I have seen Joe a number of times and recently on this tour. He is one of those rare players, like Tommy Emmanuel or Al DiMeola, who can do ANYTHING with a guitar. They just have to will it and they can play it. It would be fascinating for neuro-scientists to see if there was some connection to these players that made them jump right to the top and build the neuronal connections that makes them, in a good way, freaks of nature compared to the rest of us who try!
the thing that make this cool; the thing that Joe had beyond talent, chops, lessons, learning etc. is that he had the balls -the attitude- to play like that at that age in front of an audience
@searayus1 That's Danny's Tele, dumbass. I guess it's too bad Danny didn't live long enough to be as smart as you, lol. What is with these blues nazis that think they know best how everyone else should do it?
my metal music is so good, that for example, in neo-classical progressive metal, at 15 notes a second without a single mistake , I almost lose consciousness because it is SO good, that it is better than sex. the most hommo-erectus question as: Does it can get any better than Joe Banana? well, If you took the time to close your TV and Radio, and see that there is 500,000 bands of extreme metal, you would go suicide because you will consider yourself too much innocent
@shelliebellie3672 No. Joe was much more of a Stevie Ray head in his early years, and has never sounded anything like Danny Gatton. He handed him a guitar. That's about it for the connection.
@FABIANM1964 I understand pumping your little boy, but papering him on Joe Bonamassa videos is like a fry cook at Burger King trying to show up Wolfgang Puck. Nico plays like an 11 year old, Joe is a once-in-a-generation special talent.
Actually, I stole that remark from Joe himself. Back in 2005 he came to town to play at Bluesfest. At a media event a reporter mentioned the video with the 12 year old Joe Bonamassa and asked if it was the same guy. Joe said “No that kid is definitely going no where”. If Joe did see my post I hope he enjoyed it.
@JayHoopero dude..... this kid is in his 30's now and just rocked the royal albert hall in 2009 and played at the 2010 crossroads guitar festival with robert randolph... also when he played the royal albert hall... Eric Clapton came out and played further on up the road with him... hahaha
i think Joe became a very good guitar player i think here is just young and not really in tune with whats going on but that obviously came with age and developing his sound.
@dokokai He's twelve. Check out any other 12 year old guitar prodigy on youtube now, playing fast sweeps and scales in heavy distortion, and come back and tell me THIS is repetetive.
@SpartacusFrye also if you've never seen it (i was being presumptuous) ...and you think JOE BANAMASSA at age 12 playing with this feeling and technical proficiency is ubiquitous then you should direct yourself to derek trucks playing layla at age 12. i think your projecting...sad really.
@realitymodel2 I don't think I got the right message across, I apologize. I should have said that while some wouldn't call this impressive for Joe (which is how I mistakenly interpreted your comment), it truly is impressive for being 12. I agree fully that the feeling and personal expression he exhibits here is unlike most people that age could do.
@SpartacusFrye All the more reason we don't need 12 year olds on stage playing & making a mockery of seasoned musicians. Let him mature before thrusting him out there. Currently he's a mature, experienced musician who is more tasteful about what he plays. Putting him up there at this age is just idiotic..no matter his ability at the time.
@dokokai Very true. That's what I meant about the abundance of 12 year old "prodigies" in today's age, I meant to sound sarcastic. In any case, it's nice to see Joe found success in his adulthood.
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!!!
@ttthomasde fuckin joke of the year arent you?....he is playing the blues since he was 12 as you can hear, unless you got your ears so shoved up your ass, jealousy aint cool my friend
@ mollers92 - Take a listen to Pain and Sorrow by Joe , there is NO One else that sounds anything else like that. It would be really hard to find anything that rivals Joe's rendition of Reconsider Baby . Jaw dropping type of stuff , rivalled by who in todays world ?
@Bobsblues - You make valid points and assessments to the mans skill and natural talent and feel. But, the argument itself is silly. Comparing, or trying to find a rival simply for conversational value is ridiculous. music is meant to express personality. Joe obviously has one. As does every other guitarist - that plays their own style.
he over plays - just a bunch of notes - going nowhere. copies gary moore. have you heard him ruin "blues deluxe? he wishs he could play like jeff. he sucks.
@dezertfox4323 Yeah, agreed. He's not developed since here really, same licks, just even more notes now. I don't get this Bonamassa thing, its cliche after cliche; for all the guy's hype he should be writing classic after classic but I can't make it through a whole solo let alone a song.
@rosoftse They play their own licks. He plays theres. You'd be surprised at the variation in their phrasing anyway. I never get bored listening to SRV and you can count the licks he uses. I have listened to Black Country Communion, not again.
