Rig Rundown - Joe Bonamassa (2013)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Premier Guitar's Rebecca Dirks is on location in Rockford, IL, where she catches up with Joe Bonamassa's tech Mike Hickey who details Bonamassa's current solo rig that includes vintage Gibson Les Pauls, Firebirds, doubleneck-baritone Music Man guitar, amps from Marshall, Friedman, Diaz, and his pedalboard features several signature pedals like the Dunlop Bonamassa wah, MXR Bonamassa FET Drive, and the Bonamassa Fuzz Face.
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Rebecca Dirks is still my favorite at PG... I've always loved and appreciated the way she asks questions and then gives them room to answer without walking on them or cutting them off.
Plus guys would give longer answers to try to impress her. Weirdly, John Bohlinger sometimes has a similar effect.
She was way cool with me and I appreciated her listening even more.
Yeah but she's gone and has been gone a while
Tech definitely graduated from Guitar Center university of BS-ing
This guy has an awesome job. And he is very knowledgeable, don't believe for a second he doesn't know how to solder. Great personality kudos my friend!
if i had a dollar for every time this guy says cats i could afford a 1959 Les Paul myself
It's normal from those cats. This cat prolly says it more than other cats but I've been known to sprinkle "cats" throughout my mono/dia logues quite frequently as well. Most Players in LA and Pickers in Nashville have been known to do the same
Its amazing that even the best use what I found out decades ago.
Cranked clean channel, just breaking up, stick a Tube Screamer infront and if you really want chug, a mid boosted EQ infront of the screamer, thats it!
Does not even need to be tubes, I once had an Gate-> EQ -> Tube Screamer going into a Roland Jazz Chorus 120 ( yes, you heard that right ), cranked, with the awful distortion circuit on half way, to actually break it up and wow, what a tone, you would never have thunk it!
Even the best amp distortion channels/rectifiers are always synthetic to the ear! Mesa Tremoverb is the best I have heard cranked on its blues channel
As weird as this seems to say the tech is either hiding secrets or misspoke about getting all the gain from the tubescreamer. Most of joes drive actually comes from the amp (what do you expect from a Marshall or marshalls on 8-10, that’s way past the point of breakup.)
One for every song? What a collection!
I like it better when Joe did the interviews Because it made you feel like he was an average person taking the time to give an interview and was more personal. But also he knows every little detail about his gear that his tech does not.
Wow.... JCM2000 DSL? Not what I expected... But very cool. Very peculiar EQ settings on that!
Love the guys EVH striped hat
This is like a hundred Joe Bonamassa guitar rig review on youtube! Still awesome!
Great work, and great sound recording.
Soldering is something I do a lot!! I’ve fixed my guitars when needed :) or changing tone caps etc.
Can't decide what I'd rather get my hands on, Rebecca or one of those '59's
Red wine and Lester Paul's, could live with that.
I remember when I saw him in Boston a few years back, he pulled out a Korina Flying V for the encore. It looked and sounded delicious....
Totally agree about the Jazz III picks.
Iv been reading the comments and I actually think its kinda cool I could go by Joe's rig pretty much and Gc lol in the end he still sounds like joe to me
I recall the days Joe used to play Patrick Gigliotti's Strats and Tele's and he sounded fantastic on those. That was of course before Gibson lured him across....
Sweet Rebecca, you forgot to ask where Joe stashed the cold beer.
I got an autograph from Joe in the back patio of the Baked Potato after he played there, I didn't know I was in a guitar holy land! :)
That is a very interesting setup with the JCM's using no EQ but a tiny bit of mids. If it works it works though.
