I've been waiting a long time for someone who can do the following:
1. Lay down rock, rock blues and blues tunes that will have you picking your jaw up off the floor. 2. Absolutely rip apart the fretboard by applying multilple techniques and blazing chops (this guy is NOT a one trick pony) from song to song and even within a song. 3. Have a voice that supports his guitar work AND can sing within the framework of multiple styles (rock, blues, rock blues etc..). JOE BONAMASSA is the REAL DEAL!!!
I kinda like Joe Bonamassa when he played then more so then now. I think he played with alot more intensity...like he was still trying to prove himself.
1 he was born for it , 2 he's not black and he plays the blues , 3 he was listening the best , 4 bb king said it's one of a kind, 5 he's got rythym-melody- harmony the 3 elements of music , 6 he's considered to be the best youngest blues guitar player , 7 he's considered to be one of the best guitar players of all time, 8 he has an incredible voice, 9 eric clapton played with him , 10 he oppened the concert of bb king by the age of 12......... 10 reasons why you should listen to JOE BONAMASSA
dude, I'm 14, I play the guitar for like 4 years now, and I already know that I will NEVER be as good as he is, never in my whole life. and he is only 16 here!!!
@mike1jimmypage sounds like a little fender amp breaking up (distorting) just a little bit. with the reverb you almost think it's an octaver but it's not, just wet fender reverb.. anyways that's what i think, based on my experience with amps and strats.
My biggest problem is with musicians who wear hats. Muddy Waters got away with it at a push, but look at the scottish hotwater bottle he wears on his head at 1:59! Doyle, Eric and Derek don't wear hats...do they?
In the post below santacruezz just mentioned SRV which reminded me that he always wore a hat. So what do you think...did SRV get away with it? BTW...Joe doesn't wear a hat anymore. In this video of him playing he was a teenager.
I couldn't say. He can use whatever he feels like using. the first time I ever heard his music was at a concert in Chicago back '09. I heard about him for years through music dispatch. When I saw him in concert he played a gibson les Paul or several of them, a PRS model, and a 25th anniversary edition Ernie Ball Music Man, and his music in that show was so much more commercially refined then what we are hearing from this you tube video. It was more rock based and not traditional blues.
wow,,, i never heard of him but he is great.....and come to find out he was born in the same city as me and i live right around from the bar"modernistic" he first played at.....
joe has a very big head, a buddy of mine met him before. was walking around backstage like he owned the damn place. and none of his licks are his own.
don't know what you're talking about. I've talked with him several times. Even gave me free tickets one time because i was to young to get in the place and he knew I wanted to go... he got me in.... didn't/doesn't even know me. he's definitely a class act. And give me the name of one guitarist that doesn't take influence from another player? He has plenty of his own licks.... and has his own sound
Man that is untrue! What do Freddie King, Albert King, BB King, Early Clapton, Gary Moore, Warren Hayes, Duane Alman, T Bone Walker, and Paul Kossof to name a few have in common? They all played Gibsons, and there are some of the best blues players in history, so please donl't regurgitate the same tired old crap about fender's being the best blues guitars, cause how good a guitar sounds in the blues is in the person using it. Hound Dog Taylor used a cheap sears guitar for god's sake!
The problem with Joe is that he doesn't have his own style and sound yet unfortunately. He is still a copycat, wannabe and an emulator of someone else style and sound of SRV, Hendrix and people like them which is wrong. There will never be someone like Hendrix and SRV cause they were one of a kind, unique and special, and people need to stop looking who will carry on their thing. Joe and guys like him need to look to be theirselfs, with their own sound and style to be remembered.
You obviously know nothing about music. There are very few guitar players that have there own unique sound. Jeff Beck being one of them. SRV uses a ton of Albert King licks ansd so did Hendrix. Listen to an old Frddie King cd and you will swear it is Clapton. Joe takes all of his influences and makes his own sound. That is what SRV and Hendrix did. Joe is a great talent to cary on the electric blues torch.
OK y'all,do you see a common thread here? Everybody's comparing Joe to all of the greatest guitar players that ever lived. No, he's not SRV, he's not Hendrix, not Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks or Robin Trower, not Eric Clapton, BB, Freddie, or Albert King, but he's just as talented as any of them in his own style. Joe's not a copycat and isn't a cover band. He's making his own music, and the style of many greats can be heard in his music as well as his own.Let's face it, Joe IS one of the greats.
Excuse me but way way before Stevie Ray Vaughn was even known about, emulating Hendrix and getting famous, Robin Trower had already been doing it many years before him. SRV is not the bench mark here. Anyone remember "Bridge of Sighs"
i don't argue that he is a great guitar player but he sounds just like SRV. too much like him. he is a wanabe SRV, just look at the hat. maybe the kid will grow out of it. he will need to if he wants to be respected as an individual artist.
