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Well, hey everyone, it's Nate here. Welcome to episode 293 of the vinyl guide, the podcast for

record collectors and music nerds. And today we've got an absolute legend on the show, Mr.

Billy F. Gibbons, who you will know from ZZ Top,

and today we are talking records from the early part of Billy's career.

Now, before ZZ Top, Billy was in a band, The Moving Sidewalks, who not only did they release

a few records on a private label, but they also toured with the Jimmy Hendrix

experience. Billy shares stories of the records and his time with Jimmy today. Plus, we also

talk about the very, very first ZZ top record, Saltlick, which was a private press record that

is super rare and collectible, and Billy shares the story of that

record as well. Plus, we also discuss Billy's latest solo album, Hardware, a phenomenal album,

which he made with his buddy and co-conspirator, Mr. Matt Sorum, who was on our show just last week,

giving his version of things. And I cannot stress

this enough. Grab a copy of the new Billy Gibbons Hardware album. There's lots of interesting and

beautiful vinyl variants, even some autograph copies up at Billy F.gibbons.com. Now, a few things to

note. Going into it, I was only a allotted 15 minutes of Billy's time. However,

he graciously stretched that out a bit. So today's episode is a bit shorter than usual. I tried

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