Bring back Rebecca
he's a guitar tech who can't solder.... just let that sink in for a second... :|
+Bad Motivator In addition he's one of those guys who you have to fight yourself not to just smack ...a real difficult personality ...
i scrolled down to comment on the same thing wtf. soldering is like coloring with crayons its so easy
i scrolled down to comment on the same thing wtf. soldering is like coloring with crayons its so easy
i scrolled down to comment on the same thing wtf. soldering is like coloring with crayons its so easy
i scrolled down to comment on the same thing wtf. soldering is like coloring with crayons its so easy
He's talking about the song 'Yonder's Wall' which Joe uses that guitar on. He's just saying how the song has song Miles Davis influence in it and finds that guitar best.
jesus christ this guy has some priceless gear!
One word for this guitar rig: Indulgent.
see also, Joe's playing ;) :P
Dude, you spelled awesome wrong...
@@yobhsiFehT hes nothing special, imho, gary moore on the other hand....... now theres a real deal legend,sadly gone too soon..... with , tone, vibrato, phrasing, EVERYTHING!!!! gary was really, really special.x
@@robertneil2538 I’ve never cared much for Gary Moore either, which might help explain why I don’t love Bonamassa 🤷🏼♂️ lol
@@yobhsiFehT sorry m8, no aggro, intended, i just wanted to get a comment in!!! sorry!!!.
Now that's a vault!!..wow
im diggin the sound im getting from my 2012 epiphone joe bonomassa #416 of 1000(burstbuckers 2/3) i don t know what it is but the weird sound i get from an epiphone ) is really distinctive, when u play certain notes, im torn between my 2013 Gibson LPJ(490r/498t ) and epi JB goldtop i like joe, because he plays his scales loud and hard as possible , like alan iverson once said practice..........
that's a guitar shop right there
lol 2 59s, pretty sure thats close to 1 million dollars in the collection!
Hey, Glaser filed off the fret edge nubs on the Skinner LP. Boo, hiss!
Very disappointed not to see him playing his signature models, beyond that holy shit that rig
have any of you ever worked as a stagehand along side some of the techs? many times ive heard others ask a tech something about an artists gear or sound and they would give sarcastic answers. i remember Dino Cazares' tech telling one guy he tunes to Q. lol.
Ok. What'd y'all rather have? One of those '59 bursts… or Rebecca Dirks?? :) So rare. A smoking hot chick who DIGS guitars. Woah.
Joe doesn't have good relations with Fender because in his early career they made a signature replica of a gold strato he had without asking him (read that in a guitar mag).
Considering that this is already 35 minutes long, I kind of want to know what he said about strats where they felt they needed to it out and dissolve to a later subject
Rebecca is indeed the main thing here...
What about a Rig Rundown on HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD ?!
I missed Rebecca.
Listen! Can you hear the sustain?
You do know those Les Pauls are over 50 years old right? They naturally get beat up over time, plus just the '59 and '60 Les Paul's alone are worth like a million a piece almost.
Why does he need so many guitarssss geezz
Joe is a collector so if you collected guitar like that you would wanna play them :)
Warren Haynes' Fire In The Kitchen playing in the back at like 26 minutes
What guitar doesn't he have?!
The famous "you know" is rubbing off.
Rebecca i love you!
Comparing a Effect Pedal to a Guitar is not an equal comparison, also wouldn't you expect Electronics from Japan to be the best.
His 66' Firebird one will stay in tune, He just doesen't know the secrets & gives up. When your a Guitar tech you should know your stuff. LoL!
Why not both?
See her smiling is like.. just wow :D
tube screamer into clean marshall? wow... who would have thought?
Kayyy Po!!
Switched out the Silver Jubilees... Then sell one to me. I need one more ;)
why so many guitars,for every song one guitar.
Bonamassa's interest in Old Bursts is pure showmanship / show business. Guitars are tools, and for anyone to suggest that a 59 or a 60 is a better playing guitar than a modern LP STD is plain nuts. More collectable yes, but not in the same league as things have moved on - just look at the sound options on the new LP STD.
He's a player doing valuable work establishing a standards repertoire of blues and rock that others can use and build on, it's great to see that music being played. VG
A company called Historic makes Gibson Historic LP's more Historically correct? Jesus.
Hahahaha!