I was Joe's "unofficial" photographer for the first 4 or 5 years when he first started playing around central NY, which is where he's from. He was 12 when he started playing clubs around here. I've also shot a lot of other blues greats when they came through town, but just for my own photo collection. Got a lot of Allman Bros., but not many of just Greg. He hides behind the B-3.
I like Joe a lot,and would definetely say he is one of the best blues&rock guitarists today along with Ana Popovic (strange how nobody mentions her)? She is a living queen of blues and rock guitar! A total blast,and a rare talent to find,like Joe!
LOL... Either you're musicly inept or you're listening with your dick. Or maybe just deaf. She's not bad, but she's a gimmick. If she weren't a chick, nobody would even hear of her.
dude you are so retarded, Ana is so much better than Joe. She at least has her own unique and special style, and she writes much better songs than Joe and is a better vocalist than Joe. She is a chick, but a chick that knows how to play guitar and knows how to carry blues/rock music with a bit of jazz and pop in it to a whole new level.
You obviously know nothing about music and guitar playing, get a life.
Joe got away from the stevie ray sound years ago...you hear a ot more eric johnson in his style, he is copying, true...but he mixes various styles to his own. gifted player, with soul
Yeah but where's his break through album? If I had the resources this kid does, I'd be a millionaire a thousand times over already. Unfortunately, life is a whole hell of a lot harder for some of us.
Watch for his world blues album. I would say being number a #1 album (his Last 2) on the blues charts should be considered a break through. He told Atl. records to fuck off about 4 or 5 years ago which should be amount to the reason why he is not all over the radio.
Joe is so different than other blues players.
He is so well rounded & diverse. You will see if you ever see him play live.
By the way, Sam Leach the Beatles promotor of 30 yrs said he is the best live blues act on the planet.
It's nothing personal but as a guitarist, I don't find ANY blues player original because it's simple structure makes it impossible to be. Look at all the sweep shredders, they're a dime a dozen and out to prove who's faster and blah blah blah. I don't give a shit what some producer or writer says, I know what my ears tell me. Joe is a great player but when your focus is on blues..basically since the 90's you're shooting yourself in the foot.HUGE band then die, only way to become a legend anymore
lol! There's a reason you're some washup criticizing players on youtube and he's out there playing 300 shows a year.
Break through album? Other than all of them, I'd say Blues Deluxe.
The fact that you don't find ANY blues player original is laughable. Jimi Hendrix wasn't original? Stevie Ray Vaughan wasn't original? Albert Collins wasn't original? Do you mind informing us of some "original guitarists"? And if you reply with Malmsteen you will be banned from commenting ever again.
You're clearly not a guitarist because I hate to break the news to you but SRV and Hendrix are two of THE most hated guitarists to other guitarists that have moved beyond blues and hard rock.
I don't tell you how to stroke old man pole so don't go telling me how to rate other guitarists and for that matter, what music to like. He's a good blues player, most every guitarist is or will be. Blues is the foundation for most guitarists, myself included.
this guys great..definantly one of my fav blues players..he plays these sick ass licks and clean as fuck too.
but i still love hendrix more..hendrix is just so good of a writer man..i love his psychedelic shit..even his funky/bluesier shit with the band of gypsys
LOL" the only hes really got is speed" "THATS ABOUT IT!?" This guy has got to be one of the greatest blues guitarist of my generation. IMO. but yeah, no one can match Jimi Hendrix for what he did for music and his creativity.
Smoke some more pot! Joe had more soul (without taking acid) at the age of 12 than Jimi ever did! Hendrix just happened to be around at the right time, thats all there is to that tune!
that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Hendrix did to music what George Carlin did to comedy. He changed so much in music today. Plus he died very young, he would have gone far beyond what he had done (and thats saying alot). He was about to make an album with miles davis, whitch would have been amazing no doubt.
Joe is truly a great guitar player. It just seems to me hes still in the process of finding a very distinct signature sound. I hear too much Eric Johnson in his current sound. Not that that is a bad thing. I just think he truly will come in to his own at some point and possibly become a legend to be remembered. I wish I had half this guys talent.
I guess the hendrix comparison will always be made - but JH was an innovator - he changed things. JB seems to be more evolution than revolution. Exceptionally talented though, and a joy to behold. It's interesting that he is trying to establish his own trademark sound - a sort of legacy I guess. I think this will only impose limitations on his multitude of styles.
For me, I prefer some of his slower licks - but he certainly shows a bit of Albert Lee in his country jam. Outstanding talent.
JEEEEEEEZ!!!! This guy had better chops at 16 (probably 12 too) than I do at 46. Although I had to quit playing a few years ago due to carpal tunnel in both wrist, I still couldn't play with the fluidity this guy did at 16. He's truly a gifted player, and I'm looking forward to seeing him again in St. Louis.
