“It is one of the most difficult guitar solos to mimic… I started playing it because I had gotten close, and Buddy Guy turned around, smiling. He knew it note for note”: Billy Gibbons on the tip Buddy Guy gave him after they jammed a T-Bone Walker classic

Buddy Guy [left] smiles as he takes a solo on his Fender Stratocaster. He wears a red jacket and black hat. Billy Gibbons [right] wears shades, a wide-brimmed hat and a red blazer as he plays his custom SG-style electric with the V-style headstock.

There is no better musical education than jamming with players who have some years on you – players with experience, whose command of the instrument elevates all around them.

Ask anyone who has played with the great Buddy Guy. He is blues guitar’s preeminent showman, its standard bearer. No one has been doing it longer. No one does it better. And Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top was no different to the hundreds of players who have jammed with Guy over the years; being onstage with him was a chance to learn something.