ZZ TOP, THE MOVING SIDEWALKS & THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS | TEXAS MUSIC LEGENDS

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[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

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

My favorite ZZ Top story is how my dad convinced our country music fan neighbor to listen to the entire side one of a zzz top album by saying it it must be a country band because they were wearing cowboy hats...hahaha

[crabpott]

I vaguely remember driving around Mill Valley in a smokey VW bug with three other guys on a weekend evening with no girls and no place in particular to go. We had bridge toll (GGB)and wound up in either Long Shormans Hall or the Avalon Ballroom watching 13 Floor, Big Brother and Jefferson Airplane. One of the guys ripped a poster off a light pole as we left and threw it into the back seat of the bug. It was there for months.I think that's why I still remember bands names. I'm thinking summer 1966?
And yes Grace drove a white VW rabbit. Saw her waiting for Tower Records to open in Corta Medra. No body belived me two years later in Nam either.

[canuck_conservative]

THAT’s Billy Gibbons??

(And “My Head’s in Mississippi” is underplayed)

[servantboy777]

for later

[Fiji Hill]

Sounds as though you saw those acts before they hit it big.

Grace couldn't have been driving a VW Rabbit in 1966, since that model didn't come out until the 1970's. It might have been a 1500 or 1600, or maybe a Karmann Ghia.

Believe it or not, my very first introduction to the Jefferson Airplane was a weird ad for Levi's pants that I heard in either the late winter or early spring of 1967 on Boss Radio 93 KHJ. You can hear it here--I just listened to it for the first time in 47 years. When the announcer began with, "now, Jefferson Airplane," I had absolutely no idea what "Jefferson Airplane" meant, but shortly afterwards, KHJ was blasting their hit Somebody to Love all across the Southland.

[TurboZamboni]

Cool! thanks.

I’ve seen them live in three different decades.

[Scoutmaster]

Yes. Ray Wylie Hubbard.

[Scoutmaster]

“Screw You, We’re From Texas”

[trisham]

I recently saw Gibbons on Daryl’s House. He was great.

https://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/currentep.html?ep_id=78

[rockrr]

I saw them twice. Once years ago in a club environment and then again about ten years later at the Tacoma Dome (Tacoma Washington). The acoustics were so bad that it ruined the show for me - like listening to an AM radio through a soup can.

[a fool in paradise]

I saw Roky again this weekend. He did a lot more Elevators songs than I’ve ever seen him do in the past.

I’ve liked some of the other bands I’ve seen him with over the years a bit more (and I’ve even seem him play with Billy F. Gibbons).

I got to catch the Moving Sidewalks last year. They did better with the blues based tunes than the new arrangements on the rock songs.