Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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 band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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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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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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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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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 a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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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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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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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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