MIND BLOWING Tricks I LEARNED From YOUNG Billy Gibbons
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R.I.P Dusty Hill a sad day for Top Fans, and there would be no ZZ top without his bass work. A monster player and a legend of rock.
First time I saw ZZ Top was at a Manfred Man and his Earth Band show in Bethlehem, PA. When they finished their 30-minute show the ovation was so loud they came back for an encore. Dressed like cowboys w cowboy hats and jeans. I believe it was 1972. The crowd yelled, ZZ Top, ZZ Top until they came back on stage. Manfred Mann never played that day... It was amazing.
Too bad, Manfred Mann was awesome back then
Epic!
What venue?
The show of MMEB was COMPLETELY canceled? It's hard to believe, these musicians were world class at the moment. Or did we misunderstand you?
Peter are you a Bethlehem Pa native? That's my hometown. Anyhow didn't see my first concert till 1976 and got into ZZ around 77 or 78.
Tim makes it look so easy and effortless.. can watch him all day
It's all about that First Album! It's a chest full of gold for anyone wanting to learn some hot blues!
The tone on the intro licks for Brown Sugar are incredible.
@@bobjenkins1757 That's the truth! Insane!
Yes, love Gibbons' playing all over that-so badass!
Brown Sugar still leaves me in awe at how great that guitar work is. Decades later and it still makes me grin like a boy with candy.
I gigged for many many many years, and a ZZ tune always got the people to the dance floor.
I am 69, and have been playing since I was 11. Still, every time I pick up my guitar, I play Brown Sugar. It is permanently stuck in my head. Yes! Living in Texas, I have seen ZZ live 20-30 times. I still love the early stuff the most. Texas Blues....
yes! Billy Gibbons still an underrated master - so simple but deep and classy - Tres Hombres still my favourite too
So nice hearing your appreciation for Billy G. As a fellow Texan we know how he doesn’t get enough credit for being so damn good. Thanks for the video.
Well, this 66 year old guy from Detroit knows he's great.
WHO please had any DOUBTS? Someone who has LIVED on stage for Fifty years, MUST be "good" - NO, he has to be EXTRAORDINARY good.
I saw him first in the beginning of the 80's, in Hamburg - GerMoney.
Location: wrong choice (Congress hall)
Sound: lousy (first, can't hear the guitar, then "over tuned". Despite the top mixer, including graphics analyzer. We considered "nudging" him to take over sound control.) ;-)
but:
I WAS THERE
I prefer small locations, Daryl's house, for example.
I'm not sure about that . He is VERY well regarded around the Industry . A Sound all his own , and can play along with Anyone .
This Chicagoan LOVES his playing! And Tim’s pretty damn good, too.
Every phrase Tim plays makes me say, "Nothing else could have gone there; that was perfection."
Tres Hombres is a masterclass unto itself.
You started at 12 and you think that was late! I was 19, I'll be 52 this year and still playing, went to college in my early 40s to study music performance, I've discovered you're never too old if you put in the necessary time and effort and have fun playing.
Nice sentiments, and way to go...keep grindin
I had the pleasure, at age 14, of seeing the Moving Sidewalks in person when they toured with Hendrix. The Rev. Billy G had his mojo on then too. Thanks for the great video!
Oh wow-so jealous but that must've been a religious experience to see Jimi and the Rev. Billy G way back when! Probably changed your DNA seeing that show. Man...
I love all your videos so helpful. Been playing all my life. 60 yrs old. Never feel like i'm good enough. Get unmotivated. Never gig. I've talked my wife into letting me join your course. You just seem like a good teacher and when i hear you play, i get motivated. Time to get my prs 513 back out.
I love this Man's Guitar Playing-Tim Pierce is Fabulous.
Tube Snake Boogie still gives me chills. His approach of the phrasing on that one are out of this world.
It may be just my opinion, but I believe that you will go down in history as being one of the most melodically tasty guitarists known.
Tim, theoretically speaking it’s the modes and alternates and modulations that you choose that bring a melody into uniqueness nearly every time you ad lib. a solo.
The way you put together your blend of influence is irreplaceable.
