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26. Februar 2014

Joe Bonamassa @ Mitsubishi Elektric Halle – Düsseldorf – 25.02.2014

Düsseldorf was the tour-start for the Joe Bonamassa worldwide tour 2014! There were yet no carnival celebrations in the jester-town, but when JB was arriving at the splendid Mitsubishi Electric Halle for his sound-check together with his band-friends he was in most excellent mood for “Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler”! He was signing autographs and joking happily. He was ever so relaxed and joyful. No sign of arrogance. When the crowd was given access to the hall, the freaks rushed immediately to the stage to take photos of his guitars positioned in a half-circle behind the microphone and seat.

At point 8 p.m. the show started and Joe was entering the stage solo, supported by triumphal applause and equipped with one of his beloved acoustic six-strings to perform in the spotlight ‘Woke Up Dreaming’. By his fingerpickin’ play he started his solos the flamenco style and he finished it by some jazzy licks. But hey what was this? Many ticket-holders were still rushing into the hall during this song, searching for their places, hushing in the auditorium from one place to another and even talking the loud-style. To hell with these idiots, they should know that the show starts this time and be in time for achieving their seats! As Joe is a big Bad Company devotee his second song was ‘Seagull’. His partners in crime Tal Bergman on drums, Lenny Castro on percussion, Gerry O’Connor  on fiddle and Mats Wester on nickelharpa to join him. All of them utmost virtuoso musicians, but there was one guy additionally who topped everything – Derek Sherinian on honky-tonkin’ piano. Everybody was aware before that he is an excellent keyboarder and song-composer, but his key-solos were just phenomenal. He was dressed as antipole to Joe as real rocker, with Black Label Society skull-outfit and a biker-bandana jewelling his head. By ‘Jockey Full Of Bourbon’ the atmosphere was steamy by music like by a hot mardi gras event, but the audience was rather calm.  The reason may have been by the seatings, but a little bit of more passion would have been so appreciated. By ‘Athens To Athens’ this acoustic-set was already over. The stunning guitar-plays and alternative song-versions made it again a delight! Very ironist was when Joe was thanking himself as support-act and clapping on his own shoulders.  Well done and amusing…

After a long pause Joe Bonamassa started the second, electric, set by ‘Hey Baby’ and to cross-over into ‘Oh Beautiful’. This was his first live interpretations of these songs and was a witness how JB is always ready for a surprise. “El Caballero” of the bass Carmine Rojas was joining in on stage, besides Tal, Lenny and Derek. The first was kind of a love-, the second a funky-dance-song. The solos of Joe on his Gibson Les Paul were a blast.  By his Hammond-intro to ‘Dust Bowl’ Derek was to conjure that he is a wizard on it as well, this was really monstrously. A delight of its own was the combined percussion, drums and bass solo of the mighty three – B-C-R***. This was a prove that JB was granting his friends ever so much possibilities of self-evidence and musical-performances.  One song-highlight was to transfuse into another and by ‘The Ballad Of John Henry’ the regular set was already to be concluded but how overwhelming. The keyboard and guitar-solos were like a spacy, freaky monster-jam and there was real hard-rock-passion by its celebration. On top there was the strong, chant of Joe.   Standing Ovations and cheers were calling the guys on stage again and by an expanded version of ‘Mountain Time’ by a glorious solo-axe-intro of maestro Bonamassa this meditative song like a serenade was the grand final.

Joe Bonamassa – Intergalactic Guitar-Wizard Of The Stars, The Planets, The Moon & The Sun!

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