For the JB doubters

Gahr said:
I think a lot of people get the "me feeling it" and "playing with feeling" confused. People say this and that guitarist plays with feeling but this and that player doesn't. It is a very rare occasion when I see guys actually not putting their heart into what they are doing. Some guys might be boring to listen to because of their unoriginal choice of notes, their lack of technique,their repetitive playing, you name it, but the main thing is really always whether whoever is listening likes what they are hearing or not. I can listen to B. B. King play four notes all day, but I can only listen to Yngwie Malmsteen for half a minute before I'm bored (by which time Yngwie has probably surpassed the number of notes B. B. played in a whole day, by the way!), but does that mean Malmsteen plays with no soul? I'd say no. He feels the music he's playing just as much as the next guitarist. But it just doesn't grab ME as a listener.
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Yup.
 
Kerry Brown said:
Let's post some of his better videos.

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Well that doesnt SUCK at all!

FYI--my neighbor is an Ex Marine -- retired Commercial UNDERWATER welder-- professional hunter and one serious BAD A$$ for 76 years old -- (like Ted Nugent "swamp" version)
--I would NOT pick a fight with him I can tell ya that! -- but I would also trust him with my life--

HIS FAVORITE guitar player--
JOE BONAMASSA .............swear to ya

Now you cant SUCK and cross generations like that--kids like him -- retirees like him ...................
 
eSGEe said:
Well that doesnt SUCK at all!

FYI--my neighbor is an Ex Marine -- retired Commercial UNDERWATER welder-- professional hunter and one serious BAD A$$ for 76 years old -- (like Ted Nugent "swamp" version)
--I would NOT pick a fight with him I can tell ya that! -- but I would also trust him with my life--

HIS FAVORITE guitar player--
JOE BONAMASSA .............swear to ya

Now you cant SUCK and cross generations like that--kids like him -- retirees like him ...................
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Joe has young and old fans. That's not easy to do. On the other hand, most youngsters think that Joe invented the blues genre, because they don't know where it came from. Ask a Bonnamassa fan who Blind Lemon Jefferson is and you'll get a blank stare...

Most young people don't dig my music, and that's fine. I am very pleased when someone digs something that I did, even if they are not a Generation X-er...in fact...I feel even more valued by a more mature person's opinion of my music.

I'm just bored with the blues in all it's forms. The closest thing to blues I will listen to is AC/DC...
 
Gahr said:
I think a lot of people get the "me feeling it" and "playing with feeling" confused. People say this and that guitarist plays with feeling but this and that player doesn't. It is a very rare occasion when I see guys actually not putting their heart into what they are doing. Some guys might be boring to listen to because of their unoriginal choice of notes, their lack of technique,their repetitive playing, you name it, but the main thing is really always whether whoever is listening likes what they are hearing or not. I can listen to B. B. King play four notes all day, but I can only listen to Yngwie Malmsteen for half a minute before I'm bored (by which time Yngwie has probably surpassed the number of notes B. B. played in a whole day, by the way!), but does that mean Malmsteen plays with no soul? I'd say no. He feels the music he's playing just as much as the next guitarist. But it just doesn't grab ME as a listener.
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Very true. What grabs one is different from another.

I weary of the artificial, and frankly unfair, emotional litmus test we throw at musicians.

“I don’t like him. He doesn’t play with any ‘feeling’.”

Go ahead and say that an artist isn’t “your thing” if the music doesn’t grab you. That’s fair. But, how does any one of us really know what an artist is “feeling”?


This is the kind of thing I listen to when I really want to feel music:

Many people would find this boring. Yet, to me it is very interesting, compelling, emotive, and engaging, and it grabs me.

 
Robert Herndon said:
Joe has young and old fans. That's not easy to do. On the other hand, most youngsters think that Joe invented the blues genre, because they don't know where it came from. Ask a Bonnamassa fan who Blind Lemon Jefferson is and you'll get a blank stare...

Most young people don't dig my music, and that's fine. I am very pleased when someone digs something that I did, even if they are not a Generation X-er...in fact...I feel even more valued by a more mature person's opinion of my music.

I'm just bored with the blues in all it's forms. The closest thing to blues I will listen to is AC/DC...
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Not really any different than we were listening to Led Zeppelin, Cream, etc. as kids. We had no idea what the influences were, even though they came from the US, and only after we started hearing those guys talking about Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon did we go back and check out the source. And that's fine. I, like many of you, spent a good chunk of years trying to "educate" myself on the Blues, only to come away with the realization that I much preferred to listen to it as filtered through white English dudes.
 