I love how people say he's a Stevie clone... even when he was young he wasn't a Stevie clone. Look at the first few minutes of him playing on stage... Stevie ever play it slow like that? Stevie had his slow jams but he had much more dense phrasing than those runs Joe was making. If anything, the beginning sounds like a BB clone moreso than a Stevie clone.
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I've heard him play other things and he sounds like another stevie ray copycat that is only playing different because he can't play stevie. Wow he's a child prodigy...have you heard him lately, he sounds like eric johnson and eric johnson totally changed into a guy who uses a crappy fuzz face tone.
BWAHAHAHA are you for real? You must be one really dense motherfucker to talk shit like that. Have you even been to one of his concerts or really listened to him? He's a great, really diverse player who has a lot of soul. Fuck he rips even when he was sixteen, and he's only improved since. You are just an ignorant retard. I've seen what you saved to your favorites and it defies belief, you dumb piece of horseshit.
Why do people talk so much Shit on this website. If you guys had half this guys talent you'd get somewhere! Although with attitude's like that-definatley nowhere!
does he realise his country lick blues and rock licks are exactly the same but distortion slightly varied... but i guess clapton has survived like 40 years on one mode and scale.. fair play. listen to tony joe whites swamp blues and jj cale and lonnie mack or roy buchanan some really good blues!!
These are some very good comments. I've been playing myself now since the age of 11 (I'm 51 now) and have ALWAYS loved the blues (thanks to Clapton and Hendrix for turning me on to blues in the 60's) but it was SRV who REALLY opened the door for me and showed me what could be done with a guitar and the blues.
I have NO problem mentioning this guys name in the same sentence as Stevie, Jimi and Eric.
Anybody who says BB King is an overrated guitar player clearly doesn't know anything about the blues / players. The real ? is why is he even wasting his time posting about something that he know nothing about..??!!
OH YEA, theres an amp builder here in memphis that builds exclusively tube amps, (all i play) built to anything you wish, ROBT
HENSON is his name, a "GOTTA HAVE" AMP!
Tomcaatt 1 month ago
yea , HEY JOE, your gettin a little boring( almost as boring as clapton) in your old age , you HAVE ABSOLUTELY PROVEN YOURSELF!!!!!?
SO lets have a little THROWBACK ! and forget the page, hendrix, clapton stuff. I WANNA HEAR YOUUUUUU!
(T.C., memphis,unproffesional player since your starting age bout 7,1968).
Tomcaatt 1 month ago
wtf...just fucking love that guy..
DesTigersEnte 3 months ago
terribleeeeeee
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I've been waiting a long time for someone who can do the following:
1. Lay down rock, rock blues and blues tunes that will have you picking your jaw up off the floor. 2. Absolutely rip apart the fretboard by applying multilple techniques and blazing chops (this guy is NOT a one trick pony) from song to song and even within a song. 3. Have a voice that supports his guitar work AND can sing within the framework of multiple styles (rock, blues, rock blues etc..). JOE BONAMASSA is the REAL DEAL!!!
genxxxersize 5 months ago
damn his tone is great in the beginning
xSnoweyexp 7 months ago
If you want to hear some of his best, try Bloodline. Great early stuff without him singing, just playing.
stevescasa 7 months ago
I kinda like Joe Bonamassa when he played then more so then now. I think he played with alot more intensity...like he was still trying to prove himself.
jabencarterinsurance 9 months ago
starting form 5:30 it's simply insane ! This guy has a feel for music which is absolutely unique !
TheRockingChairsYT 9 months ago
i love how he says "That's like a kinda SLOW lick" and it was faster than ive ever played anything ever. Ha, GO JOE
nikgottheblues 10 months ago 2
Anyone know the blues-rock song that kicks in at 4:26? I'd really appreciate it.
kasitera 10 months ago
@kasitera Maybe a variation on Funk 49 by Joe Walsh/James Gang...
Phreddieboy 8 months ago
Joe Bonamassa plays at the beginning of which number????
Lily92635 11 months ago
does anyone know where i can find all these videos of him as a kid ???
23645645 1 year ago
@23645645 we will be uploading those soon in our new official channel. Please sub and stay tuned!
JoeBonamassaTV 1 year ago
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JoeBonamassaTV 1 year ago
only the best, this is one of them, great honer to him
roepiepie 1 year ago
when did Bill Murray became british?
rodrigozamo 1 year ago 3
...because the blues is not about being sad.. its about an empathic soul...
14luisalonso 1 year ago
There are people who are a legend even when they aren't dead....!
LarsGuitars92 1 year ago
Stevie Ray who??!!!
