Joe Bonamassa: The genius of Albert King

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  • For tabs and text of this video lesson, see the June 2024 issue of Guitar World -
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    TALES FROM NERDVILLE by Joe Bonamassa
    THE KING'S THING
    On Joe Bonamassa's latest release, Blues Deluxe Vol. 2, he covered the Albert King classic “You Sure Drive a Hard Bargain.” His guitar of choice for the recording was a 1967 Gibson Flying V in Sparkling Burgundy.
    #JoeBonamassa #flyingv
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  • @rabbirelax
    @rabbirelax หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    This man is a walking encyclopedia of guitar history! More power to you JB!

  • @denmar355
    @denmar355 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    Albert King has the most copied licks in electric blues of today for good reason. Just sounds great!

  • @davidrpriest
    @davidrpriest หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Kenny Wayne Shepard once said " If you are in blues jam and feel lost, just start playing Albert King licks and you will be fine. "

  • @j.m.harrincourt2208
    @j.m.harrincourt2208 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The way he built his solo from choppy lonely notes to catharsis in Stormy Monday alongside Gary Moore is second to none.

  • @joerectifier
    @joerectifier หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That is one righteous tone…..and wonderful fun facts, for a Saturday Afternoon

  • @peterkoutros8190
    @peterkoutros8190 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I remember the first time saw Albert King play..It was a video from a live concert 1970? the song was "I'll play the blue's for you". I was amazed by his tone and the power of the licks.. Couldn't stop watching old videos for a week. Thanks for the video Joe:)

  • @brentstewart4360
    @brentstewart4360 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I like how you can tell how loud it is in the room - nice

    • @airamakknom
      @airamakknom หลายเดือนก่อน

      It has to be loud as hell in there cause it's 11pm right now, I'm listening through headphones and thought someone outside was using a leaf blower lol.

  • @willievynil
    @willievynil หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Remember reading an interview where Albert said something like this about his guitar style: I was crazy about T-Bone Walker, but I couldn’t do the fancy stuff that he was doing so I invented the string squeezing style!

  • @michaelleftwich8186
    @michaelleftwich8186 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I believe you played " Breaking up someone's home" on it. Great 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @brianhein8838
    @brianhein8838 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I dig the fact that Joe is as much a fan as an icon. Love the V also. I have an SG in that color.

  • @sjv855
    @sjv855 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I once saw Albert KIng at junior college that was supported by some foundation. The audience was charged $1.00! It was an intimate setting and he was amazing. Best buck I've ever spent.

  • @MyJc1967
    @MyJc1967 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Albert King was a great guitar player who deserved more recognition and credit than he has gotten. It’s a shame that he didn’t get what he deserved. RIP mr. King. You are so missed today. Much respect and I love your music.

  • @joeblo5804
    @joeblo5804 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i remember watching Albert King live and witnessing him play his gibson with the high E on top and bending downward....... that in itself was something to behold. Then, his classic jam session with SRV in 1983 called "in session" ( on utube) is a tour de force of a genuine love of the blues as well as one another. Not to be missed.

  • @acefan2trekninja
    @acefan2trekninja หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Joe is always great at his interpretation of the masters.

  • @michaelslahetka8371
    @michaelslahetka8371 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanx Joe !! KEEP The TREBLE & Trouble UP !!

  • @MikeDial
    @MikeDial หลายเดือนก่อน

    Blues Deluxe Vol. 2 is an awesome album. Thanks to Joe for not cutting corners. It's great to hear horns in the background.

  • @leandrosep6032
    @leandrosep6032 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    God bless you JB! You surely keep the blues alive for newer generations to come, specially with the passion you pay tribute to the founding fathers of the guitar. Albert was the real deal and a major influence to all my favorite players (Hendrix, Page, SRV, Trucks, Beck, Mick T...), I can't stress enough his importance to my musical taste and to the sound I try to achieve when I play.

  • @plissken2245
    @plissken2245 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Joe, plz do an album of just you on guitar. No band. It's great to just hear you play.

  • @soulcactus19
    @soulcactus19 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Joe is THE G.O.A.T! Well done Master🎸🌵

  • @ronroskowske6047
    @ronroskowske6047 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The pride of Lovejoy, Illinois!

  • @fellstarling7998
    @fellstarling7998 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is blues power!!

