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We realised we were spirits of a kindred kind.” Of course, I liked what Eddie 's addition brought about, including a lot more lines inside the technique. Van Halen made it a regular thing, and now it’s a genuine part of the player’s approach to shred. Dusty leaned back and said, “Man, do that and do it again! I held the low fret down and tapped the high octave, and that did it. 'As Frank Beard – our man with no beard - waited for the tape to roll, I was attempting to illustrate with Dusty the high note for the bass-guitar track. It was “totally by accident,' Gibbons told Guitar Player in 2006. I held the low fret down and tapped the high octave, and that did it Billy Gibbons Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers –Tres Hombres (1973) The album went on to sell over 15 million copies and it still sounds great today.ģ.

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The synths could play an octave below a bass guitar so there was a full bed of sound that contrasted with my guitar parts.' “The heaviness of the synthesizers created a nice platform that allowed the guitar to stand on its own. “Gimme All Your Lovin’ started with the music.” Billy told us (opens in new tab). With a huge guitar tone bubbling under Gimme…’s verses and sprinkled with expertly-judged treble-string stabs, the melody and impossibly catchy chorus couldn’t miss, and the wonderfully frugal guitar solo merely confirms Billy’s genius. The music was magnificent too and had been both augmented and tightened by synths and sequencers. However, thanks to a slew of near-perfect videos in which the trio play up to their cartoony image, happy to allow a hot car (a customised 1930s Ford Coupe part-built by Gibbons himself) and even hotter women to attract all the attention, mainstream popularity and, ultimately, massive worldwide success was assured. MTV had ensured that visuals had become of vital importance to every artist at the time and, on the face of it, three somewhat weathered Texan bluesmen weren’t necessarily the stuff of teenage dreams.

In an attempt to freshen things up, the band made a conscious effort to wholly modernise not only their sound but their look too. The heaviness of the synthesizers created a nice platform that allowed the guitar to stand on its own Billy Gibbons

Gimme All Your Lovin’ – Eliminator (1983) “We were enjoying the benefits of that level of talent that lifted ZZ into a great-sounding group on record. “It was the first record that was big and bold.” Comments Gibbons. He had been at the desk when Led Zeppelin had recorded their third album there, and Stax legends such as Sam and Dave, Booker T and the MGs and Isaac Hayes were also regular visitors. In something of a departure sections of the album were recorded in Memphis rather than Texas, at the famous Ardent Studios under the tutelage of producer Terry Manning. We were jamming out and at one point we looked through the glass and the guy was waving his arms, signalling us to continue on. “It was kind of a haphazard, last-minute thought that came together in all of three minutes. “Tres Hombres yielded our first Top 10 with La Grange we had never played that song live.” Billy told us (opens in new tab). It might be ‘just blues’, but it’s ZZ boogie blues and La Grange started the ball rolling for the band. Gibbons brings out the pinched harmonics, altering their pitch by moving his pick along the length of the string, and his playing is a lesson in real control.