You are sort of like another Allan Holdsworth of another breed. You are the quiet blend of so many greats that I believe you could be on everyone’s album and none of us would even know it. That is what makes you arguably the greatest session musician ever known. To walk in, sit on a cold chair and create an output signal that sounds like it has been developed over dozens of meetings across many months to fit into the music perfectly.
When it comes to a performance, there is a balance. It’s not just the mechanics or the theoretics or the melodics. It’s the overall fruit. The finished product. That’s where you are somehow able to put it all together perfectly balanced; perhaps not always on the first take, but always within a reasonable amount of time.
I LOVE Billy Gibbons and the thing I take the most from him is one of the most important elements in all of guitar in my opinion and that is phrasing. He's one of the few guys that deserves to be mentioned among the Gilmour's of the world in that regard.
Gibbons can put a couple licks within multiple songs, which are immediately identifiable, yet I always wish the solos were longer on the albums.
I absolutely agree. But I do miss some of the variety of sounds and techniques from the early albums.
Well lol i think gilmore might with some texas cookin...n baptism in the rio Grande...be mentioned with billy!!!
When you mentioned phrasing, I immediately thought of Gilmour. Then you mentioned Gilmour at the end of your comment.
@@michaelschweitzer6718 Great minds think alike. LOL!
There should be a TH-camr musician tour. I'd definitely pay to see Tim, Rick Beato and a few others perform live.
Add Warren Huart to that band I reckon 😎
And Rhett Shull
And pee wee Herman too
A-YEON on drums
Victor Wooten!
Tim-You are by far now one of my favorite guitarists all time. Your legacy of work speaks for itself. I will be buying your Master class!!
You should check out Dave Simpson from the UK he has a channel, amazing player.
Beer drinkers and hell raisers with that feedback is classic!
Less taking, more playing! :) I could listen to this noodling around all day.
love that line at :40 !
At a weekend music ministry conference, one of the music panel leaders said that if you listen, guitarists may play more notes in the studio, but on stage live, drop to half as many notes. From eighths to quarters, quarters to halves... Reminds me of Billy Gibbons' story of being told by B.B. King that he was working too hard on stage, and should drop to lighter strings. He then learned he could be just as powerful with 7s and not work as hard with the heavier strings he'd thought he needed. Thanks for helping to fill in on Rhett's channel!
Exactly... I saw that interview with Rev Willie and ordered his 7s right up. Now keep a few sets laying around. and 7s 8s and 9s of Rev Willie strings.
When I write a solo for a song, the engineer and I will sit down and take about half of it out lol
LESS is MORE, in most of the cases, my teacher says. The measure is AUTHENTICITY:
The first 2 albums absolutely! First saw them in ‘72. Was blown away!
Rough boys is my favorite track. Those solos just transport me somewhere sublime.
Love watching u play...u are very generous w your knowledge...only helping the next generation to keep it playing...
Your playing always sounds like you never hit a bum note , always just as sweet as can be !
The "spaces" are tasty because they give the ears that extra moment to savor what they heard...just sayin'...
Or prepare the ears for what's coming next!
yep, although yngwie says "more is more", more is only more if you know what less is, and i don't think he does.
Well said.
In 1974, my band was playing on the main concourse at the Spokane Worlds Fair. In one afternoon, ZZ Top was was playing in what can be described as an oversized beer garden without beer. Out side, on the main stage was Elvis Presley. Older folks with purple hair were watching
him. Most were crowded in watching ZZ Top.
and ZZ probably wanted to get over there and hang out with Elvis :)
My favorite song of their's has been Brown Sugar off the first album.
That tone!
Yea man that's a good one
That and “Just Got Back From Babies”
Always thought that the Brown Sugar tone was the perfect Les Paul--Marshall sound.
@@buddylobos5277 Like molten lava!
I found ZZ Top in 1973 with theTres Hombres album. "Jesus just left Chicago" got me hooked. I love the first 2 albums as well.
A happy 4th to Tim, all the work this man does for us wanna be badasses is so amazing...keep playing, keep listening, and thank Tim!
