Turn on, tune up, rock out.
BILLY GIBBONSWhen 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.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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The blues is life itself.
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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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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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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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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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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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