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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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Ahead Miles No Plugged Plugging
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 GIBBONS

Games Play Water
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Home People Prepare Restaurants
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
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
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Contraptions Different Mp3 Music Player Round
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Limitless Long Potential Rivers Sea
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
BILLY GIBBONS

Band Enough Quitting
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
BILLY GIBBONS

Bigger Radio Tabletop
It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
BILLY GIBBONS

Character Important Unusual
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
BILLY GIBBONS

Amsterdam Country Experiments Way
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Film Matter Mirrors
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
Turn on, tune up, rock out.
BILLY GIBBONS

Out Rocks Roll Tunes
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
BILLY GIBBONS

Challenges Real White
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

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