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One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion.

Billy Gibbons

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
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
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?
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Games Play Water
Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
BILLY GIBBONS

Hurt Records Water
If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
BILLY GIBBONS

Helping Particular Take Time
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.
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Limitless Long Potential Rivers Sea
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
BILLY GIBBONS

Driven Process Song
Lightnin’ Hopkins taught us, “the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel” and Muddy Waters taught us “you don’t have to be the best one; just be a good ‘un” .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good ‘un.
BILLY GIBBONS

Faster Mudy Music Taught Water
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
BILLY GIBBONS

Bigger Radio Tabletop
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
BILLY GIBBONS

Challenges Real White
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
BILLY GIBBONS

Band Enough Quitting
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
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
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
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
Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
BILLY GIBBONS

Causes Ems Ugly

One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion.

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One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion.

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