Joe Bonamassa live at Carnegie Hall...WOW!

[Pat Conlon]

What a treat! Both visually and musically. Get the Blu-ray DVD set the audio options on DTS 5.1 and turn it up!

It's been several years since I've seen or heard anything as good as this.

[ZOA NOM]

Joe is one of my favorites. Great guitarist.

[Charlie-brm]

I've been binge listening to JB for the past 6 months. Never heard of him before 2017. I can't even remember how I connected. Probably surfing YouTube. What I particularly enjoy are his interviews and his collaborations with heart on her sleeve singer Beth Hart.

[ZOA NOM]

He goes way back...

https://youtu.be/V8Nc2IuQ1YE

[Pat Conlon]

I just found out about him last week. Our local PBS station (KCET) had the Carnegie Hall concert as part of their (seemingly continuous) fund raising efforts.

I pull in their broadcast at 720p and only stereo sound. Even then, I was gob smacked, even with KCET interruptions every other song, for their funding appeal.

Who is this guy? Yes, as Rick said, a damn good guitarist, that's who...  The band he had with him was World Class. Literally world class, back up singers from Australia, cello/erhu player from China, percussionist from Egypt, mandolin/banjo/sax player from Ireland with the pianist and drummer from the US.

What a beautiful show, in Blu-ray and DTS HD 5.1 sound.  https://www.amazon.com/Live-At-Carnegie-Hall-Acoustic/dp/B06ZYR7WHF/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_15_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=A90TJP3AAPMMDP4QW174

Previously, I had given up on modern music. Try as I might, I can't relate to rap/hip hop and the Taylor Swift generation of music. It seems soulless to me.

But I can relate to Joe Bonamassa....there is hope.

Some You Tube samples:

Opening song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E01_7nkNLMU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apXVpnGM6AE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NcBBiSD-ew

You might be content just watching the You Tube vids, but you really, really need to hear this in DTS 5.1

[fjbiker84]

Truly amazing!  An international cast of musicians who can lay down a beat that sounds almost as if it originated from a studio in Muscle Shoals rather than Carnegie Hall. I have to get more of this group's stuff. 

[Charlie-brm]

I just found out about him last week. Our local PBS station (KCET) had the Carnegie Hall concert as part of their (seemingly continuous) fund raising efforts.

I pull in their broadcast at 720p and only stereo sound. Even then, I was gob smacked, even with KCET interruptions every other song, for their funding appeal.

Who is this guy? Yes, as Rick said, a damn good guitarist, that's who...  The band he had with him was World Class. Literally world class, back up singers from Australia, cello/erhu player from China, percussionist from Egypt, mandolin/banjo/sax player from Ireland with the pianist and drummer from the US.

What you are describing is what I have come to call the distinction between listening to a band, and listening to music. Most of us have a few favorite bands we'll always listen to. We expect them to sound a certain way. We can pick them out on the radio in about 8 beats and they have signature sounds or ways of doing things that we expect to hear a few times in every song.

Then on the other hand you get an experience like Steve Hackett (guitarist for Genesis in an early period) live and it just takes you away someplace nice. He doesn't have a fixed group of people that form a "band". There's no guitarist, or drummer or keyboard player standing out on stage. His ensembles have a way of passing the melody back and forth that is so totally seamless that even looking at the stage it was taking me a while to realize it had switched from guitar to clarinet, to keyboard and back again. It was about maintaining the tone of the music 100%.

[Flynt]

Truly amazing!  An international cast of musicians who can lay down a beat that sounds almost as if it originated from a studio in Muscle Shoals rather than Carnegie Hall. I have to get more of this group's stuff. 

Bonamassa has an acoustic performance from the Vienna Opera Hall that is really amazing.  Anyone out there gotten back into (or never left) vinyl?  If so, this album is a must have IMHO...  beautifully recorded, stable and spacious soundstage, absolutely fantastic listening experience.  Probably good on CD or even mp3, but the 180g vinyl they make these days is pretty spectacular.  So is Joe's acoustic guitar work...

Frank

[FJ_Hooligan]

Previously, I had given up on modern music. Try as I might, I can't relate to rap/hip hop and the Taylor Swift generation of music. It seems soulless to me.

Pat,
I really had you figured as a Taylor Swift fan. 

Maybe not the pop Taylor, but surely you're a fan of her Country work?  :-)

[Pat Conlon]

Previously, I had given up on modern music. Try as I might, I can't relate to rap/hip hop and the Taylor Swift generation of music. It seems soulless to me.

Pat,
I really had you figured as a Taylor Swift fan.  Maybe not the pop Taylor, but surely you're a fan of her Country work?  :-)

Sure, her early work is ok, cute songs. I enjoyed her 2012 Grammy performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SDXBz-T4HE

My grand daughters love her current pop songs..."Come on Papa, dance with us..." What's a papa going to do...?

[johnod]

You really need to check out his work with Beth Hart.

[ZOA NOM]

 Wow, look at all the libs and nazis getting along... 

[FJ_Hooligan]

HEY!  

Who are you calling a  lib?



:-)

[PaulG]

What a coicincidink.... Just turned on the PBS station from Buffalo NY and there's a live show recorded at the old naval college in London, England. (Where the big final battle scene in Thor 2 was for you young'ns).  Of course it's pledge drive again.  He's performing in Buffalo in October and Toronto in November this year.  But his tour schedule doesn't list that far ahead.

Tour dates
https://jbonamassa.com/tour-dates/

Ashamed to think I am not at all familiar with him.    Thanks for the enlightenment! 

[Pat Conlon]

Joe is certainly one of the best I've heard in a looong time... I'm partial to his acoustic unplugged versions.
I've always been a fan of vinyl (and always will) but I gotta tell you, that 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio from the Bluray absolutely fills my house with sound. The 192kHz sample rate and 24 bit depth from 5 discrete channels (vs CD 44.1/16 bit) sounds really good. One thing I noticed is that the acoustics at Carnegie Hall are sharp so the rear channels pick up a nice ambiance on the music and vocals. (Makes up for the crowd applause at the end of the songs) Tina Gou's erhu floats thru the sound stage.