@rosoftse Well I would say to any guitarist you should be coming up with your own licks and phrasing as much as possible. It isn't strange, no, but its more the extent. We all borrow off other guitarists; SRV (I'm not a fanboy I just figure he's well known to reference!) borrowed tonnes off the Kings and Hendrix, and plenty of others, but he made it his own. I don't believe Bonamassa has made it his own, when I hear BB I know its BB straight away, when I hear Bonamassa it could be anyone
@rosoftse It doesn't matter how sober or not Hendrix was. Or how tuned his guitar was, he still remains today the greatest guitarist to ever have walked the suface of the planet earth. Yes, this is my opinion, yes, music is subjective, so there's no telling who's the best, because there is no best.
first of all,all music repeats itself,ALL MUSIC,you can only be the fastest guitar player for so long,before you realize no one wants to listen to you climb your scales,give it one shot show your skills and your done.you cant go anywhere else.bend them strings,take them in a different direction.joe bonamassa is now one of the top blues player of today,anyone want to down on joe,post your skills.....lets see what you have,and who comments on you.you have nothing,why,because no one likes you.
If I hear the blues just one more time I think I'm really going to vomit! Enough's, enough - I just can't hear all those boring old riffs anymore - boring, boring, boring!
I'm going ethnic - progressive wood, acid, funk hip hoop. com bleep, bleep.....anything but the "same old blues again! ...
its amazing how the best 2 guitar players of this generation(Joe and Derek Trucks) where prodigies. check out a video of derek also jammin when he was 12
Just came across this and have to say that I enjoyed this more than his current stuff. More bluesy and I hear a whole lot of Albert Collins in this playing which I don't hear in his current stuff.
Pretty good. I think the telecaster isn't really his bag though, it's too trebly for his style. His later stuff where he uses a gibson reflects his style and tone more. And this is coming from a fender guy.
very but utmost very well done. age got nothing to do with music nor does skin colours or any of the invented shit of the separating human mind. this lil boy became a true enrichment to our good old blues on rockin horses. keep it going Joe
Here it is short and simple. I am from a family of guitar players. Joe is now in his thirty's. I have seen him three in the last 18 months. There is nobody even close and he is the only guitar player that can still send chills through my bones. Until you see him live, just shut up.
@abdpg624 - Im 52, if he started when he was 4 and he's 8 in this vid, then if I start today, but the time I'm 60.......forget it, I have no talent....
He's 12 you fucking moron... listen to that damn tone... people don't want different they want a new twist on the shit they've heard a million times and Bonamassa is definitely up there in terms of blues guitar players, or players in general. Jack White can barely play his fucking guitar....
@GuitboxmanCG The Blues Genre Is all about being expressive. It makes me laugh at dumbasses who say blues sucks, because blues is one of the 2 few genres that still have soul. Blues Has been around longer than jack white has been alive, and 2x as long as most other genre's, Blues will come back, all it takes is one person in the right place at the right time.
youtube goes to show that this isn't anything special... there's a zillion kids 10-15 who would own this kid. Not trying to talk shit... he's good... real good. But so are lots of kids. And the sad part is, he doesn't sound much different nowadays. I actually am more entertained by this than the last vid I watched of him from a recent show.
The blues in general I think is the problem... it all just sounds the same after awhile.
The Blues isn't the problem, you're the problem. You obviously don't know much about the blues if you think Joe Bonamassa is like a zillion 10-15 year old kids, that he "doesn't sound much different" 21 years later, and that the Blues "all sounds the same". So glad you were "actually entertained" by the phenomenal JB at age 12 playing the phenomenal Danny Gatton's guitar!
@conradjohnsonp10 I agree that danny gatton IS phenomenal!! If you don't think what joe is doing in this video and what he's still doing today doesn't sound generic and like a TON of other players then I don't know what to tell you. Sure joe might be a little bit faster than some other players, but his riffs aren't that unique... open your ears dude. Listen to Jack White if you want some unique blues playing.
I bow before Joe's awesomeness in this clip. I have not been much of a fan of his mainly due to not hearing much. To my ears, he sounds almost as good here as he does in the Royal Albert Hall DVD. Does that mean he's only done a little improving since he was 12?
