Anyone notice how long Frank's hair was? There are photos of this era where it's down to his waist! He didn't need a beard, 'cause that's his last name!
@@henryhill3778isn't it tiring to comment the same thing over and over? They had to evolve as Dusty said, otherwise they would be playing shuffle in c forever
As a long time fan that started listening to them at the git go with the "First Album" and Rio Grande Mud" I can can tell you this band only had mostly regional popularity throughout most of the 70s. There was no massive national radio play and no TV appearances that I remember. It wasn't really until the early 80s that they actually started to receive national recognition with the Deguello LP and songs like 'Cheap Sun Glasses' etc. Before that they were mostly known in the south. I remember spending some time working in the midwest in 1980 and nobody but a scattering of people I met really knew much of their music. I may have met one person who had an 8 track of Fandango. Anyway, my point is, I imagine for that reason not much video exists from the 70s.
This is how men fucking play rock n roll. Guitar tone. Groove. Boogie Woogie badassery that only these three guys could pull off, in that particular decade. It was rough and ready, like a bulldozer just fucking your shit up. Young bands these days lack the attitude even though they try, the influences, lifestyle, and chops of 70s ZZ will always stand tall, towering over them. Billy Gibbons Marshalls sound like a herd of buffalo going off a cliff, pay attention kids. This may be old, but it will never be out of date.
Well the music world just lost one of the finest, lowest, back beat thumping musicians we've ever seen. Dusty Hill has decamped to another world where he will continue to rock, meanwhile back at the ranch, we can come and watch his great legacy here.. Godspeed to you Dusty!
Largo MD was capitol center saw them an many others there till it got torn down 20 yrs ago saw Elvis there lol . I was 12 . Had very cool mom. Now I'm 60 taking care of the lady. Turned her on to several shows have great life peace
Early brutal ZZ, Gotta love it ! Sitting here today with my 58 Les Paul stealing licks off all these early recordings that have come out. Damn these guys rocked. Loving Billy's tone !
Me and My Sweetie saw this show either the night before or the night after in Greensboro NC with a couple of good friends (We were the guys down front takin turns with her on our shoulders). What a show..!
Four years later I went to go see this band in 1980 I was 14 years old and from that time to now I’ve been a huge ZZ Top fan I live in Texas dusty hill may you rest in peace bro. And for as long as I am on this earth I will not let ZZ Top music die I will jam it until the day I die
this is wat zz sounded like 73 to 77. so fine. such a jellin bunch of cats. this is the earliest video of zz u will find out here. there are othesr even recorded earlier,its afact jack, but they have not found there way to u tube . brang um on! we wanna hear all the unreleased stuff someone is holdin on to! come on now let us have it rat now!
Saw ZZ in Atlanta at the Wirld Wide Texas Tour in Fulton co. Stadium and it was the most incredible ZZ Top show. The stage was huge and the crowd was 59,000 strong. Loud sound system and the show was unreal. $8.00 a ticket. 1976. 25 semi trucks to haul all that stage,amps and lights. It was animals like buffalos,longhorn cattle, even buzzards and rattlesnakes. The stage was shapes like Texas and cactus on the set. Quite a specticle. It rocked. Billy,Dusty and Frank rocked. Dixie rocked.7/5/1976
I'm goin to see them soon this September 11th, up front 2nd row center stage towards the right, should be a spectacular show but nothing like their youthful talent back then, good day sir cheers!
saw the same concert tour at Tulane Stadium, New Orleans, La...J. Geils Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Foreigner was also on the ticket but Lynryd Skynyrd didn't show...
So, so good here--their best era, before MTV and the 80s softened their edge. Still the loudest concert I was ever at: 40 years ago and my left ear is still ringing, right now, as I type this...
45 years after this performance, The Rev Billy F. Gibbons and the Boys, Dusty & Frank, had that Tejas low down blues perfect and then they got even better. RIP Baseman Dusty Hill.
I saw ZZ Top in 1974 at Sunken Gardens in San Antonio, Texas. Hot summer day. Strawberry wine coolers. Great pot from Mexico. Pretty girls with us. Party was on. Someone snuck some white crosses in to top it all off. ZZ did the rest!!
RIP Dusty. The only thing we can hope now is if the band releases more of its own footage so we can appreciate just how incredible DH was. I’m sure they’ve kept all the goods buried in some hole outside Houston.
