Topic: ZZ Top Live
These guys are around since 40 years. So it´s astonishing that I saw them the first time yesterday in München. Sure, I always knew them, I didn´t dislike them, but I didn´t appreciate them in special. But since some time I´m buying their old albums and like them very much now. Nonetheless I was a bit sceptical if a whole evening ZZ Top wouldn´t be a bit monotonous.
At first I was astonished how many fans they´ve got. Eva and I were at the venue 1 1/2 hour before the start, and there was already a long, long queue before a huge hall which was sold out on a Tuesday evening. Nonetheless we made it to stand right in front of the stage. Also because a woman - a serious rock fan- had told us that she would never go and see ZZ Top because they are using playback, and we had to check it.
Well, the concert was not in the least monotonous. They played a rich setlist with all their hits, but also a lot of blues, even covering a Muddy Water song. You could see a lot of nice guitars - our favorites were the guitars covered by this white fury stuff. And the two guys - Billy Gibbon and Dusty Hill - were quite charming: two mildly bizzare old guys - actually they are younger than me - with a sense of humour and self-irony, doing in their hinterwald dress a kind of mini Las Vegas show including graceful dancing steps; the stage was neatly arranged with two amp walls (highly aesthetic), in the middle a very impressive drum kit, behind a huge screen with a light show. And they played very well and differentiated in their minimalistic approach.
And what about playback?? We didn´t think so, except for two or three songs, in which the voices were much stronger and younger.....But anyhow: a great evening!!
Günter
are not only great musicians, but they are also living rock/blues dinosaurs who have earned the right in my book to do whatever the hell they please. 
