Sometimes i hate to admit but Bonamassa is one of the greatest ive seen in my lifetime.

[pintspiller]

I've decided i'm jealous of all the Ensure he drinks and the delicious dusty depends and poise pads that get thrown on the stage

and ive decided that..... I AM THE BONERMASTER NOW

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got to wipe beer from the keyboard now ya fucker!

 

[DanTravis62]

got to wipe beer from the keyboard now ya fucker!

Listen man, slicking your hair back, wearing sunglasses indoors, and playing two notes per string pentatonics is really difficult and there's only one person on earth who can be the bonermaster, and that's me

 

[shar-vell Dan]

Got me thinking about Jeff Healey. Real shame he passed so young.
White, blonde, mulleted Canuck, blind, playing overhand in his lap, with a rhythm section that looked they ran a pizza shop and would fight about the sauce…you know, you’re stereotypical blues trio, just laying down straight fire.

Total God thing -

 

[skoora]

Total God thing -

I wonder if he and Gary Moore ever got a chance to jam. That would be off the charts.

 

[Killcrop]

He's a great player. But he doesn't really bring anything new to the table. He's mostly an Eric Johnson guy.
Which is fine. I guess none of us can get away from our heroes.

 

[cobrahead1030]

He’s not my favorite song writer, but really is a standout live performer who brings out some really stellar musicians on tour.

I’ve seen him live a few times & it’s always been a great show.

 

[psychodave]

JB is great. Too bad he ripped off Eric Johnson.

 

[JackBootedThug]

i have no fucking earthly clue what a booteg is

Fuckin iPhone…lol… where do you get your boutique glasses at? Lol

 

[DanTravis62]

Fuckin iPhone…lol… where do you get your boutique glasses at? Lol

Pit Vipers mothalicka, like the macho man!

 

[JackBootedThug]

 

[skoora]

i have no fucking earthly clue what a booteg is

It’s slang for an ex-Secretary of Transport groupie.

 

[DanTravis62]

It’s slang for an ex-Secretary of Transport groupie.

Oh you mean pete buttsex, i gotcha

Here i was trying to do my best bonermaster impression and invoked the real bonermaster

 

[shar-vell Dan]

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[TheGreatGreen]

Bonamassa's voice is highly trained and he has great pitch. His gear collection defines the term outrageous and he knows his vintage gear exceptionally well. Go to any given Bonamassa gig and you can hear spectacular tone though that hundred thousand dollar rig he plays. His playing isn't the most technically advanced but what he does play is played with control and intent. And his note choice is exactly what your ear wants to hear with music like that.

But my god the dude sucks so much ass.

Look, there's nothing wrong with being rich. But when you're worth eight figures and performing on a huge stage with a very well equipped, immaculate sounding hired band and backup singers, playing in extravagantly decorated and equipped theaters filled with rich, married boomers lining up to see you... the thing is that most of them have never even thought about the meaning of the word "struggle." So when the generationally rich white dude sings about how poor and lonely he is and you can see how much it "resonates" with the crowd OH MY GOD LOOK HOW MUCH HE FEEELS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE DOWNTRODDEN, SO MUCH EMOTIOOOON, it just makes you roll your eyes. The whole affair rings out as just the most hollow, empty pile of shit in the world.

Bonamassa is basically the poster child of poseurdom.

His entire act, top to bottom, feels like it was created in a lab to appeal to rich boomers doing poverty tourism. The guy tries to portray this whole weathered bluesman act but it’s as sanitized as an episode of American Idol. "Our lives are perfect and trouble free so hey let's listen to this other rich white guy hop in front of a mic and pronounce his words like a slave as he sings I DONE LAWS MY BAYBEH OH LAWD HEP MEH I CAINT TAKE IT NAW MAW so we can all pretend to know what it might be like to feel like a real human for 3 minutes. But we don't want to see or be around any actual poor or downtrodden people because ew."

The whole thing is pretty sad and gross, honestly.

Really nice tones he gets out of that 58 burst that his personal Vintage Equipment Procurement Team sourced for him though, which he personally selected from his highly currated and meticulously maintained collection. Beautiful specimen indeed. In particular it sounded exquisite in the extended solo of "I'm So Goddamn Poor and Lonely and Filthy and Sad I Could Die" recorded using only the finest and most valuable vintage equipment money can buy during his 6-month stay at the most expensive and exclusive studio in the country.

 

[Jack Luminous]

Bonamassa's voice is highly trained and he has great pitch. His gear collection defines the term outrageous and he knows his vintage gear exceptionally well. Go to any given Bonamassa gig and you can hear spectacular tone though that hundred thousand dollar rig he plays. His playing isn't the most technically advanced but what he does play is played with control and intent. And his note choice is exactly what your ear wants to hear with music like that.

But my god the dude sucks so much ass.

Look, there's nothing wrong with being rich. But when you're a decamillionaire performing on a huge stage with a very well equipped, immaculate sounding hired band and backup singers, playing in extravagantly decorated and equipped theaters filled with rich, married boomers lining up to see you... the thing is that most of them have never even thought about the meaning of the word "struggle." So when the rich white dude worth 8 figures sings about how poor and lonely he is and you can see how much it "resonates" with the crowd OH MY GOD LOOK HOW MUCH HE FEEELS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE DOWNTRODDEN, SO MUCH EMOTIOOOON, it just makes you roll your eyes. The whole affair rings out as just the most hollow, empty pile of shit in the world.

Bonamassa is basically the poster child of being a poser.

His entire act, top to bottom, feels like it was created in a lab to appeal to rich boomers doing poverty tourism. "Our lives are perfect and trouble free so hey let's listen to this other rich white guy hop in front of a mic and pronounce his words like a fucking slave as he sings I DONE JUS LAWS MY LAY-DEH OH LAWD HEP MEH so we can all pretend to know what it might be like to feel like real human for 3 minutes. But we don't want to see or be around any actual poor or downtrodden people because ew."

The whole thing is pretty sad and gross, honestly.

Really nice tones he gets out of that 58 burst that his personal Vintage Equipment Procurement Team sourced for him though, which he personally selected from his highly currated and meticulously maintained collection. Beautiful specimen indeed. In particular it sounded exquisite in the extended solo of "I'm So Goddamn Poor and Lonely and Filthy I Could Die" recorded during his 6-month stay at the most expensive studio in the country.

Nice and properly articulated analysis. I'll add: no matter how musically relevant or cringeworthy he is or not, he's definitely one the greatest borefest in the known universe. His impressive command of the instrument is about as impressive as the Millenium Falcon entirely made out of matchsticks.