Rig Rundown: Joe Bonamassa [2022]

[Music] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] hey this is John Bulger with Premiere guitar I am with Joe Bonamassa the Ryan Auditorium Joe nice to be back man good to see you yeah great scene man I know this is first day of the tour you got a ton going on so thanks for taking a minute and talking anytime I I enjoyed our last get together oh it's great the rig run down I don't think we got into too much trouble we kept it straight and narrow I like it I like I liked how it went down so here we are again so okay let's start with this I just heard you playing this during rehearsal very cool guitar let's hear the story this is a guitar that a friend of mine Named Dave Walsh who sold me my first vintage guitar when I was a kid and um my um my my my parents let me use the savings bond that my great-grandmother gave me I think it was like four thousand dollars and I bought an old Strat from Dave way back and that was my baby and it's 50 it's a 0.707 it's still around yeah I know the guy who's got it and um anyway he had this guitar when I first thought it had a lipstick pickup and and a late 60s obviously it's 68 Thin Line and late 60s um uh Kelly pickup in it and about 30 years later I was at Dave's house and we were making a deal on some other stuff I said Dave do you have that thin line I always love that thin line with the Parsons white it's like original Parsons white B bender and um and he and he did and he goes I don't think I want to sell it and then I noticed he had a price tag in it from where he brought it to a guitar come on man let's do it so I mean he he told me after I bought it that um that had a route for a humbucker but he had the original pick car and I go that's even better so I stuck a a patent number from the mid 60s in there and then this is a Seymour Duncan pickup from uh this is the one they made called the bludgeon which is a replica of the no Caster so it's hot so it's like a nine and a half and and it does and it doesn't how I can get it really loud I can get it through all this stuff and it doesn't howl whatsoever we just heard it and trust me it was loud yeah you would see with apple and Nutella it would be a problem but Joe Glazier refracted it as he does most of the guitars you will see here today and um and it's uh it's missing a screw I don't know what's happened to that but I think the pickguard's gonna stand up but it's a cool guitar and it's very song specific this is a song I wrote when one door opens from our royalty album and the the title cut time classes why it's here today so so it's a it's a it's a great working man's B Bender Telly and um I I just again like as we'll see through this demonstration if it's been done just leave it and play it use it as a tool yeah you don't have to restore it then we're gonna not have a humbucker here you know yeah um if it's mint then don't cut into it and put humble then like this you're good you know so it's yeah this is a tool it's a really cool tool yeah it was I love the way you're using on that song yeah and I like 68 Telly next they're really cool they have a nice they have a nice profile you know they wear out nice like the 50s the maple cap ones and um yeah it's I mean it's they got the original bridge and everything so so when you're switching from guitar to guitar is there much of an adjustment with your hands or just come to you just gotta get your head around it yeah and you know we rehearse obviously and we select the guitars day one so every time the guitar comes out for each song I'm ready for that neck profile for that for that particular song that's the way the volume works and we'll show you with later on with the the the amps how everything is kind of symbiotic okay this uh I remember this from last time you remember this from last time this was um this is uh it was a lot better condition last time this one for some reason this one here is um a guitar that that I've had now almost 10 years and it's the two margaritas El Compadre on Sunset Boulevard walk over Guitar Center make an irrational decision sometimes that stuff works out oh yeah it's a 51 no Caster with a paf in the front and an original pickup in the back and it's out of phase and it just works and I've said this I've said this this is like you know because you go like you know everybody knows I have a collection of guitars and they'll be like hey um you know you know what's your desert island guitar I always say it's the no Caster because I can play any of the Tunes in my set with it you know I can roll the tone off and it kind of sounds a little bit like like a Les Paul obviously put it in the front pickup definitely sounds like this ball but then it'll twang it will it will rock like Pete Townsend I mean it'll take your face off but it'll just get super quiet and it's just you know the best guitar I own yeah I I that's the one he played in the Jules Hall in one I did yeah that was that was such an amazing performance and I've watched it I don't know how many times times and you're just plugged straight into that twin