One of my buddies is a huge blues guy and im a total metalhead. He took me to see Joe B at the Greek Theater in LA and it was incredible. The guy is a wizard…a true guitar hero. Really opened my eyes to an entire world of players that I was ignoring.
@@221b-l3t Of course I know who Joe is, but I'm not really familiar with his blues playing, I've listened to Gary Moore a lot more, but this little interview has kindled my interest.
I know Rick has been doing this for years and years, but it certainly seems to me as an outsider that his ability to attract headline artists has happened quite quickly. Very impressive.
The Thrill is Gone changed my life when I was popping my dads CDs into my first player when I was 10 and had no CDs of my own yet. The epitome of style and taste.
@@tijuanaiguana190Don't kid yourself! He's going to sound better on an off the rack guitar, then most players, using one of JB's best! Gear is secondary to the talent of the musician or athlete!
It's bc he uses the controls on the guitar and pick attack to get the sound he wants in his head. Something amp model/settings alone cannot achieve. Guitar volume never on 10 is huge for Joe's tone it allows the fundamental of the note to shine through better.
These guys are true fans of music and guitars. The details regarding which tone, switch, pickups, amp were using it's just amazing. Normal musicians or hobbyists can't get that deep.
Not only is his proficiency at his instrument incredible but his knowledge is Outstanding. Plus you know your at the top when Reese Wynans plays in your band.
@@BluesRockAcademy Really ? there's dozens more he could have mentioned, this isn't rehearsed, and everyone's favourites are going to be different. So you're comment about "knowledge" is insignificant....
@@frankrichards3089 Song of Yesterday if released in the 70s would be one of the most iconic rock songs. The canon of ~7-9 minute songs was just too saturated already and barely anyone knows it!
The questions you're asking all these great people are pure gold. And so are their answers. There's SO MUCH to learn. Thank you for sharing this with us!
Yes, Joe always gives props and lavishes praise on those that came before him and that he gleaned his licks from. People knock him for whatever, but I find him humble and his interest as a historian, to be genuine.
I highly recommend learning Peter Green's solo from "Black Magic Woman". Incredible note choices and phrasing. And I personally really enjoy playing it.
Thank you Joe for the Koss love! FREE Live! (LP) was my first introduction to FREE in my early teens and my true inspiration for playing guitar. You're so right, these guys deserve far more recognition. What a groove.....
That Albert King solo on Blue's Power at Fillmore is one I've listened to for years with a deep appreciation of an man and his instrument, fully connecting his song to his audience and taking it right out to the edge... so powerful!!
I first heard the Duster Bennett version. Then I heard Peter's version. That opening is the perfect fit for the song. It is a master class in feel. It also teaches a lesson an old teacher tried to impart to me. "Soloing is like talking. If you say too much nobody listens. So learn to stop talking and you'll learn how to solo."
He never mentions the maestro Peter Green. Peter had a direct connection from a higher power. It’s no surprise Jimmy page Modded his les Paul gifted by Joe Walsh to emulate greens sound (page mentions in 2005 interview) and BB King regarded him as a goat
Very happy, that you mentioned Free and Paul. One of my main famous bands, which is so much more than All right now. My Vision is an guitarized arangement of Heavy Load.
I'm Yarzo Spatflute and I play a '59 Strat hardtail built by hand by Leo through a wall of Dumbles, Altec Voice of Gods and racks of effects that require their own zip code and Guess how it sounds. Skill outdoes equipment.
0:17 Thrill Is Gone was the first song I learned on guitar. It's super simple, yet the most effective usage of any note pattern in music. BB King was a genius.
Yes, I agree but the "mushy peas" addition makes the point which is possibly lost on a great many of those watching and hopefully encourages people to "dig deeper".
Excellent stuff. A must for any guitarist, at whatever level. BB & Kossof for tone, Jimi & SRV for chops, Albert King for the joy of it and all of them for musicality. But I'm sorry Joe, but I'm a Brit, been eating fish & chips since I was knee high to a grasshopper - but I hate mushy peas.
Joe has such an effortlessness and ease about his playing. Magical to watch. and @Rick, another great interview that this is excerpts from. Truly, you are one of my favorite interviewers, putting your guests at ease, letting them talk and then cutting to the heart of it to always take things to the next level. Keep it up, PLEASE!
