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.
BILLY GIBBONSNo, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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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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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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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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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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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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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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After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
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The blues is life itself.
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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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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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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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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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