Much respect for Joe B

[Amp360]

I think he cares deeply about what random internet weirdos think of him. Didn't he freak out and quit the internet because someone said he was losing his hair?

Can you imagine Mark Knopfler, Rob Halford, Joe Satriani, Peter Frampton, etc. doing something like that?

I don't know much about his personal life, but if you're going to be all over the internet, it would probably be a good idea to either not read comments about yourself or ignore them.

I don't care for his music, but that debacle really soured me on him as a person. It doesn't matter because I don't buy his music but it certainly wasn't a good look.

 

[BrownBlackSilver]

FFS. Did this place get invaded by redditors while I was away?

 

[renderit]

Kinda.

 

[Amp360]

I read that entire article and I am a bit curious why anyone would have a need to seemingly justify one's history.
I can understand how anyone may desire to set any record straight but the article comes across as someone attempting to justify to others something that doesn't require any justification.

A few years back I did some work for Jakob Dylan, who is probably someone who we could all agree grew up in some sort of celebrity bubble. He's a nice guy, has good songs, better guitar player than he gets credit for. I worked for someone who had Zak Starkey playing on an album once, again a nice guy, down to Earth, and a great drummer.

I don't care if someone grew up super privileged or not. You could be Michael Jackson's kid. It will undoubtedly help, but if you don't have what people want it won't matter. I didn't have a very fancy upbringing, but I was fortunate enough to go to a good school, make friends with people who were talented and some of them were privileged. Once I graduated those connections did help me, but I don't see that as something bad. I think it's normal for anyone to network.

Again, JB is a good guitar player whose music doesn't interest me. I don't "get" what he does, but some people do. All the power to him. After his meltdown and attempt to go after some random idiot (like me) because they made a joke about his appearance it really turned me off. I'm sure it's not fun to have people comment on your appearance, but it comes with the territory. I would have thought a true bloozeman would have been used to dealing with roadhouse ballers and street toughs. I guess not.

 

[Elmore]

I saw him live in Atlanta in 2020. This is the song he played that I really liked. To me, it sounded like The James Gang.

 

[Roman4405]

I’ve been a huge Joe B fan since hearing about him on another forum about Les Paul’s, I’m not saying that every song he does is perfect but in general I like hearing his take on classic blues songs that I love and I like his original music. Sometimes his solos can be a bit much but damn the dude can play, can’t wait to see him in person some day.