Totally with Jo bo on that one ..... FREE should be in the rock n roll hall of fame deffo ....Paul kossoff was one of the reasons I picked up the axe 🎸
I loved the full interview, so fascinating and I am completely hooked on his music! Also, when he says “can’t just keep shredding”, the hell you can!! 😃 I just began to discover the shreddy side of Bonamassa and he’s killing it!! Best gateway “drug” to blues for people coming from metal/rock.
Joe B has an incrdible knowledge of fellow guitarists/musicians. Blows me away every time i see him play or interviewed. On a mission to buy every record he has put out.
Joe is a great fan,he's almost a rock music need and that's honesty.He 's paying tribute to all great, but unfortunately kind of forgotten guitar heroes,like Paul Kossof,Gary Moore and others.
Really came full circle as a fan of SRV, I came to love Kenny Wayne, and discovered Joe while listening to the those stations on Pandora. Yep, I heard Joe on the KWS Pandora station and fell hard.
Didn't realize the difference between Beato 1 and Beato 2 channels! Now subscribed to both. I could listen to you and Joe talk all day. And his tone and chops: holy smokes!
Ah Paul Kossoff, such a talent. Free - what a band. Such emotional, at times tortured, singing/crying/wailing from a guitar. But I'm biased. He wasn't a high-speed technical shredder but so what - the feel was everything. Unbelievable vibrato. Check out the slow blues "Going Down Slow" on Free's first album, Tons of Sobs.
OK Joe, here you go, 1, Ten Years Gone, 2, Be My Friend, (live), 3, Blue Sky (both Duane and Dickey), 4, Let it Be, (just absolutely Iconic) 5, Stairway (because it is THE iconic solo from the Greatest R+R song ever, and everyone should know Stairway!)
When I saw Free at Brighton Dome in the early 70s Kossoff wasn’t 100% and Rogers played some guitar, PK still blew it away though. Their back line at that gig was Orange … IIRC.
'Mooshy peas' 😀JBM knows his stuff! Saw him play in London as a surprise guest at a Bernie Marsden gig (RIP) it was a wonderful, memorable evening and they played through a bunch of Peter Green songs. Amazing experience
Alright now, Hot Legs and You May Be Right were our most loved covers - we did our best to respect the original but make it our own (touring originals based band with a handful of selective covers) - crowds would go NUTS - iconic songs to say the least. Free should soooo be in the R&RHOF
I would add Hotel California solo, All Along the watchtower JImi, and Stairway solo and Highway Star Blackmore. Add those to the list and you will have covered a LOT of ground in your learning pursuits IMHO🙏🏾💯🤘🏾
Glad you pointed out this is a different channel! I've been a subscriber to your original channel for quite some time. I had on idea there was an RB2! Now I'm a subscriber here!
Glad you have that Orange Series II out, I found a 2x12 combo version, I loooooove it. Could you possibly demo that one against a few other old Oranges like Pics Only, OR80/120, OR100, etc? I've always thought the Series II had so much more gain on tap than all the other old Oranges. Even my 90's reissue OD80 doesn't come close. Love the channel Rick!
Also need to mention Rick here as well as Zac & TrueFire lounge for your brilliant interviews, so much FREE knowledge that these players took years to cultivate & in a matter of weeks just listening & practicing, really absorbing the information, I’m way further on the road to to understanding what makes great players great
So I came to UA-cam so I can subscribe to your channel as you. In hours forced to endure a commercial. But I still subscribed because I enjoy what you do.
best solos- stairway sympathy white room and hotel cal and 12 bar blues in general are the best chord progressions to solo over and hence the best solos.
Love Bonamassa. Totally don't understand all the hatin' on him. Sure, a lot of his playing is waaay over the top (because he CAN) but plenty of his playing is as smooth as B.B. King, lots of room for the notes to breathe. Dude is just a monster, one of the greatest guitarists ever, but he also gives plenty of room for his band or guest guitarists to shine. Just a super guy and a hell of a player.
Personally I only like his playing when he's not playing blues. I feel like maybe it's a generational thing because typical Bonamassa is everything younger generation hates about "boomer bends", it's just so dated, cliched and done to death. When he steps out of that boomer paradigm he sounds great.
not sure what hate it is, unless that whole like digital effects or something drama i've heard about where he talks about people using effects to cover up stuff. says the guy that uses like 30 amps on stage at once feeding jubilees into fender reverbs or some shit. and 30 guitar too like one for every song or something lmao anyway my criticism would be his direct copy of Eric Johnson. like bro you have blues stuff blues rock its great why do you through Eric Johnson in every solo now... ugh
It is envy. Not of the success per se, but joe is that A+ student who sits in the first row, raises his hand first and knows the answer to every question. He just makes the rest of us all in the back look bad.
