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When I read that Billy Gibbons is a vegetarian...I mean, c'mon! Who woulda thought? That guy is an enigma. He has the thickest tone ever, yet uses 7 gauge strings and has a very light touch. He has his own line of hot sauce and BBQ sauce, and he's a vegetarian.

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When I recently came across a video of Eddie Van Halen recording a song for some soft-core porn scene...and then him just dropping the guitar at the end like it didn't matter. I mean, sure, it's his brand, and he probably gets them for free, but still...show some respect for the instrument.

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At a time when Betts was getting a lot of flack about some substance related type things he was having troubles with, he missed three shows that I went to. So everyone thought it was the drink or whatever, I guess I just accepted that that was prolly the case.

 

His horse of a long time had died, he had gone home to bury him.

 

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Alice Cooper lives in Apache Junction and is a golf fanatic. When I worked for Bill Medley I noticed he had a child seat in the back of his Continental. When I worked for Freddy Fender, I never knew he drank until I saw him sober one night in Montclaire,Ca.

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Alice Cooper lives in Apache Junction and is a golf fanatic. When I worked for Bill Medley I noticed he had a child seat in the back of his Continental. When I worked for Freddy Fender, I never knew he drank until I saw him sober one night in Montclaire,Ca.

 

Hey, my brother played with the R brothers in 1964-65

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Well... Mother Maybelle may not have walked on water, but she was an angel. A guy whose music I love turned out to be able to be a horse's patoot in person.

 

I think it's sad to consider folks "heroes" for their musical abilities. They're folks.

 

All "folks," including us here, have an external persona we may or may not have crafted with specific intent - but I think fame and role in life often forces one into creation of of both an internal and external persona that likely is a bit more extreme than the average nine-to-fiver with lesser interpersonal activity. Some of us do our "show" consciously as an act, some don't realize what we're doing - or won't admit it.

 

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Well... Mother Maybelle may not have walked on water, but she was an angel. A guy whose music I love turned out to be able to be a horse's patoot in person.

 

I think it's sad to consider folks "heroes" for their musical abilities. They're folks.

 

All "folks," including us here, have an external persona we may or may not have crafted with specific intent - but I think fame and role in life often forces one into creation of of both an internal and external persona that likely is a bit more extreme than the average nine-to-fiver with lesser interpersonal activity. Some of us do our "show" consciously as an act, some don't realize what we're doing - or won't admit it.

 

m

 

AMEN BROTHER!

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“I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-a$$ cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his **** going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherf(lo)cker just because he had one or two sorry-*** records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherf(lo)cking place, everybody dug it.” -Miles Davis

 

Miles was a jerk and a wife beater, but he was the master.

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