straight into the Twin and that works what blew my mind about it is the last time we were here you let me play that a little bit and it was like played like a truck there's still plays like a truck it's got newer strings I like it please like a truck yeah yeah I mean some sometimes you know you don't want to you don't want to over engineer a guitar to where it plays perfectly and nothing bugs you about it because sometimes the fight is where the real magic happens if it fights you a little bit yeah yeah then then keep it there yeah right yeah like these Saddles I probably should put a shim on the neck and bring these screws up but because it tears up your palm yeah that's a gouger right I like it I've played thousand shows that's all right so but uh you know it's it's other than the the humbucking pickup is pretty straight um original finish but I mean last time you saw I was head pain up to here so it's it's getting worn out and I don't wear stuff out but I've worn this out yeah high mileage few Frets so this is kind of every every 10 years I think Glacier will be fret it for me so yeah very cool okay and y'all check out that Jules Holland show it's just unbelievable performance all right this is a 55. Strat um pretty much stock except for the the Bakelite repair yeah that's it's more like Bakery preservation and um it's just it's just white electrical tape that that because a lot of times these get cracks and if if you play you play hard the string will flex and sometimes catch underneath and rip the top of the cover off sure um but this one was what you use for pain and sorrow when we play it it gets to be played on this tour nothing's been tight on the street I mean it's gone about two hours but um so it's it's it's it's a drop down a whole step so it's got big fat strings on and it's just a cool old strap it's light kind of like that it's I think it's like a seven pound wow that is light in the three-way always a three-way um I'll wedge it and if not I don't know I'll live with it you know um yeah I mean I wedge it and sometimes I I have other things where it it I have to put tape on the back sure whatever and it's just a it's just a good you know it's a it's a great old Strat and it sounds good and this is also be freted so it's not it's not the original fret so it's just a 55 late 55 strap just the perfect 55 straight no I'll show you the perfect 55 Strat in a minute here's here's one that's new to the tour oh wow different era Strat than people normally normally see me play this is a mid-65 in candy apple red which is the most common custom color you'll see on strats um that and maybe Olympic white or blonde but this one came to me a few months ago and it just there's something about mid-65 pickups they have a they have I actually have to lower them they have a lot of output and they have a very specific sound and um for the songs that were playing on it it it works and it it looks cool as hell because it's red you know and I think that's why everybody liked it one of the red strap back in the day because it's a cool red strap right right such an ordered burgundy mess they have a lot more money so do you just like like at the beginning of a tour do you just kind of audition every guitar you have and find the right yeah and and if it's not right for the the song it doesn't come out you know it's like I'm not going to play something that fights and isn't right for the song you have to you have to be very specific about and then this one works for this song known unknowns and um it'll work for this loving the love song version that we're doing now and and again it's it's cool and again re-fretted and intonated so it plays in tune yeah oh that's great it's a tool it's a tool and then you know the back Plate's off because the back Plate's never lined up you know and I use five all five Springs I don't use a trim and you know so you have to pull the back plate off so you restring it it's just one of those things sure anyway that's the 60 that's new so if I hate it tonight you can chop it out with me go back home yeah well you know it's it's I think fans like they like to see I mean seeing what guitar you're playing on the song it's kind of like the thing like I like seeing Skinner on you know yeah it's kind of a thrill okay there's part of the part of the experience yeah I mean it is to see the gear yeah this is a this is a classic example of instagramming do's and don'ts the dues is just put a picture of it on online people go oh wow what a cool 55 strap this is this is Bonnie this is the guitar I've had a long time bought from Trevor Boone over at uh Emerald City yeah I think we talked about his last thing called me said hey you know it's the coolest Strat I've ever seen okay send it to me had one fret job and Bonnie Bramlett the legendary Bonnie Granite played on Reese wine and solo record that I produced with Josh Smith oh wow and she had me sign her guitar I think it's trigger with a knife she I carved my name in it along with Jimmy Hall and and yeah I mean like the list is crazy I think Jerry Garcia oh sure he was