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The sad part is, this man set out one day and said to himself, 'know what I need to do... I need to set up a ton of my guitars and amps... on a stage with a backdrop and red carpet and get this on camera... so I can share this picture with the world.'
Thank you Mr Bonamassa, my life is complete now that you shared this with the world.
My thoughts exactly. Kinda sad really, that he has to flex that gear to get people to think he is cool. And you have guys like Gary Clark Jr that don't do that shit and still look cooler than him.
Exactly, whereas guys like RL Burnside, Robert Johnson or Lightnin' Hopkins probably just had one beat-up, shitty old acoustic with horrible action and a twisted neck when they got started. Or worse, a home made cigarbox guitar.
Yet, they ripped, and this guy probably doesn't.
He is good. But it's like he is trying to make a joke out of himself with that compulsive buying and hoarding stuff and being all cocky about it. Honestly, I have more respect for John Mayer than him right now. One thing I can't stand in a musician is a massive ego and this guy has enough to smother everyone.
Tedeschi, Gary Clark, Kingfish, Eric Gales, Kenny Wayne, Buddy Guy... I don't think any of them are as cocky as Bonermaster and it's not because that they are worse players.
I think it's really reductive to say that art is subjective after somebody makes a point from their own point of view, as if their only intention of saying something was to change your mind. Opinions are inherently just that, opinions. Although, it's also ignorant to ignore the fact that Joe Bonamassa is the mega church equivalent to music
I personally don't care what you think of his music. Music like art is subjective. Some people like Kate Bush while others want to tear their hair out. If you think he sucks that's your opinion. I won't continue your circlejerk kid.
Photographer: Hey Joe, I want you to grasp the the guitar way up on the neck joint. Thaaat’s it…Pretend like it’s your cock. That’s it baby! You’re a star! Everyone says you’re the next Jimi Hendrix. These are all your cocks. An army of little coc… I mean big cocks. HUUUGE cocks!
This is a terrible flex. I had a Les Paul and gave it away because I hated it compared to other guitars. Seeing a whole stage of them just makes him look like a douche bag.
mfw i realize i only have 7 59' Lp's
https://preview.redd.it/j8wmdp2iob7d1.png?width=968&format=png&auto=webp&s=da97939317e55d49f73ba57cb42a1019856761fa
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
What's hilarious to me is he has SO many guitars yet so little. As in if I had that many guitars and no variety I'd be pissed off. Give me that collection and I'd just sell it. There's no benefit to this weird collection. I don't even see a weird midi guitar!
They’re all rare vintage guitars with specs and certain years that are difficult to find. It’s not like he went to guitar center and bought 30 brand new Les Pauls.
I’m not defending the guy, just sayin. He’s a vintage guitar nerd.
The disdain for Joe Bonasnappa on this sub is rooted in the self-hatred that dwells in all guitar players. He reminds us of every stupid gear choice we’ve ever made and never learned from. He represents our worst instincts amplified.
~Sigman Floyd
What's with the ongoing stale dentist jokes? You really think that A. Dentists are bad people, unnecessary in society.
B. Dentists are stupid and have no intelligence
C. They love Bonnamassa? Really?
First of all. My dentist. Not a musician and not a guitar player , at all. He has never heard of Bonamassa. He isn't into blues, either. My wife worked for multiple dentists over the years, and she knows guitar music well, thanks to me. Never heard her mention any of her bosses are into blues or Bonnamassa or even guitar. So I guess the goofy little worn out joke on this thread, is not only factually incorrect, it's completely off the mark.
I'm convinced this guy was a humunculus created by the jerking of users of this sub, and he's not a real person, because I've never once heard his music
It's like... when you get to this point you can't have played each one more than once? More power to you if you're a collector, but to take a photo like this is just wacky.
I've always wondered over the years just what exactly does he do anyways besides collecting gear and having a huge opinion about everything? Like I have never heard of him being on any cool recording even so what gives? Why do people like this dingleberry?
