Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
BILLY GIBBONSExperience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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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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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 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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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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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 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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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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The blues is life itself.
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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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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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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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