It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
BILLY GIBBONSBrian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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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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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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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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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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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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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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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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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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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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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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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 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.
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