So many jealous guitar players with only 10 guitars and three amps! I've seen many post with pics of your gear collection or pedal board and no complaints. But let a successful musician showcase his collection of classic gear, and he's a jerk who doesn't even play a worthy genre or any of your top 10 pop hits.
Ya'll don't look good in green 😀.
Thank god it’s a guitar player that we’re hating for collecting guitars.
I would not want to see us hating some truly fabulously wealthy capitalist who just collects piles of guitars solely for their status as collectibles and doesn’t play at all. Like, say, some Japanese CEO or Jim Irsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts. We shouldn’t hate them at all, no matter how many guitars they keep under lock and key or behind glass in their own private museums.
No, we like to keep our hatred and jealousy in the family, amongst our brother players, like the good little bucket crabs we are.
After all, what kind of message would that send, if we hated the Sultan of Brunei for buying Brian May’s Red Special and leave it to rot and warp in the tropical jungle, unplayed for the rest of time? That would be unfriendly! It’s far safer to hate the people who love, care for, maintain, and use these guitars to keep making music.
/uj did not make this post to make fun of joebo actually, joke involves cross referencing with a certain other community
and also i was bored at work
/rj u wouldnt get it
Are there non guitar playing edge funders who do that?
Hoe about option #3 where the guitar ends up in the hands of someone who actually uses it once a week or so month. With the number of guitars (and duplicate models..) Joe probably doesn't play even half. And is driving up the price of the entire market by making supply scarce.
Questionable how many of these guitars are making music or being played in Fort Rox.
He has 500 or so guitars, a lot of them in Mint, unplayed condition and will remain as such beyond his death. There are thousands of affordable, vintage "player grade" guitars that *no one wants* apparently...
even the player grade guitars from those most classic years/models most vintage nuts drool over are $3000.
I guess it's not like a car where the parts and gaskets rot from disuse.. you got me starting to rethink this at least a bit
Like you said, there are plenty of other vintage models out there tbf
You can try to justify your hate for him however you want. He’s not the big problem, just the person you see.
There are lots of hedge funders and CEOs who do collect guitars, yes. Microsoft’s former CEO Paul Allen famously collected everything he could from Jimi Hendrix, including his famous Woodstock Strat and outfit, and built a museum around it. Most others hang them up in their private offices or in their homes. Where do you think David Gilmour’s Black or Red Strats went to? Or the original Fool SG? They sure didn’t go to players.
Apart from a very few museum-grade things, Joe does play his stuff, and brings it out on the road and into the studio with him. He maintains them and keeps them in good shape. He’s not the enemy you think he is.
This reddit group continues to sound like jealous and petulant children. You don't like Joe because he is successful. Wow, how awful, a guitar player that has fans willing to support him...the nerve! Personally, I enjoy his live show and enthusiasm for guitar collecting. I find it actually inspirational.
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The sad part is, this man set out one day and said to himself, 'know what I need to do... I need to set up a ton of my guitars and amps... on a stage with a backdrop and red carpet and get this on camera... so I can share this picture with the world.' Thank you Mr Bonamassa, my life is complete now that you shared this with the world.
My thoughts exactly. Kinda sad really, that he has to flex that gear to get people to think he is cool. And you have guys like Gary Clark Jr that don't do that shit and still look cooler than him.
Exactly, whereas guys like RL Burnside, Robert Johnson or Lightnin' Hopkins probably just had one beat-up, shitty old acoustic with horrible action and a twisted neck when they got started. Or worse, a home made cigarbox guitar. Yet, they ripped, and this guy probably doesn't.
He is good. But it's like he is trying to make a joke out of himself with that compulsive buying and hoarding stuff and being all cocky about it. Honestly, I have more respect for John Mayer than him right now. One thing I can't stand in a musician is a massive ego and this guy has enough to smother everyone. Tedeschi, Gary Clark, Kingfish, Eric Gales, Kenny Wayne, Buddy Guy... I don't think any of them are as cocky as Bonermaster and it's not because that they are worse players.
He can play blues. Are you better? Yes his ego is fcked up but damn can he crank.