TitanicFanatic1000 1 year ago
@TitanicFanatic1000 vaughan...jb is great but lets not get crazy.
shreadx 1 year ago
@TitanicFanatic1000 you´re an ahole..
SRV always got the highest, strongest, most passioned tone at playing and singing..
joe is so so so great, but you gotta respect the legends dude
pedrinme 1 year ago
@pedrinme Ugggh I'm so sorry that was my sister who wrote that. I need to stop letting her use my account!!!!!
TitanicFanatic1000 1 year ago
1 he was born for it , 2 he's not black and he plays the blues , 3 he was listening the best , 4 bb king said it's one of a kind, 5 he's got rythym-melody- harmony the 3 elements of music , 6 he's considered to be the best youngest blues guitar player , 7 he's considered to be one of the best guitar players of all time, 8 he has an incredible voice, 9 eric clapton played with him , 10 he oppened the concert of bb king by the age of 12......... 10 reasons why you should listen to JOE BONAMASSA
jimimat 1 year ago 8
@jimimat not to be a dick but you forgot to mention his music!!!!
as in, listen to a song and that will be, usually, enough reason.
one more! he is awesome enough for someone to write 10 reasons why you should listen to him on youtube!!
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dude, I'm 14, I play the guitar for like 4 years now, and I already know that I will NEVER be as good as he is, never in my whole life. and he is only 16 here!!!
alkleiza1995 1 year ago
The MAN!! Thanks BB for bringing him into the light. Ben Robinson
benadmin 1 year ago
How old is he at 4:10?
318825768 1 year ago
dude, he must've been the luckiest kid in the whole world when he discovered his own talent. I'm SO jalous (sorry for my bad English)
alkleiza1995 1 year ago 3
hot dog, that "Country lick" is kickin'!
eric1love 1 year ago 4
lmao that guys hair at like 2 50 looks like he got electricuted
JmAA7192 1 year ago
man I wish I could play like that
bjburesh1980 1 year ago
HOLY CRAP HE DAMN GOOD AT 16
johnnystewartmusic 1 year ago
Country, just play as fast as you can! :D
legend212121 2 years ago
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I am much better then joe.
shoesalesmanBundy 2 years ago
any 1 got any ideas how to get that country tone?
loberz 2 years ago
if you have a fender just use your brige pickup and an amp with very little distortion.
fastfret94 2 years ago 2
@fastfret94 Do you no how I could get that tone on 4:30
mike1jimmypage 2 years ago
@mike1jimmypage You could use something like a Marshall with little distortion and a fender using the bridge pickup.
fastfret94 1 year ago
Thanks man.
mike1jimmypage 1 year ago
@mike1jimmypage sounds like a little fender amp breaking up (distorting) just a little bit. with the reverb you almost think it's an octaver but it's not, just wet fender reverb.. anyways that's what i think, based on my experience with amps and strats.
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My biggest problem is with musicians who wear hats. Muddy Waters got away with it at a push, but look at the scottish hotwater bottle he wears on his head at 1:59! Doyle, Eric and Derek don't wear hats...do they?
lsw444 2 years ago
lsw444,
In the post below santacruezz just mentioned SRV which reminded me that he always wore a hat. So what do you think...did SRV get away with it? BTW...Joe doesn't wear a hat anymore. In this video of him playing he was a teenager.
000grungehead000 2 years ago
he doesn't play fender anymore either. all gibsons, prs's, and ernie ball music man guitars.
wileypayote 2 years ago
i saw him playing a strat twice, had some weird golden painting on it...an he still uses his aluminium tele, doesn't he?
joeardanillo 1 year ago
I couldn't say. He can use whatever he feels like using. the first time I ever heard his music was at a concert in Chicago back '09. I heard about him for years through music dispatch. When I saw him in concert he played a gibson les Paul or several of them, a PRS model, and a 25th anniversary edition Ernie Ball Music Man, and his music in that show was so much more commercially refined then what we are hearing from this you tube video. It was more rock based and not traditional blues.
wileypayote 1 year ago
haha, why does that matter at all?
pettrucciisgod 2 years ago
hank williams ?
vintagereproguitarra 2 years ago
MAJOR chops for 16
blackhawk1788 2 years ago 19
@blackhawk1788 Major chops for 36.
johnnystevens1975 7 months ago
@johnnystevens1975
34 actually
infinityjet 5 months ago
@infinityjet Even better! :)
johnnystevens1975 5 months ago
@johnnystevens1975
yes!:)
infinityjet 5 months ago
@blackhawk1788 MINOR chops for 16, he spends most of his time in minor keys...... :P
muzikislife9 5 months ago
ronaldo!
lolkiko 2 years ago 2
wow,,, i never heard of him but he is great.....and come to find out he was born in the same city as me and i live right around from the bar"modernistic" he first played at.....
