My old band Grin opened for them a bit in the early seventies, and they were all memorable nights. It has a great driving-train groove, and Billy’s harmonics and funky lead still makes me smile. Paul Jackson (Blackberry Smoke): “ Just Got Back From Baby’s, because it’s just straight-up nasty blues done to perfection.” Legs Frampton’s Camel opened for them then, and they were an instant new fave." Just Got Back From Baby's Peter Frampton: “I have many ZZ Top favourites, but Jesus Just Left Chicago from Tres Hombres reminds me of when I first saw them play.
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It’s hard to imagine Billy Gibbons as anything other than a legend now, but you can really hear the fire in him as a young guitar player making their first record here, and you also can hear the echoes of everything else that’s going on at the time, from Free to Freddie King." Jesus Just Left Chicago Paul Sayer (The Temperance Movement): “I love (Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree, off ZZ Top’s First Album. Live-Alben: 2016: Live - Greatest Hits From Around The World: Rykodisc. 1994: One Foot In The Blues: Warner Bros. 2014: The Very Baddest Of: Rhino 2004: Rancho Texicano - The Very Best Of ZZ Top: Warner Bros. This is the true document of life de la ZZ.
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We spend the biggest stretch of every year out on the road, whippin’ wire, poundin’ skin and rockin’ it way up. As usual, the guitar tone is absolutely perfect, and is there anything cooler than that little stutter lick before the verses? I don’t think so." (Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree 1971: ZZ Tops First Album: London Greatest Hits-Alben/Compilations: 2019: Goin 50: Warner Bros. Greatest Hits from Around the World features the legendary Texas trio performing the most popular songs from its long career live in some of the world’s most famous cities. Today I’ll say it’s I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide. And I’m pretty sure the solo is slide guitar through a wah-wah.” I'm Bad, I'm NationwideĬharlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke): “It is nearly impossible to pick a favourite ZZ Top song. I love the trade-off vocals, the proto- Hot For Teacher rhythm guitar lick and twangy chromatic line. Paul Gilbert: “I played Heard It On The X in my cover band when I was fourteen and it was a highlight of our set. In fact Billy came out to one of the shows in Houston and we all traded together. “Fast-forward to the first of many G3 tours that Joe Satriani would invite me to be a part of, and there I was night after night playing La Grange as one of our end-of-show jam songs, trading solos with Joe and Steve Vai. And if you can somehow nail those insane artificial pick harmonics that Billy pulled off so expertly, it was a sort of rite of passage in our little home-town guitar circle. My friends and I used to jam on it all the time. The feel, and that tone! Just so unmistakable. "Even more so, of course, was Billy’s finesse on the guitar. I remember loving it the first time I heard it – that slick shuffle feel, signature drum fill and the quirky vocal approach all caught my attention. It was one of those songs like Free Bird, where the DJ never apologised for the extended outro guitar solo. John Petrucci: “Growing up, I’d hear La Grange all the time played on the local rock radio station. Only they could do it like that." La Grange Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.Tyler Bryant: “ I Gotsta Get Paid, because it showcases how BFG and the boys take the best from the past and keep it so incredibly fresh. Half-studio, half-live record, Fandango (1975), followed the glorious way of its predecessor and became a hit in Europe. This track lifted the album straight to Top 10 making it platinum. It dips back into the '70s for "Pearl Necklace" and "La Grange," with a couple of selections from the post-peak '90s, but this does offer the MTV-era basics: "Gimme All Your Lovin'," "Sharp Dressed Man," "Rough Boy," "Tush," "My Head's in Mississippi," "Doubleback," "Cheap Sunglasses," "Sleeping Bag." What slows this record down are some new cuts and album tracks that don't deserve to be here, along with a remix, not the original version, of "Legs." Still, that may just be quibbling for some listeners, since the basics are all here, making this a good complement to the '70s-focused The Best of ZZ Top (although it would be nice if a definitive disc, with all the hits, would appear on the market). ZZ Top achieved the commercial success with the 1973 release of Tres Hombres, containing the smashing La Grange. This isn't a perfect roundup of ZZ Top's superstar years of the '80s, but it comes pretty close.