Eric Gales and Joe Bonamassa - I Want My Crown, KTBA VII, 2/24/2022

Eric Bales and Joe Bonamassa jamming at the KTBA VII at Sea cruise playing Eric Gales song "I Want My Crown" on Feb 24, 2022 in The Stardust Room on the Norwegian Cruise . Keb' Mo' does the intro.

[@FireDoc911]

Whenever Bonamassa and Gales get together for a jam, you just KNOW its gonna be good!

[@kurtweiand7086]

This is absolutely INSANE! THE BEST BLUES ROCK JAMM I've ever heard!

[@BlueLou974]

Even when Joe is no here.

[@truthonly4978]

Doesn't get better than this. The pinnacle of blues rock soloing.

[@medaner1974]

Eric plays Joe Bonamassa Gibson les paul studio...

[@LoganBischoff]

Two of the current blues goats. Incredible as always

[@TheLochs]

Eric is epic. Its good to see him back and healthy. Such a great player/person. Its great to see Joe jamming with him.

[@mickknight6963]

It's so good to see them both enjoying their success and having fun!! They've both done so well and always enjoy sharing their stage with others...that is real evidence of their humility and being willing to be taught, even at their stage of talent. Since no one can see the heart of another person, we get a glimpse of it by one's actions and words. Both men have shown the fruit of humility and love for their fellow players. Good job, men! Music in general & blues in particular is better because of you! ✌️❤️

[@alessandroborges3569]

Excelente performance dos dois, grandes guitarristas! Estive presente no Ibirapuera, SP, Brasil, 2024. Guitarras com excelencia! Parabens!

[@davidduffin1580]

Gales don’t bend strings, he bends the fabric of SPACE!

[@John-Edward]

I believe it has to do with playing the guitar 🎸 upside down… Very different angles for the string bending and a different intonation… ??? What ever it is, its great!!

[@davidbenson9944]

Both guys are sick good players

[@Curonianviking]

Great to see Joe being like a bother to him! Love hearing both of them!

[@kennethlange6157]

Love watching & listening to Eric Gales.He's Kool & on stage with Joe Bonamasa.Damn Awesome.

[@raymondmaynard2438]

Just two of the WORLDS BEST 🎸🎸LIVING LEGENDS cause they are out there DOING IT 🌎CLASS

[@chrisdepriest5676]

Two outstanding musicians that get it. They compliment t each other flawlessly and have great respect for each other and the instrument. When is this cruise? I would love to be present just for this! Thanks fellas!

[@GreenDistantStar]

Two of the very best, sensational!

[@danielpoursac6931]

Je ne comprendrais jamais pourquoi l'on critique l'un ou l'autre les deux jouent à merveille et leurs grattes et tout simplement génial splendide vraiment j'adore ces deux montres de la guitare 🎸 moi aussi je les vue sur sûr scène et le résultat est tout simplement magnifique chapeaux bas les artistes MERCI beaucoup pour spectacle de folie j'ai pris un certain plaisir de vous écouter

[@dr.buzzvonjellar8862]

I love great musicians playing off one another

[@robinfryzel4638]

I had the pleasure of seeing and hearing Eric Gales for the first time for my 72nd birthday on 2/8/24. Love him!!! Sorry I didn’t know him sooner but I’m making up for the time lost 😁🎶🎶❤️

[@nickluzzi8767]

These two are great togeather.

[@jimmeymcgee2840]

Totally awesome love both you guys so nice seeing people put the thoughts of skin color away an have fun enjoying each other company working together!!! You both are legends on the instrument hope to catch these to on the stage together one day .

[@realgoodmind]

These 2 together is always just fantastic. Can you imagine Joe and Eric in Rock Candy and playing together on a tour every show>? I loved Josh with Joe but wish he and Joe had more interaction.

[@shadracastrat]

Refreshing to hear these guys playing their own tunes at last!

[@keddy5627]

What a beautiful thing to behold!!!!! 🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽

[@ketutgitar]

Gales is one off my inspiration🤟🔥🤟

[@mackjericho6162]

The musicians are awesome 👌 👏 👍

[@janbuyck1]

Listen to that rhythm section … playing so tight throughout the complete solo jam.

[@projectmoon13]

The smiles say it all

[@jimsims9422]

God Bless you both!! Keep it alive!

[@jjd2065]

Easily the GREATEST Blues guitar performance of all time! This history here folks!

[@mistacdawg6882]

Indeed! 👍🏾

[@marianamasser3268]

I agree, totally best

[@selphproductions3153]

Nah check out "Who killed John Henry live" that IS THE BEST duel ever.

[@jjd2065]

@@selphproductions3153 meh....it was good Gales duo here with Joe was MUCH better IMHO

[@mikkoraisanen8024]

Blues? My ass. Listen Freddie King my friend

[@brianthompson4480]

Great respect to both of these ax wielding giants!!!

[@garyhughes9199]

WOW!! Amazing.

[@corrindion]

OMG so great!NO JOKE!

