![]() ![]() ![]() He plays much faster than I do, but his style is based on melody. He spent many years playing club after club and has developed a unique sound. He had played with BB King at the age of 12, and at 14 I’m told they called him Superjoe. "Joe was a great kid and I saw a lot of potential in him. He played so many notes that I said he should divide by two Leslie West Joe later mentioned that in an interview, so I guess he took it on board. He sounded like a 45-year-old blues guy when he was barely in his twenties. He played so many notes that I said he should divide by two. "I thought that Joe was an incredible player and I told him so, but I also gave him a bit of advice. Tom Dowd, of Cream fame, was producing the album and invited Gregg Allman and I to be on it – I sang a verse, Joe sang a verse and Gregg sang the chorus. Joe was 25, I think, when I appeared on a Warren Haynes song called If Heartaches Were Nickels on his debut solo album, A New Day Yesterday. I know because I played with him when he was younger. Leslie West (Mountain): "I had Joe marked out as a name to watch from an early age. He’s been incredible and gracious and a lot of fun to be around." Sometimes you meet your idols and they’re assholes and you wish you never met them. "He’s one of the few people who haven’t ruined my perception of them after meeting them. I’m happy to say I’ve had more than a few conversations with Billy over the years. He just had this real cool texture that you don’t see any more. "Billy really influenced my slide playing. I didn’t pick up a guitar until a few years later, but that was definitely one of the inspirations. I still listen to that album to this day. That was the first time I heard ZZ Top, and it really made an impression on me. He had an eight-track player in his car, and he was playing ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres album. ![]() We pulled into this gas station, and he went in and bought one beer. "I was visiting my cousin in Florida, and he tried to get me to go hunting armadillos with baseball bats. He’s really just one of the last examples, in our lifetime, of someone who has a true connection to the old blues players Keith Nekson When I think about his playing, he’s one of the few guys that, no matter who he plays with, as soon as he starts to play you know who it is. He’s really just one of the last examples, in our lifetime, of someone who has a true connection to the old blues players. Keith Nelson (Buckcherry): "Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top has the tone and the taste, and his playing always has this tenacity. ![]()
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