Not to be mean, but I was there for the first night of the bass tech taking over. Oooof, saying it was pretty rough is kind, but it did make me appreciate BILLY even more . It was kinda like a White Stripes show Dusty Hill is Amazing RIP
yes from the seventies to the 80's very very good for sure I saw them later in 2000 in Tucson Arizona they were good but they wore these crazy outfits and started wearing the beany caps I think when they wore their western cowboy hats when in Texas was better
Wild Bill, they had a manager (Bill Ham) who was able to see the future of the business with the advent of MTV. He was willing to sacrifice the old audience for a massive, musically ignorant one that listened with their eyes. It worked out financially for sure.
Yes I got to see ZZ Top in 1976 in Fort Worth Texas. Back then, I don't remember a lot of computer aided backgrounds tracks in their songs. I think it was just turned up load amps with sounds coming out of a guitar and a bass along with the drum set. To me, they were the best in those days.
Correct. I saw them in Houston, TX during the 76 Fandango Tour. That was back when they had early and evening shows. A masterpiece tour and yet there is no released footage even from the archives of the Summit Houston show. I have seen quite a few 70s Summit Houston shows from other popular artist from the Who(the 1st hard rock show) to many others but when are we gonna see a good ZZ Top Live Fandango show anywhere in Texas....especially Houston.
I had all three and it feels like it was yesterday. Sure did smoke a lot of weed driving down the road with an eight track of ZZ Top playing with the bass rattling those car speakers. Man those were the days!
LOVE this song! I wish they did this classic stuff now! Although I love the recent stuff too! SOngs like "Pincushion", "I Gotsta Get Paid" & "Poke Chop Sandwich"...they just have that laid back and chugging feel! Love it all!
I was a kid ... my friends older sis who did not like ZZ won tix on the radio ,,, gave emto him ,,, he took me ... Chicago Stadium late 70s . 2 sets... 1st with fandango outfits ... rinestone outfits , short beards... Frank Beard -no beard. 2nd set blue jeans and overalls... livestock onstage ... Atlanta Rythem Section backed them up... curtain came down at the end and said Adios Amigos... ZZ TOP....in my memory , one of my best shows ever....If you wanna blow yer top
A lot of guitarists have come and gone, but Gibbons has the best tone ever. Clapton had it for awhile with Bluesbreakers and Cream, but Gibbons is better.
This was a few months into the 'Worldwide Texas Tour' - 2nd leg - they usually had 1 or 2 bands open the show - on this night it was Styx and Elvin Bishop - earlier on the 1st leg of the tour they had Blue Öyster Cult open a few times - they'd just come out with (Don't Fear) The Reaper - so ZZ Top had the live longhorn steer & buffalo - and BÖC had the cowbell ..
I was there !! Worldwide Texas Tour. Capitol Centre. Styx was the supporting band. Stage looked like a zoo. Longhorn steer buffalo vultures rattlesnakes. What a show !!
He was a really great drummer. Great sound and feel (he's speeding up, but it sounds great!), lot's of paradiddle and quarter triplet stuff in his playing, really unique. Unfortunately, he's not really doing that type of stuff much anymore, but hey, it's 45 years later now... Still love to see them.
Imagine being a drummer as skilled as Frank and having to face the fact that your band's highest selling albums were recorded with the most basic of programmed drum machines.
@@termsofusepolice Yep, no doubt about it. That's where the money was though. I'm sure he didn't mind the money after blowing $75,000.00 on heroin in the late 70's. Thank God he was able to kick the habit.
Saw them play this in 1974 at Winterland SF. They were second on the bill to Steve Miller who was touring behind his Joker album. The version they played that night was way better, more faithful to the album version that has a cool "strut" pacing. Perhaps a touch of "white line fever" to this one? Oh well, the "Double Down Live DVD" I think has them at their vintage finest, it's a 1980 show from Europe. Absolutely stunning and very high quality audio rendition. Combine that one with the '08 Live in Texas and you've got the bases covered.
I saw ZZ Top on the Tres Hombres tour. They didn't have no beards. That show ranks right up there in the top 10. Yes, there needs to be more late 60's early 70's footage of a few different bands. Not Zepplin. Jethro Tull a Passion Play. I saw that show. It was freakin' awesome. & some others, when I think of them.
