Billy Gibbons
Billy Gibbons
William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor, best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist of the American rock band ZZ Top. He began his career in the Moving Sidewalks, who recorded Flashand opened four dates for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969 and released ZZ Top's First Album in 1971. The albums that followed, Rio Grande Mudand Tres Hombres, along with extensive touring, solidified the group's reputation as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth16 December 1949
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".
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? 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.
Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.
Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up
... a blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the recorded take turned out to be a keeper. Insriration can come from the most unlikely places ... keep your head on and your ears open...
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. 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.
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.
There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
The blues is life itself.
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.