Joe Bonamassa - Tea For One

[Bemol1972]

5:05 - 5:29 --> how the fuck is this supposed to be ever played by a mortal?

[00roastedlampost00]

@Bemol1972 I'm sat here with my guitar, right now, thinking much the same thing ;)

[doable1]

Can't compare Page to Bonamassa or anyone for that matter. There is no better to worse. One thing for sure,..there would be no Joe Bonamassa had it not been for Page and the rest that came before.

[WwWMaNiAk]

SUPER !!!

[erasmus1511]

superb

[metsjets315]

this was a beautifully written song by page, very different and unique, and most dont realize how technical and exact page was note for note. but still an awesome cover by jb

[apocolypticchrist]

Dam.......you threw Robert Plants vocals on this..........it would freakin rule. The guitar definelty rivals the orignal.

[bthyname1]

I dont care who sings it or plays it ,one great song, great job by all .Led Bonamassa

[SupernalOne]

Re Page v Bonamassa, it really does seem that Page plays from the head, which I like a lot in hard rock, but true blues must come from the heart, which is what Bonamassa does wonderfully here - one must be moved, not merely excited, and Joe simply knocks me out - the guitar seems to be putting emotions into musical phrases - fuckin' lovely!

[SupernalOne]

like the tone of JB's guitar here better than Page's on this cut - spacier, juicier, sweeter, stronger -

[limey47]

For those that feel the need to bash Jimmy Page you have to realize that JP wrote this song and remains to be a living legend - one of the absolute best. It's pretty obvious that Joe Bonamassa played an excellent cover, but it is exactly that a cover clearly Joe admires Jimmy's work why else would he copy.

[bloodygibs]

Super sexy song. Everyone should get laid to this, highly recommended for anyone with a sex drive. Even you don't have one, it's a terrific piece of art as covers go. These leads are pure bliss.. Hell yeah.

[Mrguitarbeginner101]

When plant was asked about this song on planet rock he replied "hes just showing off". I think he knows bJoe had blown the original away!!

[barkerpsb]

its easier to copy than create, love joe but why do you think he play,s jimmy page stuff ,because he loves like many people the originality of the riffs jimmy page created, so many,

[Mrguitarbeginner101]

@barkerpsb But Page ripped off nearly all his songs from unknown artists?? Look it up on here.

I love led zep so not one of the haters but I seen the truth BUT still love there songs and is always one of my got to bands when listening to the ipod

[ThrashRoC]

ilike joe bonamassa more and more , he is a brilliant guitarist and singer too

this zep song is awesome done !!

[Sirocco1986]

ohhhh my.... 2:32

[Deuterium2H]

@Marksking:

Joe Bonamassa is undeniably a great guitarist. But "best of any alive today" ??  Using your analogy, I submit that Bonamassa couldn't hold Yngwie Malmsteen's guitar strap. Yngwie could play anything Bonamassa can play, but the reverse is NOT true. And Yngwie can play some mean blues, when he chooses. If we limit the field to pure "blues" players, then you also got Derek Truks, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Chris Duarte, etc. And I believe some guy named Clapton still plays.

[petecogs]

I bet if you took the original version and washed it with a few effects, flange , phase or leslie, loads of reverb, something like that and added a second rate string section you'd have this. And a totally superficial and technically limited solo of course. Most pub bands would do a better job. :-OI> Prix. And don't come back with Led Zep comparisons, narrow minded nonsense.

[NecrotizedRock]

At first I thought it was Trower ha ha ROBIN TROWER - duh!!!The singer sounds like James Dewar!! I was lucky enough to be in the 1st 5 rows at Waterbury's (CT) Palace theater for a Trower concert in the later '70's. Before the Royal Albert Hall on PBS, I had never heard of Joe Bonamassa. FINALLY someome relatively new who can ROCK!!!. RAP IS CRAP and disco STILL SUCKS!!! Nobody plays good rythyms with actual lead riffs anymore-'cept U2 Most "rock" now is a pile of Doo Doo

[TheFairydust65]

Just some nasty wicked sh.. here...I love it....Dam..thanks for the post

[GreenRad2012]

I'm not getting caught-up in the "LZ vs. JB" stuff (I am a huge fan of BOTH), nor do I hear this song from a purely technical angle. It just speaks to me, down deep, about loss and grief and the agony of regret. It drives me to tears every time I hear it and that is enough for me.. JB says in an interview (I saw somewhere here on YT) that he plays "from the heart, not the head," and it is so friggin' evident in this work of Art!!