DUSTY S VOICE AGED BETTER THAN BILLY'S. 45 YRS LATER AT HIS LAST SHOW. EVEN SO HE BELTED OUT TUSH LIME A 25 YR OLD WHILE HOLDIN DOWN THAT MONUMENTAL BOTTOM TO THE TOP! HIS VOICE WAS VERY INTEGRAL AS WELL. .GOD IM SO GONNA MISS THAT GUY. I LOVE ME SOME ZZ TOP BUT A BIG SLICE OF WHAT MADE THAT GREASY SOUND SO GOOD IS NEVER GONNA BE THE SAME.
Innerspace100 Synthesizers happened. And they went commercial. I like plenty of their stuff from Eliminator and afterwards, but their 70s stuff is so much better. One of those bands that changed their style to make it big, while the stuff they did when they weren’t as popular was better. REO Speedwagon is another example of that.
No flashy image back then! ZZ Top and Bachman Turner Overdrive in the 70s both proved you could rock just as hard as KISS and Aerosmith and still look like your average truck driver!
What a smorgasbord variety of great bands concerts you still had to choose from in 1976 and 1977 in North America before Led Zeppelin's last tour there in 1977 and Lynyrd Skynyrd's final one that Summer before tragedy in October. It is like the United States would see the last of Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin and the classic Lynyrd Skynyrd Band Lineup that Spring / Summer 1977. Lets not forget also it would also be Chicago's last Tours that year with Terry Kath. It seems like 1977 was the last year of a lot of things. Lynyrd Skynyrd's Leader and Female Singer gone. Elvis Presley gone. Mr. New Year's Eve Guy Lombardo died that year. Bing Crosby died that year.
Gibbons has those mini humbuckers that Townshend was fond of...damn his guitar sounds awesome...oldest clip I've seen of these guys...there must be earlier footage...
I remember the cameras and big screens were ON at the Summit in Houston during this tour in '76. Would there be sound to accompany the video feed? Surely this historic footage is not lost. SHARE IT!!
Yes it's true...the following Houston Summit Shows that have been released on UA-cam are KISS '77, The Cars '84, Queen '77 to name a few. Those are some heavy hitters...........but where is that 1976 ZZ Top Fandango Summit Video????
@@craigcrabfoot319 Pale cover? This is the original. Billy Gibbons wrote it. Came out in 1972 on Rio Grande Mud. Stray Dogs version came out a year later in 73 and they changed the lyrics. This live version blows theirs out of the water..
the term "underrated" gets thrown around a lot when we speak of our heros, but subjectively speaking. Frank was FUCKING GODDAMN CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED. Listen to that guy groove.
I need the rest of this show.
Frank Beard is never talked about what a great drummer
Because most people only know as a drum machine on Eliminator and beyond. But yes, one of the greats, especially live.
Agreed! He's got a ton of chops but only uses them at the exact right moment. His shuffle is about the meanest around!
Irving MacArthur 1972.
Metronomes come to frank beard when they need calibration
Anyone notice how long Frank's hair was? There are photos of this era where it's down to his waist!
He didn't need a beard, 'cause that's his last name!
The 70’s were my favorite decade for ZZ Top. Ridiculous talent.
70s were my favorite decade for all rock music. :)
Back in high-school in 76 I seen them.
When Top was cool and not full of themselves. Those were the days.
@@henryhill3778isn't it tiring to comment the same thing over and over? They had to evolve as Dusty said, otherwise they would be playing shuffle in c forever
Yes, there needs to be more 70's footage of ZZ Top. They were around for the whole friggin' decade but hardly any footage exists.
Yeah no shit my man...sadly lacking.
I agree.
People were too drunk to film them.
As a long time fan that started listening to them at the git go with the "First Album" and Rio Grande Mud" I can can tell you this band only had mostly regional popularity throughout most of the 70s. There was no massive national radio play and no TV appearances that I remember. It wasn't really until the early 80s that they actually started to receive national recognition with the Deguello LP and songs like 'Cheap Sun Glasses' etc. Before that they were mostly known in the south. I remember spending some time working in the midwest in 1980 and nobody but a scattering of people I met really knew much of their music. I may have met one person who had an 8 track of Fandango. Anyway, my point is, I imagine for that reason not much video exists from the 70s.
@@primtones There were no cell phones back then.
Just when you think this song can't get any better, Frank Beard absolutely COOKS during that drum break.
ZZ TOP and Beer. They both go together perfectly. A ZZ TOP Concert and a whole lotta kegs. That's the great life.
Love ZZ Top, especially their pre MTV music! Great rock and roll from the lone star state!