‘Historic Makeovers’
According to history yes
New drinking game. Take shot everytime the tech says "I don't know"
I blacked out for like a day or two
I blacked out for like a day or two
or better still "CATS"
I just realised I was using data....
Alex Hooi lmao your profile picture makes this comment even better
That's my expression
It's been two years. Did you turn your WiFi on yet?
Rebecca is worth it. so....
"What do you do when you have 2 59 bursts to choose from"
Classic line!
Hey, at least they get played to lots of people, as they should be, and not stored in a case by some art dealers!
Mine's a 77 tobacco sunburst.
She is hotter than all Joe's guitars and amps together.
Minou Talbi-Boualem Rebecca Dirks?
Of course! not the cool nerdy cat.
other cool nerdy cat is Joe bonamassa's guitar tech
Minou Talbi-Boualem wrong
Hotter than a 59Lp? Ha, your on glue.
And now the Peter Green/Gary Moore burst is being desecrated by Krik Hammet noodling in drop D. There's nothing like Gary Moore ripping live on a Les Paul through a Soldano.
lil wayne rig rundown pls
"this is my Walmart child's guitar"
Capos are murder on frets. I get a lot of refret jobs from players who use them. You can't just level them, the plain strings put nasty grooves in the soft fretwire.
i know, wtf is with all the capos???, gary moore never ever ever ,used a fukin capo in his life, plus bonamassa, is a multi millionare, this fan gave him this one, that fan gave him this one, he may have played stripe but he will never , ever , ever own her, jack, if youre. reading this never ever sell your dads favourite guitar, if you ever do, i will come back and haunt you!! so will gary!!!!..., gary was my idol, this "cat "is a poor , poor, copy........., not even close..........imo.... RIP- robert william gary moore,1952;2011xxx.
Wow congrats to Joe. A lot of hard work he's also very lucky to be able to possess those instruments.
the cool guitar cats bring their cats to the cat cats and all the crowd cats watch the cats fight the cat cats.Cats cats cats cats cats.... Did he still say more cats than me? What a silly cat that cat is. Cool video though
It was a cat-astrophe of cat-astrophic proportions. Next tour stop? Loading all the gear on cat-amarans, sailing over to Cat-alina island to headline the Cat-allac stage😮
Ha! I cat believe it
I kind of agree with one of the other post on here. JB is a killer guitarist, but his songs just do not stand out all that much. It is if he is just doing music to play guitar along with rather than doing really killer songs and complimenting them with his guitar playing. He does do a couple of really good songs, but the rest just seems to be stuff to do guitar exercises along to. I love his playing, but so not much the songs he is playing and singing. Fancy playing to mediocre songs .
As everyone know, a '66 screw (for the truss rod cover) sounds way better than an 2013 screw ...
Lmao.. 14:41 This guitar stays in tune incredibly. It goes into tune on its own almost.
And yes, I know.. old vid
"A real 60s screw". I'd like that too.
If you have to auction all of JB's vintage collection, you could probably buy several Ferraris
I could listen to this guy all day long. Great Job Rebecca, you're good at this.
Strings only break at the saddle when there's a burr in the string groove or there's way too much break angle. LP's don't have too much & his tech would see to a burr immediately. Besides, Joe is not a string breaker. Breaking strings come from things like hard or poor strumming technique or nose diving or pulling back too hard on a locking trem. Joe plays fluently and even though he does some heavy bending, he's never over the limit of the string he's stretching.
My question remains....
Who want to bet that "friend Ronnie" used to play with Rod Stewart and has a pretty decent gig now?
I've been a Luthier and Tech since 1980. Of all the Bursts out there, it's only a small number of real ones, maybe 400 of the 1600 made are still around. If you thought Gibson's quality was spotty lately, it was really all over the place in the 50's. Electric guitars were not high on Gibson's list of priorities, they only sold 1600 between '57 and '60. Whenever I'm at a show and there's 50 of them, I know 49 of them are fakes. They are just too easy to fake.
