Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
BILLY GIBBONSDid 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?
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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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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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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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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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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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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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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If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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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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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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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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