rywilliams4379 2 years ago
joe has a very big head, a buddy of mine met him before. was walking around backstage like he owned the damn place. and none of his licks are his own.
kristofferpence 2 years ago
don't know what you're talking about. I've talked with him several times. Even gave me free tickets one time because i was to young to get in the place and he knew I wanted to go... he got me in.... didn't/doesn't even know me. he's definitely a class act. And give me the name of one guitarist that doesn't take influence from another player? He has plenty of his own licks.... and has his own sound
claptonhendrix1 2 years ago 3
The guy at 2:42 looks like he got struck by lightning!
standarsh9 2 years ago 3
lol reminds me of A.Einstein
777AMAYA 2 years ago
lol he says joes guitar playing is freakish just like a cat shouldve said just like my hair
zakk06 2 years ago
damn..
shiteyes84 2 years ago
hes so good! :)
smithytrio 2 years ago 2
Great vid
ReclaimBritain 2 years ago 2
5:33
face melted
ru4dlord 2 years ago
that's an amazing strat at the end!
love and peace
Wooodstock69 2 years ago
sorta reminds me of the whole shawn lane thing
toxicity28 2 years ago
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i much prefer his early playing. i hate his delay drenched nonsense these days
crobins333 2 years ago
Get over yourself
ice9001 2 years ago
drop me a line sometime.... maybe you can teach me to be more like you! dickhead
crobins333 2 years ago 2
You seem to be doing fine on yer own DICKHEAD haha who says that nowadays Grandad
ice9001 2 years ago
a fine job of what? acting like you? in which case you either think im cool or your a twat! good one
and grandad? thats a much better insult. keep it up.... dickhead
crobins333 2 years ago
As I said you are already there you need to learn nothing from me
ice9001 2 years ago
sick vibrato at the 1:06 mark
snowman2kmill 2 years ago 2
Theres no way he did he did srv note for note at 6
Stratcat1959 3 years ago
...which is why his father said, "almost note for note"...
nimnestl 2 years ago 3
that is still unrealistic, and joe himself said he didn't play blues until he was 7
VeniceKing1 2 years ago
wish he still played fenders. i think they have the best tone for any type of music but especially the blues
JKryanX 3 years ago
Man that is untrue! What do Freddie King, Albert King, BB King, Early Clapton, Gary Moore, Warren Hayes, Duane Alman, T Bone Walker, and Paul Kossof to name a few have in common? They all played Gibsons, and there are some of the best blues players in history, so please donl't regurgitate the same tired old crap about fender's being the best blues guitars, cause how good a guitar sounds in the blues is in the person using it. Hound Dog Taylor used a cheap sears guitar for god's sake!
bnapoleonc123 3 years ago 4
but the monster of all tone is strat and thats SRV lol
Stratcat1959 3 years ago
It's the players preferance, not the audiences for what guitar the guitarist plays, he still plays fenders here and there though
WhineyGuitarplayer 2 years ago 2
The problem with Joe is that he doesn't have his own style and sound yet unfortunately. He is still a copycat, wannabe and an emulator of someone else style and sound of SRV, Hendrix and people like them which is wrong. There will never be someone like Hendrix and SRV cause they were one of a kind, unique and special, and people need to stop looking who will carry on their thing. Joe and guys like him need to look to be theirselfs, with their own sound and style to be remembered.
grga888 3 years ago
A copycat, lol dude. Get his disography. You are badly mistaken >_____>
GoodGawd 3 years ago 4
You obviously know nothing about music. There are very few guitar players that have there own unique sound. Jeff Beck being one of them. SRV uses a ton of Albert King licks ansd so did Hendrix. Listen to an old Frddie King cd and you will swear it is Clapton. Joe takes all of his influences and makes his own sound. That is what SRV and Hendrix did. Joe is a great talent to cary on the electric blues torch.
backroadjunkie 3 years ago 4
OK y'all,do you see a common thread here? Everybody's comparing Joe to all of the greatest guitar players that ever lived. No, he's not SRV, he's not Hendrix, not Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks or Robin Trower, not Eric Clapton, BB, Freddie, or Albert King, but he's just as talented as any of them in his own style. Joe's not a copycat and isn't a cover band. He's making his own music, and the style of many greats can be heard in his music as well as his own.Let's face it, Joe IS one of the greats.
HFTONE 3 years ago
I actually wish Joe would become a copycat and give his own take on the classics.
SRV did and for me he (SRV) made great songs better, I think Joe has the chops to do the same. JMO.