A really nice shout-out to Pete Way, bassist with English group UFO... the fact that JB knew them is great to me... Of course Joe knows about Peter Green and Gary Moore becuase of his love of music and Les Paul's but I think Joe's own knowledge comes from the connection between player and guitar as well as the music that has been written, made and played. That is where the "depth" of knowledge is gained. He's a student who just loves to keep learning and we are lucky to be able to see and hear him share... Great job as alway's Rick.... try and get Ritchie Blackmore on your channel.... I'm sure that would be a challenge...
In true "fish and chips" style, the British guitarist John Squire created one of the best all-time bluesy solos. It isn't hard to play, but it never leaves you. That is the hallmark of a great solo. "Made of Stone"
Thank you for pointing out that I wasn't subscribed. Been following you all this time, but not sure how I failed that simple step. All better now. Keep rockin'!
Thank you Rick and Joe, I have always been a big Free fan and have thought that the guitar work is massively underrated, great to hear you mention them. Thank you for the inspiration and the suggestions 🙏👌👏👏👏
Joe played where I was working years ago when he was a very young shredder. Outstanding show I must say, but he’s sure turned into an all around guitar genius!
I didn’t know that Joe could be that lightning fast. Scuttle buttin’… I saw Albert King live years ago. What a great blues guitarist. No surprise that he influenced Stevie Ray and Joe.
@@castleanthrax1833 I wish he'd do it more. Some shred too much and some too little. Joe shreds too little because he sure can do it. But I love the way he does it. You start thinking, does he only play slow blues and bam, 30 notes picked as cleanly as any 80s shredder fly by. And it's hard to shred in pentatonic or blues, I found some cool tips by Ben Eller how to do this STV, Johnson, Wylde, Bonamassa type blues scale shredding, you build it out of patterns that can be played fast and strung together. It takes some doing but it's a lot of fun and there nothing like playing slow blues and being able to add a bit of shredding in to liven it up and it emphasises the slow parts even more. I can't do it well yet but having a lot of fun with blues backing tracks, center position on a 3 way and blending the volumes for the perfect tone and trying to do the occasional Bonamassa style "in case you forgot I can shred" flight across the fingerboard. That along with Ellers technique of just focusing on the "1" with the downstroke and getting that right and the rest of the notes eventually linking up for clean picked notes, has really elevated my playing.
@@221b-l3t Cool. I must check out Ben Eller. I can play really fast legato ( I think we all can) but struggle with string skipping when trying to pick every note. Ty. ✌️🇦🇺
@@castleanthrax1833 Same for me, Ben Eller is a genius teacher. I didn't play 5 years and now 3 months of getting back into it and watching some his lessons and I can finally pick fast. I never could. Legato yeah. I could do the opening for Far Beyond the Sun but picked no chance. Now I can but sloppily. Still a huge gain, more than in the last 10 years. He's also funny so the lessons don't feel dry.
@@221b-l3tJoe has been a used of “playing too many notes” in the past. I think he’s been a little more conscious in the past 5 years or so to just pick his spots. Like he mentioned with Stevie blasting a fury of notes then breaking it up with a slower passage. I’ve seen him live about 4 times and some nights he will let loose! It’s lots of fun especially when you didn’t know it was coming.
One of my tops is Joe's album version of Blues Deluxe. The precise tenderness it starts with to the rips your soul from you without asking, then back to the precise tenderness is a definitive solo to me. And then there is the tone of the whole thing.
Ok. I've watched half-dozen of videos; mostly very good and informative. I finally subscribed. I humbly request you 'move heaven and earth' and interview John Mcglaughlin. 🙏🏽
I have no idea what Angus Young himself has said on the subject, but based upon the sound of it I always thought Paul Kossoff must have been a strong influence on his playing.
Limelight - Lifeson Revelation Mother Earth/Crazy train/ Crowley - Rhoades Hairway to Steaven - Page Girl Gone Bad - Ed Van Halen Soldier Without Faith - His Yngwie-ness
Full Interview Here: ua-cam.com/video/kUbo8mreVWA/v-deo.htmlsi=txz96eoe2RX1NtUo
This is why these clips are great. It reminded me I never finished watching the full interview. 😆
Rick, u should have way more subs than the BS of many other channels
I was not subscribed. Now I am. Happy days
Better guest…? You have Joe Bonamassa (!!) the only way to get better guests is to have God send Jimi and Stevie Ray back for a interview.
