Rory Gallagher vs Joe Bonamassa

[Vader]

Gallager also plays acoustic like a boss and obviously could play any of the styles Bonamass does and has a great voice.


Gritty is not in Joe's vocabulary.

 

[joe]

Vader nailed it. Bonamassa modern blues rock is static and superficial, predictable and pedestrian. Overproduced and I don't mean that in the vein of being overdubbed, over-arranged or over-engineered. I mean to produce the quality with the quantity in excess of what is sufficient to meet the demand of the mainstream. Free from risk.

Rory had soul and balls.

Jeff Beck's, 'Loud Hailor' from last year blows away anything from Bonamassa. Beck just friggin' wails on some tracks and other tracks flashes his virtuosity with different elements fused into blues rock. Reinvigorating and innovative.

 

[Magic]

Joe was a prodigy and master before he even had ***** hair.......opening on stage for the likes of BB King when he was 8 years old. Joe is the boss of modern day blues rock ( although he is not my favorite ).

Mainstream? So what. There has to be a reason his music outsells them all.....and it has nothing to do with having balls or heart.


Joe at age 12

Even though Bonamassa isn't even close to being my favorite, Woke up Dreaming is a phenomenal performance.

 

[Vader]

The reason he out sells everyone is because he and his music are clean , neat and safe.
Non threatening and processed for the boring predicable mass of huddled sheep.
Grandma and little kid friendly processed blues.
A safe and sellable packaged product of conformity.

 

[E-Z]

RORY EVERYTIME!!!.

I like my rock star/musician's to look like ROCK STAR/MUSICIAN'S and unfortunately Joe doesn't look anything like a rock star/musician to me??. Admittedly Joe can play his axe but the guy for me looks to clean!!.

E-Z

 

[joe]

A big tool box and a wooden plank builds a generic one family residence.

 

[Porch Monkey]

Wow, so much hate! lol

I have to admit, I've learned to play lots of Rory's music on the guitar, but haven't even tried to get down anything by Joe. Maybe that should tell me something...

I don't care how artists look. I'm not listening to their clothing and haircuts. I leave that to the kids with their pop music

 

[E-Z]

I saw Joe holding a Flying V and thought hey lets listen to this dude cos everyone reckons he's up there with HENDRIX!.

 

[Lynch]

I'm going with Bonamassa. Joe can play ANY style, including that raw grit Vader talks about. His equipment is impressive, too. Joe also has a good vocal sound to go with his guitar prowess. He's also a master on the acoustic. A good example is "Woke Up Dreaming, Live"...... Phenomenal!!!


Wanna talk solos.....Mountain Time is the best you could hope to ever hear.

Mountain Time? Or Mountain Climbing?

^^^ Might be my favorite song of his (and it's from one of his more recent albums). Love the gritty guitar work. The opening riff just sounds cool as hell to me.

I agree with what you said. He seems to be able to play just about any style thrown in front of him. He has done a number of covers, both live and in the studio and he flat-out nails just about anything I've heard him do (of other people's work).

 

[Lynch]

Gallager also plays acoustic like a boss and obviously could play any of the styles Bonamass does and has a great voice.

I have to completely disagree with the comment about Rory's voice. To me, he's an extremely sloppy vocalist ... especially the live stuff I've have watched and listened to. I can't understand probably 80%+ of the stuff he sings, very mumbled and jumbled vocals. Not as bad on the studio stuff. Also, speaking of sloppy, I find that a lot of his stage playing was sloppy. He could tear out a great solo at times but a lot of his live performances that I've heard (to me) sounded very amateurish. Jimi Hendrix was the same way a lot. An absolutely innovative genius in the studio and a sloppy drunken/drugged out hack in concert. Not always, but there are plenty of Jimi bootlegs and live videos out there that show just how bad he could be on stage. Another guy that was sloppy as hell on stage a lot was Jimmy Page.

Anyway, a bit part of why I like Joe in this match up is that he isn't a sloppy hack on stage, either vocally or with the six-string. I'm not some long-time, huge fan of Joe's, but I would take him 99 times out of 100 in this matchup.