Any fans of the lil ole band from Texas?

[JohnnyTheFox]

ZZ Top?

And I don't mean the nonsense which was on MTV aka the Eliminator album and afterwards. I'm talking the blues based texas boogie rock and roll.

 

[CouchCoach]

Yep, one of my favorite concerts was ZZ Top at the Warehouse in New Orleans after Tres Hombres was released. Frank Beard did not stop pounding the skins for a full 45 minutes to open that show. One of my oldest friends and former boss grew up on the same street as Billy Gibbons and they used to jam in their garage and provide the neighbors with a keg for allowing them to make some noise.

I loved them even after the MTV move because I would have done the same thing and they did provide some lovely ladies to ogle.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

They kick butt. I hear Zed Zed Top is really popular in Canada.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I'm a huge ZZTop fan, including Eliminator.

I have ZZ Top's The Very Baddest (dual cd release) in my thumb drive playlist in my car.

What is wrong with Eliminator anyhow? I recall an interview with Billy Gibbons talking about he was in NYC and walked into a bar. While at the bar, a gentleman walked up to him and said there was someone at the back table that would like his company.

Billy walked back there and it was Prince. He said they talked extensively about guitar and he said he was blown away because Prince knew every song in the Eliminator album and discussed how they were played.

 

[nightrain]

One of my all time favs!

 

[Runwildboys]

My absolute favorite ZZ Top tune

 

[Runwildboys]

Just stumbled on this while I was looking for the A Fool for Your Stockings video. Pretty cool stuff.

 

[CouchCoach]

I never thought they would move me like they did the very first time I heard La Grange but then they did it again.

 

[darthseinfeld]

I'm a huge ZZTop fan, including Eliminator.

I have ZZ Top's The Very Baddest (dual cd release) in my thumb drive playlist in my car.

What is wrong with Eliminator anyhow? I recall an interview with Billy Gibbons talking about he was in NYC and walked into a bar. While at the bar, a gentleman walked up to him and said there was someone at the back table that would like his company.

Billy walked back there and it was Prince. He said they talked extensively about guitar and he said he was blown away because Prince knew every song in the Eliminator album and discussed how they were played.

Eliminator to me is one of the few (and possibly best) examples of a band updating their sound and actually having it work. Cool blues jams for the Miami Vice era. However I can see how a long time fan may be put off however. Myself, I was very young when that was big, and that record was one of my first exposures to rock music

IMO Eliminator is one of the most notable records of that decade. GNR was probably the first rock band I was a fan of, and alot of the swagger in their music that made them famous reminrem me of Eliminator

 

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