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Billy Gibbons: Lick Master

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tensleep

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Billy Gibbons has more hooks than an Oklahoma trotline! The wife is at work, eldest son at church, youngest son playing in the backyard sun, I am studying statistics and listening to ZZ Top. I have The ZZ Top Sixpack playing. I have had to put the book down, get up, crank the volume and dance several times. Old ZZ Top brings back a great deal of memories.
 
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Yes Indeed ZZ Top does bring back a Lot of Good memories! :D And Billy Gibons is a very good player and hey he`s a Huge HOTROD nut too, can`t be all bad! :thmbsp:
 
IMO.... May be the best lookin' hot rod ever!

CADZILLA!
 

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John James said:
IMO.... May be the best lookin' hot rod ever!

CADZILLA!
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Yeah, a true king of the leadsled's!

Love his guitar work, "Tre's Hombre's" is my favorite, although basically any of his riffs, from any album are catchy. More impressive is his range of guitars, some real weirdos in there, like the mummy-wrapped Gibson Explorer with a sony watchmen pickup:scratch2:. I don't think anyones done catchier blues rock guitar work (and he's still actively playing live and making records!).
 
I've forgotten where I heard this, or if it's factual, but I remember reading that Rev. Gibbons was Hendrix's favorite guitarist.
 
Urizen said:
I've forgotten where I heard this, or if it's factual, but I remember reading that Rev. Gibbons was Hendrix's favorite guitarist.
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tensleep said:
I heard that tale, too!
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Would that be from his days of playing in the "Moving sidewalks"?, before he started up ZZ Top?

Here's one from his early days; 99th floor!.
The picture the video uses is kinda bad, but I believe Gibbons is the one on the left:scratch2:.
 
I've heard the same thing about Gibbons being Hendrix's favorite, I don't remember where I picked that info up, but I'm wouldn't be surprised if it were true. The Rev. has his roots in the deepest of blues, and any blues player who listened to his music with an ear towards blues history would know that.

Even after decades of being in the public eye, Billy Gibbons is as much myth as flesh and bone. I get the feeling he likes it that way, and really, how much more blue can you get?
 
It could be true, but like a lot of things about Billy, some have been enhanced over the years. I remember hearing (I didn't see the show) that when Jimi was on Johnny Carson, he was asked about who he listened to and Jimi said there was a cat from Texas, named Billy Gibson, that he liked. Easy to understand him mixing the name up.

Besides creating a thousand catchy licks, Billy has crafted a thousand different tones with amps and effects. Also, I think Billy doesn't get much credit for his singing. He has as many different sounds as he has amp tones.

If you can keep your feets still listening to this, get help:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-q6WHxA4E or search you tube "ZZ Top Chevrolet Largo Maryland".

I am living just a few miles from the 'Simonton' and "Cinco' (Cinco Ranch) and The Red Brazos River land mentioned in the song and I am about three blocks from the highway where they "hit that freeway at sunset"

Frank has been criticized for not being a good drummer, but check him out about 2:10 in the clip.

Pearly through a dimed Marshall, doesn't get much better.

Six Pack is a pretty good survey course for the early stuff, but it lacks anything from Deguello because the lawsuit was pending still when it came out. Also it (6PK) was remixed with too much reverb and electronic drums. Compare Just Got Back From Baby's in six pack to the original and see if you don't agree.
 
oxymoron said:
Six Pack is a pretty good survey course for the early stuff, but it lacks anything from Deguello because the lawsuit was pending still when it came out. Also it (6PK) was remixed with too much reverb and electronic drums. Compare Just Got Back From Baby's in six pack to the original and see if you don't agree.
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I do need to get some better recordings; all my ZZ Top lps were stolen some time ago. I agree, the drums are obnoxious. On my Rotel, I can run source direct to the amp section - the drums were terrible. I switched the tone controls back in and it was much better.
 
I love ZZ Top up to El Loco,then Afterburner and straight downhill. They became superstars when their music was the crappyest.
 
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