[@jimijuric]

2 fantastiques guitaristes!!!

[@markmckay2478]

What a blast 😎🌟 thats alot of Joe's

[@marzannaolter]

Super call and response 🎸🎸👍

[@kylechristian7232]

Keb Mo is havin Too much Fun

[@cbicudo]

Esses dois juntos sempre dando show de improviso, pelo amor de Deus QQ é isso!!!

[@user-zx8yk5bm1g]

Wow!! Wow!!!

[@rommelrivera1186]

Masterful! The end.

[@BlueLou974]

Eric got the honey, Joe got the money.

[@markmckay2478]

Diggin the solos 👏✌️whoo

[@kimberlyneely3869]

I was a luck one, I was there and saw it live!

[@leonardoelias436]

Porrada que foda esses 2 🔥🎸🤘 legends

[@rgordon2691]

Astronomical!! 🎸🎸🎸

[@martinbarnes5704]

Damn! Always nice

[@chrisseger6420]

Great musician's and its quite remarkable how John Mclaughlins solos from 50 some years ago is so present. Says a lot of Mclaughlins importance for electric guitar playing.

[@markoneill1768]

Good call, definitely has John McLaughlin sound. Must be the exotic scale they are using

[@albertorubenmacchi7280]

Excelentes muy buenos

[@Mybrain007]

Eric Gales Style A Blind Man Could Tell & Joe Bonamassa is more universal.. both play awesome

[@jhenvalenciano994]

2 beasts!

[@poohead8022]

Sometimes you just click and feed off each other. This is perfect

[@raysist5020]

come on Gales , there is no fucking way you been playing a guitar upside down the first time! This is just an amazing fight with the referee dancing in the background and judging !!!! LOVE IT ABSOLUTLY LOVE IT !

[@GovernorCedric]

Dueling 🎸🎸🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TheAdamGaz]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! DAMN!!!

[@VinnieMansfield]

Maaaaaannnnnnnnnnn 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@abiola19965]

Great job blues jamming ❤

[@mikkoraisanen8024]

No blues here

[@varunZinger]

eric killing but JOE IS ON FIREEEEE MAN you can tell it from the first lick he's trained like Rocky 3 for this moment , just out for blood !!! the elephant in the room !! Ufffff someone clear that smoke and have mercy and get me a cigar and a drink to have some strength to watch this again !

[@mikkoraisanen8024]

JOe, NOe Skipadidipadidaa... Eric got the funk...please.

[@jacquelinemeier-boucher8192]

❤❤❤❤ magical

[@txiskoestevezalvarez2949]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊

[@clapdrix72]

That underbite is something else man

[@janbuyck1]

Brilliant that Keb Mo is walking around there like a referee.

[@irashtukmaster7545]

Серьёзный разговор!!!👏👍👏

[@rogercerri1]

fantástico

[@QuickSticks8771]

Love that Eric’s pants are as dazzling as his playing !!

[@mikkoraisanen8024]

love love love

[@celesteforgues4270]

EPIC IS AS EPIC DOES💜💜💜💜

[@mikkoraisanen8024]

2 notes were missed

[@Dan-gn2xo]

Insane! What the hell just happened!

[@mikkoraisanen8024]

listen some real blues

[@maekong2010]

Going up against Eric Gales takes balls. The fact that Bonamassa went up against him and _didn't_ get handed his lunch, though Joe is no slouch, is pretty noteworthy. Anyone going up against Gales is a stretch. The man's a legend. New subscriber.

[@BlueLou974]

You're a rookie, but you got ears and guts. Joe got a nice cap, don't say the contrary.

[@maekong2010]

@@BlueLou974 Excuse me?

[@BlueLou974]

@@maekong2010 ok, forget it.

[@maekong2010]

@@BlueLou974 Done.

[@eyank57]

☝👍☝👍☝

[@user-bl4mt2md6i]

Такой игры я ещё в жизни не слышал ,россиянам это сверхмузыка!!!Два сильнейших гитариста!

[@AlphaAchilles]

Has a Huey Lewis feel to it

[@boabglen]

EG on an LP! Yes!

[@mikkoraisanen8024]

wow this on lp, shit just 100000 more notes and epiiiic

[@jrsobx]

For the love of god, somebody turn up the drums in Joe's monitor!!!

[@taurushamilton2739]

Lordhammercy!👏🏾👏🏾💯💣🎸🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾🤘🏾👍🏾🤯this just made my weeek! Fuck a day!

[@mikkoraisanen8024]

yeah, 10000 hours on your bed trying to be blues but hell lets be just thecnicall

[@GerryBlue]

Joe's tone is great! Is the Dumble in there?

[@yagoravell7944]

Looks like a Twin and a Klon, good stuff! Haha

[@FSarnicola]

Top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top

[@mariannagy6800]

Long.live.rock,r😢😢😮😂

[@thorstenriedel3152]

I did not know that Bonnamassa is that good

[@corneliushobbsjr.6175]

i saw both last yr,joe in boston,phenomenal show,eric in portsmouth,n.h.,very very good,joe b solos are crazy good.the tone a+

[@Jethlin2020]

Really? Joe is top notch blues player since a kid. Check him out when he was young. Gales is just plain insane playingbwith reversed and upside down strings.

