singemonkey wrote:
Well. I seem to be doing a lot of peeing on parades recently.
For me, take out the other two guitar players, leave the pedal steel player and you'd have an equal or better performance. Am I saying that cos he's black and hip? No, I'm saying that because every lick of his had both melody and direction. As so often, Mr. Bonnamassa starts with a great, emotive lick, and then a second later, he's doing runs - showing how smoothly and accurately he can play - and meaning nothing at all. Widdly-widdly-widdly-widdly. Cold. Coffee.
The other guy plays a series of sustained notes that may or may not have been there and made no difference.
This is one of those huge Freddie King, rolling seventies, funky type numbers in which Freddie's band piles on the rhythm and he howls (actually this is the best singing I've heard from Bonnamassa. He should do more Freddie King tunes). That's were the excitement comes from - the rhythm section. Who lifts it up further? Bonamassa's singing (the other guy was pretty half-assed) and those wicked lines from the pedal steel player. The rest is just all busy-ness.
Meh. Well, different strokes.
Rob is great to watch, always. I enjoyed his 2007 Crossroads set too.
I agree that it's a very rhythmically compelling tune though, and I agree on Joe's singing. I actually REALLY like Joe's fast runs in this song, it's a great counterpoint to all the other very regular (and somewhat boring) bluesy licks tossed out for the remaining hours of the concert. I also think he plays them with such FORCE, but that's just me. That first run he does is real "yank your foreskin back" type stuff. ?
He doesn't come across like he's trying to impress in this video at all, it's just 100% how he's feeling it. In this example the speed really brings something to the tune, for me.
