wow I had never made the Ardent connection before
― you can sub out "bipartisan solutions" for "some of my dick" (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Are we hearing mostly fender tweed amps on this record? Some, but some are also from BG's customised Marshall heads, which he renamed "Rio Grande" brand. The controls were all labelled in Spanish, and the logo was palm trees.
― Randy Moss' dog's personal chef (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
There is some cool stuff later on doing the drums for Eliminator. It's pretty much drum machine with some live percussion overdubbed to match on top.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Was just listening to Fandango and got to wondering what happened to the rest of the kickin' live show that made up the original a-side? The remaster has some live bounus tracks, but liner notes say they are from four years later.
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Also: Dubya Tee Efff?
1. Sharp Dressed Man - Steven Tyler, Mick Fleetwood, Jonny Lang, and John McVie (The M.O.B) 2. Gimme All Your Lovin' - Filter* 3. Tush - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals 4. Legs - Nickelback 5. Cheap Sunglasses - Wolfmother 6. Got Me Under Pressure - Duff McKagan's Loaded 7. Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers - Coheed & Cambria 8. Just Got Paid - Mastodon 9. Rough Boy - Wyclef Jean 10. Waitin' for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago - Daughtry 11. La Grange - Jamey Johnson
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm already hearing the Coheed lead vocal in my mind.
― Zachary Taylor, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I foresee a "least appitizing performance" poll...
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
holy shit "Gimme All Your Lovin'" by Filter
― some dude, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I just picked up Afterburner and Recycler on vinyl for a dollar each this weekend. \o/
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 09:29 (thirteen years ago) link
A couple of years ago I interviewed the singer from Coheed and he was talking about how their then-current album finished the multi-album sci-fi saga he'd been writing, and I asked him if he ever just wanted to sing songs about cars and girls - "you know, like ZZ Top," and he laughed and said no. Liar.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 11:26 (thirteen years ago) link
whatever happened to the new record produced by rick rubin?
they were on tour this summer in europe BTW iirc
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Rough Boy - Wyclef Jean
NIIIICE
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
The Mastodon Just Got Paid has been around forever, is this a new version?
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Good news, ZZ Top has actually put out a live CD from the good ole' days. It is mastered really hot, but overall the production quality is pretty good.
Live in Germany 1980
It is taken from a Rockpalast show from back before the wall fell. I guess you can get the DVD of the show too.
Now if the boys would just get with it and remaster the rest of their catalog, which I sadly think might not happen anytime soon.
― earlnash, Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to the new album, La Futura, now. The first four songs were released as the Texicali EP earlier this year - the other six are just as noisy 'n' nasty. Sure, it took almost a decade to get here, but they really do sound energized and raucous. Gibbons' guitar work is disgusting in the best way, and it sounds like Frank Beard is actually playing drums on this album.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 3 September 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
it's a fantastic record, isn't it?
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Monday, 3 September 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
my buddy had an extra ticket to see ZZ last night so I went, it was good if not great. short smart focused set, hits and early stuff with the 80s video songs all in a row. highlights included "beer drinking and hell raising" and the new song "25 lighters" which was the best thing all night, gibbons guitar playing on that was absolutely sick and the chorus sounds like vintage top "25 lighters on my dresser yessir I GOTS TO GET PAID"
only quibble is w/the drummer, the rhythms plodded imo but that may be inevitable (age) and the rhythm section was certainly tight & precise
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:15 (twelve years ago) link
'25 Lighters' original fyi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPtFb77Gmtk
― nashwan, Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
what i think is brilliant about zz top's cover is how it works both ways, you hear the cadence of hiphop AND blues in the chorus
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i knew it wasn't their song but many of my whiteguy geezer brethren in the audience may not have realized
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
New video. They look like the revenant versions of their '80s selves.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
Can any ZZ heads ID the track at 1:30 in this vid? The bass line sounds like "Is Chicago" by Soul Coughing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCgibhGRw38
― Dan Peterson, Friday, 12 October 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Never thought you'd get to see Billy Gibbons' band before ZZ Top? Well guess what...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
last ZZ Top album was excellent fwiw
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
Just got a press release from Rhino: On June 10/11, ZZ Top will be releasing The Complete Studio Albums 1970-1990, a 10-CD box containing all original mixes of everything from ZZ Top's First Album through Recycler for $60.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
Hallelujah, it's about time they finally got those early ZZ Top albums fixed.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
I thought they already dd?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:46 (eleven years ago) link
They only remastered a couple and some tracks for a boxset.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 12:03 (eleven years ago) link
Digital versions are all over the fucking place, too. The version of I'm Bad on the iTunes Deguello is a fucking duet with Dwight Yoakam.
