Bonamassa sucks!

[JTyson]

I agree. Joe Satriani and Stu Hamm prior to the G3 thing, 1990 (?) Flying In A Blue Dream tour, just were awesome together, Stu had a long solo section in the middle. Stevie Salas opened, it was just a great show.

I was front row for that tour, Stu Hamm was jaw-dropping

 

[JB6464]

|The hangers-on have been pounding Joe on the back telling him how great he is now for 10 plus years now. They cleaned him up, made him lose weight, cut his greazy hair, put him in a suit and gave him some cool Raybans to wear along with all the Less Pawls he can play. I think they took a bit of his soul away. He ripped on a Strat.....but what do I know?

CT.

Bingo , we have a winner.

 

[Brad737]

Personally, I love the guy. He's a great player, and a true champion of the blues. And I say this in the best sense of the words, he's a true guitar geek.

 

[voodooamps]

His "New Day Yesterday: Live" disc is just wicked good. I do enjoy where he has taken his playing now though.

That was the record he did with legendary producer Tom Dowd. This was done here in Ithaca, NY (which is where I live) at Alex Perialas' place, Pyramid Sound Recording Studios. I believe Joe turned 21 making that album. I was there often and it was great to see Joe working through the tracks. Joe had a very cool Fender Vibrotone in the studio that I really liked. He also two (2) vintage Strats that were made 3 days apart from one another. One sounded amazing (very aggressive and SRV like to my ears) and after swamping the electronics and necks around, it seemed to come down to the body. I still remember the tone of that guitar to this day. Joe had some amazing guitars in the studio, far too many to list. He also had a great sounding Vox AC30 and got amazing clean tones with it.

Joe's three piece band killed it back in the day. They were locked in and on fire when they recorded A New Day Yesterday Live. I definitely miss the rawness his old bass player brought to the songs. Great, great stuff!!!

I agree with you that the band locked in amazingly well! There's a great story that goes along with the making of that record. Joe was working with the bass player and drummer that he was playing live shows with. He came to Tom Dowd 4 days before they were going to cut the basic tracks as he wanted to try a different drummer. While the drummer he was using was capable he didn't feel that he was the best choice for the over all vibe he was trying to capture. Tom made some calls and a gentleman by the name of Tony Cintron arrived a couple days later from NYC.

The band spent 12-14 hours going through and playing the songs, making adjustments, etc. They came in the following day and began recording basic tracks. They did not do a lot of takes of each song, maybe 3 takes or so at most but what you hear is the way it went to tape. Tom Dowd has worked with a great deal of iconic musicians and it was amazing to see he and Joe work together. Alex Perialas was the only person to ever receive co-production credit with Tom. They all made an amazing team and it was incredibly inspiring to witness (truly & sincerely). We were credited on "A New Day Yesterday" as Joe used a Modded JMP Master Volume Marshall we Modified, which is our Classic Mod. Leslie West also used the same amp when he recording his guest solo. He also used a pedal in front, I am forgetting the name of the pedal though should anyone be interested I can ask Alex Perialas.

Regarding Tom Dowd's credits; He's worked with such artists as John Coltrane, Dereck & The Dominos, Cream, Eric Clapton, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, Dusty Springfield, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, The Allman Brothers Band, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Black Oak Arkansas, Tommy Bolin, Freddie King, Booker T. & the MG's, Canned Heat, Ray Charles, Chicago, Popa Chubby, The Clovers, The Coasters, Chick Corea w/Herbie Herbie Hancock, Dr. John, The Drifters, Aretha Franklin, Ronnie Hawkins, James Gang, Quincy Jones, Gladys Knight, Kenny Loggins, The Marshall Tucker Band, Meat Loaf, Charles Mingus, Eddie Money, Willie Nelson, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Rod Stewart, Stephen Stills, Tito Puente. One of the best music DVD's I own is on Tom Down, its called The Language Of Music and I cannot recommend it enough. I am in no way affiliated with the DVD but it's very inspiring and full of music history.


Have a great Tuesday guys!
Trace

 

[ejecta]

Half of the rock stars over on TGP really do think he sucks. What a bunch of idiots.

I don't think he sucks but he does nothing for me musically.