Epiha 3 years ago
this guy is pretty damn good, but he's no Warren Haynes or Derek Trucks.
irtimed 3 years ago
I have played with warren Haynes and he is great but Joe has no equal in rock or blues
boydrjp 3 years ago
Excuse me but way way before Stevie Ray Vaughn was even known about, emulating Hendrix and getting famous, Robin Trower had already been doing it many years before him. SRV is not the bench mark here. Anyone remember "Bridge of Sighs"
greggl61 3 years ago 3
i hear SRV too much in his playing. makes me sick.
wojtek0000 3 years ago
There is no such thing as "too much" SRV in anyones playing...
Bernauld 3 years ago
well I hear too much hendrix in SRV's playing.
besides this is just him whith a strat.
irtimed 3 years ago 2
He's definitely found his own unique sound since this video.
texasflood93 3 years ago
i don't dig SRV type guitarists. they imitated him so much that they became watered-down versions of SRV. no originality.
wojtek0000 3 years ago
Well he was only 16 in this vid and is very original no matter what u say
doncampbell95 3 years ago 2
i don't argue that he is a great guitar player but he sounds just like SRV. too much like him. he is a wanabe SRV, just look at the hat. maybe the kid will grow out of it. he will need to if he wants to be respected as an individual artist.
wojtek0000 3 years ago
i know but now he is like 22 and got rid of that and has a very original sound
doncampbell95 3 years ago 3
dude! loose the hat. you're not SRV. get over it. be YOU.
wojtek0000 3 years ago
I'm selling all my guitars....kid's great.
mvarel 3 years ago 2
That picture of Joe & BB at the beginning of this clip, I TOOK IT! How the hell did it end up on a foreign post? Can I at least get a credit Len!
grbullets 3 years ago
What else have you shot?
racepixrich 3 years ago
I was Joe's "unofficial" photographer for the first 4 or 5 years when he first started playing around central NY, which is where he's from. He was 12 when he started playing clubs around here. I've also shot a lot of other blues greats when they came through town, but just for my own photo collection. Got a lot of Allman Bros., but not many of just Greg. He hides behind the B-3.
grbullets 3 years ago
bluesguitar genius!
arek1212 3 years ago
yeahh hes really in to Eric Johnson Stuff w/c is nice ..
JcShredder 3 years ago
I like Joe a lot,and would definetely say he is one of the best blues&rock guitarists today along with Ana Popovic (strange how nobody mentions her)? She is a living queen of blues and rock guitar! A total blast,and a rare talent to find,like Joe!
grga888 3 years ago
I just saw Ana Popovic a few weeks ago and Joe last week. She couldn't pop a pimple on Joe's ass.
racepixrich 3 years ago 2
Don't talk shit like that....
I saw Ana many times, and she is amazing...
She is in the same basket with Joe, maybe even better.. At least she has a better voice, better records, and is more versatile as a guitar player....
If you don't like her, that is ok, but than don't talk shit like that...
She is one of best and most talented guitar players around today...
grga888 3 years ago
LOL... Either you're musicly inept or you're listening with your dick. Or maybe just deaf. She's not bad, but she's a gimmick. If she weren't a chick, nobody would even hear of her.
racepixrich 3 years ago 9
Oh and to racepixrich,
dude you are so retarded, Ana is so much better than Joe. She at least has her own unique and special style, and she writes much better songs than Joe and is a better vocalist than Joe. She is a chick, but a chick that knows how to play guitar and knows how to carry blues/rock music with a bit of jazz and pop in it to a whole new level.
You obviously know nothing about music and guitar playing, get a life.
grga888 3 years ago
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha... Whatever
racepixrich 3 years ago
Joe got away from the stevie ray sound years ago...you hear a ot more eric johnson in his style, he is copying, true...but he mixes various styles to his own. gifted player, with soul
santacruezz 2 years ago 3
lmao..he sounds like every other blues player out there.
JonDeth 3 years ago
ya hes only 16 there and hes like 32 now hes way better now you should here his acustic srry bout the spelling
mightymuggin777 3 years ago
Yeah but where's his break through album? If I had the resources this kid does, I'd be a millionaire a thousand times over already. Unfortunately, life is a whole hell of a lot harder for some of us.
JonDeth 3 years ago
Watch for his world blues album. I would say being number a #1 album (his Last 2) on the blues charts should be considered a break through. He told Atl. records to fuck off about 4 or 5 years ago which should be amount to the reason why he is not all over the radio.
Joe is so different than other blues players.
He is so well rounded & diverse. You will see if you ever see him play live.
By the way, Sam Leach the Beatles promotor of 30 yrs said he is the best live blues act on the planet.
