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Billy Gibbons - Sharp Dressed Man
Posted on 7/25/16 at 9:46 am
Posted on 7/25/16 at 9:46 am
The Moving Sidewalks mid-1960's.
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Posted on 7/25/16 at 10:40 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Hendrix saw them and said Gibbons was the best blues player he'd seen.
Posted on 7/25/16 at 2:18 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
I grew up on ZZ Top; one of my Dad's top-three favorite bands. I always appreciate seeing/hearing/reading some of the history behind the journey taken by Gibbons/Beard/Hill on the way to Rio Grande and Tres Hombres... 
Posted on 7/25/16 at 2:42 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
I love ZZ Top as much as the next guy, but I honestly have no clue which one he is.
Posted on 7/25/16 at 2:59 pm to REB BEER
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I love ZZ Top as much as the next guy, but I honestly have no clue which one he is.
Glad it's not just me. Here's his high school yearbook photo but I'm not sure that clears it up much. I'm gonna say 2nd from the left. 
This post was edited on 7/25/16 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 7/25/16 at 3:22 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Posted on 7/25/16 at 4:28 pm to REB BEER
The short one with the fringed moccasins.
Posted on 7/25/16 at 6:05 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Posted on 7/25/16 at 9:16 pm to parrotdr
Wow ... cutting edge in the 60's.
Youtube popped this ... Moving Sidewalks ... from 2013:
Billl G and Moving Sidewalks, Austin Texas 2015
Youtube popped this ... Moving Sidewalks ... from 2013:
Billl G and Moving Sidewalks, Austin Texas 2015
Posted on 7/25/16 at 10:00 pm to Fat Man
70's ZZ is legit. 80's ZZ sucks hard
Posted on 7/26/16 at 10:28 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Slight hijack, but I was hog hunting out in San Saba right down the road from a Boy Scout Camp called Camp Billy Gibbons.
I actually thought it was the musician's camp until I looked it up.
Camp Billy Gibbons
I actually thought it was the musician's camp until I looked it up.
Camp Billy Gibbons
Posted on 7/26/16 at 3:05 pm to haikarate
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70's ZZ is legit. 80's ZZ sucks hard
I'm a child of the 80's, it was an awesome discovery when I first got ZZ Top Six Pack (their first six albums). I can listen to it from start to finish.
ZZ Top Down Brownie (YouTube)
Posted on 7/27/16 at 6:33 am to Oswald
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Rio Grande and Tres Hombres
Fandango for the win
Posted on 7/27/16 at 7:47 am to Wtodd
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Fandango for the win
Mexican Blackbird
Backdoor Medley
This post was edited on 7/27/16 at 7:53 am
Posted on 7/27/16 at 8:04 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
ZZ Top was a favorite of mind in the seventies. Got see them one time in Natchitoches (of all places) at a small auditorium on NSU's campus. Sat in the orchestra pit right in front of them and shot the shite with Gibbons between songs. They blew the roof off of that place. The loudest thing that ever had been in the auditorium.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 8:08 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Posted on 7/27/16 at 9:13 am to VOR
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Got see them one time in Natchitoches (of all places) at a small auditorium on NSU's campus. Sat in the orchestra pit right in front of them and shot the shite with Gibbons between songs. They blew the roof off of that place. The loudest thing that ever had been in the auditorium.
What year? I think my brother was at that show. He was at NSU from '73-'77, and told me the plaster actually started to fall from the ceiling because it was so loud.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 10:12 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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He was at NSU from '73-'77, and told me the plaster actually started to fall from the ceiling because it was so loud.
yep
Posted on 7/28/16 at 8:42 pm to PeaRidgeWatash
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Hendrix saw them and said Gibbons was the best blues player he'd seen.
I heard an interview with Billy, and he said he and Hendrix hung out quite a bit during a tour.
Here's another pic from an NPR piece. The boy's trying to grow a beard.
Before ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons (second from right) was in the more psychedelic Moving Sidewalks.
Rancho Deluxe Productions
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:48 pm to Twenty 49
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The boy's trying to grow a beard.
He'll never be able to pull that look off.
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