Joe just seems to find new talent, great guitar players, new ones too, that I never heard of. Thank you, Joe. My daughter Jill went to see your Greek Theater concert last Sat. night, full moon and all, tribute to the best. She said she threw you a kiss for me. Some day I'll get a chance .... I live in Australia, maybe over here. Keep it up, love you....Babala
23:2 1. Monster lick, so classic Lukather. Listen to that over and over. So many years of music stretch here. Bless Joe, he’s playing inside so perfectly. He let’s Steve take some outside runs. Perfect match
Joe, you are Great. This is a very special Show .You Love the Blues and of course The Blues Loves you too...I will See you in Frankfurt in May. And I saw you in Stuttgart Last Year . Thank you for giving me an unforgetable Time also with this amazing Musicians in the Band. Keep the Blues alive !
At about the 17-19th minute the base player looked and sounded like Glen Hughes ... and indeed it was Glen Hughes !! What I among other things really enjoy about Joe B. is his ability to work with and play the music of the legends of the seventies. It gives him an extreme credibility ... credibility of musical quality - Shining On !!
Once you've heard the Glenn Hughes scream, you never forget, I always think of Deep Purple's performance at Cal Jam, 1st time I Heard Glenn sing and scream..after awhile it got to Ritchie and the band was no more (that line up MK III ?)
In the 90's, I was a fan of Kenny Wayne Shepherd (still am), then years later I started playing blues guitar and saw JB play the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame for Freddie King and I was in awe...Since then I've heard many of his songs and I consider him THE STATUS QUO of not just Blues Guitar...but of the entire present guitar world...And, I agree...He's way beyond BB King, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy...However, there's one blues guitarist that matches JB...Mr. Stevie Ray Vaughan.
That would be Mr. Elliot Easton, formerly of The Cars. He's long been a favorite of mine, as well, although, being a southpaw myself, I suppose I'm somewhat partial to others like myself. And regarding the SG - what can I say - SWEEEEEET!!!
All of you nobodies telling Steve f'n Lukather what he "should" play?..Hilarious ..one of the best to ever pickup the instrument..Def an influence on Joe
Luke is a big personality his sound is big! joe is awesome luke would always say joe is better! in fact luke always plays down his own abilities and raves about the other guys!
Luke is a MONSTER and along with Tommy Tedesco R.I.P and Paul Jackson JR, one of the three most recorded guitarists of all times. He is without a doubt, one of the greatest of all time!
Anyone that can hang with JB rocks or get embarrassed. Shit, my idols have all got to take a back seat to this guy, I would love to see him play with Tony Iommi, Alex Lifeson, and David Gilmour. He is on there level and then some. I saw him in Sacramento in the spring. I was blown away. From the front row. I got the tickets from a PBS fund raiser. I bet JB an Richie Blackmore would be cool.
Go to see the 12 year old Dustin Tomsen playing and sing Joe Bonamassa's song "Blue and Evil" (Included guitar solo) here on youtube!!! Dustin is very very good...he reminds me a lot of the young Joe Bonamassa. .
Go to see the 12 year old Dustin Tomsen playing and sing Joe Bonamassa's song Blue and Evil. Included guitar solo. He reminds me a lot of the young Bonamassa.........
Calm down everyone. Luke is just trying to inject some excitement into an old done to death blues format. And Joe is also playing a lot of notes like he always does.
Umm, he's actually Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf's guitarist. Read all of my comments before you make conclusions. You're right about not being a contest because they are not contesting right now, but this is part of the king of the blues contest. JB does show respect to all of his idols, but I'm not the only one who says that he always blows them of the stage, being way better than his legends ever were, let alone when they're 80 years old.
PLEASEEEE! What does Joe have to do to show ANYONE he's the state of the art? He was opening for B.B. King at 12yo and it wasn't a novelty act. There are thousands of great players but Joe is capable of outperforming virtually all of them and they know it.
Anyone know the name of the young guy in the black t-shirt at 36:54. At the end ,Joe was going to introduce all the guys and the video cut out- thanks.
lol I like the irony of your line about embarrassment...Howlin' Dog wasn't known for his guitar playing...Hell I don't even remember a time where he played one (though it's not too far to think he has). lol Do you feel stupid now? And, JB is a legend in his own right and HUBERT SUMLIN (rock in peace brother) should feel just as honored as JB does to share the stage with such talent.
Anyone got a run down on all the musicians in this vid? I recognize about half of 'em - Elliot Easton, Glenn Hughes, ( Is that Rick Neilson in the black beret? ) & who's the feller with the pink strat? He really rocks!!!!