This is how men fucking play rock n roll. Guitar tone. Groove. Boogie Woogie badassery that only these three guys could pull off, in that particular decade. It was rough and ready, like a bulldozer just fucking your shit up. Young bands these days lack the attitude even though they try, the influences, lifestyle, and chops of 70s ZZ will always stand tall, towering over them. Billy Gibbons Marshalls sound like a herd of buffalo going off a cliff, pay attention kids. This may be old, but it will never be out of date.
Good lord, that was awesome.
Love the outfits. Taking Texas to the People!
When Top was cool and not full of themselves. Those were the days.
Well the music world just lost one of the finest, lowest, back beat thumping musicians we've ever seen. Dusty Hill has decamped to another world where he will continue to rock, meanwhile back at the ranch, we can come and watch his great legacy here.. Godspeed to you Dusty!
Largo MD was capitol center saw them an many others there till it got torn down 20 yrs ago saw Elvis there lol . I was 12 . Had very cool mom. Now I'm 60 taking care of the lady. Turned her on to several shows have great life peace
These guys were so cool!! Listen to that sound of the guitar!!
When Top was cool and not full of themselves. Those were the days.
Early brutal ZZ, Gotta love it ! Sitting here today with my 58 Les Paul stealing licks off all these early recordings that have come out. Damn these guys rocked. Loving Billy's tone !
That's when he had a great voice and could really jam instead of walking out like an 90 yr old.
Me and My Sweetie saw this show either the night before or the night after in Greensboro NC with a couple of good friends (We were the guys down front takin turns with her on our shoulders). What a show..!
"How's everybody in Washington D.C, tonight? That's where we are, ain't it?" Perfect take on the Cap Centre (RIP).
Four years later I went to go see this band in 1980 I was 14 years old and from that time to now I’ve been a huge ZZ Top fan I live in Texas dusty hill may you rest in peace bro. And for as long as I am on this earth I will not let ZZ Top music die I will jam it until the day I die
Amen brother, I’m with you!
this is wat zz sounded like 73 to 77. so fine. such a jellin bunch of cats. this is the earliest video of zz u will find out here. there are othesr even recorded earlier,its afact jack, but they have not found there way to u tube . brang um on! we wanna hear all the unreleased stuff someone is holdin on to! come on now let us have it rat now!
Must be beard related
billy’s guitar tone is something special. in his prime nobody could touch him.
When Top was cool and not full of themselves.
Saw ZZ in Atlanta at the Wirld Wide Texas Tour in Fulton co. Stadium and it was the most incredible ZZ Top show. The stage was huge and the crowd was 59,000 strong. Loud sound system and the show was unreal. $8.00 a ticket. 1976. 25 semi trucks to haul all that stage,amps and lights. It was animals like buffalos,longhorn cattle, even buzzards and rattlesnakes. The stage was shapes like Texas and cactus on the set.
Quite a specticle. It rocked.
Billy,Dusty and Frank rocked.
Dixie rocked.7/5/1976
I'm goin to see them soon this September 11th, up front 2nd row center stage towards the right, should be a spectacular show but nothing like their youthful talent back then, good day sir cheers!
saw the same concert tour at Tulane Stadium, New Orleans, La...J. Geils Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Foreigner was also on the ticket but Lynryd Skynyrd didn't show...
@@kephers i could spend ages listening to y'all old fucks stories... God bless you. I truly wish I was around back then. Peace, brothers.
So, so good here--their best era, before MTV and the 80s softened their edge. Still the loudest concert I was ever at: 40 years ago and my left ear is still ringing, right now, as I type this...
45 years after this performance, The Rev Billy F. Gibbons and the Boys, Dusty & Frank, had that Tejas low down blues perfect and then they got even better. RIP Baseman Dusty Hill.
saw them in 73, Tres Hombres tour, no beards, longhorns at the side of the stage. great show.. muddy water turned to wine
You lucky bastard.
I saw that tor also!! Brownsville Station opened for them
@@michaelhalas4287 Nazareth opened when i saw them,
@@michaelhalas4287 I saw that tour at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.
I saw them open for Leon Russel 1973. Vancouver Pacific Coliseum. My first big concert.
Who ever edited out the solo in this video should inducted into the hall of shame.
and be neutered!
@@brettthebassist With a pair of bricks..
I saw ZZ Top in 1974 at Sunken Gardens in San Antonio, Texas. Hot summer day. Strawberry wine coolers. Great pot from Mexico. Pretty girls with us. Party was on. Someone snuck some white crosses in to top it all off. ZZ did the rest!!
