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 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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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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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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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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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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Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
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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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