ZZ Top: C/D

Yeah, couldn’t disagree more. The Top were open to the sounds of Devo and The B-52s on El Loco, and the way they combined that with Texas blues was a master stroke imo. I think the conception and production of Eliminator is a sonic blast akin to the debut Boston album. It just sounds fucking huge, and deserves all the sales and success it got. xp

Eh. I hated that sound back in the day, and I still hate it. They really became a parody of themselves.

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Before There Was A Right Reverend Willie G., There Was Youth Pastor William "Bud" Gibbons.

praise be

I'll put Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell up against any Southern Rock epic. Fuck a Free Bird.

El Loco is such a weird album, kind of mellow, but I love it now.

their love for new wave really starts coming through on this one.

^^^ and totally sets the stage for Eliminator. I didn't really care about ZZ Top in the 70s, but as a new wave loving young adult working in a record store in 1980 it was an eye-opener.

Dusty Hill Estate Auction:

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Uhh

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^^Custom Staircase Spindle

Would buy an Eliminator or Afterburner tape test press for $5

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Oops

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Well, yeah

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If I ever caught her with Stevie P
I'd throw her back in the Penitentiary, now
And if I caught her with my mother's son
I'll call her daddy and get my gun

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Hand me another one of them brews from back there.
Oh, this is gonna be so good.

+1

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Dusty was one broad-shouldered, barrel-chested hombre...

I dont reslly know if these are new new videos or new old videos or what but matt sweeney has the best channel fyi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl5Dy35u1AY

his guitar has such a nasal, brassy quality that when he plays more softly it almost sounds like a muted horn

trombone perhaps

Guitar moves is awesome. High recommend the Deaner, Cass Mccombs and J Mascis episodes too.

Matt acquired all the old Guitar Moves eps from Vice/Noisey which are slowly being re-released but also (!!!) Matt started producing new eps

ah thanks, i wondered what was going on. never saw them the first time round for vice-avoidance reasons, hugely enjoying them now though

however i could definitely have done without kid rock in the billy gibbons one

I could do without Kid Rock on this earth.

kid go find another rock

Kids performance at Woodstock 99 is epic and undeniable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsrMqnNxy1o

I read that and inferred that ZZ Top played in some sort of kids’ tent at Woodstock.

Okay yeah wow that woodstock 99 show is fantastic