PS I'm more into hard rawk and I enjoy Black Country Communion with Joe and Glen Hughes.
damn!! joe not only was good then , he is very good now!! i play 4 hours a day...and i think it will take me at least 5 years to get a little close to this. (so i hope)
In blues genre he his obviously one of the best but mr clapton can play a mean guitar, final decision: in guitar skill probly JB
in lyrical talent(which is just as if not more important than guitar when speaking of blues) gonna give it to Clapton he comes up with some lyrically ridiculous songs
...boy...talk about a foreshadowing of upcoming GREATNESS!!!! You don't just learn chops like this...you're born with it in your soul...Joe is certainly the next great Blues/Rock guitar Hero!!!
i think that guy should have brought back a 6pack and let joe keep the guitar what do you guys think!!!! lol we don't want to hear your version of sweet home alabama anymore!!! or Jimmy playing the banjo bluegrass sorry let joe play!!!! lol hahah
Bonamassa is the greatest. Far bye the best guitarist in his generation. If someone say´s he is bad. the guy played warm-up to BB. King at the age of 12.
And... Her.... Thanks to blues expert here for the news that Clapton, Bonamassa, SRV have no talent at all! That fundamental truth somehow escaped me until now!!
I think you are right! I have also noticed that Angelina Jolie is ugly and I am so much more beautiful than Brad Pitt. Thanks!
@GoffredoAG With all the plastic surgery, Angelina Jolie is actually ugly. But Clapton, Bonamassa and SRV are some of the best guitar players in the world. Yes, I realize it was sarcasm.
WOW!! I feel like I'm watching the 13 year old "James Page".... aka Jimmy Page. A very very adept 12-year old kid! Of course, he grew a very nice set of lungs and pipes to go with those musical hands!
what ever happened to kids this day an age surrounded by spoilt gifts by their parents and spent all the time just waisting around fucking about meanwhile this young lad was out rocking the shit out of guitar and drawing crowds to a their 100s or thousands as it is now . But what a remarkakle young lad he is i got my tickets to plymouth pavillions :D
and then he discovered girls...and he played even better. ;)
brohmanski 4 days ago
they call this the pentatonic - relative minor blues !!
MOSKII58 1 week ago
Is it just me, or does his face never change?
w00p678 3 weeks ago
Just saw Joe in Portland a couple of weeks ago. He was on top of his game. By far my favorite blues player!
tom9537 4 weeks ago
he is the best. bbking and page rolled into one. his band bcc is the best band in 20 years.
metledsabbsthica 4 weeks ago
Now is that Len lighting a butt when Joe steps up?
okierhino1 1 month ago
Joe- wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aniagniech 1 month ago
I have seen Joe a number of times and recently on this tour. He is one of those rare players, like Tommy Emmanuel or Al DiMeola, who can do ANYTHING with a guitar. They just have to will it and they can play it. It would be fascinating for neuro-scientists to see if there was some connection to these players that made them jump right to the top and build the neuronal connections that makes them, in a good way, freaks of nature compared to the rest of us who try!
HFT8088 1 month ago
The only thing wrong with this vidio is that stupid peace sign hat the idiot is wearing.
Jazmckay 1 month ago
@Jazmckay
Give peace a chance!
raybanfandom 2 weeks ago
@Jazmckay Yeah, because peace sucks.
jcisbell 1 week ago
joes got a butt load of effects but he knows how to use them how about you bar7 bleeder
MsMeatloaf69 1 month ago
He was already better than us when he was twelve. !@#$@%!
ZeppelinFan6980 1 month ago
I like him so much more playing that Fender than the sound he gets now
JHelak 1 month ago
When i was 12 I could play a couple chords
frozenfarm 1 month ago
But Joe is nevertheless awesome
MrPow19 1 month ago
LISTEN TO ALVIN LEE ENOUGH SAID
MrPow19 1 month ago
He's no Ralph Machio.
aaronbergAPB 1 month ago
the thing that make this cool; the thing that Joe had beyond talent, chops, lessons, learning etc. is that he had the balls -the attitude- to play like that at that age in front of an audience
jk1802 2 months ago
Got smart when he got older and got away from that Tele.....
searayus1 2 months ago
@searayus1 That's Danny's Tele, dumbass. I guess it's too bad Danny didn't live long enough to be as smart as you, lol. What is with these blues nazis that think they know best how everyone else should do it?
bigfatbass 1 month ago
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my metal music is so good, that for example, in neo-classical progressive metal, at 15 notes a second without a single mistake , I almost lose consciousness because it is SO good, that it is better than sex. the most hommo-erectus question as: Does it can get any better than Joe Banana? well, If you took the time to close your TV and Radio, and see that there is 500,000 bands of extreme metal, you would go suicide because you will consider yourself too much innocent
fuckyou334 2 months ago
holy shit!!!
