In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
BILLY GIBBONSWe 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.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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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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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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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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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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