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Texas rockers ZZ Top split with manager, label
al-Reuters | September 17, 2006 | Dean Goodman

Posted on 09/18/2006 7:47:29 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater

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Bill Ham has often been described as the fourth member of ZZ top.

I wonder what this is about.

1 posted on 09/18/2006 7:47:32 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: Senator Goldwater

They are still alive?


2 posted on 09/18/2006 7:48:19 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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"They are still alive?"

Casinos and State Fairs? That's some front office they had there.

3 posted on 09/18/2006 7:50:53 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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That Lil ol band from Texas is still the best blues rock going. Mescalero was good music. Better than their overproduced early 1980s stuff.

Still, their best days were from start thru 1976's Tejas.


4 posted on 09/18/2006 7:51:30 PM PDT by pissant
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Name another band with no personnel changes over 36 years and had the same manager the whole time? I can't think of any.


5 posted on 09/18/2006 7:52:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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It's easy to see why chicks really dig these guys...


6 posted on 09/18/2006 7:52:36 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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Billy looked much better before he started wearing that silly thing on his head that he wears now.


7 posted on 09/18/2006 7:53:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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"Name another band with no personnel changes over 36 years and had the same manager the whole time? I can't think of any"

Steve O'Rourke managed Pink Floyd up until his death a few years ago, but there were personnel changes within the band itself.

8 posted on 09/18/2006 7:58:36 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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Gibbons looks vaguely Hasidic in that pic.


9 posted on 09/18/2006 7:59:22 PM PDT by Yardstick
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Billy looked much better before he started wearing that silly thing on his head that he wears now.

I guess you mean this  ?

  

10 posted on 09/18/2006 8:00:27 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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They could always hire this guy to be the fourth member, but then they would have to change their name to ZZ Dreidel.

11 posted on 09/18/2006 8:02:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: snarks_when_bored

That's the one. As their song goes, "What's Up With That?"


12 posted on 09/18/2006 8:02:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I'm guessing he's lost his hair...


13 posted on 09/18/2006 8:04:39 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: pissant

"Just Got Paid" is still the best slide guitar solo ever.


14 posted on 09/18/2006 8:05:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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ZZ Dreidel

lol!

With their big hit, Sharp Dressed Mensch

15 posted on 09/18/2006 8:07:54 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: dfwgator

Billy is my hands down pick as the best rock guitarist.


16 posted on 09/18/2006 8:09:28 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Senator Goldwater

Every girl crazy bout a sharped dressed man


17 posted on 09/18/2006 8:33:36 PM PDT by skaterboy
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To: pissant

Wasnt he Jimi Hendrix's favorite? thats saying something


18 posted on 09/18/2006 8:35:04 PM PDT by skaterboy
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I heard that, but it was on this forum I think. I never saw the quote.


19 posted on 09/18/2006 8:35:58 PM PDT by pissant
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Synthesizers killed them slowly, everyone was doing it in the 80s, but ZZ Top inexplicably cntinues to this day.


20 posted on 09/18/2006 9:11:54 PM PDT by youthgonewild
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