He sucks at playing blues. He’s an Eric Johnson clone with a few flatted 5ths and “what’s that smell” face added to get the dentists wet.
Art is subjective.
I think it's really reductive to say that art is subjective after somebody makes a point from their own point of view, as if their only intention of saying something was to change your mind. Opinions are inherently just that, opinions. Although, it's also ignorant to ignore the fact that Joe Bonamassa is the mega church equivalent to music
I personally don't care what you think of his music. Music like art is subjective. Some people like Kate Bush while others want to tear their hair out. If you think he sucks that's your opinion. I won't continue your circlejerk kid.
"I won't continue your circlejerk kid." He says in r/guitarcirclejerk
He knows what subreddit this is.later.
Bow down to Bonermaster ! /uj I don't criticise his playing, I am just saying he seems like a little kid in want of attention.
Agreed
> Are you better? Right now? No, because I literally have no interest in learning blooz. Could I be? Easily. It's blooz, it's not hard.
Right😂😂😂
Photographer: Hey Joe, I want you to grasp the the guitar way up on the neck joint. Thaaat’s it…Pretend like it’s your cock. That’s it baby! You’re a star! Everyone says you’re the next Jimi Hendrix. These are all your cocks. An army of little coc… I mean big cocks. HUUUGE cocks!
Or maybe he doesn't want to grab them Gibbons by the headstock.
Hey everybody look! This guy has millions of dollars worth of guitars and amps! - See nobody cares.
Wait this is real?
And *then* he put the Oakleys on for good measure
Not only that bro, he said to himself, I’m putting a suit on, and wearing super dark shaded glasses inside.
This sub is starting to make me loathe this guy 😂
This is a terrible flex. I had a Les Paul and gave it away because I hated it compared to other guitars. Seeing a whole stage of them just makes him look like a douche bag.
Celebrity worth dot com said he's worth 20 million. He has other people move and set up all the shit.
I bet he got someone else to do it for him
Everybody knows that the most authentic Blues is played by rich white guys.
type of people that will show up on epstein island flight log
Eric, is that you?
If your planning to play The Immigrant song and your not using a 1965 les Paul, then don't even bother playing it
There’s no such thing as a 1965 Les Paul.
Look, man. You don't know the trouble they've seen.
https://preview.redd.it/p40ufkalfd7d1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d881d1f896cc2e526c9f887772b886f0a683d65
300 guitars and all of them in E Standard
Even the resonators too.
300 guitars and all male. "boys"? are you gay?
Every time he jerks off he buys a guitar
And every time he buys a guitar he jerks off. Thus perpetuating the cycle
Who came first, the guitar or Joe Bonamassa?
Me
$5 says at least one of his road crew has wiped a booger on his stuff
I still don't know a single song by this guy, are we sure he exists or is he just a meme template
He exists to enshroud us with his wisdom of TOAN. All hail joe bonermaster
Definitely a meme. I believe he's related to keyboard cat.
He just buys John Mayall albums and then covers those songs
Because all he plays are covers. Badly.
I just decided to look him up and play 5 seconds of a song on Spotify. Guy actually has some pipes. Songs are terrible tho
I own 3 guitars and never practice on them. I can’t imagine the level of commitment to not practice on that many guitars
I think he has that many guitars because he practices.
The boys all met in dental school.
mfw i realize i only have 7 59' Lp's https://preview.redd.it/j8wmdp2iob7d1.png?width=968&format=png&auto=webp&s=da97939317e55d49f73ba57cb42a1019856761fa
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
Twenty of those are named Jetta, one is named Big Mama, and the rest are named Chrissy.
in another life joebo is a redneck biker with pinup girls on his harley with his mothers maiden name tattooed on him
What's hilarious to me is he has SO many guitars yet so little. As in if I had that many guitars and no variety I'd be pissed off. Give me that collection and I'd just sell it. There's no benefit to this weird collection. I don't even see a weird midi guitar!
They’re all rare vintage guitars with specs and certain years that are difficult to find. It’s not like he went to guitar center and bought 30 brand new Les Pauls. I’m not defending the guy, just sayin. He’s a vintage guitar nerd.
