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Topic: Joe's Best Guitar Solo's

To Celebrate Joe's 40th Today

( Been planning this for a while, good day to celebrate )

Here's a Thank you to him for all the enjoyment and fun he's given us through his music and live shows with some of his career highlights carefully and painstakingly chosen

Feel free to add your own favorites

In true list fashion here's My Top 10 (They Are All Breathtaking)

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10th ..... Oh Beautiful - 1st Nov 2015 - Mr Kyps - Poole - England
   Joe goes into that 11 on the dial here so intense and Fierce OMFG Oh Beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_WaTbO72LwH
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9th .....  You Shook Me - 28th Aug 2014 - Beaver Creek - CO - USA
  A Crazy Double Extended Scorching Solo Searing out of Control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRASBHMHeQ
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8th ..... Song Of Yesterday - 30th July 2011 - Academy 1 - Manchester - England
Just watch Joe unleash the most blistering solo here and watch Glenn & Jasons
  reaction after, best version of this song by light years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q5m2n1rhTI
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7th ..... Angel Of Mercy - 29th Aug 2015 - Greek Theatre - Los Angeles - USA
This is Joe at his most Fierce and Agressive its Just Insane and So Powerful
with White Hot Solo Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUJsi4vuGjY
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6th ..... The Thrill Is Gone - 29th Aug 2015 - Greek Theatre - Los Angeles - USA
Greatest Tribute by Joe Ever of any song he's Done. it is so so Perfect and Amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD1CYMPNSis
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5th ..... I'll Take Care Of You - 5th Nov 2011 - Beacon Theater - New York - USA
One of Joe's most incredible and flowing solo's ever , just so so Beautiful and Breathtaking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFphuiMxA7I
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4th ..... No Love On The Street - Dustbowl
            This has Joe's Most Incredible Guitar Work Ever put to record but not to make
the live stage and setlist , it has 2 Incendiary and Blistering Solos that are incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWKYZNOH3zU
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3rd ..... Mountain Time - 26th June 2005 - Burg Satvey -  Mechernich - Germany
            Joe's most Beautiful and Pure Flowing Solo Ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zrlzyn7T24
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2nd ..... Sloe Gin - July 3rd 2012 - Vienna Opera House - Austria
            This is Joe's Most Touching and Stunning Solo Ever
            His most Beautiful and Arranged Guitar Piece of Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCNo7jCEX5g

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1st ..... Blues Deluxe - March 26th 2013 - The Borderline - London - England
           Is This Joe's Best Solo Ever i know quite a few agree
THIS IS JUST SO SO INSANE JOE PUSHING LIKE NO OTHER TIME TO THE LIMIT
If you ever want to show a video to a friend to show em what he can do ..
This Is The Number 1and My favorite Joe Bonamassa Moment along with The One Above
Favorite Joe moment Ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjvq0Jf48Xc
 

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............... Michael

Happy Birthday Joe

Joe Bonamassa .......  His Greatest 3 Videos ... IMMHO   After Much Deliberation
3rd ...... Mountain Time / Rockpalast       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h01xa6NMsJo
2nd ...... Sloe Gin       /  Vienna            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRASS8O8ZnE           
1st ....... Blues Deluxe / The Borderline    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnl3E_KLxYg

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What a wonderful Top 10 Michael!


But I don't have a Top 10. Maybe a Top 1000. He is a Pied Piper to me. Will follow him even into the fire.

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Re: Joe's Best Guitar Solo's

I really love the solo which completes 'common man'' off afterglow as a totally unique style of solo even though Joe at the time stated he didn't think his playing was up to standard on that album. I wish mine was as bad. lol big_smile

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Great list!

I am very partial to "Song Of Yesterday" for sure.

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Goes back a ways but I will always love the solos in Just Got Paid circa late 2008.  The opening at the Royal Albert Hall in 2009 will always be a total goosebumps moment.  Oh, and anything with volume swells.  Oh heck, all of them!

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Re: Joe's Best Guitar Solo's

My short list in no particular order:
Sloe Gin (Sloe Gin)
I Know A Place (Black Rock)
Meaning of the Blues (Dust Bowl)
Prisoner (Dust Bowl)
Heavenly Soul (DTTD)
Song of Yesterday (BCC)
If Heartaches Were Nickels (Live, the video with the dancers)
I'll Take Care of You (Beacon)
No Good Place for the Lonely (Blues of Desperation)
Blues Deluxe (Shepard's Bush)

[Edit] I keep thinking of more "best" solos:
A New Day Yesterday (ANDY)

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I love "Stop" solo. He used a Carol Ann amp during that session
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I'm still stuck on this one...and also the whole 'best' or "favorite" conundrum

On the internet, "Best" simply means "Favorite." smile  At least, I just do the translation automatically in my head.  Unless very specific criteria are given, it's usually what's meant.

Stop is a good one, too...

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There are so many........."The River"........

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Happier Times for me, closely followed by Tea For One as my favourites. But seriously - an impossible choice as I love 'em all!!!

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I have so many favorites, so that what I post in this thread today (solo of the day for me)

Solo I thought about and went back and listened to it again, the one I call to myself "jet taking off"
Gave Up Everything For You - Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2.16.2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TR6Vu06hsc&t=315s

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Kinda like asking "which grain of sand is your favorite on this beach?"

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The ones that spring to my mind:

The Great Flood - RAH 1
Reconsider Baby - Tangiers (2004)

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I this every solo is outstanding. And every song, his singing, everything, amazing and so hot waves and chills. Remember myself watching it for the first time and then sitting in the dark room for an hour and trying to pull myself back out from another dimension.

the last concert of the Fall tour 2016 - 12/17/2016, Dolby Theater, LA

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For a few years now now I have been separating out what I thought were some of the best solos I have seen and put them all in a playlist on youtube. Michael mentions a few that were some of my top favorites, but most of mine have come from the Rock Candy shows. Joe's solos with that band are beyond what he normally plays at his regular shows. That music pushes him to think outside the box and spurs his creativity. And I have found that frequently bits and pieces of the solos from RCFP later appear in his regular live shows. Really hope RCFP doesn't fall by the wayside. It really has stimulated Joe's creativity in a multitude of ways.

Here is the playlist of some of my favorite solos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P … QhZsi7_kup

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Amen Natasha....

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nmagcorn wrote:

For a few years now now I have been separating out what I thought were some of the best solos I have seen and put them all in a playlist on youtube. Michael mentions a few that were some of my top favorites, but most of mine have come from the Rock Candy shows. Joe's solos with that band are beyond what he normally plays at his regular shows. That music pushes him to think outside the box and spurs his creativity. And I have found that frequently bits and pieces of the solos from RCFP later appear in his regular live shows. Really hope RCFP doesn't fall by the wayside. It really has stimulated Joe's creativity in a multitude of ways.

Here is the playlist of some of my favorite solos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P … QhZsi7_kup



So love RCFP!!! You said it so right - it is absolutely outstanding. I've been so amazed and mesmerized by it. Everybody there is so good, and Joe - no words , so magical and beautiful playing!.. Sooo my kind of music - love, love, love it. Wish he would continue it!

I've been traveling up and down your channel Natasha, listening to the treasures you've got collected there... Baked Potato!.. mmmm... will love it forever! So, so good.

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nmagcorn wrote:

Here is the playlist of some of my favorite solos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P … QhZsi7_kup

Wow! As always Natasha thank you for posting this. Great video as all your videos are, AND a side tip of the hat to your 'sound man' who does a great job as well smile

So now we know what happened to 'old' Joe. He saves it all for RCFP. I sure wish he would go back to that in all his playing. Fantastic stuff.