The Marshall Silver Jubilee is what gives Joe his base tone. The other three amps add shades of "color", overtones and undertones to his playing. Without the Silver Jubilee, this entire set up is nothing more than average at best - even a bit thin. It is the best amp Marshall ever made - period. Joe gives it justice, as does Slash, John Frusciante, and other notable players. It is simply and undeniably an incredible tone machine!
I get where you guys are coming from with the EJ thing but that's just who he learned how to step through the fretboard and shred blues from. His licks are more bb king, kossoff especially and majorly clapton. I think most people fail to realize that the fusion of those thing and his personality and where he takes it, listen closer and he has his own thing for a british blues rock guy. You're catch the surface.
Just can't have enough of his knowledge and playing. What a great musician!! The guitars + amps literally become living soulful things with Bonamassa's touch. Joe, Thanks for everything, keep rocking man!!
a while ago i remember joe saying that he wished he had his own sound and didn't want to sound a copycat , now when he switches through the amps at the start i hear joe's sound and style in every one he switches to ,he has a sound all of his own, i could recognise joe's sound anywhere
Some people use that against him. Thats fine... but if you look up his albums when he was younger like 2001 to 2006 era when he was rocking a strat. You will hear a lot less EJ influence. I just find a lot of people not truly understanding his full range of influences because they only hear his most present things.
I've owned a 2203 and an Ecstasy 101B but had to sell them. I was looking at a Helios and a Friedman. After watching this, the Jubilee will be my next amp.
@NickMass35 I think he meant the basic equipment like the pedals and some of the preamps. The amps themselves are pretty repair friendly so you just put them in the right hands and they'll be back in shape in no time. All the amps he has are mostly custom models or models that are no longer produced.
I understand his reasoning for having a 4 rig set up..but I play smaller venues so I try to achieve the various tones by using certain pedals as well as changing my "attack" from one song to another..I use a Traynor ycv40wr all tube combo with an extension speaker cab for the bigger rooms..does a good job in my opinion.
I know this is a stupid question and I should know this, but what song does he play when he is talking about "Early Gibbon's tone." It's killing me I need to know.
I’ve heard him play a fender hot rod deluxe 1x12” and sound very similar to this. It’s all about moving air and what size room you’re in. In a stadium or arena you need this much equipment to move the same amount of air as a fender hot rod deluxe in an average bar. Also the speaker choice is one of the most important aspects. For tone like this you need a speaker that can handle a lot of bass. A brittle speaker won’t give you this tone.
It's seems the Two rock has that Jeff Beck sound "JB" What I want to hear him say is . The Two rock has 6L6 tubes ,and the Marshalls have EL34 s . That would make 2 different sound waves that would complement each other . Now a Solid state wave ,would be a Square ,block like wave ,and would create more of that ,Evil Tony Iommi sound ,like on "Born Again" "Know wot I mean"
He's not midly recognised at all id say personally, he's possibly the biggest blues rock guitarist in the world atm, and id say abut 50% percent of his stuff is original material, the other stuff is covers but even then imo joe is very skilled at making covers his own, so if you ask me it feels like its all original
