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After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.

Billy Gibbons

Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
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Chords Country Found Guitar People
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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Art Believe Coffee
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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Driven Process Song
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Challenges Real White
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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Limitless Long Potential Rivers Sea
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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Browser Flipping Online Pleasures
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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Ahead Miles No Plugged Plugging
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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Bigger Radio Tabletop
Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Out Rocks Roll Tunes
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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Contraptions Different Mp3 Music Player Round
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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Faster Mudy Music Taught Water
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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Games Play Water
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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Film Matter Mirrors
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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Break Catastrophe Music Perform Playing Took
There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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Genre Hard Single
The blues is life itself.
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Blue Itself Life

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