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

Billy Gibbons

Turn on, tune up, rock out.
BILLY GIBBONS

Out Rocks Roll Tunes
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Dad Guitar Kings
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
BILLY GIBBONS

Band Enough Quitting
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
BILLY GIBBONS

Amsterdam Country Experiments Way
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Country Night Promoted Spring Well
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Faster Mudy Music Taught Water
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Mean Mp3 Player
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Lying People White
Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
BILLY GIBBONS

Chords Country Found Guitar People
Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
BILLY GIBBONS

Causes Ems Ugly
After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
BILLY GIBBONS

Audience Curtain Customer Open Playing Realized
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Break Catastrophe Music Perform Playing Took
It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
BILLY GIBBONS

Character Important Unusual
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
BILLY GIBBONS

Driven Process Song
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
BILLY GIBBONS

Challenges Real White
The blues is life itself.
BILLY GIBBONS

Blue Itself Life

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