ZZ Top?

LETHAL LADY

I grew up having to listen to these chaps and I have to say I still don't understand their popularity. Can someone explain?

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

Lights On

The power of the beard!

MacauDragon

Sharp dressed man has awesome opening - great driving song.

Nice Solos in it too.

Nodin

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I grew up having to listen to these chaps and I have to say I still don't understand their popularity. Can someone explain?

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That was a terrible end, but near the beginning things were much better....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBAlbCyr-g

maudgonner

They had beards before they were cool - hipsters squared.

mzungu

The only member of ZZ Top who doesn't have a beard is their drummer....called Frank Beard. True story!

Schwiiing

People like what they like.

I personally like them but then again guitar driven bluesy rock would be 1 of my fave genres.

I don't see the appeal of modern rap, Adele or any of the rubbish currently in the charts.

LETHAL LADY

Nodin wrote: »

That was a terrible end, but near the beginning things were much better....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBAlbCyr-g

Now that's cool.:) Never heard it played like their later stuff was through the 80s

SouthTippBass

Don't know what you're talking about....

Seriously though, did you see them the last two summers in Cork? They're feckin brilliant live, Im hoping they'll be back again this year. Also, €35 a ticket for a quality show, hard to beat that.

Sir Osis of Liver.

The prosecution in the Pistorius trial started their case with that song.

True story.

Nodin

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Now that's cool.:) Never heard it played like their later stuff was through the 80s

Some guy on one of the old pirate radio stations used play that with a comment along the lines of 'This was zz top back when they were good' - ye won't get that now.

Nodin

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

The prosecution in the Pistorius trial started their case with that song.

True story.

Better that than "Pearl Necklace".

MacauDragon

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I grew up having to listen to these chaps and I have to say I still don't understand their popularity. Can someone explain?

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

Be careful with that song if you work in a hospital by the way.

Especially near the amputee ward.

They can get really tetchy if you play it on repeat.

While skateboarding through the ward.

Not that they can catch you.

Pinch Flat

I liked the spinning guitars. And also the juxtaposition of the drummers hirsuteness - mullet and tash against the relatively short hair but long beards of the main two buckos.

LETHAL LADY

MacauDragon wrote: »

Be careful with that song if you work in a hospital by the way.

Especially near the amputee ward.

They can get really tetchy if you play it on repeat.

While skateboarding through the ward.

Not that they can catch you.

I will heed that warning

Schwiiing

That 'Yeah' @ 0:17 and the single most beautiful guitar I have ever seen.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

LETHAL LADY

Schwiiing wrote: »

That 'Yeah' @ 0:17 and the single most beautiful guitar I have ever seen.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

:pac: coz they are

Schwiiing

Not many buachaills who could look effortlessly cool with pink fluffy guitars.

Any excuse.

andekwarhola

All their songs from the 80s sound like the same song.

But it's a good song.

bodhrandude

C'mon woman they were funky

Stonedpilot

Great Band, gimme all your loving is about blowjobs too!.

Woodville56

ZZ Top were a staple on Fab Vinny's MT USA RTE Sunday afternoons- ah those were the days ! Quirky band but cool videos !

Duggy747

No mention of La Grange? Has a great solo in it.

Permabear

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deco nate

Cheap sunglasses is one of their better songs.



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiQCE7sFxw

Mesrine65

Sir Osis of Liver.

BattleCorp

Fcuked if I can understand the attraction to their music.

I thought they were sh1te years ago and I haven't changed my mind.

Some decent women in the videos but I still think they are crap.

andekwarhola

mzungu wrote: »

The only member of ZZ Top who doesn't have a beard is their drummer....called Frank Beard. True story!

Their hillbilly credentials are pretty impeccable as well. Not only have they a band member called Dusty Hill but he also accidentally shot himself in the stomach with his own gun.

Duggy747

andekwarhola wrote: »

Their hillbilly credentials are pretty impeccable as well. Not only have they a band member called Dusty Hill but he also accidentally shot himself in the stomach with his own gun.

Dusty is also related to Hank Hill :pac:

MarkAnthony

Justin Bieber exists and you have trouble understanding the popularity of ZZ Top?

fortwilliam

I always saw them as 'murica's version of Quo.

Yamanoto

Always saw them as a bit of a gimmicky band, who'd have you bored to death 20mins into their set.

Hits were catchy enough.

rubadub

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I grew up having to listen to these chaps and I have to say I still don't understand their popularity. Can someone explain?

The videos were shown all the time on MTV, if they did not make those videos they would not have sold nearly as much.

darkpagandeath

riffmongous

darkpagandeath wrote: »

I came here to post this, good work

dasdog

That little old band from Texas released some great albums over the years and Billy Gibbons is a quite unique guitar player which is a very rare quality. It's unashamedly blues rock which just works. Great show in Cork a few years ago and playing Glastonbury this year I believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NINKlLE1gY

donegaLroad

Probably the best ZZ Top song imo.. over and above every tune on Tres Hombres, its from 1970

There is a long intro but its worth the wait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVxMB6w8PU

topper75

Isn't Billy good for blues heritage etc.

He was instrumental I believe in getting Muddy Waters' old cabin saved and but into the museum in Clarkesdale.

I think he also had a guitar made from some of the wood.

donegaLroad

topper75 wrote: »

Isn't Billy good for blues heritage etc.

He was instrumental I believe in getting Muddy Waters' old cabin saved and but into the museum in Clarkesdale.

I think he also had a guitar made from some of the wood.

Hendrix said that Gibbons was his favourite guitar player at the time.

ceekay74

Some great stuff from the 70's, tacky crap from the 80's