so touched by I said I wanna I wanna I wanna return the favor I'm just so be so honored so she was coming to sing with us in St Louis and I said hey I said bring your Dremel she goes oh I'm bringing it so I had to figure out what guitar she would assigned it was this one oh so she carved her name 2018 um Bonnie bramlin so no that's correct ever became known as the uh Bonnie strap the don'ts of Instagram is ever post a picture of a legendary singer uh Hall of Famer carving their name into a thing into a guitar because they're like I can't believe you know you're scratching the paint like that I'm like [Laughter] it's a forever guitar and it's the best one and it's my favorite strats my favorite neck profile and um it just has an extra five or ten percent that uh other strats don't have and it's my always it's just my it's a personal thing it's not it's not anything that you can if there's nothing set in stone it's just I was like this one yeah stays in tune and just rules the world it looks good well in the straps perfect for Bonnie because when that one Clapton made the switch to strats when he was playing with them yeah he would play like a triple pick of custom you'd see him play that I could get the three three five with delanium Bonnie and he had the and he had brownie or strap and then he had to I think eventually Blackie came in involved but uh yeah he was playing strats and and yeah Les balls and stuff but uh but yeah this is this is this is my favorite oh that's great four digit number every time yeah and Bonnie brahmins the Bonnie strap that's as cool as it gets now this one is uh the newest guitar we have this is a 1976 uh Bicentennial Firebird 46 years old I'm 45 so I was born in 77 this is made 76. and we have this song called Curtain Call which requires open G but it also requires a solo in in regular you know like not a non-slide solo yeah in G minor which I've had to learn different patterns in openg it's God it's a you have to keep your concentration you can clam real hard yeah but it's it's a good guitar for this song and it looks cool on stage oh it looks great and I I I I was on the cover of Guitar World magazine with Eric Gales with this this guitar and it's and it's in its five headed for a minute and I haven't found a use for yet but you know these Bicentennial Firebirds are great for the money you know the for you know like if you had a 64 in Polaris white it would be incredibly crazy yeah but you know these things are really you know they're expensive now because everything is expensive including a latte but what I'm saying is yes it's it's it that the price point these are everybody's good it's like a mid-60s Firebird yeah and it's and they're great you know no Volute banjo tuners love the banjo tuners sucked in 64 and it sucked at 76. okay and they suck now but they're cool as hell yeah what are you gonna do it worked for Johnny Winter yeah yeah exactly you're all right right and that album you did with with Eric Gales was just amazing man yeah I'm so proud of it Todd what a I loved it because it it it it just got him out there you know it seemed to get him on the radar more he he uh you know we helped him get some great songs yeah and uh he dug deep he sang his ass off and played his ass off he always does yeah but he made a an album that's concise and connects to people on on not only just a guitar level but a message level right people connect to it on the message and and um we we worked real hard on that yeah and I'm so proud of him and I'm so proud of the record yeah yeah killer album next one that old thing no this is a new guitar oh really this is the um this is is a uh not a prototype it's just something that Gibson was nice enough to make me this is a replica of Amos even with the little chunk right that's I I did a good job they did a great job I thought it was this thing sounds great this comes out of the Murphy lab and uh Tom Murphy did a really nice job aging it really nice checking on it good neck profile and it's light you know did they did okay that is slight did they do a whole run of amos's no that that possibly will come later but this is just the one-off so I can take a guitar that isn't so expensive yeah and one of a kind I mean Amos is one of a kind oh yeah you know and it's and it's it's not a v it's the that V so and honestly it sounds great and it sounds like a Karina V yeah and then stock tips and pick up stuff stuck everything I got it like three days ago go really yeah Ah that's great cool so yeah it's kudos to them they did a great job yeah this is the Shakedown Cruise for that that's great this is a rare guitarist 1964 mono ES 355. so if you notice there's no baritone and it's in its mono so it's like it's a three basically 335 yeah in electronics with ebony board and you know gold parts and a guard that will most likely gas and turn all this green but I bought this from the original owner in Georgia oh how cool and they wanted me to have it and we made a deal on it and uh I said I promise you I've played on stage and they probably thought oh whatever and then next