American - Musician | May 8, 1977 -
If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent of Beyonce and Jay-Z.
Joe Bonamassa
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When you've done so many records in 20 years like I have, you're going to have ebbs and flows and go through peaks and valleys.
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Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.
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My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.
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My first proper 'Here's your guitar, Joseph' was a 1981 Chiquita, one of those Erlewine travel guitars. And it was good for a four-year-old because it was small.
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At the end of the day, I think having some life experience is helpful to play any kind of music.
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There's a certain thing when you start getting into your late thirties or early forties where you stop caring. Not to the extent where you stop caring about the music, you just stop caring about what anyone thinks of you, and you just kind of let it go - let the chips fall where they may.
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British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.
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I'm actually much more of a rock player than many people think.
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Whenever I hear my playing, I can't detach from my influences: there's my Jeff Beck, there's the Clapton bit, the Eric Johnson bit, the Birelli Lagrene bit, the Billy Gibbons.
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A guitar is so tactile, and when you're playing bends - and bending notes is a big part of my style - there are so many notes within the note you're bending from and the note you're bending up to.
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Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.
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