racefaceec90 2 months ago
the new page.
metledsabbsthica 2 months ago
I'd like to know where this was at? Used to go to Joe's dad's shop in Utica in early 80"s. If you know please post. Thank's great stuff!
scotts065 2 months ago
I was watching some JB's other videos, and my first reaction was "he plays like Danny Gatton". LOL This guy is great!
drtrimmer100 2 months ago
is it safe to say that danny passed the torch to his "son" -protege of the music world. am i right or wrong?
shelliebellie3672 2 months ago
@shelliebellie3672 No. Joe was much more of a Stevie Ray head in his early years, and has never sounded anything like Danny Gatton. He handed him a guitar. That's about it for the connection.
bigfatbass 1 month ago
He mustnt have gone to school or he didnt sleep and just played blues guitar. That was out of this world for a 12 year old.
fieldfullofthistles 2 months ago
@fieldfullofthistles Absolutely agreed :)) or maybe he did not go to school AND played guitar all day long plus in his sleep! What a gifted player!
KyraMoonspell 2 months ago
Joe has a GIFT
ekpd181 2 months ago
CHECK OUT OUR JOE BONAMASSA YOUTUBE CONTEST!!!
JoeBonamassaTV 2 months ago
joe picka
Gilgurt 2 months ago
killer albert collins impression
bigpeej92 3 months ago
Joe Bonamassa is a really great guitar player but in this video if you look in my face looks like a child with Down syndrome
DioAlberoAzzurro 3 months ago
young bluez packs
ivan89705 3 months ago
And why wasnt he made president? lol what an awesome talent!!!!
jay1bug 3 months ago
Hi, Great job. Do you like Joe Bonamassa?? Take a look at my band's page.
Search "TomRBand" on youtube. We play "The great flood" by bonamassa at a gig in Mo i Rana - Norway.
TomRBand 3 months ago
I predict he will become a kick ass bluesman!
experimentalrock 3 months ago 2
that is one ugly kid
whateverman999 3 months ago
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BlueSpawnRecords 3 months ago
los albinos tienen un gen que no les permite tocar lentos!!!
elgallopunky 3 months ago
how can you be 12 and be that good?
bailian1110 3 months ago
@bailian1110 My guess is that he takes a large dose of steroids before every gig!
Fendermadlewis 3 months ago
Awesome video. Awesome player !!!
Please check out 11 year old Nico playing the blues in the video responses box
Look for : "Monday Blues" by Nico
Thanks
:)
FABIANM1964 4 months ago 49
@FABIANM1964 I understand pumping your little boy, but papering him on Joe Bonamassa videos is like a fry cook at Burger King trying to show up Wolfgang Puck. Nico plays like an 11 year old, Joe is a once-in-a-generation special talent.
bigfatbass 1 month ago
Oh my god, I passed up an opportunity to see this guy locally, and regret my stupid response. Rock on Dude!
EllJayAitch 4 months ago
what a great vid. He's got a very similar vibe to Gatton. Great phrasing..
PikeFlanigan 4 months ago
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Mind blowing. My mind has been blown.
KJVIDS82 4 months ago
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KJVIDS82 4 months ago
Actually, I stole that remark from Joe himself. Back in 2005 he came to town to play at Bluesfest. At a media event a reporter mentioned the video with the 12 year old Joe Bonamassa and asked if it was the same guy. Joe said “No that kid is definitely going no where”. If Joe did see my post I hope he enjoyed it.
JayHoopero 4 months ago
@JayHoopero It's okay. A lot of people wrestle with sarcasm in real life. So when they see it in print, there's no way the're gonna get it.
bigbabyjesus12 4 months ago
Bonamassa is a real connaisseur of the guitar - admired British guitarist Paul Kossoff
Inglese001 4 months ago
If this guy was playing like this being 12 years old, I can dream on ever reaching his level in my lifetime :P
madiskal 4 months ago
0:38 Nice hat, hippie.
HarryBalzonya78 4 months ago
@JayHoopero we've all marked down your words to note that your a hater
thetruth377 4 months ago
guy im playing guitar since 7 years and e huitar since 5 years and fuck of this is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lolmichi789 5 months ago
This kid will never amount to nothing. Mark my words.
JayHoopero 5 months ago 12
@JayHoopero dude..... this kid is in his 30's now and just rocked the royal albert hall in 2009 and played at the 2010 crossroads guitar festival with robert randolph... also when he played the royal albert hall... Eric Clapton came out and played further on up the road with him... hahaha
jm500034204 4 months ago
TO JayHoopero : Even Joe laughed when readin' your comment.
