Dose of Joe at the Crest

That was clinical, I don't know how he does it, but it goes up a notch every time I see him play. Karen got her full Bonabaptism and I got Bonipulated at Dr. Joes geetar clinic. Loved the new stuff and was a treat to hang with Mr. & Mrs. Shredit, Lisa & Scott, Rpic & his posse(Randu,thanks for da schwag), Joe & Aaron pre-show, and Rick & Carm post gig. The best part is we're gonna do it all over again tomorrow night in the Citay. Time to wimp out like Shreddy and recharge my batteries for round 2.

                                                                                         Buenos Noches,
                                                   
                                                                                         J Dawg

Back to the land of the inet thingy. Touring at the edge of the world is cool but 3 days of electronic deprivation....... No phone, no tv, no inet. Just me and the missus in lots of wild nature.  HEAVEN!
Joe tonight and a bit closer to that place. Palace of Fine JOEARTS, here we come.
Rick

Was at the Sacto show last nite. We had great seats (2nd row center). What an awesome time we had. It has been a long time since I've been to a concert (Pink Floyd '94) so I forgot how LOUD they can be! My wife suggested that next time we should get seats farther back for better acoustics. I have to agree. Otherwise it was awesome.
I do feel the need to apologise to Joe though for the few audience members who don't know the appropriate times to open their mouths and when to keep them shut. There were a few who felt they had to be heard with their inane whooping and whistling during the quieter moments of "Woke Up Dreaming". Get a clue people! I can now see where Sacramento gets it's nickname of "Cowtown".
Other than that, it was the fastest 2 hours + I've ever experienced. Just fantastic!

I had a feeling, when the song playing before the band hit the stage last night, was "Iron Maidens - Two Minutes To Midnight" that we were in for something just a little different than previous JB shows. My feeling was correct.

JB & Co. were on fire last night.

Rick was in great form and when they needed to be the keys were front and center as far as sound goes. Great additional background vocals also. .........price of admission $65

Bogie & Carmine were layin' such a killer groove if you weren't tappin' your toes or boppin' your head you were either paralyzed or dead. Bogie was the best I've ever seen him in person........price of admission $65

Joe. What can be said that hasn't already. Absolutely LOVED all the guitars  ............PRICELESS!!!!

J Dawg- Nice meeting Karen and thanks for the Jim D hat. See you all tonight!

                                                                                    Randy

Joe was great and so was the band...I was in the fourth row on the left. I would like to thank Joe for coming to Sacramento and look forward to him coming again. Joe did not miss a beat or note for that matter. Joe had a pedal mishap and they had it fixed in no time. (Thanks to the great tech) The new song Blue & Evil was amazing live. As for the idiots that were hooping and yelling out I want Joe to know that not all Sacramento people are that stupid...I picked up the new CD Black Rock and it is amazing. The album has a great live feeling to it. New album and Tin full of picks...what else can you ask for...

Thanks again Joe...

Scary Gary

Thanks for the video...I was in the 4th row to the right. If you have more please post...Joe was on at this show.

Thanks again,

Scary Gary

Sorry I screwed this up scroll down to the review on the bands performance at the Crest

Shreddy

March 15, 2010  SacBlues News
Dear Dave,
Ah, St. Patrick's Day & Spring!

This Friday has a little bit of everything. One can see & hear Marshal Law reuniting at Jazzyblues Café in West Sacramento, The Jeff Watson Band in Constable Jack's, The Equinox Blues Review in the Blue Room Lounge, Black Cat Bone playing in Shaker's Pub or Shane Dwight in the Torch Club.

On Saturday take in an outdoors blues party with Gary Mendoza, Kyle Rowland, X- Trio, Marta Gee & Lee Bootz at the Full Circle Farm on Garden Highway which starts at 1:00 PM. Later catch Tim Noxon's Rockin' Blues Band at The West House in Roseville, the Mofo Party Band at the Torch Club, Frank Hannon at Constable Jack's or harmonica great Darrell Mansfield in Po Boyz Sports Bar & Grill.

This Sunday the Delta Wires take over the stage for the "Sunday Powerhouse of Blues" show in Folsom. A special note for the jammers out there - Shane Tiller, Jr. will be hosting an "all ages" jam in the Blue Room starting at 1:00 PM.

Enjoy your week and take in some blues near you!

Here is this week's schedule:

Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.

   Monday:
Acoustic Jam (7:00), Elk Grove Sports Bar, Elk Grove
Blues Jam w/Jimmie Collazo (8:00), The Station, Citrus Heights
Blues Jam w/Jonny (7:00), Velma's Place, San Francisco
Memphis Exchange (6:30), Blue Wing Saloon, Upper Lake
Open Mic w/Dave Baldwin (7:30), Fox & Goose, Sacramento

Tuesday:
Jam w/Dave Channell (7:00), San Juan Club, Fair Oaks
Jam w/Tony & The Tuff Times (7;30), Nino's Place, Modesto
Kate Gaffney (5:30), Torch Club, Sacramento
Lew Fratis Trio (9:00), Torch Club, Sacramento
M.O. Co-op Jam (7:00), Bar Basic, Old Roseville

