Report: ZZ TOP's Billy Gibbons Talks Guitars, And Rick Rubin
June 29, 2009, 15 years ago
MusicRadar.com has issued the following report from Joe Bosso:
ZZ TOP's Billy Gibbons adores playing the guitar. But the celebrated axeman also loves talking about guitars, which he does at length and with considerable humor and insight in this MusicRadar podcast interview.
"They say if you can make a living doing with you love, then you're a fortunate man," says Gibbons. "But for me, guitars are an obsession, my raison d'etre. So for me to get paid to indulge in my greatest passion, it goes without saying that I am truly blessed."Underscoring that statement, Gibbons received perhaps the highest blessing a musician could receive, when, as a young man fronting his first band, THE MOVING SIDEWALKS, he opened shows for the one and only JIMI HENDRIX. Not only was Hendrix impressed by the teenaged Texan's command of the six string, but he called him "America's best young guitar player."
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