

As funny as those scenes are, they also demonstrate the degree to which we project our own biases and experiences (and sometimes just plain craziness) into our enjoyment of art. And while it certainly isn’t among the band’s best albums, this back-to-basics recording was a massive improvement on the rest of their post- Eliminator output. In the Bob Dylan documentary "No Direction Home", some of the funniest scenes are the press conferences where reporters spout bewildering nonsense about Dylan's songs. Mescalero (BMG, 2003) By the turn of the century, most people had probably given up on ever hearing a good new ZZ studio album. I have been thinking that something like the Vox Night Train or the. Dusty Hill, the bassist for the iconic rock band ZZ Top, has died just days after he took a leave of absence because of a hip issue, the group said Wednesday. Saying someone either gets or doesn't get something suggests that there is one right answer and that variations in people's tastes need to be reconciled and arbitrated, which, of course, is totally ridiculous. I love early ZZ Top and am looking at getting an amp to get me in the 'tone zone'. In early September, Dusty Hill was quoted as saying that he is optimistic that ZZ Top will release another studio album, and that the band had a lot of. They soon opened on the Doors Texas tour. To me, it always implies judgment: either someone's missing something they shouldn't be missing or someone's "getting" something they shouldn't be getting. Born: ZZ Top (aka, That Little ol Band from Texas): 1969 Billy F. Produced by the Emmy award-winning Banger Films, ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band From Texas tells the story of how three oddball teenage bluesmen, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard became one of the biggest, most beloved bands on the planet, all while maintaining a surrealist mystique that continues to intrigue fans and entice onlookers 50 years after the band's inception. Of course, it also implies that there may be nothing there to get, and the "getter" may be the one in error.Īs we've seen around here lately, the "I don't get." thing is a very loaded way of saying someone doesn't like something.

The “Raw Whiskey Tour” will cover 50 markets across North America with more dates to be announced soon.Yes. The current lineup of ZZ Top, with Elwood Francis on bass, has also announced a new tour. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.
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‘The Dust’ may have left the building but he’s still very much with us.” Listen free to ZZ Top The Early Years (99th Floor, What Are You Going to Do and more). “We knew right then it was a very special circumstance, all of us in the same place at the same time and what a time it most certainly was! It was as bare bones as when we first started touring in a behemoth Chrysler station wagon, driving vast stretches between those early far-flung shows under blackened Texas skies and first hearing our records on the radio. Just us and the music, no audience of thousands, no concession stands, no parking lot social hour, no phalanx of tour busses. “…It was, in a very real way, a return to our roots. Gibbons and Frank weighed in on the album: The trio performs tracks from their career from early songs like “Brown Sugar” to their mega hits like “La Grange” and “Legs”. Billy F Gibbons served as producer with engineering by Jake Mann and Gary Moon ‘RAW’ was mixed by Ryan Hewitt.” The methodology employed was something of an homage to the way ZZ Top recorded at the start of its epic five-plus decades run at the pinnacle of rock’s pantheon. “As seen in the film, the band members played, for the most part, together within sight of each other in the course of one day. “The album’s title is derived from the unfettered and straightforward manner in which the tracks were recorded,” the ZZ Top website explains.
