Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
BILLY GIBBONSThere’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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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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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people’s radar, and for good reason.
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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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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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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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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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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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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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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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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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Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up.
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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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