Joe Bonamassa - Good or Evil?

[nexrex]

Hey all, am totally loving Joes's style right now. Totally addicted, think I have a new idol to aspire to.

Anyway, whats your verdict. Do you love or hate him?

 

[rockskate4x]

love...

 

[nexrex]

Soloing with Eric Clapton? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEEfDdJyxPY

 

[nexrex]

my favourite songs right now "If Heartaches Were Nickels"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAQm2qWnYw

 

[NLD09]

He must've sold his soul when he recorded the Sloe Gin album, cause before then I wasn't a fan. Everything since has been killer. So my verdict...

EVIL!!!  :evil4:  :headbang1:

 

[tfarny]

He is definitely the best electric blues rocker out there. His playing is near perfect, his tone is fantastic, and I prefer him to just about any of the more famous guitar heroes. I'm just not listening to much of that stuff recently.

 

[lafromla1]

I saw him in Orlando a few months ago.  Great show, even my wife enjoyed it.  My only criticism was that he never introduced his band, nor did he give them props.  The bass player was really good and I would have liked to see him and the drummer play off each other while Joe was taking his short breather.  When I saw BB last february, he introduced every one of his band members, and he comes with a lot of them. Buddy Guy introduced the guys he was playing with as well.

 

[Justinginn]

If Heartaches Were Nickles is just Stairway to Heaven reworked into a blues song.  :redflag:

 

[djf67]

Sloe Gin (track) is okay but otherwise I just don't get JB and his playing seems emotionless and does absolutely nothing for me.
I hear he says the same of me.  :laughing7:

 

[Nando Vallart]

Really like 2nd song

 

[exaN]

Been a fan since I first heard him.

I think he's excellent at blending all the blues/rock styles together to make some really fresh music.

 

[GoDrex]

good? evil?- I vote boring

 

[m4rk0]

I saw him a couple of times on the Dalles Guitarshow... I have to say that I was not really impressed..  not very exciting to me

 

[Who?]

I have tried to like him, but it seems that that style of music has just been done to death.  I love Eric Clapton and Robbie Robertson playing "Further on up the Road", though.

 

[Dan025]

If Heartaches Were Nickles is just Stairway to Heaven reworked into a blues song.  :redflag:

booooooo!

how dare you compare a good song to stairway, yuck probably zeplins worst work ever, and i love me some zeplin

 

[stubhead]

I can listen to him - beats the stuffing out of opera, rap or television - but I pretty much don't. He's learned from EVERYBODY, and learned well. But, I have this weird thing about people who learn how to "imitate sincerity", as I call it - I get in fights with Springsteenheads a lot. :toothy12: All the faces, all the "climactic moments"... wanna bet he plays "If Heartaches Were Nickels" exactly the same, note-per-note, night after night after night? Including duplicating his excruiciated guitarfaces - - I wouldn't bet against you. The better you learn how to imitate emotions, of course, the more it might seem like you have them.

:hello2: ~Gee whiz, maybe a bad woman really did done him wrong.~ :hello2:

I'd rather spend my (limited) listening time listening to Robben Ford or Jeff Beck hit a few clinkers, in the course of searching out some interesting surprises. For some reason I don't mind (too much) when people play Beethoven "right" but blues is in theory still fluid?