The REMARKABLE Story Of BILLY GIBBONS And JIMI HENDRIX

and all points in between [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] time to watch [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] there are a lot of great Billy Gibbons stories but my favorite story of all has to do with a band he was in before ZZ Top called moving sidewalks and the moving sidewalks got signed on to do a tour with the Jimi Hendrix experience and the cool thing Jimi Hendrix took an immediate liking to Billy Gibbons and Jimmy would make sure that every Hotel they went to in every city Billy's hotel room was either next door or across the hall because what Jimmy would do every night he would have a turntable brought up to his room and he would play the new the latest records old records all kinds of Records play his guitar along with it and invite Billy in and they would have this communion with this vinyl record flare and talk about music and play guitar and study these records and this went in every city on this this tour that he was on and I want you to watch this clip of Billy talking about this this friendship that they had this amazing time I think it was 1968. anyway check out this clip we've made a bonded friendship right off the bat how we were selected to join the Jimi Hendrix experience tour was just that it was a great mystery but we jumped in with both feet he made arrangements for me to take a room directly adjacent from the room he occupied Night By Night by night and at the time he had a couple of guys that would bring in a record player so he could play along and do a hotel room warm-ups and practice and I remember he summoned me over and he said how do you think this is done well he was listening to the first record by the Jeff Beck Group and I said I said Jimmy I said you're asking me how Jeff Beck does this I guarantee you Jeff Beck wants to know how you do it so this song as you know is Jesus Just Left Chicago off trace ombres my first uh introduction to ZZ Top was Rio Grande mud in 1972. this came after that I loved this also and I resisted as much as I could but this became a poster on my wall at a certain point and the record was orphaned in its sleeve you know protected but this went on the wall because I lived in Albuquerque New Mexico and this is the food we ate and it was just so great that this band uh ate the same food that we did and even even now when I go back to Albuquerque this is what we eat but I love this record you know LaGrange waiting for the bus and somebody asked about waiting for the bus well it was a Segway apparently it happened by accident but they couldn't undo it because it worked so great waiting for the bus goes right into Jesus Just Left Chicago so yeah I I saw ZZ Top in 1972 I was 14 years old and they were playing the songs from Rio Grande mud and I I went crazy over them so I'm playing a Nash Strat on this song Billy Gibbons played a 1950 broadcaster but I'm playing my Nash Strat I've had this for about 20 years and it served me very well it has High Gain Lawler pickups in it which maybe it might be counterintuitive but they sound really good in this has the sir backplate you can see how big it is and it reduces you know you can look this thing up you might be interested it reduces hum by 60 or 70 percent that way you can use the vintage style pickups without altering them playing through a period correct 67 or 68 Marshall that uh sounds really good for this I think and then I'm through period correct speakers they're from 1968 they're celestion 1217s going through microphones back and need my crease and then back into Pro Tools so that's the sound for today I don't know if you guys watched watch tombak's channel I'm if you don't you should you probably all do I watch it all the time and there's an interview he did with Dan Huff recently and Dan Huff is a guitar player that lived here for a while and when I worked with him I got to sit next to him a bunch of times Well a few times and I thought man this is the best studio guitar player I've ever heard and then in the early 2000s I got to sit next to tombuca back here in town on a Rob Thomas record and I thought well I think maybe bukavac is the best studio guitar player I've ever heard so it makes sense that Dan is a producer often hires book to play on his records and they're great friends so this you should you should check out this interview on YouTube on book's Channel the great thing about this interview and it was unexpected to me is that Dan Huff feels the same way I do about this song when when Tom asks him what's your favorite guitar moment the first thing he plays well I won't spoil it check out this clip of Dan Huff choosing his favorite guitar moment [Music] that one when I heard that note that was it that's that's all I that's all I kept doing [Music] Play Again Play it again so it's not just me and what that is you know the song is in G [Music] it's basically a this really cool double stop [Music] and when I heard that thing I never recovered it still makes me insanely happy when I hear that moment on this song it's so powerful I've always maintained that some of the simplest things on guitar are the most effective things um before I forget there's a sale on the master class click the link below if you want lessons 