But again, I’m a product of hard work, not natural born talent. “They were hearing stuff coming out of the room that was a little bit more advanced than, probably I should have been.
The sheer talent he possessed didn’t go unnoticed and was quickly picked up upon at a young age. These familiar surroundings lead him onto a natural path. His father was a guitar player and his grandfather was a musician, Joe’s dad also ran a music store in the ’90s when he was growing up as a teenager. I believe he started out young, not by choice but simply by necessity the guitar was something he needed to do out of necessity, right up there with breathing in and breathing out. Bonamassa – Ernie Ball Striking A Chord Podcast by Evan Ballįor those of us that know and have encountered Joe Bonamassa’s incredible playing in some form will understand that this guy is a monumental Guitar Player! When he plays and begins to let rip it looks like it’s always been part of him and you can’t see anything but him, the guitar, and this elevating connection… Along with a trail of smoke 🔥 You know? So, my father, well Santa, bought me an electric guitar for Christmas. I mean, because the kind of music that I was gravitating towards was electric, so I didn’t want to play acoustic, playing electric. I didn’t want to be an acoustic guitar player.” And I basically, for all intents of purposes, I wanted to be an electric guitar player. And they were little travel guitars, and I think they still make them. “Well, I started on the Erlewine Chiquita guitar that were made in Texas. The idea of a true virtuoso is an early start first and foremost, and by Joe’s standards he was somewhat of a late starter at four years old. Joe was born into a world of guitars and guitar culture, Born into a family of musicians down the generations, encapsulated by music and everything related, you could almost say he was born to do this. The formative years of any young man’s life always significant and influential. I love it, and I wake up every day excited to play.” It’s defined my life for the last 35 years. I’ve been around guitars, in guitar shops, played them, sold them, bought them. “Guitar playing to me has been something that I’ve done for 35 years. Let’s enter the world (and the Bona-seum) of Mr Joe Bonamassa. I don’t tend to use the word often but Guitar ‘ virtuoso‘ is definitely a way to describe this weeks string slinger 🤘. The place where big dreams happen and the skyline glows and lights the midnight shadows in the city that never sleeps.Ĩth May 1977 was a significant day for guitar culture as we know it, from as young as 4-years-old this guitar icon knew and felt the symbolic relationship with the six string. This edition see’s us head over to the big apple 🍏.
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