Can't agree with you more, wasn't surprised when an article came out late 90's in one of the guitar magazines stating that Billy Gibbons was by far the favorite guitarist of guitarist, not only rock but blues & country players were Gaga for him And his style, like the late BB King,Gibbons could get a
Ton of feeling from the fewest amount of notes. He is a master of dynamics, quiet to loud,soft to hard & slow to fast. A simple notion, but so many struggle to get it just right, Billy Gibbons not only
Gets it right but actually embodies it🎸👍🎸, SOME MY FAVORITE ⏩ FANDANGO,TRES HOMBRES & DEGUALO❤️🔥🌶️🌹🔥🎸🎸🎸
Couldn’t agree more man! Billy Gibbons is a master of cool hooks and tasteful phrasing! ✌🏻🎸🎶
I used to liken ZZ Top to AC-DC. But that’s very surface. Angus is straightforwardly awesome, but Billy has that unpredictable fluidity to his musicality. There is something much deeper than blues rock there, something ethereal.
Billy puts on a masterclass of economy of motion and putting only the required effort in any riff! 💕
Thanks for clearing up the Rio Grand amp thing. Saw them in 1974 on the Tres Hombres tour and after the show I asked a roady what was up with the relabled Marshalls. He swore up and down they were Rio Grand amps. Love your channel!
Tim, i ALWAYS enjoy listening to you play. Even more than hearing it, i enjoy watching the joy on your face when you play.
As far as "too many notes," i think when you're recording a song for someone else, you do what's needed. That's why you've been able to make s career at it.
When you're playing to a track, jamming by yourself, i think whatever you do is what you feel. You're tickling your own imagination, so, anything goes!
Don't sweat it.
Love the channel, thanks for taking the time for the rest of us!
Jeffro
LOVE your technique of leading to the next phrase or lick with 1-2 fingers up & down the neck shows through on all of your lessons. It's one simple thing players can do to break out of the boxes.
I wore out my 8 Track of ZZ Tops first album. I saw them in Jacksonville in the early 70's, 72 I think and they opened for Deep Purple. What a concert!!!!!
You make it look so effortless Tim.
7:09 Agreed. "Notes are expensive - spend them wisely." - BB King
Yep and the magic is in the space between the notes!
Yes. The double hit thing at 3:19 is all over the early stuff. Love it.
Billy's new album "Hardware" is amazing. Subconsciously? He's always had a major influence on my soloing attempts. Basically, K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid). I love the dirt he gives to basic chords with simple finger picking. Great video Tim!
@Tim. Do you know what amazes me for real? I found you guy thru Rick Beato and am enjoying crawling the tons of huge videos on you channel. I can't tell how happy this makes me even struggling with depressions fighting it with my guitar. Thanks mate. I always wished people like you freeze their skills and knowledge on video. You are such a nice and humble man that you could also have a career as a kid book reader 😂 Stay alive and healthy man.
Tim Pierce you are one cool dude. I’ve learned from you so much, thank you.
You are such an excellent player. I hate to tell you, though, I never make it through a full video. I hear you playing and I gotta grab a guitar and get playing myself. Inspiring stuff.
I'm just climbing into the sack at 2am. I never should have clipped on TH-cam. Mr. Pierce, I need to go to bed! I need to put my Les Paul down...and stop playing BG! You are an evil instigator my friend.
The intro to this video is HANDS DOWN my favorite thing I've heard you play!!!
Tim, You have some of the best guitar tone on TH-cam. Your videos are very well done.
I remember when I was just a kid, sitting in my tree house and watching a party the neighbors were having when someone put on ZZ Top's first record album and it was at that moment I fell in love with blues rock and Billy's electric guitar solos.
Mr. Tim! Thank you for your videos and wisdom you share online for people in different continents. I, for one am from India
I saw ZZ Top as an opening act for Uriah Heep in 1973. The next act was Earth Wind and Fire. What a great show. It was my second concert. I was 16 years old and my first concert was Jethro Tull. We were so excited when we left the Tull concert, we just had to see another. So we bought tickets to the next concert without really knowing who any of these people were. It was as mentioned before, Uriah Heep, Earth Wind and Fire and ZZ Top. What a great show! ZZ Top rocked the house. Earth Wind and Fire Also rocked the house. Uriah Heep were in their HeyDay and we left in awe. I bought Tres Hombres the next day. The sad part looking back is we paid $4.50 for the Tull tickets and $5.00 for the Uriah Heep tickets. Back then that was 2 hours of work. Fair enough, it was worth it. $200 a ticket now? There is no one I would pay that much now to see. People are busting their asses just to put food on the table. I saw ZZ Top a couple of years ago at the New York State Fair for free and they were Awesome! RIP Dusty Hill!
