Can Joe Bonamassa become one of...

[piebaldpython***]

Yes, he's a great player of anything, not just LP's.......that being said (I have 4 Bonamassa CD's; A New Day Yesterday; So It's Like That; Blues Deluxe and Had To Cry Today), I think he's at a point (how to say this ??? ) where he has to either go for a distinctive tone or to be a king of pyrotechnic guitar playing. This isn't a knock on JB, he can flat out play.....but to me he doesn't have a signature tone that screams JB.

As to LP players, like Duane and Leslie West, or non-LP players like Albert King, Bonnie Raitt or Santana....you hear a tune and say to yourself, well if it isn't them, it sure sounds like their playing. I don't see Joe that way YET. Maybe he needs a DVM pedal or 3 to put him over the top. :

However, as a technician, who can flat out burn the strings; ala Vai or Satriani; he's up in that league. :

[duhvoodooman***]

....I think he's at a point (how to say this ??? ) where he has to either go for a distinctive tone or to be a king of pyrotechnic guitar playing. This isn't a knock on JB, he can flat out play.....but to me he doesn't have a signature tone that screams JB.

Check out his latest albums and I think you'll find that he's developing exactly that kind of signature tone, using Les Pauls. Comes through particularly strongly on the Live from Nowhere in Particular double live CD and his latest, The Ballad of John Henry.

[piebaldpython***]

OK, I'll have to check out those CD's. That's why I listed the CD's I have....as a reference point.