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Smooth Operator.
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596 2014-04-30 12:21:18 (edited by Rocket 2014-05-01 04:09:58)
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Time for Joe to suggest, to his opening act, something like...
...an obscurity (by popularity only) of Ronnie Van Zandt's, Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Made In The Shade." Hmm...?! Oh yeah! No offense to Sandi, all the guys in the band have dumb **** ex's 
(guaranteed)! 
hmmm...it was a 3 asterisk cuss word, not 4... 
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dknight16 wrote:
Brothers In Arms.
Let the awesome tone and finger picking begin. Or is the original perfect?
I'm never opposed to any artist covering a classic song, even one like that - but I think in order to really honor how great a song like Brothers in Arms is, JB (or anyone else) would have to make it their own and stray from the original arrangement.
Here's a surprise suggestion - would be cool if JB and Beth Hart covered "Goodbye to Love" by the Carpenters.
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Its a beautifully emotional R&B ballad (if you listen to the lyrics, its blues all the way). And it has not only a killer guitar solo in it, but the first known recording of the famous Electro Harmonix Big Muff (triangle version) distortion pedal. Monster outro with a vocal medley and guitar. I could see the duo making it a little bit 'smokier' than the original and really making it their own.
PS speaking of Dire Straits, anyone ever heard "Fade to Black"? (Not Metallica) - its off of "On Every Street" - sounds similar to Last Matador of Bayonne, which is one of my favorite JB tunes. Wonder if it was an influence?
598 2014-05-01 08:07:07 (edited by Rocket 2014-05-01 17:13:35)
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Working backwards, I have no recall of "On Every Street," therefore proffer no opinion rearguarding Beth & Joe's possible vamping.
I WILL back you up solidly in agreement 100% on the Carpenter's "Goodbye To Love!" WOW! 
Always LOVED that guitar even though I thought it was way too short (on excitement, but not tone) Going from considering Richard & Karen a torture rite of sibling rivalry to thoroughly and unabashedly loving pretty much the entire catalog nowadays (you know, it is funny how prejudices may rule/grrruminate or otherwise ruin one's life). When my sister played that dang double album as background music (not to ADHD teen) to her long, enjoyable conversations (between or despite distractions) about anything or nothing. I made a lot of fun of them, but even then conceded pseudo-grudgingly to enjoying an extremely exclusive few cuts (or else I couldn't change the subject).
Now, The "ahh's" don't have it and need an Alice Cooper dismemberment and maybe a Tom Pettyish snipe back as haa haa's... so maybe it is 98% behind you...oh yeah, and some of the lyrics have to go, sooo maybe 50% in thee end...
OK Caveman, puhhh-leeece take over form [sic] hear!!!
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ps-I was able to work the music more to my liking by just walking in and putting on her (older sister's) Beach Boys' records; Beach Boys' Party!, some other one (with "Little Honda"), and then Endless Summer, the pinnacle of marketing savvvvvvvy (not lumpy) gravvvvvvvy-mid 70's, milk the cash coupe by tossing together "All" those 60's only hits (only), throw some real fancy allusions to the nearer past and present via colorful, artsy-fartsy "pop" psychedelia album art (approaching a decade from their appearance and image while re-mowing the lovely little lawn on the nearside of the hill's green, green cash of known). Double (or more) platinum (I think those two artists were some of the early juggernauts of unprecedented 1970's record and booming tape sales, leading to.........uh, uhm, future ch-ch-ch-chann-jussss)!! With the Beach Boys we could sing together. 
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Hey man, the Beach Boys are one of my favorite bands of all time and I don't care who knows it. I have yet to hear a song that in any way rivals "God Only Knows" (I realize I just mentioned one of their biggest hits and could now easily be written off as a faux-fan, but I'm guessing this isn't the right place to extensively delve into my Beach Boys knowledge and uber-fandom. Although I'm encouraged as to how well my Carpenters suggestion has thus far been received).
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"As The Years Go Passing By" ( covered a.o. from Albert King, Eric Burden And The Animals, Gary Moore, John Lee Hooker, Savoy Brown...)
It would be a thrill for me hearing Joe's solos in this masterpiece of music!!!
