Posted on 02/27/2014 7:33:19 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
“Our ’65 Chevy low rider convertible, flying the colors of ZZ Top’s El Dorado Bar is solidly a Texas car yet, equally at home on the streets of LA, Fresno, or Bakersfield.” –Billy Gibbons. This pic of ZZ Top has it all, in my opinion. Just checkout that custom-built Texas state Gibson guitar! The band has acquired an enviable car collection over the years, and is out and about in the custom scene. “We attend the Mooneyes Festivals in California and Japan and always make the SoCal Speed Shop summer ‘Open House’ gathering. Always a terrific time. As far as clubs are concerned, we think of ZZ Top as one. We hang out, we shoot the breeze, we get down, we move on to the next town and, of course, it’s all about the arrival. Loud, low, while you Rock and Roll…!” –Billy Gibbons
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They made some great music.
Great article! Isn’t it Ray Wylie Hubbard who in one of his talking blues songs calls the 13th Floor Elevators the greatest rock and roll band ever?!
“They made some great music.”
No doubt about it. But I prefer it to be mixed in with other more mellow tunes. :) A solid diet of ZZ makes me nervous.
Well said, Everything in moderation..
Thanks!
San Francisco Girls (1968)
I had a ‘65 Impala like that, only it wasn’t a convertible. I drove it a quarter million miles.
That little boogie band from Texas.
ZZ Top - Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers (Original 1973 Vinyl Mix)
So 1968! Just another piece of evidence supporting my theory that the most interesting things happen lower than then the Billboard 40!
If there aren’t enough dead bugs in your 4” x 10” dashboard speaker (singular), ZZTop just doesn’t sound right.
“If there aren’t enough dead bugs in your 4” x 10” dashboard speaker...ZZTop just doesn’t sound right.”
Hey! This is a GREAT quote!
and don’t you think Duck Dynasty has done ZZ Top’s career:)
They aught to invite them on the show;)
Looks like they got some cheap sunglasses
They were known as the Bostwick Vines when I was a kid.
It’s interesting in part because it includes pictures of a clean-shaven Billy Gibbons. By the time I became aware of ZZ Top in the late ‘70s, he and Dusty already had chest-length beards.
Here's to You by Hamilton Camp was one of my favorite songs at the time, but although it was a hit in Los Angeles, it only "bubbled under" the Bilboard Hot Hundred, reaching #118 in April, 1968.
My World Fell Down by Sagittarius is one of my favorite songs from 1967, but it only reached #70 in the early summer of that year.
In November, 1966, Smashed! Blocked! by John's Children was a hit in Los Angeles, but nowhere else--it didn't even "bubble under" the Hot Hundred. To me, it was downright shocking as well as mystifying because it was so different from most everything else on Top 40 radio.
Also in the late fall of 1966, Chris Clark's Love's Gone Bad, released on a Motown subsidiary failed to make the Hot Hundred, but it reached #41 on the R & B charts.
I really like the 70’s hard rockin’ Roky Erickson, some great hard dark rock. What a voice.
Freegards
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