Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people’s radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go ’round and ’round.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.