Saw 'em opening fer Deep Purple in '73.

Not the worst show I've ever seen.

Is this connected somehow to the thread about bearded men, taking over the world?

Sal beat me to it....

Jimi Hendrix said Billy Gibbons was going to be the next guitar hero... 40 years ago.

A haw, haw, haw, haw, a haw.
A haw, haw, haw

I like it/them a lot. And I do have a shotgun!!

Saw 'em in 72, pre-beard.

Billy wore hot pants and rocked the joint.

I loved the fuzzy Fender Guitars on the belt-buckle swivel. As a life-long guitar player, the first time I saw a video with those in it, I literally pissed myself laughing so hard.

They got a little overplayed with some of their more recent stuff, but Silver is right. They were three guys from Texas that made a lot of good noise back in the day. "Just Got Paid" rocks. So does "Waitin' For the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago". I wish them much more success. Good time show, no matter what.

Oh, and I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide has a killer ending, and should be the official themesong of everyone. Ha!

comeback tours...
eeeeekkk
leno and letterman and regis and god only know who then....
you can't go back to date the prom queen 20 years later (trust me on this) and these guys aren't the zz from way back.
are they going to be better?
or was their youthful exuberance what made the good in the first place.
tis a scary though to see sixty year old men singing about legs.

that said, it'll be a damned sight better than if that abba thing took off.

all the best.

Legs

My favorite stripper at The Bust Stop in Boulder danced to Legs.

Houston Rock & Roll born in the 70's.

And what fun it was ...

But those dudes are older than I am.

Bet they're out of cash.

their old name

Moving Sidewalks?

American Blues?

Be Well.

Anyone remember Billy Gibbons doing the faux Queen Bee Bar-B-Q radio ads? Funny stuff.

Moving Sidewalk.

And the prize is a Baked Potato All-The-Way with sour cream on top.

Let's try this one for the Queen Bee Bar-B-Q ads.

My ex's brother used to date Billy's sister.

Saw them in 73 or 74? Awesome concert.

The lead guy was wearing a green sequened suit.

Those were the days...

My ex's brother used to date Billy's sister.

~Zat

Hopefully Billy's sister didn't haff a beard too.

/Spud keeds!

Try esplaining ZZ Top to folks...

Beard's the guy with the moustache.

Dusty and Billy gots the beards.

Apparently, there's no truth to the rumour that they took their name from 2 different types of rolling papers.

Zig Zags and Tops

Actually, that were a nod to BB King.

Tha's cool too.

Be Well.

"Actually, that were a nod to BB King.

Tha's cool too.

Be Well."

Posted by dethspud

That's the way I heard it.
Never met 'em, but Houston Rock & Roll was part of my broadcast career.

KLOL

Moving Sidewalk just didn't work.

"Those were the days..."

Posted by MURPHY

I still have the pictures.

Damn, Zat, that's Billy's sister?
Jesus! (just left chicago...)

She's got legs!

(et cetera)

ZZ Top is often underrated by those who don't know the breadth of their career. Great band, with real, meaty chops beneath all that fuzzy exterior.

Spud, weren't they also making a nod toward ZZ Hill, himself a Texas blues legend?

I heard it on the X.

Why are Orthodox Jews singing about Jesus?
(comment left on the youtube vid...)

Never met her.

Only told my ex brother-in-law once dated her.

But ZZ Top is the essence of Houston Rock & Roll from the 70's.

I love essence.

Especially when it's Hers.

Spud, weren't they also making a nod toward ZZ Hill, himself a Texas blues legend?

I heard it on the X.

~CBOB

Spud has also heard this on the X.

Spud has a bud from the Land of Eng who sed when he first saw ZZ Top perform in Europe he remembers being one of the youngest people in the audience with the majority being older blues afficianados, fast forward a decade and he's in BC and sees them and discovers he's one of the older folks in the audience cos the majority is young rawk fans mostly inspired as much by them early MTV videos as by the music.

KLOL

O R'ly?

CC-
Today's music doesn't suck. What you hear of it sucks. The media structure is the problem. Like always, though, gems slip through by accident-like.

"KLOL

O R'ly?"

As my ex said yesterday, "21 years."

I was married to Houston Rock & Roll.

And the kids are kicking your ass.

The boy is NGA. That's all you need to know.

The girl...

Damn she's good ..

AND I was a Mother's Family Productions stockholder.

I don't know about this "comeback" stuff cuz these guys never went away. Radio and record companies may have found them out of fashion, but these guys have never quit touring as ZZ Top. They've just been doing most of it on the casino circuit, lately.

I would be in favor of a return to records without drum machines and other unnecessary noise enhancers, however. Billy doesn't need much besides an axe and his hands.

CC-
Today's music doesn't suck. What you hear of it sucks. The media structure is the problem. Like always, though, gems slip through by accident-like.

Posted by BetelG at 2008-07-07 07:16 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
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Betel G is chock-full o' truth.

Ya like the 70s stuff? Try Kings of Leon (Allmans, Skynyrd, Guns 'N Roses), My Morning Jacket (Pink Floyd, Neil Young, classic soul, classic reggae), the Black Keys (Free, Cream), and a million others.

Ya like power pop? (Badfinger, Beatles, Dwight Twilley, XTC, Matthew Sweet...) Try Wisely, Weezer, or Tommy Keene.

Thanks to an increasingly tone-deaf and bottom-line-obsessed music industry (i.e., "what category does your band fit into?"), you don't hear most of this stuff, but it's out there. Lordy, is it ever out there.

SEEK THE TRUTH

Oh, and then there's Pinback, the indescribable, the San Diego, the coolest band alive.

"Ya like power pop? (Badfinger, Beatles, Dwight Twilley, XTC, Matthew Sweet...)"

I played in a band with Matthew Sweet.

Posted by dave at 2008-07-07 10:04 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
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Yeah, and I played lead guitar for the Rolling Stones.

But really. No shit?

But really. No shit?

Really. No shit.

Anybody else remember their old name?

Posted by Zatoichi

The Moving Sidewalks.

That's pretty damn cool, Dave.

Not familiar with Oh-OK, but I'm a pretty big fan of Matthew, especially the classic Girlfriend album.

"Not familiar with Oh-OK..."

tis a scary though to see sixty year old men singing about legs.

Posted by sense

Nonsense!!

They give those of us who aren't 60 yet some hope that we will still be thinking about such things at that age. Otherwise, what's left?

WhatsLeft -

Hey, now I get your handle!
;-)

You're right, though, the day I stop enjoying a fine set of legs is the day that I'm ready for the grave. Notice I didn't say I'll always be DOING something with them, necessarily, but noticing them, hell yeah. As Paul Barrere once sang, "Oh, you know that you're over the hill / When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill..."

CBOB...we're not DOMs (dirty old men)...we're OLOGs (occasionally lucky old geezers)

Whatsleft...it never goes away. When my friend was mere hours away from passing from his illness, he beckoned me closer to speak to me with what little was left of his breath, just to tell me that he thought his nurse had a great ass. I told him that if I knew he had enough tiger left in the tank to still think that, I'd have smuggled in a little Thai cutie to give him a farewell rub & tug.

"They give those of us who aren't 60 yet some hope that we will still be thinking about such things at that age. Otherwise, what's left?"

i remember hearing foreigner and asia singing songs of youth and high school... it sounds so shallow and insincere.
however, i agree with you to some extent. tis all good, no?
you've so motivated me that, along with ringo turning 68 today, that i've started a new thread.
check out the back page.

all the best.