….and he’s so right about mushy peas with fish and chips!
Here's the list:
1) "The Thrill is Gone" / BB King
2) "Scuttlebuttin'" / SRV
3) "Blues Power" / Albert King
4) "Fire & Water" / Free (Paul Kossoff)
5) "Voodoo Child" / Jimi Hendrix - SRV versions
nothing from Slash? :D
Thank you! My man!
What is the name of the second Free song he played? Wishing Well?
@@brockallenmusic walk in my shadow was the second free song he played it's from the debut album by free called Tons of sobs
@@brockallenmusic Walk In My Shadows
One of my buddies is a huge blues guy and im a total metalhead. He took me to see Joe B at the Greek Theater in LA and it was incredible. The guy is a wizard…a true guitar hero. Really opened my eyes to an entire world of players that I was ignoring.
Check out Joe Bonamassa's work with Black Country Communion. You will love it! Especially the live album.
@@swanneez5246 I actually had listened to them before not knowing Joe Bonamassa was the guitarist in that band. Loved the sound.
Similar, former metalhead slowly turning into a blues guy and Joe is a fantastic gateway drug to a lot of great blues.
You might be on the road to being a bluesman. It happens.
@@221b-l3t Of course I know who Joe is, but I'm not really familiar with his blues playing, I've listened to Gary Moore a lot more, but this little interview has kindled my interest.
I know Rick has been doing this for years and years, but it certainly seems to me as an outsider that his ability to attract headline artists has happened quite quickly. Very impressive.
The Thrill is Gone changed my life when I was popping my dads CDs into my first player when I was 10 and had no CDs of my own yet. The epitome of style and taste.
I love how Joe just CASUALY has some of the best guitar tone I've ever heard in my life for this chat with Rick.
INSANE tone, every thing he plays sounds incredible in this clip
I mean his guitar probably costs more than my house. So that’s helps…
@@tijuanaiguana190Don't kid yourself! He's going to sound better on an off the rack guitar, then most players, using one of JB's best! Gear is secondary to the talent of the musician or athlete!
It's bc he uses the controls on the guitar and pick attack to get the sound he wants in his head. Something amp model/settings alone cannot achieve. Guitar volume never on 10 is huge for Joe's tone it allows the fundamental of the note to shine through better.
@@tijuanaiguana190 I hate this shit. The guitar is a solved problem. Gear doesn't make someone any better.
These guys are true fans of music and guitars. The details regarding which tone, switch, pickups, amp were using it's just amazing. Normal musicians or hobbyists can't get that deep.
Not only is his proficiency at his instrument incredible but his knowledge is Outstanding. Plus you know your at the top when Reese Wynans plays in your band.
Not so much knowledge If you don’t mention Gary Moore and Peter Green on top5 solos.
@@BluesRockAcademy Really ? there's dozens more he could have mentioned, this isn't rehearsed, and everyone's favourites are going to be different. So you're comment about "knowledge" is insignificant....
Joe just knows. Its not just technique, its not just feel, but he just knows. This stuff really means something to him.
It does. His live playing doesn't always do it for me, but here he is at his best. Black Country Communion was great tho
@@frankrichards3089 Song of Yesterday if released in the 70s would be one of the most iconic rock songs. The canon of ~7-9 minute songs was just too saturated already and barely anyone knows it!
Great to hear someone mentioning Paul Kossoff. One of rock's greatest players.
The fact that he kept a straight face during Scuttle Buttlin’ makes you appreciate how effortless that is for Joe 😂
That’s effortless for every professional guitarist.
no my good sir, it isn’t
@@yksityinenoma7821Not I your lifetime.
@@yksityinenoma7821 so you think you are so special
They start measuring me for a coffin, cause I look like I’m dying . If I try to play that in public 🤷🏼♀️
Kossoff was unbelievable. Joe mentioned Andy Frasier as well. One of the best bass players there was.
I love Joe and Rick they are so knowledgeable i could listen to them for hours
I love Paul Kossof’s tone on ‘come together in the morning’ so haunting, amazing!
Beautiful solo.
The questions you're asking all these great people are pure gold. And so are their answers. There's SO MUCH to learn. Thank you for sharing this with us!
I can listen to Joe talking guitars and tones all day long, and I do.
Me too, me three and me four!
Love the shout out to Paul Kossoff, who was a phenomenal player! Besides Joe's mammoth talent, his respect for his predecessors is unparalleled.