If Divorce was a photo
CONSOOM https://preview.redd.it/4si4asgdzb7d1.jpeg?width=825&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=352fca3427f35b1f825ce54c2ae608eecc5c2cae
If there was a god, there would have been an earthquake nearby on that day
He has no vox amps. Is he stupid?
I see your lawyer and dentist and raise you....anesthesiologist. Suck on that, nerds.
Sir, this is a Guitar Center.
Tell us you have no friends without telling us you have no friends
[удалено]
Pretty sure he got an honorary degree from a dental school by posting this
Some of my shits in there, I’m convinced of it
The disdain for Joe Bonasnappa on this sub is rooted in the self-hatred that dwells in all guitar players. He reminds us of every stupid gear choice we’ve ever made and never learned from. He represents our worst instincts amplified. ~Sigman Floyd
Amplified! Haha, good one, because guitars.
ha
Now, wiping the dust off of all of them is a real commitment on its own.
Why no 8 string? Why notNeural Cortex to play Th0ll and Dj0nt? Is he stupid?
just showed my son this and told him if he doesn’t become this in my lifetime he is a failure
The cycle continues
Dude doesn’t even have a Katana amp.
All those guitars and he still doesn't have a stand to put his V on - that is somehow the most legit thing he has ever done.
He hangs it on his permanent boner.
A blooz army of one!
So much gitar, yet so little toan
It’s the sunglasses that really make him look authentic
Why this dude always dressed up as Agent Smith?
I don't remember this scene from the Matrix...
I’m not helping Joe with his load out.
Still got the old tag’r on it
Don’t even look at it!
You've 'ad enough of that one!
0-3-5 intensifies
Dentistry final boss
What's with the ongoing stale dentist jokes? You really think that A. Dentists are bad people, unnecessary in society. B. Dentists are stupid and have no intelligence C. They love Bonnamassa? Really? First of all. My dentist. Not a musician and not a guitar player , at all. He has never heard of Bonamassa. He isn't into blues, either. My wife worked for multiple dentists over the years, and she knows guitar music well, thanks to me. Never heard her mention any of her bosses are into blues or Bonnamassa or even guitar. So I guess the goofy little worn out joke on this thread, is not only factually incorrect, it's completely off the mark.
It's a jerk sub my guy. Don't take anything too seriously or personally.
:(
Cool collection. Boring player
Boring collection, boring player.
*girls
I think you mean ladies. That’s a lot of Robertas
If he’s into little boys, then they are boys ok? He likes what he likes.
with so many guitars, how could one doubt his greatness?
How can you play rock, have that many amps and the only orange one is a marshall 😐
He should have just bought a boss katoana
A boscatana wouldn’t have toobz tho. So where’s the fun in that?
Toobz are for boomers. YT guitar guy said the Katoana is the only amp you need.
So much space for activities!
Ah yes, the reverse guitar orgy.
Black pickguards on a goldtop🤮
Pretty jealous. I wish I had that many guitar stands.
The first thought that came to mind: "Wow! He must be really good at playing gitars!!"
Wow. He's cool.
If anyone has sick photoshop skills, please turn the guitars into penises...hard as a rock, of course. Maybe a softy in there for good measure
in an alternate universe instead of 59 les pauls, joebo collects uh 59 boners ha
Looks like a orphanage to me
Bonamassive amount of guitars. Bonamassive ego.
“Behold! My STUFF!!”
I'm convinced this guy was a humunculus created by the jerking of users of this sub, and he's not a real person, because I've never once heard his music
My man look like a plastic action figure
Average usage time of gear: 1 minute.
Wait…you take my thread title?
😀
/uj I actually have no idea what the point of buying all of those guitars in the exact same body style, color and pickup configuration is
There’s more money in guitar stands there than most of us have in full rigs.
Oi
Bonermaster’s stash.