RIP Dusty!! Thank you for all the amazing music!!
When Top was cool and not full of themselves. Those were the days.
Rock in Peace, Dusty. I've got tix for Aug 17th, front row. Now, not even sure I can go...such sad news to wake up to.
RIP Dusty. The only thing we can hope now is if the band releases more of its own footage so we can appreciate just how incredible DH was. I’m sure they’ve kept all the goods buried in some hole outside Houston.
Not to be mean, but I was there for the first night of the bass tech taking over. Oooof, saying it was pretty rough is kind, but it did make me appreciate BILLY even more . It was kinda like a White Stripes show
Dusty Hill is Amazing RIP
@@michaeltaylors2456 ~ suppose it made you appreciate Dusty even more too.
I never get tired of watching this perfomance, great band.
These were the absolute best days of ZZ Top!
I like the vintage zz top better too.
yes from the seventies to the 80's very very good for sure I saw them later in 2000 in Tucson Arizona they were good but they wore these crazy outfits and started wearing the beany caps I think when they wore their western cowboy hats when in Texas was better
Wild Bill, they had a manager (Bill Ham) who was able to see the future of the business with the advent of MTV. He was willing to sacrifice the old audience for a massive, musically ignorant one that listened with their eyes. It worked out financially for sure.
Mid 70s best time to ZZ Top,when Billy was still playing Pearly Gates and before all the gimmicky guitars.
I was lucky to see them in Chicago before the Fandango 8 track was released.!! 2:46
MORE!! I need to see more of these bad ass shows!
That's when Gibbons had a great voice and could really jam instead of walking out like an 90 yr old.
We need more cowboy hat era footage!
When Top was cool and not full of themselves.
Yes I got to see ZZ Top in 1976 in Fort Worth Texas. Back then, I don't remember a lot of computer aided backgrounds tracks in their songs. I think it was just turned up load amps with sounds coming out of a guitar and a bass along with the drum set. To me, they were the best in those days.
Correct. I saw them in Houston, TX during the 76 Fandango Tour. That was back when they had early and evening shows. A masterpiece tour and yet there is no released footage even from the archives of the Summit Houston show. I have seen quite a few 70s Summit Houston shows from other popular artist from the Who(the 1st hard rock show) to many others but when are we gonna see a good ZZ Top Live Fandango show anywhere in Texas....especially Houston.
They have the rocking energy, and you can feel it.
ZZ Top and A-1 beer.Thanks from the Arizona desert!
When Top was cool and not full of themselves. Those were the days.
There older concert footage is much better than stuff today. Gibbons is one of the greatest ever. Hendrix was right.
When Top was cool and not full of themselves. Those were the days.
Their best music was the first three albums. ZZ Tops 1st Album, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres.
I had all three and it feels like it was yesterday. Sure did smoke a lot of weed driving down the road with an eight track of ZZ Top playing with the bass rattling those car speakers. Man those were the days!
I'd include Fandango.
@@c.s.mcleod7383
Most definitely!
The "live" side is just OK.... but the studio side is AWESOME 🎸
Exacyly, they couldn't do it today... Elwood could,. but Billie's voice is shot.
Dusty and Billy in their
Porter Waggoner suits!
During their "Fandango" and "Tejas" tours.
R. I. P.
DUSTY 🇨🇱 HILL
When Top was cool and not full of themselves. Those were the days.
I was at this concert back in 1976, I believe they were a warm-up band for Alice Cooper.
That ain't no Texas flag there betwixt Dusty's first and last name. That's the flag of the country of Chile. Ya need to correct that thang.
LOVE this song! I wish they did this classic stuff now! Although I love the recent stuff too! SOngs like "Pincushion", "I Gotsta Get Paid" & "Poke Chop Sandwich"...they just have that laid back and chugging feel! Love it all!
I was a kid ... my friends older sis who did not like ZZ won tix on the radio ,,, gave emto him ,,, he took me ... Chicago Stadium late 70s . 2 sets... 1st with fandango outfits ... rinestone outfits , short beards... Frank Beard -no beard. 2nd set blue jeans and overalls... livestock onstage ... Atlanta Rythem Section backed them up... curtain came down at the end and said Adios Amigos... ZZ TOP....in my memory , one of my best shows ever....If you wanna blow yer top
A lot of guitarists have come and gone, but Gibbons has the best tone ever. Clapton had it for awhile with Bluesbreakers and Cream, but Gibbons is better.
