• Registered: 2006-07-07
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Topic: Rochester, NY 7/7/06

I brought about 9 people to this FREE SHOW!! Joe you rocked, I loved every minute of it (as I always do) but you only played for 1 hour.. I was disappointed sad Chris Duarte has nothing on you, I know music is music and there's no "better" or "worse" but I really wish they'd start letting Chris open and have you close the show. The last 2 times you played at the Rochester Public Market, Chris has closed the show. Now I've heard a ton of your live shows, I have about 23 burned on cds, and I'm wondering how come these performances sound great but when you come to Rochester it seems like you lose heart.

I am your biggest fan in Rochester, NY I swear by it. I've called WCMF numerous times to play your songs on the radio, when you're coming to town everyone on my myspace list knows about it months in advance, I've turned people on to you that didn't even like rock or blues, I've purchased every single record / dvd you put out (and you signed my DVD tonight, thank you!) and I don't want you to ever stop playing in Rochester but I feel like it's getting close to that point after tonight.

Hopefully I'm wrong and you won't ever stop coming to play for us here in Rochester. Every single last person I've introduced you to has loved your music and your style because it's truely one of a kind. Maybe I'm wrong about everything and maybe Chris is one of your good friends and you don't mind opening but I absolutely think you are very very underrated, I don't ever want you to stop playing here and maybe one voice can't speak for a crowd but I hope you hear me and I hope you know that you have a growing fan base here who loves and appreciates your music and your style and we don't want to see your love or your passion for this music fade away from our town.

Keep on rocking as you do, keep on playing with your heart and soul, keep on making lyrics and music that make people shiver from state to state and from coast to coast, keep on being Joe Bonamassa. We love you here in Rochester and I can't wait to see you next year. Thanks for being my inspiration, thanks for making me pick up my guitar every day and thanks for setting the bar high above others so I have something to shoot for with my playing.  Thank you for being you.

           -Tony C from Rochester

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Re: Rochester, NY 7/7/06

I am not sure if their is a western NY street team coordinator, but it sounds like you are doing the work of it.  Drop Stu a line to check on this.

Don't give up on WCMF, especially if they do play Joe's style of music.

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  • Registered: 2006-04-21
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Re: Rochester, NY 7/7/06

tcam,
I beg to differ. Joe played closer to 75 min. I'm confused about your one statement where you said you loved every minute of the show but then you said, "when you come to Rochester it seems like you lose heart." Why do you think that? Also, why do you think he's gonna stop playing Rochester? He seemed like he was really enjoying himself. Not trying to be argumentative. Just wondering. I like your gung ho attitude.

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  • Registered: 2006-04-21
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Re: Rochester, NY 7/7/06

Set list as best as I can remember (not in order)

Takin the Hit
Walk In My Shadows (slower version)
Bridge to Better Days
Burning Hell
Blues Deluxe
The River
Mountain Time
A New Day Yesterday
Asking Around For You (encore)

Joe did some amazing slide work. Something happened with Bogie's drums during the set. Also, it sounded like a speaker went. Didn't matter. I thought the drums sounded perfect and there's nothing like the tone of a Les Paul. And Mark erased any doubts I had when I saw him keep up the pace with Joe on the jam on "Takin the Hit."

  • Registered: 2006-07-08
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Re: Rochester, NY 7/7/06

sheesh...a guy doesn't visit the board for a day or two and Stu goes and changes the way the site looks and feels and then, much to my surprise, there are new guys playing where Kenny & Eric used to sit and stand, respectively. I was driving around the back of the public market in rochester looking for a place to park in what is obviously a sold-out, albeit free, venue and I glance over at the stage and there is Joe playing with what I assumed at the time to be the Chris Duarte band. So, I'm sayin to myself "cool - Chris is finally opening for Joe" and after driving to the other side of rochester to park the car I finally get into the venue and I'm standing stage left and wait a minute..."Chris doesn't play bass and his hair is longer and darker than this guy standing next to Joe - what is going on here?" I beat feet over to the CD selling guy (J.P.) where I thought I would find Debbie or Len who could then explain to me what I had missed by not tuning into the forum here for a few days however they were nowhere to be found. "Ok, stay calm...Melissa is around here somewhere - she'll be able to tell me what's going on with the band"  so off I venture into the "1500" person crowd but ended up getting sidetracked by Joe and as I watched it dawned on me that there would be no more Kenny or Eric and the world as I knew it had changed and all because I did not sign into this forum for a week or so...

Other than that, the Band On The Bricks show was a great way to end the week. The crowd was huge - one of the biggest that I have seen there. The weather was absolutely perfect. I thought Joe was far more into the crowd and playing than the last time at Milestones - although we understood the problems that plagued that show.  Of course, the highlight of any Joe show is meeting up with Debbie, Melissa & Dean and trying to get them all (with Joe in tow) to come on over to the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que for the finest pork this side of Oz.

Thanks again for another good show Joe and new guys! Hope to see you in Manhatten Square Park for a couple of sets in the near future! And for all the old and new Joe fans in rochester and surrounding area remember this one thing - High Falls Sucks! Bring Back Manhatten Square Park!!

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  • Registered: 2006-07-07
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Re: Rochester, NY 7/7/06

Tara wrote:

I am not sure if their is a western NY street team coordinator, but it sounds like you are doing the work of it.  Drop Stu a line to check on this.

Don't give up on WCMF, especially if they do play Joe's style of music.

I'm new here, not sure who Stu is and not sure how to drop him a line smile

David wrote:

tcam,
I beg to differ. Joe played closer to 75 min. I'm confused about your one statement where you said you loved every minute of the show but then you said, "when you come to Rochester it seems like you lose heart." Why do you think that? Also, why do you think he's gonna stop playing Rochester? He seemed like he was really enjoying himself. Not trying to be argumentative. Just wondering. I like your gung ho attitude.

60 mins, 75 mins, perhaps I should have said "about an hour". I must confess that I was a bit drunk writing that post and not sure what was all going through my head. The main point I was trying to make was that although a great show, I've seen many others that were better and I was hoping that it wasn't because Chris Duarte was "headlining" and not JB. They spelled his name wrong on www.freetime.com last year and I had to email them 3 times to get it changed. Milestones can fit like 300 people tops, that place is a joke to have Joe play at. It just seems to me (and maybe I'm a bit crazy) that they don't see JB as an important act and I don't want him to stop coming due to things like these.