It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
BILLY GIBBONSLightnin’ 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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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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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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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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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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If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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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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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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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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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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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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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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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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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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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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