night it's unsafe yeah yeah so we use it every night it's cool dust bowls at a it's a dust bowl guitar because of Capo [Music] five speed transmission yeah I love the five speed you gotta clutch in every once in a while but this one being a 64 has a nylon saddle yeah and I think that's something to the sound it it's it it just kind of takes a little bit of the 2K off kind of like adding uh tonic water to Gin to your chin yeah yeah that's right it takes a little bit of that it takes the knife between the eyes yeah so um so yeah it's been been a really nice addition to the the touring set and uh it looks cool and it's so it's it's not easy to find monode factory mono no veritone right you know and it's just it's in Phase you know and it's it's just it's just ruling so yeah it's an amazing shape it's not bad I mean for now I don't beat up guitars I mean I I don't really beat them Heavens though and this is a guitar that's on loan um for the year and I'm gonna we're gonna loan it to somebody else belongs my friend Richard it's a 1960 Sunburst Les Paul wow and um he's going to sell it for charity oh wow and he bought it and I believe 1967. he'll be here tonight probably 1967. and I think he paid 300 for it he's kept it he used to work for Gibson and so he was nice enough to loan it to me for a year we've been taking it around the world getting some use out of it was at the Albert Hall in blah blah blah wow and uh you know it'll make appearance I think on the DVD and somebody's gonna get a great burst and with a real history and and a lot of money is going to go to a great cause so when he approached me uh through uh Walter Carter Christy Carter Carter's vintage I was like wait a minute I get to play a cool guitar for a year and and a lot of people benefit from him like so yeah right we're going to try to get into somebody else's hands too you know that that could take care of it and two around a little bit um so it's nice and flamey but you know he's he's done it for years oh that's great and it's like uh it's a cool it's a cool piece of History the crews are still out there you know yeah this next one the one I just got it's a 58 and um it's not perfect it's got a few issues but it's a nice burst plain top nice color um showers there's like why do you keep the showers on them it's cool yeah they are you know and uh I got this from uh Norm oh really yeah you guys have done some guitar deals we've done something and we did this guitar deal from Norm's hospital bed and thankfully Norm's doing much better and he's back in the store uh we love him we love you norm and uh you know Norm after he had his his surgery he was still doing guitar deals from the hospital bed I'm like man take them take a breather he it's him yeah that's life it's ingrained in his DNA yeah so that was uh part of the you know it was just it walked into a store and then I made the deal with the guy who was his brothers and it's a it's a really nice um nice 58 light you know eight and a half wow so it's making it stage debut tonight after Joe Glazer refretted it great wow beautiful man let's see what else we got it's amazing how red that neck is and there's just no sometimes they fade sometimes this is pretty red too yeah but this is a 1960. oh this was the one that they found in England outside of Birmingham oh right right and uh it was found under a set of stairs and they brought it into um ATB guitars my friend Mike's shop for an appraisal and I thought they thought it was worth two thousand pounds and he's he was like uh maybe it's a little bit more the story was that he bought inside of the back of Melody Maker magazine um for 150 pounds back in 1967 after he saw Eric Clapton so we call this the Royal Albert because after a little bit of negotiation um Mike was nice enough to bring it down and when I first saw it didn't have the pick guard I thought I would need to Source an original pickguard and uh and it had a Bigsby on it which I knew was had was on borrowed time yeah the five speed's gone and especially because it's not an original Bixby guitar because it was added after and um so he brings it down to Royal Albert Hall it's the tuners are roach the the pretzer roach it's it's all it's a mess yeah I saw the before pictures when you first got it I looked at I was like there's not you don't need doesn't need much it needs it needs a trip to Nashville it needs you know it needs Nick and Joe Glazer and the whole team down there Nick did it in two days oh that's great so but when I first saw the Picard with the switch added I was like oh this is going back on and that's the original Picard but some sort of face switch that they put in and ran through the ring you just two little holes that went down and create the PS these pafs were gift from my friend Charlie uh Daughtry who who um said hey man just get get it up and running happy birthday the other the other pickups were dead so and we're using it and it's it's a it just sounds amazing I mean it's it's it's and it's what they call a double o zero zero two five two which means very early 1960 so it's basically