Holy shit, dude...
You couldn’t hold back the notes when it changed keys. Nice.
Back then promoters would mix acts stylistically so you would in fact see EWF at a rock show. They were awesome and had monster chops and probably were a lot of young people's first exposure to R&B and world music. Even within the rock genre they would mix unlikely bands - I mean shortly after the "Frampton's Camel" album, Peter Frampton toured by opening for Black Sabbath. not exactly a match but no one cared. It was seen as a feature.
Love him. He is a true educator and master of his instrument
It is great that you give Rev Billy all that cred that he and his ZZ-companeros deserve. My own favourite is Blue Jean. I live in Sweden and have been on all conserts here the last 35 years. From the Eliminator tour and forward. It is a pity they not so often play " them good old tunes" though from the early records. And Dusty is missed even if the new base Boy is doin his job great. Keep up the good work all You ZZTOP- and Billyfans out there. Wish U all a Merry Christmas!
Thanks Tim happy 4th of July... appreciate all the content...it's well curated and u are always after something interesting...great work..
Tim you are such a great teacher, thank you for your talent and time, and sharing.
WOW! Slow this solo down and learn this catalogue of blues licks all young and old players! Beautiful playing Tim!
Those two albums hooked me so bad. Billy was a genius to me when I was a kid and in my top 5 rock guitarists
Billy Gibbons is one of my all time favorite guitar players and you are showing his techniques so well Tim! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
More gems - every video unlocks guitar gold! Thx Tim!!
I'd add the third album as well. I was in high school when Tres Hombres was released and i wore the grooves off that vinyl. Every song on that record is top shelf. I had the fortune of meeting them one night on Sixth Street in Austin - walked past a little cafe/bar and was shocked to see all three sitting at a table just inside the door. Poked my head in and thanked them for such great music. They were so friendly and cool about it - zero ego. Saw Billy's perfectomundo solo tour on his birthday (Seattle). The Kind of Cool will be out playing till the day he passes.
You are so right.. first 3 albums were destinctive and Amazing guitar work!!!
Tim always plays so in the pocket. Love it.
Tim you’re a human machine with all that licks linked to many people from different genre and musical background..
Which makes if you the most impressive with the coolest attitude.. a guy I wished be
Chevrolet is one of my all-time favourites by ZZ. So cool and laid back. Utterly belies the skills at work! Sheik (Tres Hombres) being a close another.
Nationwide has always been one of my favorites because of the 2 different guitar's used on the lead breaks Strat/LP back and forth Good stuff 👍
I can hear the shades of Johnny winter in the intro solo as well , really nice hinting not direct ripping
Pinch harmonics are still cool. #BringBackTheSqueal
Especially with some whammy bar action included
Believe it or not, Aldo Nova's 1st album belongs in the pinch harmonic hall of fame.
@@RUHDD4HVN there's a name I haven't seen in a long while. I might look them up.
@@rickmartin7674 There's a recent interview here on TH-cam with Aldo that was very cool. look up this title right here....... Aldo Nova talks working with Bon Jovi, recording Fantasy and Eddie Gage | Jeremy White Podcast
Love the double stops and how you flow along with the key changes. Your phrasing vocabulary is inspiring.
I used to work at Silver Strings guitar store in St Louis. My boss Ed Selig made his living selling unique vintage guitars to rockstars. He came back from Texas with this groovy seafoam sparkle green guitar “64 Magnatone Typhoon” - I’d pull it off the wall and play it on my breaks. Anyways, he showed it to Billy Gibbons at a trade show and he passed on it cuz it wasn’t set up nice yet so I bought it for $200 in 1993! Still have it. Thanks Billy! :)
I appreciate your joy for playing. It is contagious and a good reminder to not always be so serious. Gotta enjoy it as well!