AnthonyUK100 4 months ago
Fuck me I'm twelve and never seen anything like it xD lol
aa101298 5 months ago
@aa101298 well you and i both
gamerone00 4 months ago
@aa101298 Don't ever post on the internet "fuck me I'm 12"
Just sayin'
ktimbes1983 4 months ago
He payed his dues for show. White boy owned them blues....
jamezdee 5 months ago
I want to play just like him.<3
ErosaScuderia 5 months ago
..the kid sounds a bit like Albert Collins, with that poppin tele sound...Icecube...
boocho1 5 months ago
Prodigy!
TheSCOTCHSOLACE 5 months ago
He just looks so cool. Just another day at the office!
pollyleetie 5 months ago
i think Joe became a very good guitar player i think here is just young and not really in tune with whats going on but that obviously came with age and developing his sound.
irishpride6129 5 months ago
Anyone that says anything to the effect that Joe Bonamassa 'sucks', 'generic', 'all blues sounds the same', etc... is either:
1. Ignorant
2. Deaf
3. Jealous
Or some combination of the above.
AlexK69 5 months ago 47
@AlexK69 Exactly.
Brembelia 5 months ago
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BlueSpawnRecords 3 months ago
@AlexK69 well - sometimes - he's a little generic ;0)
whynottalklikeapirat 1 month ago
Wow this gets annoying after the first few licks he plays.
dokokai 5 months ago
@dokokai He's twelve. Check out any other 12 year old guitar prodigy on youtube now, playing fast sweeps and scales in heavy distortion, and come back and tell me THIS is repetetive.
SpartacusFrye 5 months ago
@SpartacusFrye he plays with soul. at age 12. show me another video of this caliber besides the obvious derek trucks video.
realitymodel2 5 months ago
@SpartacusFrye also if you've never seen it (i was being presumptuous) ...and you think JOE BANAMASSA at age 12 playing with this feeling and technical proficiency is ubiquitous then you should direct yourself to derek trucks playing layla at age 12. i think your projecting...sad really.
realitymodel2 5 months ago
@realitymodel2 I don't think I got the right message across, I apologize. I should have said that while some wouldn't call this impressive for Joe (which is how I mistakenly interpreted your comment), it truly is impressive for being 12. I agree fully that the feeling and personal expression he exhibits here is unlike most people that age could do.
SpartacusFrye 5 months ago
@SpartacusFrye All the more reason we don't need 12 year olds on stage playing & making a mockery of seasoned musicians. Let him mature before thrusting him out there. Currently he's a mature, experienced musician who is more tasteful about what he plays. Putting him up there at this age is just idiotic..no matter his ability at the time.
dokokai 4 months ago
@dokokai Very true. That's what I meant about the abundance of 12 year old "prodigies" in today's age, I meant to sound sarcastic. In any case, it's nice to see Joe found success in his adulthood.
SpartacusFrye 4 months ago
0:52 - dude leaves because he does not want his face ripped off.
neurocosm 5 months ago
R.I.P. Danny.
guydeguy 5 months ago
all i heard is
WANK WANK WANK
mistad00m 5 months ago
..12 years huh? Yup, time for another beer
RevellAndRepend 5 months ago
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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
Awesome
hatman231 6 months ago
this is fucking insane
rcdisaster 6 months ago
glad to see that joe got through his "shredding" phase as he grew older and realized that SPEED KILLS THE FEELING.
ALBERTKING901 6 months ago
I'm almost 25 and still can't play close to this. HAD TO CRY TODAY, when saw this vid (intern joke for JB fans).
gabvendramini 6 months ago
WOW...IZ THAT A BEER ON HIZ AMP?
1mo4dro 6 months ago
Joe bonamassa is no blues guitarist. He is a good guitarist but no blues muscian
ttthomasde 6 months ago
@ttthomasde fuckin joke of the year arent you?....he is playing the blues since he was 12 as you can hear, unless you got your ears so shoved up your ass, jealousy aint cool my friend
irnicerthanyou 6 months ago
@ttthomasde just listen man to the groove and feel to it. and tell me it aint blues
bassgroove21 6 months ago
Mother of God. B-|
Supersamalander 6 months ago
I guess I'll just go sell my guitar now and start fishing or so
MasssTR 6 months ago 44
@MasssTR Joe might even be kind enough to lend you his hat, it seems appropriate enough for that
SamDunlopGlennie 4 months ago
@ mollers92 - Take a listen to Pain and Sorrow by Joe , there is NO One else that sounds anything else like that. It would be really hard to find anything that rivals Joe's rendition of Reconsider Baby . Jaw dropping type of stuff , rivalled by who in todays world ?
