RaceU4her
Well-known member
Joe B. should be teaching a college course on how to get rich. Well, he's actually doing it instead of teaching, which is even better. But think about his business model. He has zero airplay and zero album sales, and he grew up after MTV's heyday. But he can pack every venue by selling pretty expensive tix. There's gotta be a business course in there somewhere. Hell, my dad is a huge fan of his and I don't get it. My folks can afford any tix and my mom took my dad to see Joe B. I think a lot of the audience were people like my folks who can easily afford those tix and feel somewhat young and hip again by going. I sometimes wonder if my dad picked Joe B. to try to show me that he "gets" guitar music. I send him live videos of Eric Johnson and it might as well be Billie Eilish. He doesn't get it at all. I'm not a fan of Joe's music, but the man can play circles around most of us, he certainly has a better gear collection than anyone here and he's a nice guy. I've talked with him a few times. Totally down to Earth guy.
he has a weird fan base which is fascinating to me. i worked with these two guys about 15 years ago who were the two stiffest dudes ive ever met, like literally allergic to anything fun or entertaining, one day they were all excited for the big concert that night, i asked who could possibly get you two stiffs out let alone be excited about it?? "bonamassa!" i never even heard of him. how these two who listen to no other music heard of him and decide to go see him like its a big event i cant figure out. i checked out his stuff after that and its boring lawyer blues with a few cool solos, cant say i remember any songs