a 59 profile neck it really is a 59 profile and I love how red that is probably from the Bixby right yeah tomorrow yeah right yeah that'll even it out a couple outside shows man I think I'll be gone so but this is this is you know it was just a nice rescue and I don't need another one like I need I need one like a Whole Net but uh but this is a nice it's a nice guitar and it's it's a it's a great playing sounding Les Paul it sounded great yeah yeah during sound check that sounded amazing and uh Gibson Uh custom gave me the tuners the other day because the other ones are bent cool so those are new those are issue tutors yeah yeah that's fine look yeah look like the deal because about the amount of times it's going to be re-strung oh yeah yeah anyway and then this is the guitar I've had for a long time it's a 59 Les Paul uh standard this is called the snake bite yeah I call it snake bite because it was looks like it had a snake that had a Bigsby on it at one point kind of like the one I just showed you but these ones here in this serial number range this is 1948 9 1948. UM had they have peculiar uh small necks they're very wow strange that's great man so they're they're they're and other guitars in that serial number range Carmelita um Nikki on it they have a slightly Lazarus the guitar that we arrested a couple years ago have a very similar wow so is that that your favorite uh or favorite neck anyway um I like this guitar you know it's um I I use it for I think a lot tonight and uh you know it's it's it was bought in a pawn shop in the mid 80s for 700 bucks the guy gave me the receipt obviously it's beat up but uh it's a tool yeah it's a nice sound and loves Paul and then we have one more this guitar resides here at the Ryman Auditorium I've owned it for 10 years and I bought it this the same day as I made my debut on this day so it means a lot to me and when they asked me to if I had any guitars I could loan to them for their rotunda I said this came to mind this is Howard Reed Howard a reed this is Howard reads 55 Factory black Stratocaster and it was ordered at McCord's music in Dallas and Howard spent a brief time playing with Gene Vincent in the blue caps so there's a very famous shot of him this kind of white sailor's hat and this guitar in 1957-58 and um it was sold after Howard died in 1979 to build Blackburn who wrote some very famous books about stratocasters telecasters very nice guy and when Bill got ill unfortunately in 2013 um he sold this through gruen's and I picked it up um because I had a poster of this on my wall when I was like 10 or 11. I thought this was the coolest Strat I ever made I was like I was just I just lost after it I never thought I'd get to see it let alone own it but when I hand this to you there's certain one thing I'd like you to notice about this guitar what do you notice about that boy it is really heavy it's happening it is really heavy and man it's it's about nine and a half pounds for a strat it's heavy yeah but a lot of solid color fenders from the mid 50s tended to be heavier I don't know why that just was a thing and but this this Guitar Above All and it needs Frets I can't refresh it I don't have a hard drive it's not it'll go to somebody else but this Guitar Above All represents the journey that I've taken from my little bedroom in Yorkville New York to the stage here at the Ryman if you if you stare at a damn guitar long enough and my own you may own it and that's that's pretty much how it was and I know this is all cork sniffing stuff and and I'm very self-aware but I'm very lucky to have been doing this for as long as I have and to be as passionate about guitars for now jeez I'm 41 years you know I mean I started playing when I was four and I started wanting to collect guitars when I was six so I would I mean I parlayed my first communion money like I told you my my great-grandmother's savings bond I buy this and I trade that and I parlate all this this wasn't never I wasn't you know I'm not a trust fund Baby by any standards so this is this this guitar represents a lot of sweat and toil and hard work to get to this point in my life and I never thought I would get to this point in life where I get to talk to you on this stage and to show off uh this this guitar so when we're done with this tonight it comes out once a year we play here once a year I'm done once a year out of the Rotunda and then they stick it back so are you gonna actually play it tonight God that's amazing so that's that's it this guitar does not travel with us so technically it's not in the rig yeah but it's it's worth a a a mention it is in the room right so if you're here at the Ryman taking the tour after you get done you know going through all the beautiful memorabilia they have take note of this little black Strat yeah because it's probably if it's not the first it's one of the first two or three I said every time I come here by the way yeah for years I've been visiting this guitar every time I come so it's it's a it's special they're amazing you started with one little Chiquita and from that yep