Joe Bonamassa goes for the grand slam!
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:28 amWow, on top of relentless touring, 15 solo albums, 3 with BCC, 2 albums with the fantastic Beth Hart, a brand new all acoustic concert CD/DVD at the Vienna Opera House , Joe's halfway through a 4 night concert series in London. 4 different venues, (3 nights back-to-back) with completely different set lists and different band members.
Here is a bit about the series from an interview in Guitar Player Magazine: By the way all 4 shows were sold out.
Here is some info about the 4 shows he's doing in London this year. "Turning to happier events, you have four March shows scheduled and another stand at the Royal Albert Hall, which you’re filming for release.
"The guys who promoted all my shows over there for the last seven or eight years came to me when we were doing two nights at the Hammersmith Apollo and said, “We’ve been doing this for seven years and started at a 150-seat club called the Borderline, and now you’ve done three sell-outs at the Hammersmith Apollo, which holds 5,500 people, one sell-out at the Albert Hall, which holds 5,000, and three sell-outs at Sheppard’s Bush Empire—wouldn’t it be great if we did them all in one week?” So we’re going to do four different nights, four different sets, with four different bands. One night we’re going to have horns, one night will be a four- or five-piece, and one night is going to be the acoustic band. At the Borderline—for all the cats who remember me from seven or eight years ago, when I was doing the power-trio thing and think I’ve sold out and got too slick—we’re going to revisit those big, long jams with the Strat and do the three-piece band. We’re going to DVD it—all the nights—and I’m very excited."
That means that over 4 nights he's playing about 80 different songs!
Here is a bit about the series from an interview in Guitar Player Magazine: By the way all 4 shows were sold out.
Here is some info about the 4 shows he's doing in London this year. "Turning to happier events, you have four March shows scheduled and another stand at the Royal Albert Hall, which you’re filming for release.
"The guys who promoted all my shows over there for the last seven or eight years came to me when we were doing two nights at the Hammersmith Apollo and said, “We’ve been doing this for seven years and started at a 150-seat club called the Borderline, and now you’ve done three sell-outs at the Hammersmith Apollo, which holds 5,500 people, one sell-out at the Albert Hall, which holds 5,000, and three sell-outs at Sheppard’s Bush Empire—wouldn’t it be great if we did them all in one week?” So we’re going to do four different nights, four different sets, with four different bands. One night we’re going to have horns, one night will be a four- or five-piece, and one night is going to be the acoustic band. At the Borderline—for all the cats who remember me from seven or eight years ago, when I was doing the power-trio thing and think I’ve sold out and got too slick—we’re going to revisit those big, long jams with the Strat and do the three-piece band. We’re going to DVD it—all the nights—and I’m very excited."
That means that over 4 nights he's playing about 80 different songs!