Yes, Joe always gives props and lavishes praise on those that came before him and that he gleaned his licks from. People knock him for whatever, but I find him humble and his interest as a historian, to be genuine.
Worth noting Ronnie Van Zan lead singer/songwriter for Lynyrd Skynyrd loved the band "Free".
ok boomer
I feel like that’s a huge things across the blues artists, almost all of them pay a lot of homage for those before them
Yes, the nod to Kossoff, and JB can't really do Kossoff is appreciated.
I know Kossoff 's nephew, looks just like him. Can't play guitar. 😅
I highly recommend learning Peter Green's solo from "Black Magic Woman". Incredible note choices and phrasing. And I personally really enjoy playing it.
It's not easy, being Green
thank your Rick for inviting Joe. This was highly entertaining and refreshing to watch
Thank you Joe for the Koss love! FREE Live! (LP) was my first introduction to FREE in my early teens and my true inspiration for playing guitar. You're so right, these guys deserve far more recognition. What a groove.....
That Albert King solo on Blue's Power at Fillmore is one I've listened to for years with a deep appreciation of an man and his instrument, fully connecting his song to his audience and taking it right out to the edge... so powerful!!
That sound he gets when he switches to the neck pickup is glorious.
I saw Free live when they were an opening band for Blind Faith. What a concert.
Wow! Amazing… Blind Faith was there, then gone. A rare concert.
I love how Joe grunts between guitar phrases. It goes like this...then...and. Excellent!
Im surpised he didnt mention Peter Green. Listen to jumpin at shadows live in Boston, totally unique tone, feel, and vibrato
Peter green is in my pantheon
I first heard the Duster Bennett version. Then I heard Peter's version. That opening is the perfect fit for the song. It is a master class in feel. It also teaches a lesson an old teacher tried to impart to me. "Soloing is like talking. If you say too much nobody listens. So learn to stop talking and you'll learn how to solo."
He never mentions the maestro Peter Green. Peter had a direct connection from a higher power. It’s no surprise Jimmy page Modded his les Paul gifted by Joe Walsh to emulate greens sound (page mentions in 2005 interview) and BB King regarded him as a goat
Peter Green was the King!
Gary Moore as well...
He’s so good and very knowledgeable about the history of guitar players and styles.
To see Joe try to play Stevie they way he played it and say “I can’t do it” was kind of eye opening
Although Joe's version of "I can't do it" is a million times better than everyone else's "I can't do it"! 😂
Very happy, that you mentioned Free and Paul. One of my main famous bands, which is so much more than All right now. My Vision is an guitarized arangement of Heavy Load.
I'm Yarzo Spatflute and I play a '59 Strat hardtail built by hand by Leo through a wall of Dumbles, Altec Voice of Gods and racks of effects that require their own zip code and Guess how it sounds. Skill outdoes equipment.
Thank You Rick, your content/guests are simply amazing.
Yes to Paul Kossof shoutout. Absolute ledge!
0:17 Thrill Is Gone was the first song I learned on guitar. It's super simple, yet the most effective usage of any note pattern in music. BB King was a genius.
Joe is a phenomenal ambassador of blues guitar and music! He's infectious, and I love him! 😎👍
I love that Paul Kossoff was included in this list.
Love to listen to Joe talk guitars, gear, and music.
Love that he gives the shout out to Free/Kossoff. Very cool...
0:42 nailing that without even trying is so satisfying to see
I've been playing since the 70s, and here comes Joe, with more talent in in his fingers than I've gathered in a lifetime.
The Fish and chips response is brilliant😂 Great interview as always, thank you.
Yes, I agree but the "mushy peas" addition makes the point which is possibly lost on a great many of those watching and hopefully encourages people to "dig deeper".
Walk in my Shadow at 5:15. My favourite Free song. Used to cover it with my band.
I would love to hear Joe put out a full Free/Bad Company cover album.
Excellent stuff. A must for any guitarist, at whatever level. BB & Kossof for tone, Jimi & SRV for chops, Albert King for the joy of it and all of them for musicality. But I'm sorry Joe, but I'm a Brit, been eating fish & chips since I was knee high to a grasshopper - but I hate mushy peas.
Joe has such an effortlessness and ease about his playing. Magical to watch. and @Rick, another great interview that this is excerpts from. Truly, you are one of my favorite interviewers, putting your guests at ease, letting them talk and then cutting to the heart of it to always take things to the next level. Keep it up, PLEASE!
