OFFICAL ILX JOE BONAMASSA CELEBRATION THREAD

They need cigarette smoking robots to coat the guitars with a quarter inch of nicotine.

acquire vintage zima to recreate time period specific drink spills

milo this Tele started life as Sonic Blue - and it's a polyester finish too
https://i.imgur.com/iccTSDL.jpg
I've had it suggested that the colour is now "Marlboro Gold"

Joe now has a one-off Uni-Vibe pedal with his own picture on it. And it's perfectly named!

https://www.gearnews.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/joe-bonamassa-vibe-bro-pedal.jpg

Algorithm-free, I trust.

lol I read that as Vile Bro.

^^Vile Bro is the name of his power trio.

Joe Bonamassa was on the latest episode of To Tell The Truth. Two out of the three panelists correctly guessed that contestant #2 was A Blues Musician. Then Joe played some horseshit on a resonator guitar.

I want those minutes of my life back.

I saw a tweet about how part of his stage schtick now is to shred for a bit and then have fake blood spurt from his fingers

"Will the real Joe Bonamassa please stand up and shred?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw7lbGqc4x8

Paul Butterfield on To Tell The Truth

Joe Bonamassa seems to be the guy that boomers point to as evidence that they do too listen to new music.

lol my folks are watching that To Tell the Truth ep as we speak

I saw a tweet about how part of his stage schtick now is to shred for a bit and then have fake blood spurt from his fingers

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, August 24, 2021 7:11 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

haha what???

would love it if someone like put little hidden blades in his guitar and he sliced his fingers for real and nobody helped him cos they thought it was part of set

Like when Tommy Cooper died

a few tours away from them nailing joe to a cross of guitars at the end of the show

but you know those Gethsemane Blues precede it

i only want to say
if there is a way
take his axe
away from him
cos i don't want to
hear his playing

if the ads i see on the sides of local buses are to be believed, his performance here will be the 'guitar event of the year'

― global tetrahedron, Thursday, February 23, 2017 12:51 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

He has TV ads saying this now.

US Government:Infrastructure Week::Joe Bonamassa: Guitar Events of The Year

he plays some cities that Pat Metheny will also play in the same year. but tbf to joe, pat's dates are ultimately the 'hair event of the year'.

Waiting for the Joe/Shen Yun crossover.

amazed he hasnt' just leaned into calling himself Bonermaster

Fender Bonermaster

Joe knows it's wiser to dance around "Bonermaster", leaving enough implied for the listener to draw it out of the empty space and to their own lips.

his record of solo guitar, Bonamasturbation, drops soon

One guy in a room...with one guitar...one pedal...one amp...one mic...and one bound volume of Oui.

one bottle of Fretboard Doctor

would love to read pat do an epic takedown of joe like he did kenny g

Metheny's not exactly Mr. Blues Authenticity himself, though. Would rather read, say, Billy Gibbons on Bonamassa.

U haters are just jealous because he has lots of money and pulls the babes. Not one of you can go WEE WAH WEEDLYWEEDLY WEENT WEENT WEEEEEEE like he can on any number of 59 Les Pauls so suck it haters

Honestly Billy probably likes the guy

Huh I guess Bonnamassa has a podcast and Billy was on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcEo6M1Lm9c

Would rather read, say, Billy Gibbons on Bonamassa

Has Billy ever talked smack wrt other musicians? He seems too courteous to do that.

https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/truth-is-i-hate-the-way-i-play-guitar-joe-bonamassa-speaks-candidly-in-our-exclusive-interview?

“When I put on the suit, I become “that guy.” And therein lies part of the success and part of the problem,” reveals Bonamassa before going on to confess, “Truth is, I hate the way I play guitar. I hate the way I sing. I know I can do it pretty well, but I wish I could do it so much differently.”

I think he's read this thread.

I hate the way checks pile up on the out of style mail desk in my kitchen

A clip of Bonamassa and Clapton just showed up in my fb feed and it sucked so hard, yet it sucked in such a suble, hard to pinpoint way. They do everything right, everything spot on, and they are completely scrubbed clean of anything poetic, anything resembling actual suffering, anything ambiguous, anything surprising. They are a well-oiled blues machine. They sound like BB King and they feel like BB-8.

That’s an insult to BB-8!

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/gibson-1960-les-paul-sold-to-joe-bonamassa?

Chewin' on a HoHo, Sleepin' at the HoJo
Give it all up to honk on just one BoBo

― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:10 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

#onethread

it is time

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Our Drummer @tal_bergman has this ability to see into the future ... Of our hairlines. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/WjrU4YFcEE

— Joe Bonamassa (Official) (@JBONAMASSA) August 9, 2013

https://i.imgur.com/MJ8kZBT.jpg

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/joe_bonamassa_announces_hes_quitting_social_media_after_comments_aimed_at_his_looks.html

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/static/article/draft/177089_daiO2LLfvGoP7ZlQ_86471.jpeg

LEAVE JOE ALONE!

What's so refreshing about talented musicians like Bonamassa is their sense of humor

“Yes, you may be about to play a sold-out show in Tucson. But you are still Joe Bonamassa.”

rich tones

Joe's balding pate makes him more relatable to his core audience.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comments/7b5sff/news_joe_bonamassa_called_pedal_users_fing_lazy/

Torn between lol-cringe and grudging respect for this bozo. He comes through town seems like once a year, plays at 1,000-1,500 seat theaters, I like that it's still possible to do that road warrior thing and build a niche audience. Just don't make me go to a show plz.