Joe Bonamassa Guitar
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Joe Bonamassa is lauded often for his vocal prowess and songwriting abilities. More than that, though, he can play a mean guitar.
“This kid deserves to be in the same class with Stevie Ray fuckin Vaughan and Jimmy Hendrix and Jeff Beck,” said famed rock guitarist Ten Nugent after a jam sessions with Bonamassa for the VH-1 show Supergroup. If praise for guitar skills is worth its weight in gold from any source, it’s from Ted Nugent.
Bonamassa has a long history of guitar playing. He’s been handling the things since he was four, playing on a short-scale Chiquita given to him by his father, who both played and sold guitars. It didn’t take long before Bonamassa moved up the ranks and got a full-scale guitar to rock out on. His guitar skills led him to tour with the legendary B.B. King, from whose roster he eventually flew the coop and started no his solo albums.