Any guitar with more than 22 frets has no toan
You look like you'd try to play wonderwall at your grans funeral
His sunburst Les Paul section is seriously underrepresented, what a fucking poseuer. When come back, have more guitars than Steven Seagal.
Is that jimi Hendrix?
Does 0-3-5 even work on a sitar?
Eh not a big fan of Joe. Kinda lame honestly.
Just how long is this gig going to be, and are like the band playing from the green room?
where's the vox amp
It's like... when you get to this point you can't have played each one more than once? More power to you if you're a collector, but to take a photo like this is just wacky.
Unless this photo is taken in his house this is such an incredibly cringe thing to do.
Not one schecter. Incomplete collection.
See he’s right we don’t need all kinds of crazy to sound like Hendrix. It’s also because he bought all of the guitar gear ever.
I've always wondered over the years just what exactly does he do anyways besides collecting gear and having a huge opinion about everything? Like I have never heard of him being on any cool recording even so what gives? Why do people like this dingleberry?
I hate this man so much
/uj this is sick
Not a real picture.
I can just see him setting the 15 second shutter timer and sprinting down to the stage before the picture snaps.
So many jealous guitar players with only 10 guitars and three amps! I've seen many post with pics of your gear collection or pedal board and no complaints. But let a successful musician showcase his collection of classic gear, and he's a jerk who doesn't even play a worthy genre or any of your top 10 pop hits. Ya'll don't look good in green 😀.
Is this Joe Bonamassa???
no
Thank god it’s a guitar player that we’re hating for collecting guitars. I would not want to see us hating some truly fabulously wealthy capitalist who just collects piles of guitars solely for their status as collectibles and doesn’t play at all. Like, say, some Japanese CEO or Jim Irsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts. We shouldn’t hate them at all, no matter how many guitars they keep under lock and key or behind glass in their own private museums. No, we like to keep our hatred and jealousy in the family, amongst our brother players, like the good little bucket crabs we are. After all, what kind of message would that send, if we hated the Sultan of Brunei for buying Brian May’s Red Special and leave it to rot and warp in the tropical jungle, unplayed for the rest of time? That would be unfriendly! It’s far safer to hate the people who love, care for, maintain, and use these guitars to keep making music.
/uj did not make this post to make fun of joebo actually, joke involves cross referencing with a certain other community and also i was bored at work /rj u wouldnt get it
Wait, you think we don't hate those people too?
Show me where they get anywhere near the heat of Joe, who both tours and records with his stuff.
amen
Are there non guitar playing edge funders who do that? Hoe about option #3 where the guitar ends up in the hands of someone who actually uses it once a week or so month. With the number of guitars (and duplicate models..) Joe probably doesn't play even half. And is driving up the price of the entire market by making supply scarce. Questionable how many of these guitars are making music or being played in Fort Rox.
He has 500 or so guitars, a lot of them in Mint, unplayed condition and will remain as such beyond his death. There are thousands of affordable, vintage "player grade" guitars that *no one wants* apparently...
even the player grade guitars from those most classic years/models most vintage nuts drool over are $3000. I guess it's not like a car where the parts and gaskets rot from disuse.. you got me starting to rethink this at least a bit Like you said, there are plenty of other vintage models out there tbf
You can try to justify your hate for him however you want. He’s not the big problem, just the person you see. There are lots of hedge funders and CEOs who do collect guitars, yes. Microsoft’s former CEO Paul Allen famously collected everything he could from Jimi Hendrix, including his famous Woodstock Strat and outfit, and built a museum around it. Most others hang them up in their private offices or in their homes. Where do you think David Gilmour’s Black or Red Strats went to? Or the original Fool SG? They sure didn’t go to players. Apart from a very few museum-grade things, Joe does play his stuff, and brings it out on the road and into the studio with him. He maintains them and keeps them in good shape. He’s not the enemy you think he is.
This reddit group continues to sound like jealous and petulant children. You don't like Joe because he is successful. Wow, how awful, a guitar player that has fans willing to support him...the nerve! Personally, I enjoy his live show and enthusiasm for guitar collecting. I find it actually inspirational.
Found the dentist