I'm an intermediate level guitar player working as hard as I can to get better. you have no idea how much your comments and demonstration about making pentatonics creative helped me.
Indeed! ZZ Top's First Album and Rio Grande Mud remain my favorite recordings from the Rev Billy G
He plays 7’s amongst other gauges. I’ve just ordered some Jim Dunlop Billy Gibbons Signature 7’s…can’t wait to try them 💪🏻☺️
Billy’s new album is pretty damn good
Early Billy is best Billy. Love those first two records.
Saw them on probably the same tour. '72 ish Rio Grande amps. Mirrors behind the back line. $6 ticket at Boutwell Auditorium in Birmingham, AL Four or five encores in blue jeans and flannel shirts. Awesome show!!!
I have always loved loved loved Just Got Paid.
Nice one Tim! Great vid! Thank you😊👏👏
I started to play guitar 15 months ago. You are one of the you tubers that inspire me. I just released a Trilogy of albums on band camp. I play all the parts into a 5 track looper and record the guitar part live with no overdubs. Thanks man
That Just Got Paid riff is an all-time great! Such a terrific album. That and Tres Hombres back to back was just mind blowing.
I just got one minute in… and Tim is obviously a great player , but it’s amazing how it sounds like Billy gibbons ! Great tribute … my guy says the blues truck is hitting the six which is a fourth from
The two !!!! …. One way to connect the dots
Good stuff Tim!
Your playing is awesome....Really enjoy it
Nghe Phúc hát mà nước mắt rơi mãi ....quá nhiều cảm xúc ùa về, quá nhiều kỉ niệm. Cảm ơn Đức Phúc thật nhiều, giọng hát anh ấm tựa nắng mùa Thu vậy.
My buddyguitarists are shocked when i tell em i use 8s on almost all my guitars even my 12 string acoustic,then tell em bg uses 7 s ,love your playing and your knowledge Tim.....rock on......
Tim you are the greatest you have open my eyes to music and your laid back way just amazing guitar player wish i knew about yiu when I was alot younger im in my 70s but i still look up anything that you record and do I follow you as much as im am able cant afford to join your classes , but I enjoy every thing you have done and zli learn the best I can I love the Blues and Billy Gibbons playing
Man that ‘discipline’ period 8:00-9:10 ish was brilliant - it was like a lick library of different approaches - perfectly illustrated you point and super classy (as usual)
Oh man… You’re killing it .... Sounds awesome
When Tim Pierce Speaks. I listen
I loved Rio Grand Mud. The whole album was great. I was also a fan from the beginning.
Aging myself.....
And I still have the Vinyl in the cover. It's hanging on the wall in one of those "Album Picture Frames" next to the unopened Afterburner Album. And next to those is my Beatles Yesterday and Today Album. Original Mono Second stage.
From Brazil here, love your videos. Actually I need to watch one video of yours in a daily basis. The musicianship and your joy playing is what I need to end the day in a high note. Thank you for posting.
Wow, thank you!
Brown Sugar off their first album is still my favorite.
G'day Tim, i love the way you play. Melody wins hands down. 🐨
" Blue Jean blues" off Fandango is best blues song EVER.
Wish it was longer....
But yes, first album is gold.
I'm from a town SW of Houston and hear references to local things.
Highway 6!!
More about Billy please.
You're one hell of a guitar player and teacher thank you I grew up listening to Billy Gibbons I saw him open up with the Allman Brothers in Memphis Tennessee when he just got out of the service he had short hair no beard long tall boots you wouldn't recognize Billy Gibbons back then but you would recognize his licks I'm from Clarksdale Mississippi and we love the blues and Billy Gibbons
YES SIR!
Michael thank you so much
Man you are awesome 🤘
Love your channel .from Israel
Hapy 4th of July 🥳🥳
I always learn something new when I watch one of you uploads. Thank you for that
Haw, haw, haw ... nice intro jam Tim. My first recollection of ZZ Top was Deguello, after which I went back and was mind blown by the early Billy riffs.
Same here Tim, I learned Whiskey Mama in my first band in 1970
Hey I'm from Albuquerque, cool! Love your videos as usual Tim. Your great attitude makes it so much easier to learn all the invaluable things you have to share.