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What the holy sh.... is this.... *lol*. I would have expected anything, but not a behaved bookkeeper from the local council house, or should I rather describe it a mixture of Kiefer Sutherland meets Al Capone with a loss of at least 40 pounds of weight since last time.... Long live the weightwatchers - respect. So when I remember the last show I've seen with Mr. Bonamassa, then I have the impression, that this here is total different person up there. First when he starts to work on his 6 strings (it's even 12 in the beginning), then you realize, that this is still him the wunderkind from Utica, NY, who started out in 2000 just aged 23 to conquer the world of Blues. And from then and the debutalbum 'A New Day Yesterday' he went up the peak of success. 'till this very day, six more albums have come out, whereby the latest release named 'The Ballad Of John Henry', has just arrived. Meanwhile Joe is 32 year old and still so young for a Bluesman. Apart from his complete visual change over, also his selfconfidence has established much more. Oh, and yes, he's got a different band this time, with one more musician. It's Carmine Rojas on E-Bass, Keyboarder Rick Melick and Bogie Bowles on drums. But of course it's mainly Joe himself, who is the centerpoint of everybody's attention, and he once again shows, what world class guitarist he is. And there are a few more things, which have changed since last time. His solos have become a bit shorter and more compact. No 30 minutes solos anymore, but only with a length of aprox. 10 minutes the most. Also the voice has improved, and Joe shows, that his got a strong voice even without a microphone inbetween. The just mentioned selfconfidence is shown by his announcements inbetween the songs.
Several times Joe says
thank you to the Munich audiance. Our Muffathall is almost sold out,
which means fairly 1.000 people. And he tells us proudly, that he
recently stood on one stage together with Eric Clapton at the Royal
Albert Hall in London,England. You can feel his respect and devotion to
Mr.Slowhand. It is pretty much obvious. Changeable also, because
much later after this show, he suddenly doesn't seem anymore like Al
Capone from the council house, but he rather seems very young again.
Young as if he has just turned 20 again, but with a hell of a joke in
his neck, as we say so..... check out here |