601 2014-05-01 18:11:39 (edited by Rocket 2014-05-01 18:13:02)
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jackfossett wrote:
Hey man, the Beach Boys are one of my favorite bands of all time and I don't care who knows it. I have yet to hear a song that in any way rivals "God Only Knows" (I realize I just mentioned one of their biggest hits and could now easily be written off as a faux-fan, but I'm guessing this isn't the right place to extensively delve into my Beach Boys knowledge and uber-fandom. Although I'm encouraged as to how well my Carpenters suggestion has thus far been received).
I would and still will, always pick anything (still including conversation, lol) The Beach Boys over anything The Carpenters. I am a Super-Duper-Über Beach Boys fan also!!!!!!!!!!!! I was only ragging on the the retro-retreating into the past marketing wise, which, honestly, to me, was not genius, but fairly darn close. Brian's struggles plus the Smile debacle with the studio master tapes fire, the less than dominant reception at home of Smiley Smile and all that in the interim between Pet Sounds and Endless Summer. We could go on all day, Jack! 
G-d only knows what I'd be without the Beach Boys and especially Brian Wilson.
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AC/DC ....Long Way To The top If You Wanna Rock And Roll
I would so much love this....I figure Joe could get someone to play the bag pipes and add Joe's guitar and well.....Pure bliss
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Break out the "SLIDE" and do The Faces - Around The Plynth off the First Step album, Ron Woods amazing slide work from 1970
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It may have been mentioned before but I'd like to hear him cover the Allman Brothers "Midnight Rider".
605 2014-05-08 03:01:26 (edited by Kenny 2014-05-08 03:01:53)
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A bluesy version with horns of "This guy's in love with you" by Herb Alpert.
606 2014-05-09 03:16:53 (edited by Rocket 2014-05-09 03:36:07)
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Kenny wrote:
A bluesy version with horns of "This guy's in love with you" by Herb Alpert.
Holy **##!!!!!!! Somebody else remembers the only song Herb Alpert sang!!! I'm not against it, I sing that song purty purty well dunned iffin I says sew meswellf. Guest vocalist? 
Boy, rumors would lie like pigs in the fry, I'm jiii-ving!
Any sorts.........I dunno...I guess if Joe was comfy with the blatantly unblushing unblemished gushing of the lyrics. Like I said, I like the thought, I do, I do. As opposed to another breakup / divorce style mope massage. 
What about Beth & Joe, or....das I say...it...das I say it.........I das! Gadzooks!!! A Joe & Sandy duet???!!! WHoaa! An arrangement could toss the tilt-a-whirtling off its axis! 
Combine the Burt Bacharach-Dionne Warwick style with the Dusty Springfield one (except no plate echo and the orchestrals LOWERED) for either Beth or Sandy...a feastured trumpeter (? or horn section crescendos and dips) coincidental with Joe's Guitar soling (subdued, Dude!; just a little maybe ), and /or somebody UNEXPECTED doing the whistling (imagine Carmine, or Mats even , heh heh)
OK I am out, Kev is IN, ...again!
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Said it before, and I'll say it again: Joe would do an amazing version of Uriah Heep's "Traveller in Time":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAoliCapF8g
A big Bonamassa solo at 2:34 would be epic.
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ZeyerGTR wrote:
Said it before, and I'll say it again: Joe would do an amazing version of Uriah Heep's "Traveller in Time":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAoliCapF8gA big Bonamassa solo at 2:34 would be epic.
Great...now I have "Traveler in Time" stuck in my head.
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It's probably time for Joe to seriously consider an SRV song. I think Joe would do an amazing cover of Life Without You. The key is totally in Joe's wheelhouse. The tempo and mood suit his style perfectly. I can so hear Joe's phrasing and vibrato doing that solo.
I have a dream ... and Joe already fulfilled it by covering Gary Moore's Midnight Blues. Would it be selfish to think it could happen again?
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Almost anything by Dickey Betts
611 2014-05-31 04:13:39 (edited by barsby02 2014-05-31 04:14:16)
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Love to hear Joe do a version of Pink Floyds Comfortably Numb..
612 2014-05-31 06:41:11 (edited by Rocket 2014-05-31 06:41:28)
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Well, I have polled a great deal of the forum posts, and OVERWHELMINGLY the most requested is Willie Dixon's "I Ain't Superstitious," with calls to of course yet another Jeff Beck Group '68-'69 ish version and also Howlin' Wolf version, on to my present suggestion of Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa together again version...full or less or not horns...
It's really time to lay this one out!
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