“Not a single person paid. No one came in. I think I got a Diet Coke out of it”: Joe Bonamassa dishes the dirt on his worst gig ever

Joe Bonamassa wears sunglasses and a blue plaid suit while playing a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard onstage in 2023.

It’s safe to say that music’s ability to uplift and bolster the human spirit is the reason why we’re all music lovers. However, in reality, there’s nothing that every real music fan loves more than a toe-curling tale of crushing defeat…

And the latest in a long and endless line of rock ‘n’ roll gone wrongs comes from an unexpected source. It seems that even the guitar greatness of Joe Bonamassa has strayed wide of its target in times gone by.