[blueeyedbluesboy]

@GreenRad2012 What a great comment. Thanks for it. It comes from the heart and should go through the heart.

[GreenRad2012]

@blueeyedbluesboy: =exactly= Thank you!

[n9xyn]

Page is fantastic but fucked up.... bonamassa is absolute perfection. It truly depends upon what you prefer. If you think that such a clean sound is the best then great, but Page has this f***ed upness that is unique... His style and sound are so unique that he must be called one of the greatest. On the other hand, Bonamassa has such incredible cleanliness and rhythm to his music that he must be put on the same step. In the end its a matter of taste. What matters is that this song is incredible

[n9xyn]

Page is fantastic but fucked up.... bonamassa is absolute perfection. It truly depends upon what you prefer. If you think that such a clean sound is the best then great, but Page has this f***ed upness that is unique... His style and sound are so unique that he must be called one of the greatest. On the other hand, Bonamassa has such incredible cleanliness and rhythm to his music that he must be put on the same step. In the end its a matter of taste. What matters is that this song is incredible.

[sharrer2]

To Not Call Page Great, Should result in your immediate death. Bonamassa is a technically better guitarist. But Page is the greater one of the two. Bonamassa is mind blowing no doubt, but Page is Page. And he didn't create Led Zeppelin by being a hack. Again, I love ALL of Bonamassa's work. He is truly underrated, but page is just better. And another point. WHY WOULD YOU EVEN COMPARE?

[Marksking]

@sharrer2 I guess some folks are still brainwashed that Led Zeplin was a great band and Page was a great guitarist. And death because I don't blindly follow page and drink the koolaid, sorry you're way to passionate.

[sharrer2]

@Marksking You have your opinion. And I have mine.

[Marksking]

I've seen Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page, Joe Bonamassa, Alvin Lee, Johnny Winter and a few others, by far the worst guitarist was Page. He was good guitarist, don't get me wrong., his entry to the solo on Since I've been Loving You was and is classic, and a great solo. But he was just not up there with the other names, I saw him twice once in 71 and once in 75 or 76. In 71 he was good, the second I thing the heroin had gotten to him. Joe is the best out there today.

[jinma2]

Joe being Joe amazing at everthing he touches...

[Marksking]

For you Zep Heads, listen to both, Page couldn't hold Bonamassa's guitar strap in this song or any other. Page was a good guitarist, but never a great guitarist, Joe is a GREAT guitarist. Best of any alive today, I would rate him with uo with SRV and Clapton. This blows the original away.

[blueeyedbluesboy]

@Marksking I wouldn't dare to call Page not a great guitarist. Maybe there are different definitions of being great. But I agree, Bonamassa is great :)

[SupernalOne]

@Marksking

I would tend to agree, certainly that Page wrote some great songs but he still played like a studio musician, I never saw in him quite the degree of "getting into" his playing that some great guitarists do, and that Bonamassa does here. Intellect vs heart, maybe?

[GreenRad2012]

@SupernalOne: JB said as much in an interview (it is here on YT somewhere): he plays from the heart, NOT the head.. and damn does it show! He get's me down deep and it's not an intellectual experience, but pure emotion.

[SupernalOne]

@GreenRad2012

ha, true, Stevie Ray Vaughn said pretty much the same thing - not having studied music, he more or less felt his way into his playing - and that's what electric guitar is supposed to be about:heartfelt virtuosity - check out Rory Gallagher if you don't know him, he's not as accomplished as JB but he knew how to move an audience - see Flying Off the Handle - one is supposed to be moved, not merely overloaded - hey, and that's the blues for ya -

Cheers!

[Marksking]

@SupernalOne Rory was a great guitarist for his time. True he wasn't as polished as Joe or Eric, but just the same a great guitarist. I saw him many many years ago in a bar in Columbus called the Agora, he blew the place away.

[GreenRad2012]

@Marksking: thank you for having the cojones to say it. I am a DIE HARD LZ fan AND this version is so damned GOOD is leaves the original far behind ..I know it's sacrilege to say it, but it's true. Smokin' Joe is abso-freakin-lutely AMAZING.