Real Texas Blues!
David Gilmour.
Ever heard of Jimmy Page or Billy Duffy
@@Sweet--Richard.4981 Page's tone not nearly as good in concert
@@Sweet--Richard.4981 What about Ritchie Blackmore
Best guitar tone ever
This was a few months into the 'Worldwide Texas Tour' - 2nd leg - they usually had 1 or 2 bands open the show - on this night it was Styx and Elvin Bishop - earlier on the 1st leg of the tour they had Blue Öyster Cult open a few times - they'd just come out with (Don't Fear) The Reaper - so ZZ Top had the live longhorn steer & buffalo - and BÖC had the cowbell ..
Good God, gimme a time machine, quick!!!!
I was there !! Worldwide Texas Tour. Capitol Centre. Styx was the supporting band. Stage looked like a zoo. Longhorn steer buffalo vultures rattlesnakes. What a show !!
Such a BIG bass sound! Awesome
Man, they were a great live band, I especially love the early stuff with Billy rocking his Les Paul into Marshalls, killer guitar tone.
Old school shit right there thank you brothers
Pure gold! The golden era. My God listen to Frank Beard! Of course Billy and Dusty are awesome but Frank plays some hots fills in here!
He was a really great drummer. Great sound and feel (he's speeding up, but it sounds great!), lot's of paradiddle and quarter triplet stuff in his playing, really unique. Unfortunately, he's not really doing that type of stuff much anymore, but hey, it's 45 years later now... Still love to see them.
@@alexlex8500 He really had his hi hat set high in those days. And yeah the stuff they do now uses mostly dance beat drumming.
Imagine being a drummer as skilled as Frank and having to face the fact that your band's highest selling albums were recorded with the most basic of programmed drum machines.
@@termsofusepolice Yep, no doubt about it. That's where the money was though. I'm sure he didn't mind the money after blowing $75,000.00 on heroin in the late 70's. Thank God he was able to kick the habit.
One of the most underrated drummers of all time.
Billy`s tone here is Godly!! The Pearly gates Les Paul..Man what a sound
Yea, sure he was still using regular gauge stings at this point. Can hear it.
+mark johnson I can hear a wound 3rd.
That's when he had a great voice and could really jam instead of walking out like an 90 yr old.
Saw them play this in 1974 at Winterland SF. They were second on the bill to Steve Miller who was touring behind his Joker album. The version they played that night was way better, more faithful to the album version that has a cool "strut" pacing. Perhaps a touch of "white line fever" to this one? Oh well, the "Double Down Live DVD" I think has them at their vintage finest, it's a 1980 show from Europe. Absolutely stunning and very high quality audio rendition. Combine that one with the '08 Live in Texas and you've got the bases covered.
Obsessed!!! These guys were loud as hell ..💕💋🎼🎼🤠 true Texans
I saw ZZ Top on the Tres Hombres tour. They didn't have no beards. That show ranks right up there in the top 10.
Yes, there needs to be more late 60's early 70's footage of a few different bands. Not Zepplin.
Jethro Tull a Passion Play. I saw that show. It was freakin' awesome.
& some others, when I think of them.
Man, they were SOOOO much better live back then...sound-wise and chops-wise!
ua-cam.com/video/lF9Z2ud1bUM/v-deo.html
Best era of zz's
DUSTY S VOICE AGED BETTER THAN BILLY'S. 45 YRS LATER AT HIS LAST SHOW. EVEN SO HE BELTED OUT TUSH LIME A 25 YR OLD WHILE HOLDIN DOWN THAT MONUMENTAL BOTTOM TO THE TOP! HIS VOICE WAS VERY INTEGRAL AS WELL. .GOD IM SO GONNA MISS THAT GUY. I LOVE ME SOME ZZ TOP BUT A BIG SLICE OF WHAT MADE THAT GREASY SOUND SO GOOD IS NEVER GONNA BE THE SAME.
Wow...Drummer looks 22. Young.. wow!😋love it😋😋
He was 28 1/2 years old. Born June 11,'49
Not only a great Bass player, but a hell of a back up Vocalist!
Christ Allmighty! ZZ Top back then was the full-on Don't-Mess-With-Texas freight train. Whatever happened to that?!
They got old
Everybody gets old.
