ZZ Top: C/D

the low end on this is insane

and dusty gets some great licks off on nationwide

It's touching that they go back all the way to "Certified Blues". If only we had done the ZZ Top poll a couple of years earlier, maybe they would have included something from Tejas.

if it sounds like 25 Lighters, clattery and thick and a vocal that sounds like it was slow-filtered through charcoal and piss then i’m in

The full story is great.

The 11-track album was recorded live at historic Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas, in conjunction with the famed blues-rock trio’s 2019 documentary That Little Ol’ Band from Texas.

The album features ZZ Top’s classic lineup — Gibbons, Hill and drummer Frank Beard — playing versions of various songs from their back catalog, including hits like “Legs” and “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” and as well two tunes from the band’s 1971 debut album: “Brown Sugar” and “Certified Blues.”

Gibbons says the performance was unplanned, noting the film’s director had invited ZZ Top to Gruene Hall for what the band thought was just a photo shoot.

“Upon arrival, we discovered that some wires had been crossed,” Gibbons notes. “The ZZ Top equipment crew had not been told it was just a photo session. They set up the entire backline. We had guitars, amps, drums, the works.”

Gibbons says the trio proceeded to play a bunch of songs, and while footage of some performances were featured in the movie, Billy maintains he wasn’t aware that audio of the full set had been recorded until an engineer informed him a few months later.

“Upon listening to it, we all took a shine,” Gibbons notes, “and said, ‘Gee whiz, this sounds like the ZZ Top we’ve always known. That’s how we started."”

RAW sounds startling great - you really do feel like you're in the front row of the Gruene watching them casually kick some serious ass. Put it on and it's impossible not to have a great time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf7ze6vcS_8

fuck that's awesome - when they land in the pocket at the end it's incredible

Still love that ZZ Top looked like a fucking grindcore band in 1970 pic.twitter.com/b7DpP6rmu2

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Came in for some cheap sunglasses, no doubt.

I can't think of another band that started out so strong--their run from ZZ Top's First Album through Deguello is just killer--and jumped the shark so hard. Good for them for figuring out the cash-making formula, I suppose.

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Yeah, couldn’t disagree more. The Top were open to the sounds of Devo and The B-52s on El Loco, and the way they combined that with Texas blues was a master stroke imo. I think the conception and production of Eliminator is a sonic blast akin to the debut Boston album. It just sounds fucking huge, and deserves all the sales and success it got. xp

Eh. I hated that sound back in the day, and I still hate it. They really became a parody of themselves.

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Before There Was A Right Reverend Willie G., There Was Youth Pastor William "Bud" Gibbons.

praise be

I'll put Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell up against any Southern Rock epic. Fuck a Free Bird.

El Loco is such a weird album, kind of mellow, but I love it now.

their love for new wave really starts coming through on this one.

^^^ and totally sets the stage for Eliminator. I didn't really care about ZZ Top in the 70s, but as a new wave loving young adult working in a record store in 1980 it was an eye-opener.

Dusty Hill Estate Auction:

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Uhh

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^^Custom Staircase Spindle

Would buy an Eliminator or Afterburner tape test press for $5

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Oops

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Well, yeah

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If I ever caught her with Stevie P
I'd throw her back in the Penitentiary, now
And if I caught her with my mother's son
I'll call her daddy and get my gun

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Hand me another one of them brews from back there.
Oh, this is gonna be so good.

+1

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Dusty was one broad-shouldered, barrel-chested hombre...

I dont reslly know if these are new new videos or new old videos or what but matt sweeney has the best channel fyi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl5Dy35u1AY

his guitar has such a nasal, brassy quality that when he plays more softly it almost sounds like a muted horn

trombone perhaps

Guitar moves is awesome. High recommend the Deaner, Cass Mccombs and J Mascis episodes too.

Matt acquired all the old Guitar Moves eps from Vice/Noisey which are slowly being re-released but also (!!!) Matt started producing new eps

ah thanks, i wondered what was going on. never saw them the first time round for vice-avoidance reasons, hugely enjoying them now though

however i could definitely have done without kid rock in the billy gibbons one

I could do without Kid Rock on this earth.

kid go find another rock

Kids performance at Woodstock 99 is epic and undeniable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsrMqnNxy1o

I read that and inferred that ZZ Top played in some sort of kids’ tent at Woodstock.

Okay yeah wow that woodstock 99 show is fantastic