But if these are all real Bursts, he's traveling with over $2m in guitars alone. I don't know how you get those insured. It's nuts. JB has turned cork sniffer,
I keep looking at her instead of the guitars. Just adorable.
I highly doubt all of his distortion is coming just from the tube screamer.
Nice
Obviously not, he has a fuzz face and a way huge pork loin
its possible, SRV did the same thing, you crank the clean channel on the Marshall's to get a little break up from the power tubes and layer the tube screamer which is basically replicating exactly that, the power tubes being cranked on a old Marshall, hence the name "Tube Screamer"
why not?
@@MB-yw3pv SRV used 2 screamers in his chain. One was on all the time, the other was kicked in for solos, ect
He didn't use a pick - that's the sound of completely hollow wood against fingerbone :) Don't worry!
He knows how to solder, don't think for a second that Joe would have a tech that didn't.
lol I saw Joe last month & you can say he's a guitar nerd all you want but the guy is an absolute monster guitar player. Modern day guitar hero, guy has it down pat.
😅😢
rebecca should do all the rig rundowns
don't type a lot here. Nobody cares this stuff anymore. Don't be like dinosaurs.
1. But a DJ mixer
2. Press Play
3. buy a bottle of beer
4. put your hand on any knob of that dj mixer
5. Drink beer and shake
Result:
You are a star!
"We took measurements off ONE OF Joe's '59's for the neck shape…." Good Lord. ONE OF?? How many '59 Les Pauls does Joe own?!?! Anybody know?
I have no idea I just know that he has for sure more than 2 at least lol hmm maybe fun to research about that :)
Awesome :-)
beniscool4321 holy smokes. thats craaaaaazy :)
***** I thought he has 8 now?? The Black Burst being the newest in the collection of his bursts.
***** joe has dozens of vintage guitars. he posts them on instagram. im sure you'll find some if not all of his 59's on instagram.
For a man with possibly the largest vintage guitar collection on earth he sure borrows a lot of guitars...
So many capos. I was never a fan of using a capo.
Whats a 59$ LP going for these days. I can't believe he schlepps so much $$ worth of vintage guitars around the world. I mean its good they get played but man the average ear in a giant cavernous theatre isn't going to hear the difference between a 40k original burst and a 4k re-issue.
Rebecca is a brilliant interviewer. Bring her back
"Seen 75" ... 75 X $350,000 (2022 price for a 1959 Les Paul) = $26 million dollars
Pedals start at 29:50.
Pedals at 29:50
here's a shit load of guitars that all sound the same with a bunch of amps that all sound the same for some dork who's 'songs' all sound the same.
lol
NeopolitianNPLTN would love to argue against that.... but I can't!
NeopolitianNPLTN his new songs called mirror image!
Jealous much?
I miss when Joe would walk us through it himself and play!
So THAT’S what William Fichtner has been up to. No wonder the dude can’t solder.
You guys should try to do an updated Bonamassa rig rundown with the tweed rig. Also maybe get Joe to talk a little bit as well.
i agree, the original rundown back in the day was a good one, now we have this shit fest cos it's not even joe doing the rundown
how about we rename this video "Rig Rundown - Mike Hickey"
Cos that rolls off the tongue DUH!
THEY DID! :-)
whos also here in 2023? his best rig in my opinion. would of loved a couple strats tho
Well said, something about her screams F!%k THE SH*T OUT ME!!!
This is amazing. It's like a museum. Great tech by the way, and great interview by Rebecca of course.
God, I miss Rebecca.
good lord how can you keep a straight face when rebecca dirks is in front of you???
I was dry dry dry, then wet wet wet after seeing this chick.......the secret is split the signal!!
I love the Skinner Burst..but "The Runt" is my fav.
I like how his tech's hat kinda reminds me of a design of one of Eddie Van Halen 's guitars
That's cause it's a van Halen hat
Luke Baker I know that