U dont say
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 10 December 2015 04:04 (eight years ago) link
tyvm for the spotify list!!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 December 2015 12:40 (eight years ago) link
Mescalero- This one is the one I would say to check if you dug La Futura. This thing is dirty and nasty, probably one of their rawest albums.
agreed.been playing the hell out of this in the last few weeks.
― mark e, Thursday, 10 December 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
some time long long ago i briefly mixed up zz top and steely dan, and the result is that still now i can't quite shake the notion that zz are secretly boho hipster intellectuals
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 10 December 2015 13:12 (eight years ago) link
i can't quite shake the notion that zz are secretly boho hipster intellectuals
Reading interviews with Billy Gibbons will only make this feeling stronger.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 10 December 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
Good interview here---wish there were a bit more music, but it's live in the studio, results mixed yet tantalizing (gotta get off my ass, check album:http://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2015/11/26/457294147/latin-roots-billy-gibbons-adds-a-cubano-twist-to-the-blues
― dow, Thursday, 10 December 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/zz_top_fan_recreates_the_tres_hombres_gatefold_meal_and_then_eats_it
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link
Bill Ham, the band's manager from their earliest days till 2006, dead at 79.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 12:40 (seven years ago) link
Hill said he couldn’t recall how the band got started: “It was the ’60s, man.”
The True Story of the Fake Zombies
― Edward Bax, Friday, 24 June 2016 06:16 (seven years ago) link
Did anybody here know ZZ Top are putting out a live album next month? It's called Greatest Hits From Around The World, and here's the tracklisting:
1. Got Me Under Pressure – New York2. Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers – Las Vegas3. Cheap Sunglasses – Paris4. Waitin' For The Bus – Chicago5. Jesus Just Left Chicago – Chicago6. Legs – São Paulo7. Sharp Dressed Man – Los Angeles8. Rough Boy (with Jeff Beck) – London9. Pincushion – Berlin10. La Grange – Dallas11. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide – Vancouver12. Tube Snake Boogie – Rome13. Gimme All Your Lovin' – Houston14. Tush – Nashville15. Sixteen Tons (with Jeff Beck) – London
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Amazon recommended it to me (alongside every other new classic rock album). My question is, where's the rest of the Fandango! concert?
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 03:48 (seven years ago) link
Cool. Wonder if that will show up on my Release Radar.
― Nobodaddy's Fule (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 03:52 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, special guest: Jeff Beck, among other possible high points---http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7503736/zz-top-live-greatest-hits?utm_source=twitter
― dow, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:33 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah, and Billy F. Gibbons wrote the intro to new edition of Ed Ward's Mike Bloomfield bio (w much input from ilm's own Edd Hurt, as Ward emphasizes in acknowledgements).
― dow, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:40 (seven years ago) link
Live album is solid. They're playing LA next month - think I should go.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 08:51 (seven years ago) link
BG on his favourite records: http://thequietus.com/articles/20920-billy-gibbons-zz-top-favourite-albums-interview he's friends with Keb Darge apparently!
― Neil S, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 10:57 (seven years ago) link
That's a pretty cool article. Good for him to keep looking for new records.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
The official video for "Rough Boy" is...strange.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_4ULKpkLNc
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 September 2016 00:07 (seven years ago) link
I only bring it up because I'd somehow never seen it before last weekend.
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 September 2016 00:08 (seven years ago) link
My question is, where's the rest of the Fandango! concert?― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, August 23, 2016 10:48 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, August 23, 2016 10:48 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 15 September 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V9m_sEDzJw
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 August 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
been a 'top day today, and have loved every minute of it.mescalero is such a good album.shivers all over the place when the guitars let loose at the end of 'tramp'.
― mark e, Sunday, 22 April 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
tejas is a fun album
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 22 April 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
to be fair ..all of their albums are fun.that's kind of the 'top way and why i have enjoyed today so much.
― mark e, Sunday, 22 April 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
ten dollar man is my favorite song about paying someone to kill your wife. the riffs are pretty good too
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 22 April 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
i think that's what it's about? idk
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 22 April 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
blimey.i guess i should pay more attention.for me its the riffs and grooves.
― mark e, Sunday, 22 April 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
that song is 100% groove
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 22 April 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
"breakaway" on antenna still probably my platonic ideal of the zz top track
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 April 2018 08:18 (six years ago) link
"A Fool For Your Stockings" just came up on Pandora, one of their best Blues.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 April 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
tejas is excellent
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Thursday, 26 April 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
They're on tour with John Fogerty this summer - really want to go see them.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 27 April 2018 06:40 (six years ago) link
Fuck, I forgot to post this here...
In 2010, a dude with a web site questioned whether ZZ Top actually had cattle, buzzards, and snakes on stage during the ’76 Worldwide Texas Tour. The followups are the best… https://t.co/aFf5v9BrCe pic.twitter.com/4dC8WRl3vK— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) May 2, 2018
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 May 2018 02:08 (six years ago) link
FB post from Ralph Fisher about the ZZ Top tour and more photos https://t.co/MqPUXxq7m7 pic.twitter.com/ouoTKHO94H— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) May 2, 2018
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 May 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
That's fascinating stuff. I too remain skeptical. As the mod puts it, lots of proof of ZZ Top, and proof of animals, but no picture of ZZ Top and wild animals together on stage.
ZZ Top seems like a band, like the Replacements, that got little to no traction outside of America.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/20857/zz-top/
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 4 May 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
I assume that was during the MTV era right?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
How could it be that "Master of Sparks" wasn't an international hit.
― pplains, Friday, 4 May 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link
One day a couple of years ago I was listening to the radio and they played "Just Got Paid" by Johnny Kemp. When it was over I stitched the channel to classic rock, and they were playing "Just Got Paid" by ZZ Top. True story.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
I so want a photo.
True story: went deep-sea fishing out of Biloxi about 20 years ago. The boat captain told us he’d taken ZZ Top out the week before. Asked how they kept the beards out of the fishing lines, he replied “Chip Clips!”Said they told him he’d be thrown overboard if he took a picture.— Will Collier (@willcollier) January 9, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
Some of that was due to the band not touring outside North America until 1979-'80.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
s & d :: desert sessions is a thread I keep reviving and receiving very little interest, so I'm reaching out to its members' home threads.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 3 October 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
There are some good tracks on them but I haven't heard them all as when I was big into that music, the Cds were crazy expensive and I have never gotten back into checking them out since you can probably hear them all for free online.
― earlnash, Friday, 4 October 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
Yes, but the reason I revived the ZZ Top thread is because the new one has Billy Gibbons on it.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
Netflix doc!
is pretty good, lots of great stuff covering up through '76 - less so afterwards
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
was blasting tejas at lunch, love the drumming on that album as well as the obv classic guitar
― ogmor, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
The doc is pretty standard rock doc fare but elevated because its ZZ Top. I'd have preferred that it didn't stop when it got to Eliminator tho
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
I was glad there was some nuts n bolts stuff about the first couple albums, but could tell by the running length that that wasn't gonna last the whole movie - would've liked some tidbits about Deguello or Tejas or especially Eliminator - zero mention of Linden Hudson for ex., or the use of synths and drum machines and sequencers and deliberately writing an album around the bpms most common to hit records of the time
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 March 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
yeah want to see this but sounds a bit odd that they stop at the point where they become one of the biggest bands on earth
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
maybe the doc was secretly made in 1984
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link