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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

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
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
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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Band Enough Quitting
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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Mean Mp3 Player
The blues is life itself.
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Blue Itself Life
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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Media Past Seemingly Way
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Challenges Real White
After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
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Audience Curtain Customer Open Playing Realized
Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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Hurt Records 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
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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Country Night Promoted Spring Well
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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Bigger Radio Tabletop
Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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Causes Ems Ugly
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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Driven Process Song
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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Lying People White
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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Blues Country Embracing English Great

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