oh and then I then I graduated to a JV player a Japanese Strat copy I liked it because it had my initials on it yeah and now and now look around oh God here we go oh yeah yeah so so that's the guitars I'll take you through the rig yeah yeah let's uh do you want to plug in a Les Paul so we can hear some of this yeah we'll we'll plug it all in okay so uh this is tone henge so what we call it I don't know if you can say this we may get in trouble for this they'll pretty I said it out loud a few times it is the amp Shanty it's like a series of swelling it is that doesn't seem to make any sense in in and it shouldn't honestly it shouldn't work what it basically is is if we go back and look at my rig from 2009 when I played uh Albert Hall the first time and I had two heads I had four heads and the two calves it's a very bougie version of that okay so instead of having four it's seven but with an if and a butt okay so what it is is if you're looking at that black cabin that was made by Peter Van Willman that has two sets of ev12ls wow okay and it's split into two 2 by 12 cabins which has two 1987 Marshall jubilees running at the same time one has effects one has uh one has effects and one is dry so here's what it sounds like just drive [Music] still a classic boss dd2 Works through the loop yeah yeah and the the Leslie which is a fusing cat in a rotosphere which I've now collected four of them because they do quit every once in a while sure so but [Music] so there's your there's your effects very simple pedal board this is from 2012 it's the Boomer board and everybody goes well why don't you do this I go it still works and it's from 2012. Dave Friedman did a great job yeah and um so this setting a if you look at setting a your hearing is the two Marshall jubilees in two of these high power Tweed twins you're gonna say they're not Tweed Joe they're black I had a fender custom made me some black um cases so the rig looked more uniform but these these are your amps these are the JB's these are actually the prototypes we just we just ripped the chassis on so so that so it looks more uniform but these are just tweet twins so this is this is the sound with the tree Twins and a little bit of delay so it's it's it's really good for you know clean rhythm [Music] and it's really touch sensitive where you can uh you know you get wow [Applause] [Music] so it cleans up really nice you know beautiful [Music] and now you're going to say Joe but you have a Leslie on stage what the so here's so here's what we got so that's that's setting a that's pretty much a lot of my rhythm playing that's a lot of the kind of bluesier solos yeah it's it's it's all of that so the setting two actually we're just supposed to go to setting C setting C is this dumble 50 watt with the two jubilees and that's set to clean which but you're driving in so so that one's good to do risks like super articulate and tight [Music] foreign [Music] ERS and we can get for the pot it's almost cliche at this point but the Cog works fabulous man so that's that sound and that's got a little TC chorus on it you can take a picture of that oh and only through that dumbbell so it just just winds it out a little bit yeah that's I mean it's so subtle you don't even yeah again it shouldn't work none of this should be in Phase none of this should be yeah do you have any phasing issues so we have these Layla boxes so you've used for years and you just keep hitting buttons until you get the most Bass until you're not electrocuted until you get the most bass here you go so now here here comes the comparisons Eric Johnson um so this one here is the two dumbbell Combos and this Mesa Boogie revolver which we believe is the last one that meso Boogie had oh so it's basically a single 12 that rotates it's not a baffle it's a actual speakers so this has got Reverb on it it's got a lot of reverbs all right so now but in context foreign [Applause] so if you want the Super Hyper overdrive very Eric Johnson kind of thing yes we do and I do too and that's why I bring it yeah so kind of great to be on tour you can just hear this stuff again okay it's been great don't you miss that when you're not playing I did miss it I'm gonna back the Reverb down I think it's got some freaking crazy [Applause] does rotate so you do get a little wobble yeah but it's not enough wobble to move the needle so I'm basically using using Horizon yeah so it's like a you know foreign the cool thing is you hear all the notes it doesn't it doesn't squish yeah and it's because of the EVs and because of these wow and that's it that's the whole thing it's it's crazy obnoxious I know I'll admit it hi I'm Joe and this is obnoxious until the last time we saw you there's two twins and two numbers yeah and and I the twins blew my mind it's like I'm gonna buy one man they're they're good well and you said you know I think it'd be a little loud for you and I and I tried one out and you were right they're loud I would get I would get fired if I was that they're loud I mean I I get fired I should be fired but it works you know the the prize