but your guitar. . . a box that makes it sound like an algorithm." Does he not realize that a good 65%-75% of new pedals that are coming out these days are drive pedals? Sure, some of those will color your tone a bit, but overwhelmingly, they just take your guitar and make it louder. How could he not already know this?

I think it may have something to do with his profound lack of imagination.

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.