Robert Herndon said:
Joe has young and old fans. That's not easy to do. On the other hand, most youngsters think that Joe invented the blues genre, because they don't know where it came from. Ask a Bonnamassa fan who Blind Lemon Jefferson is and you'll get a blank stare...

Most young people don't dig my music, and that's fine. I am very pleased when someone digs something that I did, even if they are not a Generation X-er...in fact...I feel even more valued by a more mature person's opinion of my music.

I'm just bored with the blues in all it's forms. The closest thing to blues I will listen to is AC/DC...
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or Boom Boom Washington! ;)
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World first AIR stand up bass player
 
smitty_p said:
Very true. What grabs one is different from another.

I weary of the artificial, and frankly unfair, emotional litmus test we throw at musicians.

“I don’t like him. He doesn’t play with any ‘feeling’.”

Go ahead and say that an artist isn’t “your thing” if the music doesn’t grab you. That’s fair. But, how does any one of us really know what an artist is “feeling”?


This is the kind of thing I listen to when I really want to feel music:

Many people would find this boring. Yet, to me it is very interesting, compelling, emotive, and engaging, and it grabs me.

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Ever try to play a violin???? I have tried it. Its almost magical for someone to play it well. Its an extremely difficult instrument. I consider it an art form.

What grabs me is Tone, Aggressive Technique and Urgency/Rage in the delivery.

Anything less, I find boring very quickly...
 
gball said:
Not really any different than we were listening to Led Zeppelin, Cream, etc. as kids. We had no idea what the influences were, even though they came from the US, and only after we started hearing those guys talking about Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon did we go back and check out the source. And that's fine. I, like many of you, spent a good chunk of years trying to "educate" myself on the Blues, only to come away with the realization that I much preferred to listen to it as filtered through white English dudes.
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I'm the opposite. I grew up listening to my parent's record collection of old delta blues, like blind lemon Jefferson, son house, leadbelly, and 50's rock and country. That's all that I was allowed to listen to and - I didn't know anything else existed - until my uncle played Mississippi Queen for me in 1974.
 
Robert Herndon said:
Ever try to play a violin???? .
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Very sadly, no.

When I was a boy I really wanted to learn violin. But, even as a small kid I had the awareness enough to know that our family didn't have much money and we couldn't have afforded lessons. So, I never said anything.

However, my mother used to take me to free outdoor concerts put on by the Rockford Symphony Orchestra back home. I always loved that. I'd scan the orchestra as they played and try to pick out each instrument. The layering of the various instruments and sections fascinated me. It amazed me how so many instruments could play together.
 
Shannon wanted to learn --- Said she played in school for a year -- and wanted to try -- we bought one--- its still in the case in the closet ---- she tried a few times I tried once and pronounced it impossible for any one with normal sized hands-- unless they are triple jointed circus freaks---I threatened to feed it to my Peavey Bass.....but she made me put it in the case----- and then in the closet --- where it resides---- till death I reckon.....
 
Robert Herndon said:
I respect the blues, but it bores me to death to play it....
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Sounds like the lyrics to a country song...
mdubya said:
RCFP.


Sanitized honky-lipped blues might pay the bills, but this is what he does for fun.
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I watched the first 20 minutes, and recorded the whole show in high resolution so I can watch the rest of it thru my nice tv and audio system. Awesome! I had no idea that this is what Rock Candy Funk Party sounded like. Prog-Jazz-Fusion... :dood:
 
syscokid said:
Sounds like the lyrics to a country song...

I watched the first 20 minutes, and recorded the whole show in high resolution so I can watch the rest of it thru my nice tv and audio system. Awesome! I had no idea that this is what Rock Candy Funk Party sounded like. Prog-Jazz-Fusion... :dood:
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It really does!!!!
 
Joe is a great guitarist. But he has a problem, which is simply one of image. He doesn't look like he should be a great guitarist. Well, tough. He is and we simply have to work out how to get past the image prejudice. Personally I like people who doggedly refuse to conform to stereotypes.
 
DonP said:
Joe is a great guitarist. But he has a problem, which is simply one of image. He doesn't look like he should be a great guitarist. Well, tough. He is and we simply have to work out how to get past the image prejudice. Personally I like people who doggedly refuse to conform to stereotypes.
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There's a hell of a lot of truth in that statement in my opinion.
 
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