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“I was playing the Fender Strat that Jimi Hendrix gave me. We wound up plugging the guitar straight into the board. That’s why it’s such a clean tone on that track”: Billy Gibbons on the making of ZZ Top's greatest blues song

Wednesday August 20, 2025. 04:11 PM , from Keyboard Magazine
'For some reason the guitar wasn’t working through the amp,' Gibbons recalled
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