Question about your first Joe experience.... (Page 1 of 3)

Wow, Roy, that was your post no. 4444!!!!!!
Günter

Well my first time seeing Joe was last August at Freedom Hill in Michigan.........It was actually KWS and Joe opened for him.....I went to see JOE!  Although KWS was a bonus, but make no mistake I was there for Bonamassa..I gotta say it was bitter sweet.. I was hoping for a longer set from Joe then what I got.....I swear to GOD it seemed like he was on stage for about 15 minutes..........It was GREAT although the crowd was not that into it IMO....most seemed to be there for KWS.  the set was about 35 or 40 minutes I think but it seemed like he was up there and gone soooo fast........This is why I want Joe to come back to MI this summer and headline so I can get a long set........By the way, JOE was great,,,,Im not bashing him at all.......I LOVED IT....just wanted more.

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Joe first started playing London in May 2005 and in just under 4 years has gone from playing a small pub in North London to Headlining The Royal Albert Hall           

Hi everyone have been called out to explain my first live Joe Experience , It was in 2004 that i got Blues Deluxe and was blown away by the music that my inner soul craved
Raw Powerful Emotional Blues with a Rock Edge , So i was delighted to see Joe was doing a mini UK tour in May 2005 , with 1 show at Jack Beards in Tooting South London , which i couldnt make and 1 show in North London at The Green Man , I Told a friend we cannot miss this show at all costs , how right was i (at all costs) so we ventured into Central London looking at record shops and had a bite to eat then caught the tube to Barnet , The Green Man is a small pub but had a room upstairs for live music , when we arrived there were already people there , so we were about centre and 3 or 4 rows back (what not at front .ed! 
Joe came on about 9 , there were i say about 100 people there and if i recollect he started with "you upset me baby" and from then on tore thru a blistering hard blues set which i had not seen live since the early electrifying days of AC/DC , The actual power was Awesome and the one memory of that night that stays with me is that this was all happening in a pub ..
unreal surroundings , The audience were really into it and Joe was having fun too , Eric's bass was thundering and resonating around the whole room and Kenny was relentless on drums
All 3 of them were in unison and it was a tour de force of the highest quality underneath the raw acoustics of the room , highlight was "The River" & "Burning Hell" which blew us all away
great distant memories ... David A from USA & briJBfanUK (Brian) were both there but we did not know each other then , left right after show had 2 hour journey home , but all me and my buddy talked about was , that was oh so powerful .... that's where it all started and now this May i'll celebrate my 4th year of Joe Playing in London too , But it's a Tad more glamorous than
The Green Man in Barnet

Here is Some Very Rare Never Seen Before Virgin Footage of That Memorable Night From My Collection ........  It Is Raw and Bitty But It's Archive Material ......... Enjoy

ARCHIVE #1    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmmnjpZrclY

ARCHIVE #2    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blZBeO5fMcQ

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

Tue. Aug. 9, 2005 Wente Vineyards Livermore, Ca.

                                         Ticket: $99.00+ Svc. Chg(to sit in the last row)

                                         Headliner: BB King

                                         Crowd/Ambience: Upscale wine sipping clueless types, exec
                                                                      dudes w/trophy wives.

                                         Joe as opening act: Worth every penny to watch JB blow
                                                                         their minds and mine too.

My first time happened in the summer of 1990 at Hanover Square in downtown Syracuse NY. I heard there was going to be this thirteen year old guitar prodigy playing and being a lifelong guitar player lover I went to check it out. I'll tell you I had a preconception that if he was a prodigy he must be good, but I mean he's thirteen, just how good could he be. Well about aminute into the first song Ibent over to pick my jaw up off the ground because I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I've been a devoted follower ever since. Joe wasn't singing back then and to be honest looked kinda chubby and dorky. But boy HE COULD PLAY! My wife and I got to talk to Joe after the show and he was the humble personable person we all know and love even back then. My wife told him to stay in school, I told his father, who was managing him at the time, that if he didn't make it big it was his fault because Joe was the best player I'd ever seen. Time has not disappointed though I think he still doesn't get the recognition he deserves Maybe this year.

Ireally am a newbie to Joe,first heard the LFNIP version of 'Woke Up Dreamin' on a compilation CD from Classic Rock magazine here in the UK. I like Nils Lofgren and couldn't believe someone was quicker than him! This guy must have six fingers,i thought!This lead to purchase of back catalogue -Had To Cry...and New Day Live to get yet-including John Henry,and (just arrived today!) the 3LP signed LFNIP !! Hoping to get to see him in Glasgow this April,but noticed he does pop over here quite often-will be a regular gig-goer from now,that's for sure!Got rest of family into him now,too.He's a regular on the i-pod now,at dinners and get-togethers.Just shows you,how much good music is out there however you fall upon it adds to the joy of discovery!!

First time I caught Joe was at the Cabooze in Minneapolis.  It was on a Sunday night and I caught the flu bug the day of the show.  Well, I certainly wasn't going to miss the show, so after a couple of doobies and a couple of beers at the bar down the street and I started to feel pretty good !  We went to the show and it was a great club where you could sit at the bar and watch the show from 10 feet away.  There were very few people there and it was like a small private show.  Needless to say the performance was more than I ever expected !

But the coolest thing about the experience, was when Joe and the boys came in the front door and headed to the dressing room I said hey to Joe, and he said let me get my stuff in the dressing room and get settled and I'll be back out.  I of course figured he was just being polite and at best I would get a quick hello and an autograph before the show.  It wasn't five minutes later and Joe came out and talked to me and my girlfriend for about 20 minutes and I just couldn't believe how down to earth he was.  We talked about a little of everything and got one of the posters autographed. 

I went on to get pretty drunk during the show and kept trying to buy the band shots of Jack Daniels, but I think Eric was the only one drinking them.  The next day I had the memory of a lifetime and the flu so bad I couldn't drive home, but it was well worth it !

Joe and his fans are one of a kind ! 

To Cazanovia John... Yeah it was a Party in the Plaza. I agree, phenominal player regardless of age. Missed him at the bar but saw him with Bloodline at Vernon Downs in I think 1994. How bout you? By the way do you know Johnny Wisnewski, also from Caz.