14 day free trial uh over 1800 videos 150 hours brand new beginners course so check it out for free no obligation if you want so this is kind of tuned to with Keith Richards [Applause] and the cool thing is you can play it just wide open thank you you can even hear Billy in this tuning when he plays on the tag because there's a little Riff on the end it creates a fourth underneath now I'm gonna play a little bit a little later [Applause] in standard tuning but it's sort of a Keith Richards style tuning now like I said I saw them in 1972 and one of the things that blew me away is on stage they had some amps I had never seen before and check out these pictures of the stacks of Rio Grande amps I mean my memory told me that there was a steer horn on each head but there's one steer horn across the triple stacks and I think I knew at the time I figured out pretty quickly that they were just Marshall amps that had been retoleexed and renamed but I thought that was the coolest coolest thing another thing I want to do I want to show you a clip that is so cool more present day it's in Helsinki Finland and Billy walks up to a street guitar player a street performer and they don't show it but you know the guy asks Billy to play and when Billy starts playing it's all there it just feels great it feels great and it feels great check out this clip [Music] foreign [Music] I'm going to solo over this thing kind of in just my own style and I want you to watch this photo montage of early ZZ Top they were so cool and this this is how I saw them this is when I saw them my you know I I got Rio Grande mud that was my first record in 1972 but I looked for more records there was only one there was the first record which uh was called ZZ Top's first album it had Chevrolet on it [Music] [Applause] yeah you should really check that out it's a great record uh and then you know on Rio Grande mud Just Got Paid still I I got to do a video about that someday but just check out these photos of the early band I mean they're so cool and Billy is so cool and then we'll uh we'll take some questions thanks everybody for showing up today all right check this out [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so you know I gotta admit a really big part of my DNA my style is from Billy Gibbons I I still love him and you know he's hanging out in Nashville you see he's hanging out with Guthrie trap and bukovac and they're all doing stuff together I'm just really really happy to see all that going on everybody thanks for showing up from you know Finland Paris the UK uh Brazil you all are so nice Hendricks loves Santana at Woodstock I bet he did that's an amazing performance I played on a bunch of Santana records I never met him I've played on five Santana records and I've I never met him it was just you know they were all being done you know the Rhythm parts and the songs were all being done when he was uh you know maybe up in San Francisco or whatever but I'm very proud of that being able to kind of play rhythm guitar for Santana for so many years really fun Houston Texas is the home of the Rev yeah and in in addition to that 1950 broadcaster he used a hardtail strat and also we can talk about the Pearly Gates guitar for a bit apparently he bought that from a Rancher nearby for 250 there's a story that he loaned an actress a car no he bought an actress a car she drove it to La she got the gig she sold the car she sent him the money back and he used that money and because she got the gig she called the car the Pearly Gates and that's why the uh the the guitar was named the Pearly Gates so I was telling my master class members yesterday I do a live stream for master class members that's longer and more casual and I was somebody asked about the production of this record and this record has what I love the most which is one guitar hard left and one guitar hard right now that's AC dc2 that's most rock bands you'll find when you put on headphones things there'll be a great guitar part on the right and great guitar part on the left and that really is the great thing because it leaves the drums in the middle of the voice in the middle of the base in the middle so this has that this [Music] that part is doubled and hard left and right I'm assuming that's the 1950 broadcaster and then there's a moment when in the center this comes in and that's a different track and that's a little hotter tone I'm gonna put a little more gain on it [Music] so that's a hotter tone that comes in the middle and the other thing that's cool about it is that I believe there's a guitar doubling the bass just to put a little bit of a point on the bass part [Music] and then the solo is gained up [Music] very big vibrato and then [Music] he pulls that up slowly and this is the Hendrix thing [Music] steps out of the pocket and you just kind of go for it and then you return to the pocket comes back to the motif [Music] and through the a chord to the uh c chord he just stays in G minor it sounds really good that way anyway I'll play a little bit more and then we'll we'll talk all right here we go [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] foreign

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Length: 16min 7sec (967 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 01 2023