Free's gig where they played through an all-Orange backline was probably the one at Radio Bremen, Germany in 1970
Great respect for Rick and Joe! I wish I had 1/8 the talent of Joe B. Playing Scuttle Buttin just off the cuff like that, wow!
Still Got The Blues, Gary Moore’s solo. Also, his solo on Story Of The Blues.
Totally with Jo bo on that one ..... FREE should be in the rock n roll hall of fame deffo ....Paul kossoff was one of the reasons I picked up the axe 🎸
ABSOLUTELY! When you look at so many loser bands and poor musicians in there, FREE is one of the greatest ever rock bands!
I loved the full interview, so fascinating and I am completely hooked on his music! Also, when he says “can’t just keep shredding”, the hell you can!! 😃 I just began to discover the shreddy side of Bonamassa and he’s killing it!! Best gateway “drug” to blues for people coming from metal/rock.
Love Joe Bonamassa!!!! First Class all the way while remaining a regular Joe...
See you @ The Taft
Thrill is Gone" is the national anthem of the blues in my world.. Thank you BB.. RIP
I love that Joe plays 5ths with index and pinky like I do. So much more comfortable than using my ring finger.
You mean power chords ?
@@timboland7767 2-string 5ths. See 3:46
@@timboland7767 Root and 5th, power chord...
@@timboland7767The two terms are interchangeable...
He said he does it if he expects to so bends, as it gives you better vibrato control but you should still try to use the pinky as much as possible.
Joe B has an incrdible knowledge of fellow guitarists/musicians. Blows me away every time i see him play or interviewed.
On a mission to buy every record he has put out.
Bill Nelson of Be Bop Deluxe. The original Live in the Air Age album. Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape 14th February 1977.
Joe is a great fan,he's almost a rock music need and that's honesty.He 's paying tribute to all great, but unfortunately kind of forgotten guitar heroes,like Paul Kossof,Gary Moore and others.
I meant rock music nerd.
Gary is forgotten? wow..
First time I ever heard Joe plays Stevie, makes my day ❤
And somehow made it an SRV tone on a Les Paul 😮.
Really came full circle as a fan of SRV, I came to love Kenny Wayne, and discovered Joe while listening to the those stations on Pandora. Yep, I heard Joe on the KWS Pandora station and fell hard.
Didn't realize the difference between Beato 1 and Beato 2 channels! Now subscribed to both. I could listen to you and Joe talk all day. And his tone and chops: holy smokes!
Ah Paul Kossoff, such a talent. Free - what a band. Such emotional, at times tortured, singing/crying/wailing from a guitar. But I'm biased. He wasn't a high-speed technical shredder but so what - the feel was everything. Unbelievable vibrato. Check out the slow blues "Going Down Slow" on Free's first album, Tons of Sobs.
OK Joe, here you go, 1, Ten Years Gone, 2, Be My Friend, (live), 3, Blue Sky (both Duane and Dickey), 4, Let it Be, (just absolutely Iconic) 5, Stairway (because it is THE iconic solo from the Greatest R+R song ever, and everyone should know Stairway!)
When I saw Free at Brighton Dome in the early 70s Kossoff wasn’t 100% and Rogers played some guitar, PK still blew it away though. Their back line at that gig was Orange … IIRC.
'Mooshy peas' 😀JBM knows his stuff! Saw him play in London as a surprise guest at a Bernie Marsden gig (RIP) it was a wonderful, memorable evening and they played through a bunch of Peter Green songs. Amazing experience
Alright now, Hot Legs and You May Be Right were our most loved covers - we did our best to respect the original but make it our own (touring originals based band with a handful of selective covers) - crowds would go NUTS - iconic songs to say the least. Free should soooo be in the R&RHOF
How great Joe B. Giving so many great tips for anyone that's on the guitar journey. He is so inspiring.
Goosebumps! So many tones.
Since I am old I usually think of 2 Clapton leads in Cream songs: Sunshine of Your Love, Crossroads
I would add Hotel California solo, All Along the watchtower JImi, and Stairway solo and Highway Star Blackmore. Add those to the list and you will have covered a LOT of ground in your learning pursuits IMHO🙏🏾💯🤘🏾
He can’t; its all pentatonic+ he plays😊😂
Honestly it’s an endless list. The important thing is to keep learning.
