Originally Posted by Bass Thumper
Originally Posted by Janice & Bud
We’ve watched PBS music content for decades. They had a great Joe Bonamassa concert last year. We also watch Austin City Limits and other content. And we have a premium ad free YT subscription. What’s a few bucks a month for no ads. Skip a restaurant visit and you’ve got it. 😀 We keep a large private playlist of YT artists we enjoy listening to and watching. By subscribing to scores of channels we can update our list frequently. Then every evening we watch an hour or so. And, yeah, on a 50” screen with Polk Audio speakers and a Yamaha sub. Spotify fills in during the daytime with its amazing algorithms that offer us every day stuff we much like and have never heard. Having our songs on many Spotify playlists also exposes us to new tunes. OK BT sorry to ramble off the Who topic. They were my introduction in the 60’s to power chords!

Bud
Hey Bud, no ramble at all. Your posts are always info-packed, and I learn a lot from you.

Joe Bonamassa? Here's my war story on him. Years ago, I'm flipping thru the channels and I stumble across this guy playing top-shelf blues-rock. It was Joe on PBS; I had never heard of the guy before. He and his band are phenomenal. And I recognized his drummer, he may have been Johnny Carson's drummer but I know this guy's face from somewhere. You never know who you'll be introduced to. After the concert I created a dedicated station for Bonamassa on Pandora.

Over the years, 4 or more different Bonamassa concerts must have been broadcast on PBS. I remember one at Red Rock and another where there was a lot of behind the scenes footage of him talking about his gear and his band. He also talked about his efforts to keep the blues art-form alive in the younger generations; great stuff. But what I really found interesting is that there was some footage from when he was a kid, probably taken by his parents. The footage showed him at 12 or 13 walking into a guitar vendor's booth at what looked like a trade show of some kind. The kid sat down with one of the vendor's guitars and just shredded the place! If he wasn't a child prodogy, he certainly was very talented at that tender age.

One of my favorite songs of his is Dust Bowl; soaring lead guitar and a rock solid bass line.

So you like YT TV.
Any thoughts if you had to choose between that and Passport?

PS> Just last night we caught another concert; The Violent Femmes with the Milwaukee Symphony. Once again, we had never heard of this band. One guy in the orchestra was playing this huge sax, the thing towered over him and must have been 7 feet tall !

Passport via the PBS channel does have many more options of what to watch. Subscribing to PBS via a streaming service does not offer the passport required videos. I find it annoying as, in effect, I am paying PBS via my streaming service. So we only listen via PBS to the free videos.

We are very happy with YT TV. It has all we want and unlimited storage to save present and future shows, episodes, etc. We gave up Directv for it 2 years ago. We have no cable option.

We are HUGE Joe Bonamassa fans and have been for years. IMHO the Live At The Greek Theater show is the best of the best. I put right up there with some of the old Fillmore East shows as being the best live music I've seen. The entire show, song by song, is available on YT. The drummer you mentioned was on the Letterman show. Reese Wynam on keys is a legend. The three Australian background singers are each stars in their own right. Kirk Flechter, guitar, is renown. The trumpet horn guy is a well known producer. The best of the best!

Bud

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