Guitarist Joe Bonamassa shows us the guitars, amps and effects he is currently using onstage. In part one Joe shows us his signature Gibson Les Paul, his amp rig and pedalboard. www.musiciansfriend.com/
@@unabonger777 He's certainly hugely inspired and influenced by EJ but he wears a lot of his influences on his sleeve. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
This is hid old rack. He now uses custom Marshall Cabs, a couple super leads, some other stuff...? and a Friedman Brown Eye, (VH 1 early amp sound). sounds FANTASTIC...again BIG $$$$.
I wish I could have a guitar built by Gibson for me. I would get a 58 tobacco burst LP with grovers and no pick guard and a 61 style 335 candy apple red with dot neck . I would love the 58 to have the Billy Gibbons Pearly Gates pickups in it and the 335 to have the burstbucker 3 pickups in it and I'd be good basically heaven. I bet they will sound great through my Budda 30 watt amp. Dreams of an old nobody.
@helrazr84 well i know people that build amps and im pretty sure they could copy the schematics of each of those amps and combine them they did that with the Rockerverb series from Orange by putting a Fender Reverb together with a Marshall Superlead so why not stuff like this?
@helrazr84 well i that i can agree with that but ive heard some pretty close comparisons so i dont know but i just like a simple not so complicated amp i own a Rockerverb and it seems to pull off a both Fender and Marshall amps really well so im happy with that
@GrowTheCaine Sure you could probably combine designs into one amp but probably in reality it wouldn't quite sound the exact same as pairing the 2 amps. You can replace an entire pedal board with a Line6 M9 but it still isn't quite the same as having the actual pedals, as they still will sound different. Joe is at the level where he can play whatever he wants and he feels this is the best way to get "his" sound. His tone is always good so who cares how he gets it!
Category 5 seem great but hard to find used, the Carol-Ann and Van Weelden are BIG $$$$! LOL, Eric has managed to single handily drive the price up of the Marshall Silver Jubilee, they were never that expensive prior to him becoming popular.
Bonamassa is not a rip of Eric Johnson, but he definitely was influenced by him. clearly the way he sees pentatonics and arpeggios are very close to E.J., not to mention his scalar picking technics.
A really nice, professional, four-channel rig. 👍 mine is not like that. The hoboroadie has five or so crappy olden ampes strung together like Homer Simpson's Christmas Lights. It's not pretty, but it simulates a tone. sort of... 🙈
yeah some one just said they like his pudgy playing better than now that he lost his baby fat!!! lol im laughing cause i guess thats what i was trying to say he was a wildman when he 1st was on the scene and now he seems to have mellowed..okay lets hear it for the long lost pudgy Joe.. he's prob gonna kill me for sayin this lol
More gear=different sounds so that songs don't sound so much alike. Sure some dudes will sit there and enjoy it, but some others like their wives might say, all the songs sound alike. Because the guitarist played the same guitar through the same amp with no pedals all night. Don't give me the it's all in your fingers bullshit. If it was, we would not need electric guitars at all. We could all just play ukes with one string! Look at me, one string uke!
I treat all my guitars like farm animals while I'm playing them. When not in use I treat them like my babies. I think that's what they are for . Where's JB ???
i'll probably be tared and feathered for saying this but I dont like his tone anymore Just not my tatse. I liked his tone when he used a strat and a marshall like in bloodline. my .02c
Joe i like you but please next time say to hello Eric Johnson while this kind of interviews you have appreciate him because your sound and licks just like him.. ERIC JOHNSON'S influence on you looks like more than a influence. Thanks.
