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Topic: ZZ Top

I know, I know, everyone has been a fan of ZZ Tops for years, but I just recently really got into them!

Surely this is what rock is all about, having fun, keeping it loud and just doing what you enjoy doing, nothing fancy but these guys just ROCK.

Definately the USA's version of Status Quo, an institution, Billy, Dusty and Frank, I salute you!!!!!!! cool  cool  cool  cool

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It´s never too late to discover ZZ Top: they are around in Germany end of the month. ZZ Top and Status quo: of course they share a sense of musical minimalism, but I think ZZ Top do it in a far more sophisticated way.
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Gunter,

I'm not comparing the musical abilities of both bands, just the fact that they have stuck by doing what they know best and lets be fair they are both great at doing what they do, sure there are many more "musically sophisicated" bands out there, but that's not what these guys are about.

Also, whilst writing this I can not comprehend the idea that ZZ Top do anything in a "Sohisticated" way, lets hope they never go down that road, Tush, Legs, Gimme all your lovin, nope, no sophistication there!  lol  lol

It's called Rock n Roll and long live the both of them!! cool  cool  cool

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ZZ Top make it futile and fruitless to engage in a power trio format as a career path....none have ever done better, all in my opinions.  Never been a lineup change.  I totally love and respect that.  And just hearing anything from them can make my day.

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Rocket wrote:

Never been a lineup change.  I totally love and respect that.
Rocket

sorry to be a pedant but the first lineup was BFG, Billy Etheridge and D.M. Mitchell, - shortly afterwards Frank and Dusty who were already playing together hooked up with BFG: Frank "I think you gonna like the backbeat" and Dusty "I think you gonna like the bottom beat" were reportedly their first words to BFG, the rest is history.

If you are into ZZ Top I cannot recommend highly enough BFG's book "Rock + Roll Gearhead", his music, his cars (and 1 bike) and mots importantly his guitars, starting with "Pearly Gates".

Just wish they would have had a better label over the last few years because their promotion was shocking.

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ZZ Top is ageless.  When you watch a DVD from the 1979 Deguello tour or the one from only a couple of years back, the quality and integrity is the same.  They have a style that is relevant today as it was back then.  Try that test with almost any other "rockers" that have been around for 40 years.  And Pearly?  She only gets better with age.

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StewartW wrote:

  Also, whilst writing this I can not comprehend the idea that ZZ Top do anything in a "Sohisticated" way, lets hope they never go down that road, Tush, Legs, Gimme all your lovin, nope, no sophistication there!  lol  lol

Isn´t the simplest- if it´s done in the right way-  the most sophisticated?
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Rocket wrote:

Never been a lineup change.  I totally love and respect that.
Rocket

sorry to be a pedant but the first lineup was BFG, Billy Etheridge and D.M. Mitchell, - shortly afterwards Frank and Dusty who were already playing together hooked up with BFG: Frank "I think you gonna like the backbeat" and Dusty "I think you gonna like the bottom beat" were reportedly their first words to BFG, the rest is history.

If you are into ZZ Top I cannot recommend highly enough BFG's book "Rock + Roll Gearhead", his music, his cars (and 1 bike) and mots importantly his guitars, starting with "Pearly Gates".

Just wish they would have had a better label over the last few years because their promotion was shocking.

Ian

No need to apologize, Ian! I didn't qualify my statement with no lineup change once the three of them got started recording back in 1970.  Plus, no "disbanding"!  Thanks for the book recommendation.  It sounds quite interesting.  Regarding promotion, mere mention of ZZ perks ears up over here, and people show up for albums and concerts.  Not the case over there, huh?

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Guenter wrote:
StewartW wrote:

  Also, whilst writing this I can not comprehend the idea that ZZ Top do anything in a "Sohisticated" way, lets hope they never go down that road, Tush, Legs, Gimme all your lovin, nope, no sophistication there!  lol  lol

Isn´t the simplest- if it´s done in the right way-  the most sophisticated?
Günter

I'd tend to agree, Günter.  To me, ZZ Top getting sophisticated is doing something like TV Dinners!!!.........if the sauce is not too blue! lol

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Following on from my initial post about ZZ Top, Last night I played at our Local Jam Night at the Sutton Arms in Southend, did the normal stuff you know, bit of Spencer Davies, bit of Guns'N'Roses, but by far best cheers of the evening go to, your've guessed it, Tush and Sharp Dressed Man  cool  cool  cool

You gotta just love this stuff  lol  lol  lol  lol

By the way, it was the most fun to play as well, something you can really get your teeth stuck into!

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and Stewart talking of beards dont forget to take in some Canned Heat (if you have n't already), - think I am right in saying that they made it big first with the boogie/shuffle blues sound, - of course with their reportedly epic set at Woodstock 1969

A bit of "A" chord boogie:

http://youtu.be/0GPzXUROj0U

Woodstock:

http://youtu.be/x4g-RexNu0o

Classic live video, (one of the best) love the audience involvement at 1min 20, - nicking a Marlboro from "The Bear"!

and for some BFG tone:

http://youtu.be/6c7d8BYJy8I

http://youtu.be/-h2hox--bR8

and this video is best proof that not everybody can make this riff bounce:

http://youtu.be/j0H0dIRPFq0

Slash is so wooden, - and John Mayer wipes the floor with him

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I hope they release their new album soon. Rick Rubin produced it and they said that it's gonna sound like the stuff they did before Eliminator, so that should be good .

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The true wonderfulness of this band cannot be exaggerated. You cannot watch them without smiling. The Rev. Willy G is a monster  big_smile

And those beards....  cool   big_smile

RIP Iron Man

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They got a lot of nice girls there uhhh

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Love the cd the bass and guitar some so heavy and clean as a whistle!

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She got legs,she know how to use em

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Been a fan since, Tres Hombres - Saw them for the first time last year - unforgettable!

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