It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
BILLY GIBBONSThe blues is life itself.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won’t vanish, but let’s face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.
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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
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Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
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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.
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If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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