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Saturday, December 16, 2023

Happy 74th birthday to Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top


sharp dressed man . . . and check that guitar!


“When you speak of creating something in the contemporary vein, we’re fortunate to be considered as interpreters. The good news is the legacy of the originators still stands. You can play those records over and over again and maybe you can kind of enter the framework, or imagine what it must have been like at the time. The continuum is the fact that this simplistic three-chord thing called the blues continues on. It gets rediscovered, oh, every ten years. Somebody finds out: ‘Oh, I’ve got this new thing, it’s called the blues.’ Yes. We know.”
“We’ve been at this longer than most contemporary marriages,” Gibbons acknowledges. “When we take the stage, we don’t know who’s going to make the first mistake. We call it ‘Going to the Bahamas’. Now, getting there is easy. The trick is getting back.”


Interview By Jason Draper 
Photo: Roger Kisby


Think I went to the Bahamas years ago and never came back! 


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