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

Billy Gibbons

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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Ahead Miles No Plugged Plugging
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
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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Contraptions Different Mp3 Music Player Round
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
I’ve been touted for my guacamole. I’ll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.
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Home People Prepare Restaurants
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Challenges Real White
The blues is life itself.
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Blue Itself Life
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
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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Driven Process Song
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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Games Play Water
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
BILLY GIBBONS

Amsterdam Country Experiments Way
There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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Genre Hard Single
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
Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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Causes Ems Ugly
It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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Character Important Unusual
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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Dad Guitar Kings

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