Wednesday:
Acoustic Open Mic w/Sandra Delores (5:30), Torch Club, Sacramento
Acoustic Set w/Clemon featuring Doug Cash (4:00), Sheraton Grand, Sacramento
Blues Night (8:00), Rasselas Jazz Club, San Francisco
Jam w/Fire & Wheels (8:00), Folsom Hotel, Folsom
Jazz Jam (8:00), Blue Room - Capitol City Hotel, Sacramento
Kim Wilson (8:00 & 10:00), Biscuits & Blues, San Francisco
M.O. Co-op Jam (7:00), Louie's Cocktail Lounge, Rancho Cordova
Mind X (9:00), Torch Club, Sacramento
Pinkie Rideau (5:00), Lou's Pier 47, San Francisco
Sonoma County Blues Society Jam (8:00), Rita's Cocktail Lounge, Santa Rosa

Thursday:
Blues Jam Night w/T-Ray (9:00), T's, Modesto
Harley White Jr. w/Aaron King (9:00), Torch Club, Sacramento
Seth Walker (5:30), Torch Club, Sacramento
Ted Stancliff Ensemble w/Leah Tysse (7:30), Constable Jack's, Newcastle
Vega's Historic Underground Blues Jam (7:00), Vega's, Old Sacramento
Willie G (8:00 & 11:30), Biscuits & Blues, San Francisco

FRIDAY - March 19

   Acoustic Trio (5:00), Torch Club, Sacramento
Black Cat Bone (10:00), Shakers Pub, Citrus Heights
Blues Jam w/Rick Arnold (8:00), Drytown Club, Drytown
Charlie Musselwhite (8:30), Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz
Equinox Blues Review (9:00), Blue Room, Sacramento
Jeff Watson Band (9:30), Constable Jack's, Newcastle
Kenny Blue Ray (9:30), Mojo Lounge, Fremont
Lavay Smith (8:00 & 10:00), Biscuits & Blues, San Francisco
Marshal Law (9:00), Jazzyblues Café, W. Sacramento
Rock & Blues Jam w/Joe Hurley (7:30), Tumbleweed Tavern, Rancho Cordova
Shane Dwight (9:00), Torch Club, Sacramento
The Detours (9:30), The West House, Roseville

SATURDAY - March 20

   Outdoor Blues Concert - Gary Mendoza Band w/Kyle Roland, X-Trio, Marta Gee & Lee Bootz (1:00), Full Circle Farm near Teal Bend - Garden Hwy, Sacramento.

Darrell Mansfield (9:00), Po Boyz Sports Bar & Grill, Folsom
Frank Hannon (9:30), Constable Jack's, Newcastle
Johnny "Guitar" Knox (5:00), Torch Club, Sacramento
Loose Change Blues Band (9:00), The Station, Roseville
Mere Mortals (9:30), The Stag, Woodland
Mofo Party Band (9:00), Torch Club, Sacramento
Pinkie Rideau (9:30), The Annex, Sutter Creek
Roy Rogers & The Delta Rhythm Kings (9:00), Mystic Theater, Petaluma
Shane Dwight (8:00 & 10:00), Biscuits & Blues, San Francisco
The Detours (8:00), Bones Roadhouse, Pleasant Valley
The Great Oglee Molgee Blues Band (6:30), Kings Room, Stockton
Tim Noxon's Rockin' Blues Band (9:30), The West House, Roseville

SUNDAY - March 21

   All Age Jam w/Shane Tiller, Jr. (1:00), Blue Room Lounge, Sacramento
Blues Jam w/Oliver (5:00), Chief Crazy Horse Saloon, Nevada City
Blues Pro Jam w/Stan Erhart (7:30), Old Princeton Landing, Princeton by the Sea
Delta Wires (3:00), Powerhouse Pub, Folsom
F.L.O. (8:00), Torch Club, Sacramento
Jam w/Dave Channell (7:00), San Juan Club, Fair Oaks
Jam w/Lee (6:00), The Branding Iron, Marysville
Jam w/Steve Foster & Friends (2:00), Valencia Club, Penryn
M.O. Co-op Jam (4:30), Tex Wasabi, Sacramento
Pro Blues Jam (6:00), Dimitri's On The Bay, Suisun
Sunday Blues Jam w/Aaron King (4:00), Torch Club, Sacramento
Sunday Blues Jam w/Jimmy Pailer (7:00), Powerhouse Pub, Folsom

Coming Soon !!

   Wednesday, March 31 - The Perfect Age of Rock n' Roll Blues Band - Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, James "Sugar Blue" Whiting, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Bob Stronger, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin & special guests (8:00), Great American Music Hall, San Francisco.

Friday, April 2 - Delgado Brothers (9:00), Torch Club, Sacramento.

Sunday, April 4 - John Lee Hooker, Jr. (8:30), Po Boyz Sports Bar & Grill, Folsom.

Saturday, April 10 - Curtis Salgado (8:30), Po Boyz Sports Bar & Grill, Folsom.

Sunday, April 11 - Nick Gravinitis (3:00), Powerhouse Pub, Folsom.

