Tribute to John Mayall: A Conversation with Joe Bonamassa" 

Thanks Joe for telling it like it is, I'm in the UK and just a few years younger and John Mayall was a huge influence. May he rest in peace.

It’s great that Joe keeps the fire burning.

John Mayall: The most important guy in the history of British Blues

Love Joe B. And he’s 100% spot on.

R.I.P. John, helped put many a young lad from my era on the path to,The Blues, what a legacy?

Love Joe, he cuts through the BS. His honesty is a breath of fresh air in this day and age. More people need to be brave and say what's right. So many should be in. Personally I can't believe Free isn't. Great interview.

Great interview Joe gives it straight Totally agree with his comments

I always enjoy Joe's intelligent and considered insight into all things guitar. He is spot on here - John Mayall was a true pioneer and it is criminal that he is rarely mentioned in Hall of Fame conversations. John paved the way for all of them and he provided the platform for them to flourish. A true great and truly great loss.

How can you not love Joe B.

Thank you for speaking on John's behalf. I knew him for a time and recall how humble he was about his talents. You keep on being you and John will be proud. 🥰

R.I.P. John and Thanks for The Music. Long Live Joe 🎸

its never the same to those who come after as great as those players were the times and the energy that were a part of it all was the gift to those who were there there all in my rock and roll hall of fame !

Yes indeed... thank you Joe B for laying down some real deal ... R.I.P John Mayall ☕🎸

I saw John 5 years ag at the Egg in Albany, a great show and not too bad for 85

So true do it when they alive ❤

Cant agree more with what Joe ! The hall needs to get it into gear !

R.I.P. John, you deserved to make a century but you had a well played innings.

Exactly right. Get them in now

The Rock hall is such a beautiful place and idea, the powers that be need to actually look at the history of the genre.

Yep.... Keep me updated/Posted. ✨I am sadden this Teacher/ Great Icon has past on. If I am not mistaken,was he not a mentor to Joe Bonamassa's,"This Train", Along with influencing the Greg Allman Band.❓ He certainly will be missed idealistically. 🎼🎶🎵🙏👼

Agreed Paul Rogers, Burke Shelley too.

Now we are all becoming historians -as those who inspired us to play guitar, pass on. go with God, brother John !

Loved those posters

The so-called Hall of Fame isn't fit to tie the bootlaces of half the artists not invited in. Those artists aren't diminished one iota by non inclusion by those smug tuxedos.

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When John Mayall isn't in the R&R HOF, and Whitney Houston is... It needs to change its name.

Joe makes a good argument....Mayall should have been in the Hall of fame a long time ago

R.I.P. John

JM was innovative and could be lyrical as well as a blues legend.. listen to his Blues from Laurel Canyon album from his California period, featuring a phenomenal and very young pre Stones Mick Taylor.. awesome!

Still waitin' on Grand Funk RR.

Nicky Hopkins played for Quicksilver Messenger at some point. Think how many great contributions he made to classic rock albums in the 1960s and 1970s. I doubt that he is in the R'n'R Hall of Fame.

Don't forget cyril Davies and Chris barber who brought the blues artists from America to the uk in the late 50's

Joe, what's your favorite Moby Grape song?

"What About Me?" ...🦊Quicksilver Messenger Service

That seems to be their MO doesn’t it😟

Funny how he never really mentioned him before. Beato will be posting next about his deep love with a serious face on his thumbnail 😂

Little Feat

The offhanded dismissal of the Yardbirds as a 'pop' group is misleading. Yes, 'For Your Love' was a pop tune the band agreed to do after several 'blues' singles failed to atttract attention. But the band remained true to its roots while also exploring what became psychedelia with 'Shapes of Things', 'Over Under Sideways Down', 'Happenings Ten Year Time Ago' and their 'Yardbirds' album (aka Roger the Engineer). They and the Who were arguably the two most progressive bands of the 1965/1966 period leading up to the breakout of Cream, Hendrix and the British Blues Boom led primarily by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Clapton quitting the Yardbirds was the best thing that happened to them, as it resulted in his union with Mayall while simultaneously making way for Jeff Beck (after Jimmy Page declined and recommended his friend Beck instead), whose ferocious inventiveness soon found them the source of inspiration for everyone from the Beatles (McCartney's guitar solo on 'Taxman' is him attempting to be Jeff Beck) to Aerosmith, with Led Zeppelin essentially being the Yardbirds Mk II. So, hardly just a 'pop' group. Joe's comment about the need for the Rock Hall of Fame needing to get their priorities sorted is quite right. How many of the inductees are NOT rock? Far too many. Even Dolly Parton called them out on that. I mean, she is in but Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape and Free and John Mayall are not?! At the end of the day, and peoples' ego aside, really, it is all just a waste of time. But if it insists on existing it could at least live up to its promise - Rock Hall of Fame.

jethro tull !?!?!?!!!!!!!!

I need to put you on the committee and you would get it straightened out I don't care if they nominate 20 people a year are 20 Vans a year catch it up man get it right

RIP John Mayall, but Grand Funk in the {alleged} HOF TODAY! Missy Elliott? WTF ....

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame is a mausoleum. What self-respecting musician would want to be included in there? Blues is a live music-best not to confine it to a museum.

Joe Bonamasa = Jon Meacham

Any awards mean nothing. Me, being Argentinian, just like El Diego of the People , aknowledging Mayall, that does mean something.

Hall of fame? More like hall of LAME

a HARD WORKING mAN, HE SET UP AND BROKE DOWN HIS INSTRUMENTS AND ALWAYS PLAYED GREAT, HE HEARD ME COMPLIMENT bUDDY wHITTINGTON, AND JUST SMILED WITH A WINK, THAT SAID THANK YOU..f*&&^^% THE R&R HALL OF sHAME