ZZ TOP

[Blaster]

 

[Blaster]

 

[candycorn]

Terrible music, a sad chapter in rock music that seems to have thankfully gone by the wayside.

 

[White 6]

I was at the "Sharp Dressed Simple Man" tour, week before last for ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd in Southaven Ms. It was cool. Both bands great!

 

[two_iron]

 

[petro]

I was at the "Sharp Dressed Simple Man" tour, week before last for ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd in Southaven Ms. It was cool. Both bands great!

We snuck up to fifth row on the main floor. There were two seats that no one ever came back and claimed.
Never will forget it.

 

[White 6]

 

[JGalt]

Terrible music, a sad chapter in rock music that seems to have thankfully gone by the wayside.

Well that's a shock. I always figured you for a Tube Snake Boogie sort of girl. Come on now, you can't tell me you would wouldn't want that beard down around your nether regions.

 

[White 6]

We snuck up to fifth row on the main floor. There were two seats that no one ever came back and claimed.
Never will forget it.

We were floor row 15 center. Didn't move further front. Waffled between listening, cheering and the floor level wet bar! A good time was had by all, and I was not the designated driver.

 

[petro]

We were floor row 15 center. Didn't move further front. Waffled between listening, cheering and the floor level wet bar! A good time was had by all, and I was not the designated driver.

Those dudes looked hot under those stage lights with them long beards. Got to see them twice in Mpls. I remember a lot of lasers in their light show.
I don't care what CarenCorn thinks, they were awesome.

 

[candycorn]

They can’t sing; their music (especially the later tracks) is repetitive guitar tracks that are not exactly complex. The music is “good” at best.

I will say this about them, they mastered the music video “craze” better than most in the genre.

 

[JohnDB]

Always play in the key G-Demolished....

Just saying...

 

[White 6]

Those dudes looked hot under those stage lights with them long beards. Got to see them twice in Mpls. I remember a lot of lasers in their light show.
I don't care what CarenCorn thinks, they were awesome.

The tee-shirt wearing drummer without beard was sweating like bitch in heat.

 

[JGalt]

Those dudes looked hot under those stage lights with them long beards. Got to see them twice in Mpls. I remember a lot of lasers in their light show.
I don't care what CarenCorn thinks, they were awesome.

I read somewhere years ago that Jimi Hendrix once mentioned Billy Gibbons as one of the most promising guitar players he'd heard. Not sure what Hendrix was stoned on when he said that. Gibbons knows how to coax a good sound out his guitar and amp, but he's no Hendrix. SRV came closer to Hedrix's guitar style than most others.

When I was playing guitar in Texas back in the 80's every damned guitar player there had to know every lick Stevie Ray Vaughn could play. I saw 12 year old kids that could outplay me, and at the top of my expertise, was practicing three to four hours a day. I saw SRV a few times and my GF at the time remembered seeing him sleeping on a pool table at some club, when he was starting out.

The Texas music scene changed from the 80's through the 90, and into the 2000's. Pantera was pretty big there, but I missed seeing them when they were playing small clubs. They did have a tittie bar over in NW Dallas. The place was pretty high-class. You didn't start any shit there, or else you'd get thrown out pretty fast.

 

[lg325]

As a teen I thought they were more gimmic than talent. I do like the song though.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Billy Gibbons is an underrated guitarist.
They have some very enjoyable songs.
Nobody else is like them.

 

[JGalt]

Billy Gibbons is an underrated guitarist.
They have some very enjoyable songs.
Nobody else is like them.

The drummer Frank Beard was the only one who didn't have one.

 

[Harry Dresden]

I was at the "Sharp Dressed Simple Man" tour, week before last for ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd in Southaven Ms. It was cool. Both bands great!

i seen them about 72-73 at the LA Sports Arena,,,,great band live...

 

[Harry Dresden]

They can’t sing; their music (especially the later tracks) is repetitive guitar tracks that are not exactly complex. The music is “good” at best.

I will say this about them, they mastered the music video “craze” better than most in the genre.

Hendrix thought Gibbons was one of the best guitarist out there at that time...

 

[White 6]

i seen them about 72-73 at the LA Sports Arena,,,,great band live...

We caught them at the Nashville speedway back in 75 or 76, sitting on the canvas on the infield, rolling and passing both ways, before I cleaned up my act.