33buddie 3 years ago
It's nothing personal but as a guitarist, I don't find ANY blues player original because it's simple structure makes it impossible to be. Look at all the sweep shredders, they're a dime a dozen and out to prove who's faster and blah blah blah. I don't give a shit what some producer or writer says, I know what my ears tell me. Joe is a great player but when your focus is on blues..basically since the 90's you're shooting yourself in the foot.HUGE band then die, only way to become a legend anymore
JonDeth 3 years ago
lol! There's a reason you're some washup criticizing players on youtube and he's out there playing 300 shows a year.
Break through album? Other than all of them, I'd say Blues Deluxe.
The fact that you don't find ANY blues player original is laughable. Jimi Hendrix wasn't original? Stevie Ray Vaughan wasn't original? Albert Collins wasn't original? Do you mind informing us of some "original guitarists"? And if you reply with Malmsteen you will be banned from commenting ever again.
meatspinnage 3 years ago
You're clearly not a guitarist because I hate to break the news to you but SRV and Hendrix are two of THE most hated guitarists to other guitarists that have moved beyond blues and hard rock.
I don't tell you how to stroke old man pole so don't go telling me how to rate other guitarists and for that matter, what music to like. He's a good blues player, most every guitarist is or will be. Blues is the foundation for most guitarists, myself included.
JonDeth 3 years ago
Actually Hendrix was very much a Buddy Guy copy and Stevie Ray Vaughan is Hendrix + Albert King. (Simpled down of course.)
JilaX 3 years ago
this guys great..definantly one of my fav blues players..he plays these sick ass licks and clean as fuck too.
but i still love hendrix more..hendrix is just so good of a writer man..i love his psychedelic shit..even his funky/bluesier shit with the band of gypsys
to me, you can't beat hendrix
jduran9123 3 years ago
hes better than HendrIx i saw joe live
mightymuggin777 3 years ago
no fucking way..
thats stupid to say
hendrix beats this guy in everyway
the only thing hes really got is speed
thats about it
i personally dont like his band
but i think hes a great player
jduran9123 3 years ago
LOL" the only hes really got is speed" "THATS ABOUT IT!?" This guy has got to be one of the greatest blues guitarist of my generation. IMO. but yeah, no one can match Jimi Hendrix for what he did for music and his creativity.
smotpoker86 3 years ago
Smoke some more pot! Joe had more soul (without taking acid) at the age of 12 than Jimi ever did! Hendrix just happened to be around at the right time, thats all there is to that tune!
grbullets 3 years ago
that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Hendrix did to music what George Carlin did to comedy. He changed so much in music today. Plus he died very young, he would have gone far beyond what he had done (and thats saying alot). He was about to make an album with miles davis, whitch would have been amazing no doubt.
irtimed 3 years ago
Joe is truly a great guitar player. It just seems to me hes still in the process of finding a very distinct signature sound. I hear too much Eric Johnson in his current sound. Not that that is a bad thing. I just think he truly will come in to his own at some point and possibly become a legend to be remembered. I wish I had half this guys talent.
robrippen 3 years ago
Yes Joe is excellent but lets not forget the greatest living guitar player today. Walter Trout!
jimb986 3 years ago
at 16 ill rank him up there with SRV and hendrix easily ..technically and musically..certainly a gifted player..claptons no where near this kid man
guitarman069 3 years ago 3
I guess the hendrix comparison will always be made - but JH was an innovator - he changed things. JB seems to be more evolution than revolution. Exceptionally talented though, and a joy to behold. It's interesting that he is trying to establish his own trademark sound - a sort of legacy I guess. I think this will only impose limitations on his multitude of styles.
For me, I prefer some of his slower licks - but he certainly shows a bit of Albert Lee in his country jam. Outstanding talent.
quedgeminkey 3 years ago 2
i couldnt agree more mate, i honestly couldnt agree haha,
but i love his emotively places wanking, hes just an honest guy and it comes out in his playing
jamie241290 3 years ago
yer wrong
urheadonastick 3 years ago
JEEEEEEEZ!!!! This guy had better chops at 16 (probably 12 too) than I do at 46. Although I had to quit playing a few years ago due to carpal tunnel in both wrist, I still couldn't play with the fluidity this guy did at 16. He's truly a gifted player, and I'm looking forward to seeing him again in St. Louis.
d6p2 3 years ago
This guy is going to be the next greatest thing, possibly the best of all time. I'm going to see him this June in Ohio! I can not wait!
AeroShadow07 3 years ago
wow,amazing
kleofaz 3 years ago
he reminds me of a young clapton
yu0004ng 3 years ago
If that is the case, at what point did Clapton forget how to play like this?