Bobsblues 6 months ago
@Bobsblues - You make valid points and assessments to the mans skill and natural talent and feel. But, the argument itself is silly. Comparing, or trying to find a rival simply for conversational value is ridiculous. music is meant to express personality. Joe obviously has one. As does every other guitarist - that plays their own style.
neurocosm 5 months ago 3
@neurocosm very well said and thank you because you spoke for most of us !
1959jammin 5 months ago
@Bobsblues agreed, however, Robin Trower's Reconsider Baby lifts the skin off my back
guitarbites 3 months ago
he over plays - just a bunch of notes - going nowhere. copies gary moore. have you heard him ruin "blues deluxe? he wishs he could play like jeff. he sucks.
dezertfox4323 6 months ago
@dezertfox4323 Yeah, agreed. He's not developed since here really, same licks, just even more notes now. I don't get this Bonamassa thing, its cliche after cliche; for all the guy's hype he should be writing classic after classic but I can't make it through a whole solo let alone a song.
mollers92 6 months ago
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rosoftse 6 months ago
@rosoftse They play their own licks. He plays theres. You'd be surprised at the variation in their phrasing anyway. I never get bored listening to SRV and you can count the licks he uses. I have listened to Black Country Communion, not again.
mollers92 6 months ago
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rosoftse 6 months ago
@rosoftse Well I would say to any guitarist you should be coming up with your own licks and phrasing as much as possible. It isn't strange, no, but its more the extent. We all borrow off other guitarists; SRV (I'm not a fanboy I just figure he's well known to reference!) borrowed tonnes off the Kings and Hendrix, and plenty of others, but he made it his own. I don't believe Bonamassa has made it his own, when I hear BB I know its BB straight away, when I hear Bonamassa it could be anyone
mollers92 6 months ago
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rosoftse 6 months ago
@rosoftse Despite that, his concerts were still absolutely jaw-dropping, watch live at monterey or listen to the band of gypsys album
Noseheros 6 months ago
@rosoftse It doesn't matter how sober or not Hendrix was. Or how tuned his guitar was, he still remains today the greatest guitarist to ever have walked the suface of the planet earth. Yes, this is my opinion, yes, music is subjective, so there's no telling who's the best, because there is no best.
snakeweirdo 6 months ago 2
@dezertfox4323 This is a 12 year old boy, you folks say the dumbest things.
elixergtarist 6 months ago
first of all,all music repeats itself,ALL MUSIC,you can only be the fastest guitar player for so long,before you realize no one wants to listen to you climb your scales,give it one shot show your skills and your done.you cant go anywhere else.bend them strings,take them in a different direction.joe bonamassa is now one of the top blues player of today,anyone want to down on joe,post your skills.....lets see what you have,and who comments on you.you have nothing,why,because no one likes you.
blazvignater 7 months ago 2
If I hear the blues just one more time I think I'm really going to vomit! Enough's, enough - I just can't hear all those boring old riffs anymore - boring, boring, boring!
I'm going ethnic - progressive wood, acid, funk hip hoop. com bleep, bleep.....anything but the "same old blues again! ...
masala505 7 months ago
awesome then and beyond awesome today..... perhaps in that exclusive circle of the best of all time??
like to hear some other thoughts on just that.
STINKFINGER33 7 months ago in playlist joe bonamassa
its amazing how the best 2 guitar players of this generation(Joe and Derek Trucks) where prodigies. check out a video of derek also jammin when he was 12
smokeyman1 7 months ago
A song can be learned! But this is extreem talent! Love joe
leonvisser 7 months ago
OMF'nG. This is amazing.
kelhard 7 months ago
Just came across this and have to say that I enjoyed this more than his current stuff. More bluesy and I hear a whole lot of Albert Collins in this playing which I don't hear in his current stuff.
tommott77 7 months ago
I think I'll stick to my day job.
ramsypak 7 months ago
Young Joe! Even then he was the biz! God preserve you, Joe!
Glaeken1961 7 months ago
Smokin'...
Ramona6 7 months ago
wow he played almost as well then he was 12 then he does now.