me because they're they're less bright than Celestia yeah that's the that's the that's the internet versus reality yeah the EVS actually take some of the sizzle off the you know who I learned it from is that wild oh really yep wow he taught me that years and years and years ago because he would use combination of EVS because he wanted to type because he his amps were at the time where jcm 800-ish things yeah that he wanted that God you know yeah so it doesn't you know [Music] can you see the bathroom so that's it that's the that's the rig it's unfortunately it still sounds like me I could I could get away with a couple of twins and a two screen which sounds like me it's Never Gonna Change it's over ladies and Gentlemen let's go ride this out and I got my sailboat this is a sailboat big run down so it's a different same thing every time same Eric Johnson impersonation same too loud same everything what do you want from uh Joe online for 30 minutes you know what blows my mind it's like when I hear you play like like I'll hear you play in like like a with a Telecaster like a country thing and you sound like an authentic country dude no here you do like a bluegrass acoustic thing and it sounds like an authentic Bluegrass and then when you do and then if you want to you can sound like Eric John it kind of blows my mind you can cop anything man I'm the line six very acts of guitar players [Applause] I got like a button yeah it's it's it's you know I learned I learned from Gatton you know Gatton was like if you like it learn it yeah you know and yeah that dude is fluent in every language he was he was fluid in jazz and Americana and Bluegrass oh God you know I mean I I to me I got into you know I loved Jethro Tull as much as I love oh you know right down mccoury yeah I was like which I believe both have stood on this stage oh sure yeah yeah yeah probably more than you Ian right so that's it that's it John it's all I got for you oh humble meager meat sounding rigs well you know it's cool to hear you back on Marshalls that is that's actually that's what the that's what everybody said they were like they didn't go anywhere I just like that when we had the horns and the the the larger format blues band it's kind of too much it was too much yeah you know and now that we're kind of more open and I can cover more ground yeah the marshals made sense and I tell you they they run a lot better if they're separated off the cabinet yeah um the reason why they're not up here they're in a rack and the reliability if you put some fans on them and that's that was uh seriously a big Discovery going why these things keep kicking off why is it kicking and now we yeah now watch um this will blow up tonight yeah but uh we know that's getting them off the deck really helped that so yeah they sound amazing and that's it though all the pedals are by the Guitar Center yeah yeah and yeah it's that's what I love about the the pedal board actually a kid with a paper route could save up and buy basically this rig my first wow was my community money yeah but not a fender painted this one it's a Lake Placid blue and then um the fuzz face only goes on the twin so it doesn't collapse the whole rig you know so it only goes on the twin so it it it it symbiotically tells the rig that it's doing something but it doesn't collapse the Marshalls and and by the way once again when you dime a fuzz face the original or a new one the noise floor is just it's perfect I just look at that okay here but obviously you're not here and then the overrated special which is basically for more more kind of more like a like a Gilmore thing you know if I'm gay foreign and then the two the green box the tube screamer is more mid-rated [Applause] flanger 80 bucks it's all self-explanatory and the secret weapon is the is the the super trim because it gives you a little it gives you a little gain boost just a little the little nudge in the midst I don't know why it just does yeah and I don't use it really for trim [Music] I mean we've had one of these for 15 years so [Music] well that's it well Joe man that was that was a treat wait till eight o'clock to do a nightmare yeah yeah well can't thank you enough man yeah that's always John yeah we uh and we cut a song together that is the coolest thing that's ever happened yeah we we wrote a song together and we we we cut it it's not for our Blues blood sugar but for something else it's pretty good it's really cool song thank you guys for enduring me once again till next time

Channel: Premier Guitar

Views: 329,132

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Id: GuVfNjuz2XM

Length: 43min 21sec (2601 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 31 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/WolverineBlooz]

He’s not the Bonermasster for nothing

[u/PleasantLanguage]

Totally worth it. I went to his concert earlier this year. The clarity of the guitar sounds were special.

[u/bleahdeebleah]

Ok, I know people love to hate on Joe, and as he says "I am self-aware". Check out the fucking amps on stage in this. Holy Shit.