Saturday, April 17 - Laurie Morvan Band (9:00), Torch Club, Sacramento.

Saturday, April 24 - Buddy Guy (8:00), Cached Creek Casino, Brooks.

Torch Club Anniversary

   
The Torch Club will celebrate their 10 Year Anniversary of their most recent location on Saturday, April 10th (40 Years in Texeira family). The Anniversary party will be a free event to thank all of our friends & supporters of the Torch Club.

Marina Texeira, the third generation owner, states, "it is a bittersweet celebration", referring to the recent loss of her father in May 2009., "I know he is proud of this achievement and I am sad that he will not be here to celebrate."

The Anniversary party will feature some reunions of popular local bands that began playing at the Torch Clubs' prior location. The bands will include The Chrome Addicts, Johnny "Guitar" Knox, Jimmy Pailer Band, Hollywood Texas, Lee Bootz & Southside Shuffle, The Beer Dawgs and The Lewminators.

The Anniversary show will run from 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM on Saturday, April 10th with plenty of appetizers & drink specials.

Then stick around for the Volker Strifler Band beginning at 9:00 PM.

Rear View Mirror
Heres the write up from The Saramento Blues Society......very nice!! 

Rob Sawyer     
Joe Bonamassa - Crest Theater, Sacramento on March 11, 2010.

So here are 10 things you need to know before you go hear Joe.

First, as he's often said in interviews, his mom raised him to respect his fans, his concert promoters and his crew by being punctual. This night at the Crest the house lights went down, and from the darkness to stage right Joe began unleashing pure thunder from a baritone/ standard double-neck, at precisely 8:00 o'clock. A lot of folks who were still milling around in the lobby missed one of the great show entrances on the circuit today.

Second, even though he's from upstate New York (he says he's from L.A., but that's just his professional base for a grinding schedule of over 200 dates a year; he grew up in, and still calls "home," the Utica area), Joe sure knows how to coax the Delta and Southern swamps out of his guitars. Everything from dirt to sublime, with a million watts of energy in every note.

Third, be prepared to see a virtual parade of great axes. Lucky for Joe, his dad Len is the owner of venerable Bank Street Guitars in Hamilton, New York. (It was Len who introduced his young son to the guitar gods that are still Joe's idols, English bluesmen like Eric Clapton, John Mayall and Rory Gallagher.) Hope Joe gets a discount, because just for this night's show I counted (from the Gibson roster) five different Les Pauls, a Firebird, a Korina Explorer, a 355 and a Flying V, plus (from the Ernie Ball team) two Music Mans (Music Men?) and the double-neck that opened the show. And that doesn't even count the Alvarez acoustic that Joe shredded solo for about 15 minutes toward the end of the show, bringing the crowd to a frenzy.

Fourth, Joe and his crew are prepared, prepared, prepared. While he's definitely a tone geek (four amp heads into two custom cabinets, specially miked behind a Plexiglas screen to avoid cross-talk with the other instruments on the stage, plus a rack of pedals larger than the stock at most Guitar Centers), once the show starts there's no pedal-stomping, dial twirling or switch-throwing. He's put the hard work into the set-up before the show, so what you hear is coming exclusively from his hands, and his heart. (And by the way, that little metal stick thingie-dingie that was on the stand to stage right is called a "theremin." Invented in Russia in the 1920s, the antenna senses the proximity of the player's hand to control pitch and volume. Joe's is made by Moog, and when he runs his guitar signal through it and waves his hand near the antenna, pure magic comes out.)

Fifth, Joe attracts super musicians to tour with him. Aussie Rick Melik was on the Hammond B-3, run through one of those Holy Grail Leslie rotating speaker cabinets. Brooklynite Carmine Rojas (who's worked from everyone from Rod Stewart to Carly Simon) was on bass. And South Carolina native Bogie Bowles (who now lives in L.A. and teaches at the L.A. Music Academy) rocked on the drums.

Sixth, while he may be only 32 years old, Joe's music is fully matured. (Joe started picking at guitars in his dad's shop as an infant, and before his teens was gigging with well-known musicians. One story has it that then 12-year-old Joe was lectured by his homeroom teacher for fabricating his "what I did last summer" essay, in which he described a performance with B.B. King. But when Joe produced his backstage pass and photos of the concert, his teacher quickly changed Joe's grade from "F" to "A-Plus.") Don't let the boyish good looks fool you.

Seventh, be prepared for a great set list. Among my favorites of Joe's hits on this night: "Sloe Gin" and "So Many Roads."

Eighth, be prepared to get your money's worth. Two hours and five minutes of uninterrupted music. And it went by in a flash.

Ninth, know that Joe walks the walk. He's one of the most generous musicians out there, and a huge supporter of the Blues Foundation's "Blues in the Schools" program. Working with the Sacramento Blues Society, earlier in the afternoon he put on a great clinic for over 350 Sacramento-area school students. If there's one thing that's important to Joe, it's "giving back" to the musicians that supported him on his way up by sharing the music with the next generation.

And finally, No. 10: Get your ticket early. This night's show at the 975-seat Crest was sold