Eliminator is not only full of more techno music ideas but the songwriting was different as well. Interestingly enough as you listen to the playing you still hear Billy throw in all the little blues tricks. It's the album that made me want to play guitar for sure.
Same here. I was born in 79, and Eliminator is the first memory I have of someone playing the strings off a guitar. Those fills and licks have rolling around in my head for decades.
The majority of the Rock & Metal albums produced and recorded in the 80’s have always held up the test of time! So happy I got to live through this musical decade!
Nice interview Josh! Billy, you da man!!! I wonder if Billy remembers a harp player from a Memphis bar in 1986. I got off stage, went to the bar, got a beer, turned around and there was Billy. He said " sound pretty good on that harp boy" .... what a compliment. Billy told me he never heard anyone blow a harp like that. He asked me if I was with the band, and I said no they pissed me off. Billy told me I could play with his band any day of the week. I don't know if Billy remembers that, but it is a moment I will cherish forever. Thank you both. I really enjoyed the interview.
As a lover of Blues Rock and House/Techno, digging into Eliminator in 2022 is an actual Retrowave experience. Wish there was more disco/rock fusion 👏👏 If someone out there’s got an 808, I have a Les Paul lol
I've waited decades for BFG to do a real Blues album...he dances around it; gives us a little taste, but you know he has a REAL electric Blues album in him....
It's kinda funny that Mr Gibbons dances around the subject of drum machines/ samplers of the day but never uses the actual word(s). I can hear the Linn drum machine (California) and the trigger-able Simmons drum sampler/synth (from the UK) and the various keyboard synths of the time in the Eliminator recording. I do know that they actually used the Simmons setup live , back in the day, because I serviced their Simmons live kit (with no schematics, I might add), the very same day they played in Vancouver the same night, sometime back in the 80's(?). There was also some live sequencing or recording playback , maybe in Rough Boy and other tunes, if I remember correctly from watching the gig from side stage......hey, it's only three guys!..kinda like Won't Get fooled Again, by the Who live, where I saw Townshend adjusting the pitch on a Revox B-77, 2 track tape recorder, side stage with all the arpeggiated synth stuff (ARP 2600?) on it. How else could you pull that off live, accurately?
Billy is the total class act . No swearing needed by him to connect with his fans. God bless the Reveand Billy F Gibbons
I wanted a deeper talk about I Need You Tonight. That song is one of the best ever made. Beautiful guitar playing with that magical bass playing.
Billy Gibbons is best of the best!
Billy gibbons is a god Frank beard is a god and dusty hill is a God the greatest rock band ever 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Eliminator is not only full of more techno music ideas but the songwriting was different as well. Interestingly enough as you listen to the playing you still hear Billy throw in all the little blues tricks. It's the album that made me want to play guitar for sure.
Same here. I was born in 79, and Eliminator is the first memory I have of someone playing the strings off a guitar. Those fills and licks have rolling around in my head for decades.
thank you Billy for talking about your times and songs! it was really great!
The majority of the Rock & Metal albums produced and recorded in the 80’s have always held up the test of time! So happy I got to live through this musical decade!
I am ready for a new Billy Gibbons or ZZ Top album.
no mention of linden hudson????....do the research.
That's exactly what I thought.
If it wasn't for Linden Hudson there wouldn't be Eliminator
I suspect the lawyers get in the way. Their settlement might preclude it.
Nice interview Josh! Billy, you da man!!! I wonder if Billy remembers a harp player from a Memphis bar in 1986. I got off stage, went to the bar, got a beer, turned around and there was Billy. He said " sound pretty good on that harp boy" .... what a compliment. Billy told me he never heard anyone blow a harp like that. He asked me if I was with the band, and I said no they pissed me off. Billy told me I could play with his band any day of the week. I don't know if Billy remembers that, but it is a moment I will cherish forever. Thank you both. I really enjoyed the interview.
Is that you, Derkie?
not Derkie!
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Great interview. Willy Gibbons is a solid guy.
As a lover of Blues Rock and House/Techno, digging into Eliminator in 2022 is an actual Retrowave experience. Wish there was more disco/rock fusion 👏👏
If someone out there’s got an 808, I have a Les Paul lol
Waiting for Linden Hudson to enter the chat.
Classic and so true, " unless you got solar panels, your burning coal "
Wow I remember when Doug came back to Austin 75 or 76.Augie Meyers and his western head band , Soap Creek many times
I've waited decades for BFG to do a real Blues album...he dances around it; gives us a little taste, but you know he has a REAL electric Blues album in him....
Why Is it I can’t hear the music?
It's kinda funny that Mr Gibbons dances around the subject of drum machines/ samplers of the day but never uses the actual word(s). I can hear the Linn drum machine (California) and the trigger-able Simmons drum sampler/synth (from the UK) and the various keyboard synths of the time in the Eliminator recording. I do know that they actually used the Simmons setup live , back in the day, because I serviced their Simmons live kit (with no schematics, I might add), the very same day they played in Vancouver the same night, sometime back in the 80's(?). There was also some live sequencing or recording playback , maybe in Rough Boy and other tunes, if I remember correctly from watching the gig from side stage......hey, it's only three guys!..kinda like Won't Get fooled Again, by the Who live, where I saw Townshend adjusting the pitch on a Revox B-77, 2 track tape recorder, side stage with all the arpeggiated synth stuff (ARP 2600?) on it. How else could you pull that off live, accurately?
Yeah, so? The songs are great dude, stop overthinking it. If you enjoy it why try finding reasons not to?
Sadly, it wasn't. Billy and a guy named Linden Hudson wrote most of the album with engineer Terry Manning also playing synths.