After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
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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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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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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The blues is life itself.
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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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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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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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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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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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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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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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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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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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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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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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