Joe Bonamassa: “People Don’t Think I’m Self-Aware”
Wong Notes
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🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Blues-rock’s most fervent gear collector discusses live at home and the future of his massive collection.
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? |
| 0:03.9 | Welcome to Wongnodes podcast Season 3. |
| 0:07.3 | This is the season 3 premiere. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm really stoked about it. |
| 0:11.6 | We've had several weeks off. |
| 0:13.6 | I don't even know how long it's been off. |
| 0:15.6 | But in the meantime, since the last one, |
| 0:18.2 | I released a new album called Corey in the Wong Notes with the whole |
| 0:22.5 | YouTube series kind of like variety show thing that goes along with it so if you haven't |
| 0:26.7 | seen it check it out it's on YouTube it's free and also the album you just like listen to |
| 0:32.5 | wherever you listen to music it's there all right today we got Joe Bonamassa. This season is going to be |
| 0:40.0 | slamming. I got a lot of great guests. Some you may have seen on a little flyer or something. |
| 0:45.9 | Others have not announced yet because it's nice to surprise people once in a while. You know, |
| 0:52.0 | sometimes you've got to be prepared. Sometimes it's good to have a surprise. |
| 0:56.9 | Anyways, today's episode, Joe Bonamasa. You may know Joe as one of the leading voices in blues |
| 1:02.9 | guitar these days. You may know him as one of the several young blues guitarists who was just |
| 1:08.7 | like part of this graduating class of the late 90s or something. |
| 1:14.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:15.6 | It just felt like there was this one era where it's like Bonamassa, Derek Trucks, Johnny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd. |
| 1:23.6 | And I think somebody else in there too. |
| 1:26.6 | Would Eric Gales count in there? Eric Gales is in a world of his own. |
| 1:31.1 | Anyways, we talk about Gales in this. Insane guitar player. I love Eric Gales. Back to Bonamassa. I did not know a ton about Joe going into, but I did do diligence preparing for the interview. I listened to a lot of his |
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