WHAT.A.PERFORMANCE!!
Joe Bonamassa Appeared onstage to an ear blistering, elevated audience inside the Pavillions, Plymouth.
The set opened with 'Cradle Rock', a Rory Gallagher cover, rolling straight into 'When the Fire Hits the Sea'. The Band are tight with instruments well warmed by this point.
'Midnight Blues' by Gary Moore was next on the set. A more than worthy tribute to the late great guitarist.
As the lights dimmed down again hiding a smooth guitar change, Joe faced the drummer ready for the stage to relight. Tal Bergman works up a steady, powerful "shunt" with the snare. Sounding exactly like a steam train, he picks up pace. Joe joins in time, matching the pitch. At climax the Les Paul breaks off to solo the intro to 'Slow Train', pulling the rest of the band with him. Such a powerful introduction!
The band then move swiftly into the title track off of the touring album, 'Dust Bowl'. Incredible.
The next 3 songs include 'You Better Watch Yourself', the Famous 'Sloe Gin', and "the closest track i had to a hit" explains Joe; The Ballad of John Henry'.
"Now, I've been a bit under the weather unfortunately with this virus" Joe explains "...So the only way for me to recover was to wait it out. In doing so i took the time to see if facebook had any answers for me in how to get rid of this cold... My top 2 favorite replies were these: The first; An English man. He explains that i should drink half a bottle of whiskey and screw a hot chick. The second, and my favorite was from a bloke from Tennesse, and he explained that i need to drink a WHOLE bottle of whiskey and screw a really fat woman... So you know what i did... i did both!"
The second half of the set sees songs such as 'Lonesome Road Blues', 'Happier Times', 'Song of Yesterday', and the WHO cover 'Young Man Blues', before Joe rolled into Django and the INCREDIBLE 'Mountain Time'.
The encore consisted of 'Bird on a wire' by Leonard Cohen, and the awesome 'Just got paid' by ZZ Top (ofcourse the latter featured the famous Gibson Flying V!!)
In all, an amazing evening. I will most DEFINITELY be seeing him again!!
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