The old Clapton certainly does not have this kind of talent.
quedgeminkey 3 years ago
check out his work with cream and the bluesbreakers. but i think bonamassa is better tone wise
yu0004ng 3 years ago
Wow I wish I could do that.
kzearo 3 years ago 4
could anyone tell me about the piece he is playing on the guitar when he is talking about blues rockies?is it a song or is he improvising?thanks
xspeed7555 4 years ago
Actually he says "'blues-rock' is...". He's improvising in the blues-rock style. :)
marcelziul 3 years ago
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i played tonight for a crowd.... "hardcore crowd".... hope my mom will wake up soon.... my face is bleeding.... fuck u...
ingenjoe1 4 years ago
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You're an idiot.
jonrya91 4 years ago
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this guy pisses all over srv. Srv osund dated at the time where this guy is offering sumfing fifferent and fresh. Srv wasa a hendrix wanabe
yam412v 4 years ago
wow you're an idiot. Joe is the man though.
bdam123 4 years ago 5
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scot henderson playes simular style blues
petar870602 4 years ago
He is actually incredible. I wish people would stop going on about him being an SRV clone. You could say that about most blues musicians today.
Tillekaratne 4 years ago 4
This guy has much more variety than SRV IMO. Flame away.
sanders4617 4 years ago
I know Joe, and I can say that he hates being compared to other guitarplayers.
MadsBah 3 years ago
every guitarist hates that... every last one
carswell98 3 years ago
BB said it..."One of a kind."
I would give anything just to meet Joe. He is my ultimate idol.
AeroShadow07 3 years ago
I love how people say he's a Stevie clone... even when he was young he wasn't a Stevie clone. Look at the first few minutes of him playing on stage... Stevie ever play it slow like that? Stevie had his slow jams but he had much more dense phrasing than those runs Joe was making. If anything, the beginning sounds like a BB clone moreso than a Stevie clone.
meatspinnage 4 years ago 4
joe is such a dork i love him
Homelife08 4 years ago 3
I love you Joe....There's nobody like you....never has been....never will be again....
You make my day great cuz you're so beautiful....
it's in your soul...
that's why it's in your music......
pierrelily 4 years ago
Excellent in every regard!
gatocabrito 4 years ago
WOW WTF!
whoahawesome 4 years ago
He is gifted man,stop talking shit about him.
Kanamaktahs666 4 years ago 8
This kid is great I've seen him 4 times in the last 2 years and he has blown the crowd away with his talent
mortimer1954 4 years ago
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I've heard him play other things and he sounds like another stevie ray copycat that is only playing different because he can't play stevie. Wow he's a child prodigy...have you heard him lately, he sounds like eric johnson and eric johnson totally changed into a guy who uses a crappy fuzz face tone.
ckoochaka 4 years ago
BWAHAHAHA are you for real? You must be one really dense motherfucker to talk shit like that. Have you even been to one of his concerts or really listened to him? He's a great, really diverse player who has a lot of soul. Fuck he rips even when he was sixteen, and he's only improved since. You are just an ignorant retard. I've seen what you saved to your favorites and it defies belief, you dumb piece of horseshit.
drekbakstuut 4 years ago 2
Well I agree minus the lame internet insults your point is correct why dilute it with trash.
merrilltim 4 years ago
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i gotta agree with ckoochaka bud and he's a fat twat
peclizzi 4 years ago
Joe is good. Good, good, good.
shellysmilin 4 years ago
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Faye Henderson
singer in same network.
Would love to be on stage with you Joe. You are great.
j9a6r5r3n 4 years ago
tooooooooo good to be true!
Pribooo 4 years ago
... no more words... hear it
tommyx23 4 years ago
This guys is goooooooood. Should jam with him sometime.
reening 4 years ago
It seems the naysayers are almost always wrong on Youtube, i propose we point and laugh at them.
Moesizla 4 years ago
Why do people talk so much Shit on this website. If you guys had half this guys talent you'd get somewhere! Although with attitude's like that-definatley nowhere!
fuse5150 4 years ago
does he realise his country lick blues and rock licks are exactly the same but distortion slightly varied... but i guess clapton has survived like 40 years on one mode and scale.. fair play. listen to tony joe whites swamp blues and jj cale and lonnie mack or roy buchanan some really good blues!!
maxstunner100 4 years ago
he makes me wana cry like a little school girl,....
theman8890 4 years ago
GuitarWorld
These are some very good comments. I've been playing myself now since the age of 11 (I'm 51 now) and have ALWAYS loved the blues (thanks to Clapton and Hendrix for turning me on to blues in the 60's) but it was SRV who REALLY opened the door for me and showed me what could be done with a guitar and the blues.
I have NO problem mentioning this guys name in the same sentence as Stevie, Jimi and Eric.
MARKGPL 4 years ago
Anybody who says BB King is an overrated guitar player clearly doesn't know anything about the blues / players. The real ? is why is he even wasting his time posting about something that he know nothing about..??!!
Go figure..!!
MARKGPL 4 years ago
The bit where he plays the same lick in blues, rock, jazz and country styles is freaky!!!