Joe's Interviews (Page 8 of 22)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTima9QL … ure=relmfu

New upload on youtube.

Great write up and interview.  Thanks for sharing.  Glad his dad owned a guitar stoe

Watched this a couple of days ago

This interview is notable for a couple of points.  The first being that 50% of what Joe says is completeley unintelligible because of the background music.

Secondly, Joe makes a point of mentioning that he feels he has lost dexterity in his playing, not only over 20 years but over the last 5 or 6 and that his fingers just dont go as fast as they used to.

Fingers aren't as fast?! Geez, I wouldn't have guessed that from the face melter solo on the first afterglow single!

Another gem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUytg1LLKg

"10 Things You Might Not Know About Joe Bonamassa" - someone did their homework - there really ARE at least 9 new things I didn't know about Joe in this interview!  Where you're most likely to find him when he's not on tour; his biggest regret, and a few others...

Go back to the start of this thread to see 2 new 2013 "Joe's Interviews"  https://forum.jbonamassa.com/viewtopic.php?id=4888

Amazing - over 34,660 fans have viewed this post of "Joe's Interviews" - keep 'em coming, Joe, we're  reading them!

Your fan,
Anne

A translated interview today of Joe in Italy.
Bing translator used.

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Verdone: me and star Joe Bonamassa.
With him is reborn the great guitar
The Director, noted expert and fan of rock, meets Italian-American bluesman, former child prodigy, who performs tonight at Alcatraz in Milan and Saturday in Padua by CARLO VERDONE

Verdone: io e la star Joe Bonamassa. Con lui rinasce la chitarra dei grandi Joe Bonamassa
The firmament of blues and rock has a new Star: a guy who started playing classical guitar as a child and then fall in love with the great blues of b. b. King who wanted in his tour just 12 years. An extraordinary guitarist from Italian surname: Joe Bonamassa. Everyone knows of my passion for music, for the great guitarists (Hendrix, Page, Beck and Clapton at all), and so I couldn't resist the temptation to meet a guy who did rediscover the guitar to many young people (but also to the many nostalgic of the heyday of Blues-rock like me) who come to his concerts with the enthusiasm of the old days.

The grandeur and elegance of Bonamassa is not alone in his immense talent in touching the strings gently now, now with awesome speed, aggressive and enthusiastic now gripping, and in a voice that improves albums in album. Is to be remained a fan of the great old men who preceded him and from which he drew those fragments of energy and creativity that led him to identify his very personal style. And it is no coincidence that Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall wanted to Duet with him in the famous "Further on up the road.

Twenty albums just 36 years testify to his explosive creativity. But just listen to The ballad of John Henry, Driving towards the daylight and the beautiful Don not explain with his superb blues singer Beth Hart to understand that Joe made us fall in love with the guitar again
supply. As in the old days. Tonight's concert at Alcatraz in Milan and Padua Saturday will be for many an opportunity to greet a ' new ' great blues-rock which it felt the need. And the fun is guaranteed. Word of Carlo Verdone.

Visiting blogs and reading many reviews about your numerous albums, appears clear by now that you came strongly to the Olympus of living blues guitarists and rock. What effect does lie alongside Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton? I would never have expected?
"Aspettarmelo ... no, seriously. I don't think even still be placed at that level, the Olympus I say. I like the idea of being able to be on the right track, but they are probably still looking for my audience, or rather that the audience of a certain breath wants to find me. I was lucky, there are many very good guitarists out there, but the point remains that to touch as many people as possible with your art ... The quantum leap is right there, that becomes the right path to follow, when you know that you're coming to people and what will be your audience of tomorrow ".

I think at the base of your success there is not only an extraordinary passion for the guitar but also a strong respect for the "great of the past" which often devote great cover that you can customize with your style. How important it is to remain a fan despite the success?
"Believe me, I am and I will always be a fan, I don't see the other side. I told you, I am fortunate to be at a certain level and I can also share the stage with legends, but I remain a fan, it is they who pushed me to be who I am through the inspiration which later I found to process. Clearly, it is always a pleasure, and so will remain: playing big pieces, giving that colour which then belongs to you and is part of your personality and your sound, what you have in hands. The rest is in the cycle of things: for those who wrote those pieces there were many others who were inspired by their time and who played on their way. Applies in all arts credo ".

