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 GIBBONSThere’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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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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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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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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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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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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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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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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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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After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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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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