THeBEEtleNAMEdGEORGe 7 months ago
what a talent.....lol
sopirah 7 months ago
Pretty good. I think the telecaster isn't really his bag though, it's too trebly for his style. His later stuff where he uses a gibson reflects his style and tone more. And this is coming from a fender guy.
srvgravesdime 7 months ago
To get the guitar from Danny Gatton and play soo great, and still 12 years. I am so impressed.
krokis54 7 months ago
wow, how can a human being at that age feel music and his instrument like this?
zakkwyldeverehrer 7 months ago
guy in the peace hat is totally blazin'!
go Joe go \,,/
ccarnage556 7 months ago
very but utmost very well done. age got nothing to do with music nor does skin colours or any of the invented shit of the separating human mind. this lil boy became a true enrichment to our good old blues on rockin horses. keep it going Joe
lslboss 7 months ago
SRV BBK Eric Johnson all wrapped up in one he was born with a guitar in one hand pick in the other
stargazer444 7 months ago
@IcolossusPSN do yourself a favour: go hear SRV...and come back to us then! Some people are definitely tone deaf!!! But on and on, they talk....
swingmanu 7 months ago
@IcolossusPSN do yourself a favour: go hear SRV...and come back to us then! Some people are definitely tone deaf!!! But still they can talk....
swingmanu 7 months ago
One should be so lucky to play Danny's #1. :) For 12 years old the kid's damn good.
nperaino 8 months ago
Here it is short and simple. I am from a family of guitar players. Joe is now in his thirty's. I have seen him three in the last 18 months. There is nobody even close and he is the only guitar player that can still send chills through my bones. Until you see him live, just shut up.
wingwilson 8 months ago
@IcolossusPSN I don't hear much Stevie in that!
pipon55 8 months ago
He may be the doofiest guitar player of all time...
FurrBrgrKing 8 months ago
12? i was only a kid with Nintendo or Playstation when i was 12....
zzy66613 8 months ago
So did he not begin learning? was just born good?!
83tomgarner83 8 months ago
i'm 17 now and have been playing guitar for 5 years now, this is so demotivating! haha....
un4given4 8 months ago 2
@un4given4 Imagine how I feel after playing for 30 years now.
abdpg624 8 months ago
@abdpg624 haha, well i can't, but you're probably a little sad ;P
un4given4 8 months ago
@abdpg624 - Im 52, if he started when he was 4 and he's 8 in this vid, then if I start today, but the time I'm 60.......forget it, I have no talent....
19tater76 7 months ago
@un4given4 lol same.
rupertacdc 8 months ago in playlist joe bonamassa
Holy flying fudge nugget. This guy is simply amazing.
doctormoose6 8 months ago
He's 12 you fucking moron... listen to that damn tone... people don't want different they want a new twist on the shit they've heard a million times and Bonamassa is definitely up there in terms of blues guitar players, or players in general. Jack White can barely play his fucking guitar....
GuitboxmanCG 8 months ago
@GuitboxmanCG The Blues Genre Is all about being expressive. It makes me laugh at dumbasses who say blues sucks, because blues is one of the 2 few genres that still have soul. Blues Has been around longer than jack white has been alive, and 2x as long as most other genre's, Blues will come back, all it takes is one person in the right place at the right time.
JohnPatrickPeters 8 months ago
i always here the name, and they always say hes the guitar players guitar player... now i know why
TrashMojo 8 months ago
E P I C ! ! !
patrickfisichella 8 months ago
its just sad he is not getting the fame he ought to now...his newest abum black rock is super awesome!
gimmi1 8 months ago
@gimmi1 fail, his newest album is "dust bowl", but any way "black rock" and "dust bowl" rocks
olivierjaquet 8 months ago
youtube goes to show that this isn't anything special... there's a zillion kids 10-15 who would own this kid. Not trying to talk shit... he's good... real good. But so are lots of kids. And the sad part is, he doesn't sound much different nowadays. I actually am more entertained by this than the last vid I watched of him from a recent show.
The blues in general I think is the problem... it all just sounds the same after awhile.
freezazoid 8 months ago
@freezazoid
The Blues isn't the problem, you're the problem. You obviously don't know much about the blues if you think Joe Bonamassa is like a zillion 10-15 year old kids, that he "doesn't sound much different" 21 years later, and that the Blues "all sounds the same". So glad you were "actually entertained" by the phenomenal JB at age 12 playing the phenomenal Danny Gatton's guitar!
conradjohnsonp10 8 months ago
@conradjohnsonp10 I agree that danny gatton IS phenomenal!! If you don't think what joe is doing in this video and what he's still doing today doesn't sound generic and like a TON of other players then I don't know what to tell you. Sure joe might be a little bit faster than some other players, but his riffs aren't that unique... open your ears dude. Listen to Jack White if you want some unique blues playing.
freezazoid 8 months ago
Very Strange seeing him live now... the talent hasnt changed from 12 to now .. easily one of the worlds best ever guitarists!