It is clear that you must have a great blues and rock culture. If I had to choose three albums, what do you rate essential to your growth?
"Quite A Few. But let's say Truth by Jeff Beck Group, Irish Tour 74 Rory Gallagher, Fresh Cream of Cream and I could go on with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton, but the list would go ahead between BB King and ZZ Top, etc. There would be names, you know how it is when we talk about these things ... There is adolescence, and more ".

Each concert is always sold out in a few hours, your voice improves of full-length album and sophistication in touch is now superb. You feel right now that they have reached the pinnacle of success or feel you can move further ahead? And in what way?
"For me it is always a question of finding a contact with the audience through music and trying to go one step higher if possible. Try always to prove who you are or who you have become. You know how it is, tell me that you are also a musician. When you're on stage, you want to be sure to go to the Max, you're always testing, an endless challenge with yourself. Because only inside you know when you're going well. You feel it, see it in who you're facing. From time to time trying to recreate that feeling of well-being. There remain sitting on their laurels, you understand? ".

What surprises the audience is the absolute safety and precision in your every live concert. I wonder if like all mortals are anxious before every concert or if you are focused and confident. I don't think it's been easy dealing with the Royal Albert Hall and the Beacon Theatre ... But you were a war machine!
"Thanks for the compliment! Well, until the tour is not finished, you never know what can happen at night after night, I try not to make me find unprepared, is part of the experience. But that strange feeling in the stomach while quit out there always remains, are the most human of all when it comes to these things. Then clearly factors come into play, audience interaction, energy, reply ... Everything is made and becomes a picture that changes colors but not in intensity ".

Among your 20 and multiple albums just 36 years what is whatever you want more successful? And why?
"If I have to think about those who I like to listen to from beginning to end, I would say definitely The ballad of John Henry and Black Rock, and Driving towards the daylight. That then is the material that I have defined more in various live at the Beacon Theater and at the Royal Albert Hall. The album coming out in March An acoustic evening at the Vienna Opera House is a concentrate of all this in, say, unplugged. Are all my sons at the end. I am a young parent ... (laughs). I must say though that I haven't made my best album. Maybe it will happen when I'm 60 years, it will mean that I will stay again ' pushing ' ".

The collaboration with singer Beth Hart on the album don't explain is a Pearl of great refinement and energy. You have a new project together?
"Beth is one of those singers that the whole world should know: so real, intense, powerful, the voice of nature is in her. I know that you got a taste on tv lately in Italy (a Quelli che il calcio, ndr) and that tonight's show in Milan is already exhausted. Deserves everything this world has to offer. Go to understand the business sometimes ... However we are finishing an album together which will be released in a few months. And surely will follow a tour ".

Tonight you are in Milano, 3 in Padua. What you find in the Italian audience compared to other European cities?
"For it seems a cliche, I too find myself in Italian roots when I get to play in the home of my grandparents, I always had a lucky star in this country, son was followed even when I played the first few times in small clubs, an instinct maybe. I miss a couple of years, I believe that with this new band and the stored energy be able to convince an increasing number of people to become my target audience. We have the fire inside ... ".

You say that you have at home about 100 guitars. Others say nearly two hundred! But how many square meters is this House, because it must be a war path walk.
"Heh, heh ... I know, it's become a gossip, truth be told I had many more once, now I am about 100, but there are gems of first purity, as Les Paul ' 59 and ' 60 with certain serial numbers that fans the difference for those of the craft. Over time I got rid of things I don't more eye popping. Everything evolves in life. But yes, I do own many ".

We can count to see you soon in Rome? Here your fans grow ...
"Jeez, I know, refer to an open door. Rome would be one of those dream jobs, clearly the famous ' routing ', the itinerary of a tour, often obeys laws above called ' Logistics ' that don't always go hand in hand with the ideal stages. But get there, you're safe! Thanks Charles for your attention to my music, I'll see you in Milan, I reckon ... ".

yeah thanks Rick great read. Cheers Ron