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.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 July 2022 12:00 (one year ago) link
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
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Saturday, 23 July 2022 02:46 (one year ago) link
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."”
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."”
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 24 July 2022 05:39 (one year ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 24 July 2022 06:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf7ze6vcS_8
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 24 July 2022 06:16 (one year ago) link
fuck that's awesome - when they land in the pocket at the end it's incredible
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 24 July 2022 12:16 (one year ago) link
Still love that ZZ Top looked like a fucking grindcore band in 1970 pic.twitter.com/b7DpP6rmu2— Legendarium (@LegendariumBand) August 26, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 August 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
https://m.facebook.com/Walmart5358/photos/a.549608795091889/5721705584548825
Came in for some cheap sunglasses, no doubt.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
wow flag post
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
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
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
Eh. I hated that sound back in the day, and I still hate it. They really became a parody of themselves.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 02:32 (one year ago) link
https://www.futuro.cl/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/zz-top-1972-en-vivo-768x432.jpg
Before There Was A Right Reverend Willie G., There Was Youth Pastor William "Bud" Gibbons.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 June 2023 00:45 (ten months ago) link
praise be
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2023 01:44 (ten months ago) link
I'll put Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell up against any Southern Rock epic. Fuck a Free Bird.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 25 September 2023 22:17 (seven months ago) link
El Loco is such a weird album, kind of mellow, but I love it now.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 23:27 (five months ago) link
their love for new wave really starts coming through on this one.
― andrew m., Thursday, 9 November 2023 15:14 (five months ago) link
^^^ 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.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 9 November 2023 15:55 (five months ago) link
Dusty Hill Estate Auction:
https://www.julienslive.com/auctions/catalog/id/505
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:05 (five months ago) link
https://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/6039/603982_m.jpg?ts=1697570541
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:10 (five months ago) link
https://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/5900/590007_m.jpg?ts=1695181445
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:14 (five months ago) link
https://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/5907/590725_m.jpg?ts=1695188287
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:17 (five months ago) link
https://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/5894/589444_m.jpg?ts=1695176044
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:19 (five months ago) link
Uhh
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:21 (five months ago) link
https://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/5901/590120_m.jpg?ts=1695182525
^^Custom Staircase Spindle
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:25 (five months ago) link
Would buy an Eliminator or Afterburner tape test press for $5
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:26 (five months ago) link
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:30 (five months ago) link
Oops
https://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/6060/606013_m.jpg?ts=1697703974
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:31 (five months ago) link
https://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/5890/589079_m.jpg?ts=1695172561
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:33 (five months ago) link
Well, yeah
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:36 (five months ago) link
https://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/6067/606774_m.jpg?ts=1697848333
If I ever caught her with Stevie PI'd throw her back in the Penitentiary, nowAnd if I caught her with my mother's sonI'll call her daddy and get my gun
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:37 (five months ago) link
https://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/5903/590378_m.jpg?ts=1695184932
Hand me another one of them brews from back there.Oh, this is gonna be so good.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:40 (five months ago) link
+1
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:42 (five months ago) link
itbelongsinamuseum.gif
― a (waterface), Monday, 13 November 2023 13:26 (five months ago) link
Dusty was one broad-shouldered, barrel-chested hombre...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 13 November 2023 14:04 (five months ago) link
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
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:49 (two months ago) link
his guitar has such a nasal, brassy quality that when he plays more softly it almost sounds like a muted horn
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:58 (two months ago) link
trombone perhaps
Guitar moves is awesome. High recommend the Deaner, Cass Mccombs and J Mascis episodes too.
― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:53 (two months ago) link
Matt acquired all the old Guitar Moves eps from Vice/Noisey which are slowly being re-released but also (!!!) Matt started producing new eps
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:58 (two months ago) link
ah thanks, i wondered what was going on. never saw them the first time round for vice-avoidance reasons, hugely enjoying them now though
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:04 (two months ago) link
however i could definitely have done without kid rock in the billy gibbons one
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:06 (two months ago) link
I could do without Kid Rock on this earth.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:06 (two months ago) link
kid go find another rock
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:08 (two months ago) link
Kids performance at Woodstock 99 is epic and undeniable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsrMqnNxy1o
― calstars, Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:30 (two months ago) link
I read that and inferred that ZZ Top played in some sort of kids’ tent at Woodstock.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:55 (two months ago) link
Okay yeah wow that woodstock 99 show is fantastic
― H.P, Thursday, 8 February 2024 04:34 (two months ago) link