WELL2EAZY 8 months ago
Talk about peaking WAY too early!
blackappy 8 months ago
who's he playing like here..i can't remember exactly who it is..tho i think it's Albert Collins..some of those licks in there are remniscent
atrickpay11 8 months ago
I bow before Joe's awesomeness in this clip. I have not been much of a fan of his mainly due to not hearing much. To my ears, he sounds almost as good here as he does in the Royal Albert Hall DVD. Does that mean he's only done a little improving since he was 12?
PS I'm more into hard rawk and I enjoy Black Country Communion with Joe and Glen Hughes.
JakeZoltar 8 months ago
damn!! joe not only was good then , he is very good now!! i play 4 hours a day...and i think it will take me at least 5 years to get a little close to this. (so i hope)
odinmp5 8 months ago
In blues genre he his obviously one of the best but mr clapton can play a mean guitar, final decision: in guitar skill probly JB
in lyrical talent(which is just as if not more important than guitar when speaking of blues) gonna give it to Clapton he comes up with some lyrically ridiculous songs
7DJS7 8 months ago
...boy...talk about a foreshadowing of upcoming GREATNESS!!!! You don't just learn chops like this...you're born with it in your soul...Joe is certainly the next great Blues/Rock guitar Hero!!!
disissanchy 8 months ago
31 ppl are too demoralized to pick up their guitar
gimmi1 8 months ago 2
if this kids is such a genius, how come he can't grow eyebrows?
kidding, of course. JB is an incredible guitarist.
mistersnaredrum 8 months ago
I'm done playing the guitar,I think...man,that's discouraging
4runner39 8 months ago
thats no ordinary kid.. thats Joe Bonamassa
Anddk86 9 months ago 62
i think that guy should have brought back a 6pack and let joe keep the guitar what do you guys think!!!! lol we don't want to hear your version of sweet home alabama anymore!!! or Jimmy playing the banjo bluegrass sorry let joe play!!!! lol hahah
kattyjnikole 9 months ago
Well He's good but it really is a bit like wankin
superagnitio 9 months ago
joe bonnamassa is amazing, but i wouldnt say the greatest player of his generation, maybe blues guitar yes. regardless, the guy rocks man
jonthedonable 9 months ago
DAMN he's good. So MUCH talent!!! Everything he does is top notch!
mzfreckleface 9 months ago 2
Bonamassa is the greatest. Far bye the best guitarist in his generation. If someone say´s he is bad. the guy played warm-up to BB. King at the age of 12.
duff2000 9 months ago
One word to describe him ...prodigy!
jfcr88 9 months ago
Thumbs up for Joe, amazing!
And... Her.... Thanks to blues expert here for the news that Clapton, Bonamassa, SRV have no talent at all! That fundamental truth somehow escaped me until now!!
I think you are right! I have also noticed that Angelina Jolie is ugly and I am so much more beautiful than Brad Pitt. Thanks!
GoffredoAG 9 months ago 20
@GoffredoAG With all the plastic surgery, Angelina Jolie is actually ugly. But Clapton, Bonamassa and SRV are some of the best guitar players in the world. Yes, I realize it was sarcasm.
snakeweirdo 6 months ago 3
@GoffredoAG Oh and I am the Queen of England with ocean front property in Utah for sale. >_>
lol.
some people out there make you wonder huh?
Chynaash 5 months ago
I wonder who he was the last time he was old...
coal4life 9 months ago
WOW!! I feel like I'm watching the 13 year old "James Page".... aka Jimmy Page. A very very adept 12-year old kid! Of course, he grew a very nice set of lungs and pipes to go with those musical hands!
LovingFilmmaker 9 months ago
o my fucking god
ZZRANDY69 9 months ago
omfg
ZZRANDY69 9 months ago
what ever happened to kids this day an age surrounded by spoilt gifts by their parents and spent all the time just waisting around fucking about meanwhile this young lad was out rocking the shit out of guitar and drawing crowds to a their 100s or thousands as it is now . But what a remarkakle young lad he is i got my tickets to plymouth pavillions :D
jamescourt1000 9 months ago
music is not about age or how many years u've played... u got it or not - as simple as that >_<
Vlodimer 9 months ago
I blame Nintendo for stunting my musical growth on the guitar when I was 12 ;-)
psychofunksoldier02 9 months ago 2
one word: SICK
whatnotbutr 9 months ago
Istencsáazár a kis Joe ! :D
DontChee 9 months ago