― If you tolerate Bis, then Kenickie will be next (ithappens), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
this is excellent news.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
Are these gonna be mini-lps like the Joni Mitchell box? Hopefully if so, they'll be able to carry over the inner sleeves this time. They had some cool ones. Take Deguello for instance:
http://www.vinylrecords.ch/Z/ZZ_Top/Deguello/zz-top-deguello-72.jpg
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
Tejas sleeve is dope
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJ_vNPmfPONGekSWTcau7jzIzuw2Ekusqzaiw1P8LaHXO0BfKW5w
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
Tejas inner sleeve:
http://www.vinylrecords.ch/Z/ZZ_Top/Tejas/IMG_9156.jpg
I miss these:
http://vinylrecords.ch/Z/ZZ_Top/Eliminator/zz-top-eliminator-127080.jpg
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
They're saying all gatefold art is recreated, so odds are good.
http://abcnewsradioonline.com/storage/music-news-images/M_ZZTopBoxSet630_042913.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1367286615494
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
want a poster of the Tres Hombres gatefold, preferably wall sized
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wow:
http://addictedtovinyl.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/zz-top-tush.jpg
Want a t-shirt of this like yesterday.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
Key paragraph from the press release:
The set, including the albums initially released on the London label as well as the string of Warner Bros. Hits that followed, includes ZZ Tops’ First Album (1971), Rio Grande Mud (1972), Tres Hombres (1973), Fandango! (1975)*, Tejas (1976), Degüello (1979), El Loco (1981), Eliminator (1983), Afterburner (1985) and Recycler (1990). Each album is presented in a wallet sleeve that faithfully reproduces the original artwork, including the gatefold designs used for Tres Hombres and Tejas. The set presents, for the first time on CD, the original mixes for ZZ Tops’ First Album, Rio Grande Mud and Tejas that have long been on the wish lists of the band’s most fervent fans.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2011/03/I_Thank_You_ZZ_Top.jpg
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
Here's a story about the closing of Leo's Mexican Restaurant, who provided the star features of the Tres Hombres inner sleeve.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Cool new interview w/Billy talkin' Memphis & such.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 May 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
La Futura is FAR better than expected. Put another feather in Mr. Rubin's cap.
― bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 3 May 2013 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
Gibbons' guitar tech takes you through the guitar/effect/amp line. Biggest surprise: the light gauge strings (.007 and 8? wow!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6DrxfrbbF8
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 May 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
Also: Billy has over 450 guitars for stage use - just at ZZ HQ
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 May 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
Billy's one of a handful of people who has a (verifiable) Strat owned by Hendrix (likely verifiable because Hendrix gave it to him).
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
(.007 and 8? wow!)
That's completely nuts. As is the fact that he's never broken a string on stage!
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
ZZ Top interview/performance on Howard Stern Tuesday worth seeking out.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 16 May 2013 06:31 (eleven years ago) link
The box set is up for pre-order on Amazon for $42.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 June 2013 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
Box set in my hands, getting ready to dive in.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
think i need to get that...in other zz news, this is depressinghttp://zumic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/kid-rock-2013-tour-poster.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link