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Necromancer · 06-03-2011, 08:59 AM

Billy Gibbons is one of the best when it comes to "Texas Blues". A lot of music enthusiast of today, might find ZZ Top's music boring, but on the other hand, one might also suggest that ZZ Top is a good example of what Blues Rock is all about. He is the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar known as Pearly Gates. Gibbons has a Bass vocal range, spanning E♭1 to E♭5, one of the widest ranges in Rock. He is also noted for using a Mexican peso coin as a guitar pick, and uses many pinch harmonics in his solos. Gibbons is very underrated and if not sometimes, unappreciated as one of the great guitarist of rock in my opinion.
In May of this year 2011, it was announced that Gibbons was named as the 2012 Texas State Musician by the Texas Commission on the Arts.

06-03-2011, 08:59 AM	#119 (permalink)
Necromancer Divination Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,655	Billy Gibbons (Texas Blues) Billy Gibbons is one of the best when it comes to "Texas Blues". A lot of music enthusiast of today, might find ZZ Top's music boring, but on the other hand, one might also suggest that ZZ Top is a good example of what Blues Rock is all about. He is the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar known as Pearly Gates. Gibbons has a Bass vocal range, spanning E♭1 to E♭5, one of the widest ranges in Rock. He is also noted for using a Mexican peso coin as a guitar pick, and uses many pinch harmonics in his solos. Gibbons is very underrated and if not sometimes, unappreciated as one of the great guitarist of rock in my opinion. In May of this year 2011, it was announced that Gibbons was named as the 2012 Texas State Musician by the Texas Commission on the Arts.