  • @marions.120
    @marions.120 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Glad you mentioned Dan!
    I was Born Under a Ban Sign…

  • @joeschmoe1301
    @joeschmoe1301 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I met Albert King at a Club in San Francisco. We talked the whole time he was on break. I told him I learned to play guitar from buying his "Live Wire Blues Power" and his " I'll Play The Blues For You" albums. After talking to him, it confirmed to me that he was, without question a genius.

    • @MontyCantsin5
      @MontyCantsin5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What did he say?

  • @barrettwissell9708
    @barrettwissell9708 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Greatest bluesman of all time. JB❤

  • @user-qr7ee2cp4y
    @user-qr7ee2cp4y หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Joe is awesome... seems so cool and is such a wealth of knowledge.

  • @roderickbalt8993
    @roderickbalt8993 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He really nailed this, more than if he plays other blues heroes

  • @michaelleftwich8186
    @michaelleftwich8186 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I saw the one you had at Greek Theater. It had Albert's name on the fret board.

  • @carlhungus2521
    @carlhungus2521 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I feel like Joe should be wearing safety glasses because he does those bends in such a way that he is basically holding a 6 string compound bow. If one of them strings snap it's gonna look like that scene from the movie ghost ship

  • @robertleslie2467
    @robertleslie2467 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Albert King has always been my favorite blues man. Even more than The Wolf and Muddy which I dearly love but Albert played guitar and entertained like he was doing it for his family just like after supper. And then the pipe comes out. Albert King wasn’t Steve McQueen cool. He was Albert King cool.

  • @stratman9449
    @stratman9449 หลายเดือนก่อน

    can always learn something "new" from Joe......there is always al ittle extra gem......cheers....even though without "flying V"....haaa....

  • @bobsebbo
    @bobsebbo หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There needs to be a good documentary about the "three Kings"....Ken Burns where are you?!!!!!!!!!!

  • @darlenemcmillan5802
    @darlenemcmillan5802 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks Joe. Some real great advice❗👍

  • @joeschmoe1301
    @joeschmoe1301 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I couldn't learn to play guitar from B.B. Kings "Live at The Regal" album because, that was how you learned back then. But, I had a natural ear for Albert's style. I still do.

  • @wildcolonialman
    @wildcolonialman หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fabulous Joe.

  • @IantaylorCanuck
    @IantaylorCanuck หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A couple of days after Albert recorded that video with SRV, he played a bar in Toronto. (The video was shot in Hamilton ON.) We got there hours early and had the front row table, six feet from Albert. Aside from the guitar stuff, he was just a major dude.

    • @olafbigandglad
      @olafbigandglad หลายเดือนก่อน

      El Mocambo?

    • @IantaylorCanuck
      @IantaylorCanuck หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@olafbigandglad Brunswick House

  • @boco1951
    @boco1951 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Albert was a powerful man who played the blues.

  • @sharkair2839
    @sharkair2839 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    albert had some great arrangements. he new what's goin on.

  • @lescaster2179
    @lescaster2179 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    so many SRV fans credit Stevie for being far more original than he was. He built his house very much on top of Albert's foundation and many 'SRV' licks are actually King's licks. But, there's no shame in that. SRV was a force of nature who took what he learned and evolved it, breathing new life into a blues scene that seemed to be in need of that energy and life he brought onto the stage at the time.
    You can hear a lot of Freddie King in Clapton and he himself acknowledges that. You can hear Roy Buchanan in Jeff Beck. And they all acknowledged their influences and laid down their own bricks in the same wall.
    Joe has done a great job in carrying a torch for those who trail blazed, helping to spread the word and share the knowledge of all the builders that contributed to building the house we know and love today. Zero shame in standing on the shoulders of those who came before you... It's the same in all walks of life. Just credit those who came before you and hope you can add a block or two of your own for others to borrow and build on.

    • @hesch-tag
      @hesch-tag หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes, SRV was far from original. He was mostly Albert King mixed with Jimi Hendrix ( without Jimi's creativity).

    • @davidrpriest
      @davidrpriest หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Stevie one said " Without Albert King there would be no Stevie Ray Vaughn."

  • @Alanpuxadordefibra
    @Alanpuxadordefibra หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤😊❤Congrats from Brazil 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @michianabaddriversin4690
    @michianabaddriversin4690 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Could listen to Joe spit facts and shred licks all day..✌️

  • @dwaynecotton8568
    @dwaynecotton8568 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice!🎸🔥

  • @arnarne
    @arnarne หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It surprises me that Joe says Gibson "fucked up" with the 50-s versions of the flying V. I have heard two different 50's V's being played live (in the 80's) and they both sounded absolutely fantastic!