@@vailgrass indeed!… it never stops if you love the instrument 💯🤘🏾
@@christian-van-e 🤣🤣🤣good☝🏾
Glad you pointed out this is a different channel! I've been a subscriber to your original channel for quite some time. I had on idea there was an RB2! Now I'm a subscriber here!
For me it's Highway Star, Comfortably Numb, Samba Pa Ti, Reeling In The Years, and Ten Years Gone,
Awesome picks
Glad you have that Orange Series II out, I found a 2x12 combo version, I loooooove it. Could you possibly demo that one against a few other old Oranges like Pics Only, OR80/120, OR100, etc? I've always thought the Series II had so much more gain on tap than all the other old Oranges. Even my 90's reissue OD80 doesn't come close. Love the channel Rick!
That fish/chips/mushy peas analogy is spot on, in every way.
If you know, you know.
True!
Also need to mention Rick here as well as Zac & TrueFire lounge for your brilliant interviews, so much FREE knowledge that these players took years to cultivate & in a matter of weeks just listening & practicing, really absorbing the information, I’m way further on the road to to understanding what makes great players great
Try to bring mark knopfler
Why?
Cause he’s a fucking legend, that’s why.
@NiKo-lh2nq dire straits were garbage though
@@Noisehead101 you might not like the band that’s totally fair, but can’t deny that Knopfler is objectively an incredible guitarist
@@NiKo-lh2nq he is very good indeed
So I came to UA-cam so I can subscribe to your channel as you. In hours forced to endure a commercial. But I still subscribed because I enjoy what you do.
totally concur with the mushy peas! Great guy, as usual!
Seen JB many times in Maryland…always a real treat. He puts on a great show!
I just watched Bonnamossa play “Fire & Water” 😮🎉
Rick, you just created a historic moment in my life! Gracias
Watch the Beacon Theatre DVD. He plays it with Paul Rodgers
best solos- stairway sympathy white room and hotel cal and 12 bar blues in general are the best chord progressions to solo over and hence the best solos.
Love Bonamassa. Totally don't understand all the hatin' on him. Sure, a lot of his playing is waaay over the top (because he CAN) but plenty of his playing is as smooth as B.B. King, lots of room for the notes to breathe. Dude is just a monster, one of the greatest guitarists ever, but he also gives plenty of room for his band or guest guitarists to shine. Just a super guy and a hell of a player.
Seen him 4 times now and will go again !
Personally I only like his playing when he's not playing blues. I feel like maybe it's a generational thing because typical Bonamassa is everything younger generation hates about "boomer bends", it's just so dated, cliched and done to death. When he steps out of that boomer paradigm he sounds great.
not sure what hate it is, unless that whole like digital effects or something drama i've heard about where he talks about people using effects to cover up stuff. says the guy that uses like 30 amps on stage at once feeding jubilees into fender reverbs or some shit. and 30 guitar too like one for every song or something lmao
anyway my criticism would be his direct copy of Eric Johnson. like bro you have blues stuff blues rock its great why do you through Eric Johnson in every solo now... ugh
It is envy. Not of the success per se, but joe is that A+ student who sits in the first row, raises his hand first and knows the answer to every question. He just makes the rest of us all in the back look bad.
Plus he has good songbook, for me at least
A really nice shout-out to Pete Way, bassist with English group UFO... the fact that JB knew them is great to me... Of course Joe knows about Peter Green and Gary Moore becuase of his love of music and Les Paul's but I think Joe's own knowledge comes from the connection between player and guitar as well as the music that has been written, made and played. That is where the "depth" of knowledge is gained. He's a student who just loves to keep learning and we are lucky to be able to see and hear him share... Great job as alway's Rick.... try and get Ritchie Blackmore on your channel.... I'm sure that would be a challenge...
Joe is amazing. He just keeps getting better.
He really does.
The 2nd solo in „I‘m Bad I‘m nationwide“ I missed 😢❤❤❤
In true "fish and chips" style, the British guitarist John Squire created one of the best all-time bluesy solos. It isn't hard to play, but it never leaves you. That is the hallmark of a great solo.
"Made of Stone"
Scuttle Buttin is such an awesome song i swear!!!! one of my favs from SRV. Looove Joe’s tone!! Awesome interview Rick! 🤘😎
Hard work and credit where credit is due. That’s JB. 💜
Thank you for pointing out that I wasn't subscribed. Been following you all this time, but not sure how I failed that simple step. All better now. Keep rockin'!
