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?
BILLY GIBBONSOne 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.
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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The blues is life itself.
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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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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 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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Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
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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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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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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
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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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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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