    • @gillihansmobilewelding
      @gillihansmobilewelding หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe they messed up from a guitar players perspective.

  • @danielschaeffer1294
    @danielschaeffer1294 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I once had the opportunity to meet Albert and shake his hand. He accidentally broke a bone in my hand! God, what a mensch!

  • @cigdamagelungs
    @cigdamagelungs หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🎉tune down one and a half step

  • @hankevans7890
    @hankevans7890 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Didn’t Albert also tune down a whole step and use light gauge strings?

  • @timothyproksch2915
    @timothyproksch2915 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m pretty sure it was Albert King is who I saw at the Michigan Palace in Detroit in about 1975 I wish I knew if it was him or Freddy

  • @andrewgardner9741
    @andrewgardner9741 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love you Joe 💋🇬🇧

  • @olafbigandglad
    @olafbigandglad หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There's some weird ass guitars out there. Flying V has to be in the top five.

  • @AeneasValentucevicius
    @AeneasValentucevicius หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:10 video actually starts

  • @grog5564
    @grog5564 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What I find amazing is that Albert King plays left handed but the strings are high E on top low E on the bottom. As a Lefty myself I find that crazy, how does he do it.

    • @infinidominion
      @infinidominion หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Like Dan Swano and Rand Burkey

    • @grog5564
      @grog5564 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@infinidominion As does Eric Clapton's guitarist Doyle Bramhill, but I still can't fathom it, I have tried playing upside down, it don't work for me.

    • @bobsmith-ji2uh
      @bobsmith-ji2uh หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@grog5564I’m a lefty too. We had one guitar in my house that was a righty. I couldn’t figure anything out upside down so started playing right handed.

  • @Musicarbs
    @Musicarbs หลายเดือนก่อน

    anyone know what kinda guitar that is

  • @davidturner9266
    @davidturner9266 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Norm says you have all of his guitars❗ he doesn't know how you got them but he wants them back😝

  • @ZEGO24x
    @ZEGO24x หลายเดือนก่อน

    3:14 - if you want to skip the chat

  • @joeschmoe1301
    @joeschmoe1301 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If I had to quickly mention 3 guitarist that are, were, bona-fide geniuses would be: Wes Montgomery, Pat Methany, and Albert King.

  • @johnnybongshow5257
    @johnnybongshow5257 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    play a left handed guitar right handed to get the albert king sound

  • @DMSProduktions
    @DMSProduktions หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He's BETTER than a PRINCE Albert! LMAO! ;oP LESS painful as well!

  • @menetinminutin
    @menetinminutin หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bonamassa lookin more and more like Paul McCartney

  • @145rural
    @145rural หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can someone write a good biography for Albert? Every great blues players has a great bio except A.K.... please anyone

  • @FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur
    @FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Bad ground.

  • @markmartin3221
    @markmartin3221 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Does Joe read music?

    • @Ottophil
      @Ottophil หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Blues sheet music? Lol

    • @hesch-tag
      @hesch-tag หลายเดือนก่อน

      No only novels and comic books.

  • @GetOutsideYourself
    @GetOutsideYourself หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    One of the greatest travesties of blues guitar history, Steven Segal owns Albert's three Flying V's. I guess as long as he doesn't sit on them . . .

    • @bryanmannoia8410
      @bryanmannoia8410 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      point taken, but at least he is an actual player. a shame would be having them sitting in a collection owned by some rich guy who doesn't even play. or having them sitting in a hard rock cafe.

  • @andreshernandez9434
    @andreshernandez9434 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    😴😴😴

  • @leftypick4854
    @leftypick4854 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Albert King? He played slow. With taste. Saw him near Allentown with his grandson?

  • @user-uo9cy2ep2h
    @user-uo9cy2ep2h หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'd love to see Joe but I'm not a Rich, Old, White person. 😂😂😂

  • @vitorbarbosa5656
    @vitorbarbosa5656 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
    Trumppppppppppppp

  • @user-eh1og1ci7h
    @user-eh1og1ci7h หลายเดือนก่อน

    So tired of this poseur clown. It's like a walking tribute band.

  • @jturquoise
    @jturquoise หลายเดือนก่อน

    Total nerdville
    Great player
    But his songs and style of performance are beyond cringe.
    And can somebody call Hoarders Anonymous?

    • @bobsmith-ji2uh
      @bobsmith-ji2uh หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Why would you go out of your way to insult someone you don’t know?