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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

Billy Gibbons

No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
BILLY GIBBONS

Ahead Miles No Plugged Plugging
Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
BILLY GIBBONS

Browser Flipping Online Pleasures
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film… a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
BILLY GIBBONS

Film Matter Mirrors
It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go ’round and ’round.
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Contraptions Different Mp3 Music Player Round
When I was around 7 or 8 my Dad took me to a B.B. King recording session, well, that really did it. Huge and lasting impressions.
BILLY GIBBONS

Dad Guitar Kings
The blues is life itself.
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Blue Itself Life
Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Out Rocks Roll Tunes
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder?
BILLY GIBBONS

Games Play Water
We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn’t exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.
BILLY GIBBONS

Break Catastrophe Music Perform Playing Took
I’ve been touted for my guacamole. I’ll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.
BILLY GIBBONS

Home People Prepare Restaurants
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don’t have to be in a hurry because you ain’t got nothing to gain and you ain’t got nothin’ to lose. And that’s where the groove lies.
BILLY GIBBONS

Lying People White
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Challenges Real White
Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form – the blues.
BILLY GIBBONS

Blues Country Embracing English Great
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
BILLY GIBBONS

Limitless Long Potential Rivers Sea
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
BILLY GIBBONS

Band Enough Quitting
It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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Character Important Unusual

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