Glad Free was mentioned one of the most underrated bands ever
I would add claptons crossroads from the winterland in ‘68 as well
Terrifying times we live in, on one side. On the other hand: How cool is that: Watching Joe B. explaining and showing some essential licks and tricks.
Thank you Rick and Joe, I have always been a big Free fan and have thought that the guitar work is massively underrated, great to hear you mention them. Thank you for the inspiration and the suggestions 🙏👌👏👏👏
Joe really nailed it with the mushy peas!
Joe played where I was working years ago when he was a very young shredder. Outstanding show I must say, but he’s sure turned into an all around guitar genius!
I didn’t know that Joe could be that lightning fast. Scuttle buttin’…
I saw Albert King live years ago.
What a great blues guitarist.
No surprise that he influenced Stevie Ray and Joe.
The speed that Joe can rip pentatonic licks and pick every note, is quite impressive. Very few hammer-ons or pull-offs.
@@castleanthrax1833 I wish he'd do it more. Some shred too much and some too little. Joe shreds too little because he sure can do it. But I love the way he does it. You start thinking, does he only play slow blues and bam, 30 notes picked as cleanly as any 80s shredder fly by. And it's hard to shred in pentatonic or blues, I found some cool tips by Ben Eller how to do this STV, Johnson, Wylde, Bonamassa type blues scale shredding, you build it out of patterns that can be played fast and strung together. It takes some doing but it's a lot of fun and there nothing like playing slow blues and being able to add a bit of shredding in to liven it up and it emphasises the slow parts even more. I can't do it well yet but having a lot of fun with blues backing tracks, center position on a 3 way and blending the volumes for the perfect tone and trying to do the occasional Bonamassa style "in case you forgot I can shred" flight across the fingerboard. That along with Ellers technique of just focusing on the "1" with the downstroke and getting that right and the rest of the notes eventually linking up for clean picked notes, has really elevated my playing.
@@221b-l3t Cool. I must check out Ben Eller. I can play really fast legato ( I think we all can) but struggle with string skipping when trying to pick every note. Ty. ✌️🇦🇺
@@castleanthrax1833 Same for me, Ben Eller is a genius teacher. I didn't play 5 years and now 3 months of getting back into it and watching some his lessons and I can finally pick fast. I never could. Legato yeah. I could do the opening for Far Beyond the Sun but picked no chance. Now I can but sloppily. Still a huge gain, more than in the last 10 years. He's also funny so the lessons don't feel dry.
@@221b-l3tJoe has been a used of “playing too many notes” in the past. I think he’s been a little more conscious in the past 5 years or so to just pick his spots. Like he mentioned with Stevie blasting a fury of notes then breaking it up with a slower passage. I’ve seen him live about 4 times and some nights he will let loose! It’s lots of fun especially when you didn’t know it was coming.
One of my tops is Joe's album version of Blues Deluxe. The precise tenderness it starts with to the rips your soul from you without asking, then back to the precise tenderness is a definitive solo to me. And then there is the tone of the whole thing.
Imagine commenting on anything regarding Blues and having a profile picture that straight up supports slave owners. You're something else.
The fish & chip metaphor at the end: He ain’t wrong. 🤣
I hate mushy peas. Guess I’m just a maverick, that’s how I roll.
Oh, I do too. It’s just that it looks wrong if they’re not on the plate. 🤣@@claymor8241
This was some solid guitar technique.
Really inspirering video.
Paul Kossoff was fantastic but so was Andy Fraser the bassist. Look up the Isle of Wight concert
Ok. I've watched half-dozen of videos; mostly very good and informative.
I finally subscribed.
I humbly request you 'move heaven and earth' and interview John Mcglaughlin. 🙏🏽
I have no idea what Angus Young himself has said on the subject, but based upon the sound of it I always thought Paul Kossoff must have been a strong influence on his playing.
and Danny Kirwan from early Fleetwood Mac...
@@medaner1974 "Tell me All The Things You Do" and "Station Man" were Kirwan stand-outs for harder rock.
I'm blessed to know Free since being a teenager. All Right Now has some Great arrangement too. Pete Way... And UFO they are so underrated too.
Limelight - Lifeson
Revelation Mother Earth/Crazy train/ Crowley - Rhoades
Hairway to Steaven - Page
Girl Gone Bad - Ed Van Halen
Soldier Without Faith - His Yngwie-ness
Love the “mushy peas” reference - I’m from Yorkshire, England and Joe is exactly right here - it’s not right any other way! ❤😂
Love the 1st channel, but this is seems more laid back and the artists open up comfortably