OFFICAL ILX JOE BONAMASSA CELEBRATION THREAD

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.

this dude is Kenny Wayne Shepherd if he'd been a better player and knew how to market to rockists

That guy David Gilmour was as lazy as can be! No talent, just pedals!

-Dr JP69

Joe Bonamassa: Hell Toupee (the album cover has him wearing a hairpiece styled into devil horns...The Bonermaster is also on fire)

joe u coward write a blues song about male pattern baldness

Tracklisting
1. Wherever I May Comb
2. I Believe I'll Dust my Dome
3. Shiny Happy People
4. Last Hair Deal Gone Down
5. Long Pate Dome
6. Hairway to Nothin
7. Steady Baldin Man
...

Mannish Bald

Comb on in My Kitchen

Folliculi, Follicula

Almost Combed My Hair

Baldin' the Jack

Total Eclipse of the Part

7 Rooms of Groom

squeeze my lemon, baby, till the hair falls off my head

Hair, There, and Everywhere

Scalp! I need somebody

Scalp! Not just anybody

You Can Leave Your Wighat On

Everybody Toupees the Fool

Lost Hair Deal Gone Down

Bald Right Now