[@Farrisg287]

You can't hear his vocals 😮

[@ericjohnsonclips5052]

Most people won’t realise how hard that double picked phrase is at 8:04

[@gingersteve]

I think most people will realise how hard most of the phrases are in this!

[@YMOANHMOK]

i like you

[@glenhesketh1]

And he's playing his Gibson upside down to boot.

[@matheusdasilv]

What's this scale?😅

[@singles6995]

2:40 Oops

[@duaneparrish6142]

If they both keep practicing...

[@daneepstein7423]

Whose gonna learn the lick at 1:56 ?? Omfg that’s so filthy lol

[@chrisdepriest5676]

Is it me or does JB look like Chevy Chase here!

[@Knight14649]

It’s still not a fair fight, because Eric strings his guitar upside down with the bass string on the bottom. To make it fair they both should play it the same way, either Erics way or Joe’s way…. I think if Joe Bonamassa had to play the guitar, strung upside down, he couldn’t do it. Just my opinion.

[@chrismason5152]

Nah that's how Eric plays. I think it puts you at a disadvantage playing upside down You can not ever play proper chords And certain phrasing. But the upside down righty Has worked for Albert king. It can work for gale

[@chrismason5152]

As a lefty Why couldn't gale just get a lefty Les Paul And string it Albert king style?? You've got to have monster hands to overcome The reverse cutaway

[@Jethlin2020]

His strings are also upside down! He learned to played upside down and backwards....nuts!

[@user-hk1tv1bz9t]

勝手に、少し、コマーシャルしました。

[@Knight14649]

There is one guitarist who beat up both of them in any guitar battle … Greg Koch….

[@gerardocarrasco7833]

Tow greats, but Gales is more interesting than JB. JB abuse of the quintuples, that tire me.

[@user-hk1tv1bz9t]

奴隷などで、亡くなられた方々、心よりご冥福をお祈り申し上げます。

[@user-hk1tv1bz9t]

私のレスポールは、中国製

[@sergeifedorovih]

как этот бонамасса научил обезьяну играть в гнесенки человека научить не могут .

[@mirosawch5750]

empty music relying on monotonous tech tricks

[@Vincent-fo7xp]

Naw

[@ChristophHenrici]

Just don’t like Bonamassa, corny, self indulgement, flashy show off, musicaly void, the guys have put up with him because of his commercial success, feel for them. Now Eric he is authentic, the real thing…..

[@bluzzjazz]

Guy has worked his butt off and has given more than he has taken. Gales owes a lot of his resurgence to JB. He always speaks highly of fellow musicians. If you could play like either one of these guys, you may want to “show off” a little too. As for corny, who cares? There’s enough pompous assswipes out there.

[@Dcat7966]

@@bluzzjazz Agreed except he's right about the narcissistic part. I appreciate everything Joe B has done for the Blues. God bless him. Give me a ticket to either of their shows and Im there. I really want to see Gales. He's around soon in NJ. Joe B is always everywhere. I'm in the mood for Eric.

[@bluzzjazz]

@@Dcat7966 I hear you. They are both scary good. I'm a fairly decent player and then you listen to them and it's yeah, that's several more levels. First time I heard Give Me Back My Crown, I thought this is some great guitar interplay.! I've never seen either live but I've watched both perform and it is uncanny how clean they play.

[@snartzzb983]

Not. Two great players/people here.

[@mickknight6963]

Well.....I think it's called having fun!

[@jasonmccombs8123]

Imagine Eric Gales playing James Hetfields parts if he covered Metallica? Everything would have to be an upstroke.

[@Vincent-fo7xp]

Evenly matched, I'd say..

[@vitovitos3405]

Fantastici

[@montymason1647]

SEIGNEUR Eric Gales totally gets and recontextualizes His Majesty THE Jimi for today. But Bonamassa, when on his own, to this player, anyway, always takes a curator's frozen-in-amber take of early Beck, early Page, Free-frozen Kossoff, and throws in a roped-off docent tour of sounds and abounds, circa 1967-early 1970s, as if 1974 were the cut-off date. Bonamassa's approach denies that a Journey to Love, School Days, Blow by Blow, Wired ever happened, Gregg Howe never went beyond just some kid trying out the axes at Guitar Centre, and Stanley Jordan remains that forever odd kid at the same store, staring at the axe selection, with The Big Idea in his head. HOWEVER, whenever MASTER Gales is sharing the stage, Bonamassa suddenly becomes his own man, rips up the museum tour book, throws out the deference, and goes for FIRE. Well, I mean, Eric kinda does that with the archivist players: Josh Smith, Joe, they all throw away the catalogue and write a new book when sharing a stage with Gale-force Eric. Greatness kinda does that....every time.