[57mab]

@Marksking In my opinion - It's like anything, a matter of taste, impossible to rate guitarists on the speed at which they play scales or riffs, etc. There are 100 guitarists in Dallas that can "play" this music, but they didn't write it, didn't forge new ground, didn't make their own reputation with their own music. You can't compare Jimmy Page to any other guitarist or vice versa and make blanket statements about who is best. To me this track sounds like Robin Trower.

[Marksking]

@57mab Robin Trower????? You have got to be shitting me. Robin could never hit the notes on this or any of Bonamassa's music. As far as forging new ground, how did Page do that? By ripping off blues artists songs and putting his and Plants name to it, playing guitar with a violin bow? PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE.

[TheCleanshave]

@57mab maybe u didnt got me there. i didnt say:

page is the best guitarist,

i said. page is THE BEST! he created loads of unthinkable songs and is an insperation to many ppl ^^ ofc. joe is really great. page achieved a higher lvl of greatness ^^ maybe joe will become like page, when he reached a bit more age

[57mab]

@TheCleanshave - I was responding to Marksking ;) I mislabeled it.

[TheCleanshave]

@Marksking tbh, page. can never be beaten. else u havent seen: white summer, black mountain side.

[Marksking]

@TheCleanshave WTF u taliking about

[TheCleanshave]

@Marksking you have alot to learn about music ^^

[Marksking]

@TheCleanshave After 47 years of being in and around music, I think I have a leg up on most.

[shorer1]

@Marksking The only way this could be considered better than the original is if Robert Plant was singing the vocal! Otherwise it is and astounding tribute to the best Rock N'Roll band of all time!

[Marksking]

@shorer1 As I said if you have been drinking the Led Zepplin koolaid you are blind. Zepplin was not the greatist band of all time, hell, they're not even in the top five. Clear your mind and learn a little about music before you respond.

[nowandzen7]

@Marksking here's the problem, you are judging Bonamassa on a song PAGE wrote. Page's strength is not only instrumental performance, but arranging, performance, producing and composition (the hardest of all).

Two hundred years from now, when beginning guitarists are learning the chords to "Stairway to Heaven", you will find that the ability to shred is overrated.

[barkerpsb]

@Marksking sorry your missing the point , its not just about your playing skills but also about your creativity,were talking zeppelins guitar player here probably the best rock band of all time

[beatzepmoon408]

not better than the original, obviously. Bu this is the first Led Zep cover that I listen is good, the guitar and the classic orchestra listen so good together, and the solo is original, he didn't try to copy Jimmy's solo, like the most of people. I like this :)

[skcorder]

Holy Strange Black Obelisks on Tables, batman...this is the freakin' shite. I love Zep and Page beyond all other bands, but this may be one cover that is better than the orig. Wow.

[Deathblow85]

Strong original, strong voice, listen to this and a minute suddenly seems like a lifetime

[koko4857]

He play is so better than led zep! Very good guitar player! Love him! <33

[hialeahrider69]

this is definetly better than 90% of the crap thats out today

[surjagain]

Man this just goes to the depths! What an awesome honest play of words and music! Amazing indeed!

[rmg13021]

The passion in which the lyrics are interpreted is amazing!

[Overlorde1]

This is some of the best guitar Ive ever heard. Does Jimmy proud. Thanks for posting.

[rmg13021]

You did a fantastic job with this! Having the lyrics make you really appreciate Led Zeppelin blues...

[rmg13021]

I usually can't stand Led Zep tributes, this may be better than the original! Holy shit!

[blueeyedbluesboy]

Yeah... Joe is great, vocal of Doug too, if I had more time I'd put more of Bonamassa to the tube ;) Maybe your comment will encourage me ;)

[GreenRad2012]

@rmg13021: you are so RIGHT.. this cover has a vibrance and mind-blowing, deep sense of sorrow that is second to none. Pushes me down on my knees *every* time I hear it..  A-ma-zing.

[ogradyv]

@rmg13021 I agree, it kicks ass

[joe99173122]

@rmg13021 I agree... I would NEVER say that a cover of a Led Zeppelin song is better than the original, however this version is really testing my resolve on that :)

[ckit4u]

@rmg13021 it IS

[TheGalym]

@rmg13021 Yes, Jimmy led (zep) the way , with the voice of Percy next to him, which seems to be a better package than what we have here, allthough my respects to Joe all the way, and the vocals of "Doug" , but you should still listen to the original on Presence I find, regards to all of you ...