The blues is life itself.
BILLY GIBBONSWater doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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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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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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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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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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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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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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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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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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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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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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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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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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