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They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

Billy Gibbons

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Billy Gibbons
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 16
Composer
Guitarist
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Houston
Texas
BFG
Reverend Willie G
William Frederick Gibbons
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