They went into that 80s sound. There was no MTV in the 70s and nothing got filmed. Double albums were the rage but that didnt happen either
Innerspace100 Synthesizers happened. And they went commercial. I like plenty of their stuff from Eliminator and afterwards, but their 70s stuff is so much better. One of those bands that changed their style to make it big, while the stuff they did when they weren’t as popular was better. REO Speedwagon is another example of that.
MTV
I always loved those Rhinestone "Nudie" Suits.. Grand O'l Opry Style!..🎸🐂
haha yea
3 excellents musicians
Keep on Boogie 🤘🤘🤘
Were is the Operative word. That's when he had a great voice and could really jam instead of walking out like an 90 yr old.
I love those little asides .. "you know what i'm talkin' about".
This video shows just how amazing a drummer Frank is.
Ridiculous that only 6 years later he would be replaced with a drum machine on Eliminator.
At 1:47-1:52 Frank Beard kills it
That was impressive
old school rock and roll I love it
No flashy image back then! ZZ Top and Bachman Turner Overdrive in the 70s both proved you could rock just as hard as KISS and Aerosmith and still look like your average truck driver!
Oh The Tone🌵🌵🏜️🏜️BADASS to See this🎸🎸🎸
Classic vintage footage. Not enough out there of ZZ from these days. Most material available is 79-80 going forward.
Just what in the hell is going on here? You don't cut the reverend off just as he gets cooking with a solo! Dayuummmmm
Agreed 💯
FRANK ON THE COWBELL, DON'T HEAR THAT VERY OFTEN! R.I.P. DUST!
What a smorgasbord variety of great bands concerts you still had to choose from in 1976 and 1977 in North America before Led Zeppelin's last tour there in 1977 and Lynyrd Skynyrd's final one that Summer before tragedy in October. It is like the United States would see the last of Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin and the classic Lynyrd Skynyrd Band Lineup that Spring / Summer 1977. Lets not forget also it would also be Chicago's last Tours that year with Terry Kath. It seems like 1977 was the last year of a lot of things. Lynyrd Skynyrd's Leader and Female Singer gone. Elvis Presley gone. Mr. New Year's Eve Guy Lombardo died that year. Bing Crosby died that year.
Like the bass drum picture with the mexican riding the donkey both with a HUGE crazy smile...
Wow...I was at this Largo,Md show!
Did not see the bulls on the side of the stage ,in the video
Top of their form... before they got too famous. Glad to know I'm not the only one that plays ZZT covers too fast.
this song is a loos, laid back, cruising song... They Sped it up about 100x and it Rocks even more!
"That's where we are, innit?" that tells you how many tour dates this band played from 1972 on.
Yes! Saw em a few weeks later. Thanks
Gibbons has those mini humbuckers that Townshend was fond of...damn his guitar sounds awesome...oldest clip I've seen of these guys...there must be earlier footage...
This les Paul has full sized humbuckers
Them damn boys from texas...love it
Sounds like a Plexi Marshall in use. Miss that guitar sound of yesteryear.
That would be correct Billy got THE first marshall stack in Texas jtm 45/100 for ever..
Best live act ever
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I remember the cameras and big screens were ON at the Summit in Houston during this tour in '76. Would there be sound to accompany the video feed? Surely this historic footage is not lost. SHARE IT!!
Bloomin brilliant !!!!!
Yes it's true...the following Houston Summit Shows that have been released on UA-cam are KISS '77, The Cars '84, Queen '77 to name a few. Those are some heavy hitters...........but where is that 1976 ZZ Top Fandango Summit Video????
Awww yeah! That puts the 'T' in Texas y'all. God bless that little ol band.
It's a shame they don't play anything like this anymore in concert. Also why is there not more footage from this era?
Listen to the original - search for Stray Dog Chevrolet - and you will see why they don't do these things anymore. This is a pale cover ...
@@craigcrabfoot319 Pale cover? This is the original. Billy Gibbons wrote it. Came out in 1972 on Rio Grande Mud. Stray Dogs version came out a year later in 73 and they changed the lyrics. This live version blows theirs out of the water..
@@justinstearns9723 didn't dusty sing it on the album
@@jerryabram5461 Nope Billy did.
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You're definitely correct, Billy sang it.
Billy sang the lead part, just like he did on this video....and
Dusty sang harmony.
Aww the solo cut cut in this version!
Thanks for posting this. Amazing performance. Shame that there's not more from this gig.
Hallelujah YEAH! RIP Dusty...the one and only...YEAH
Binging on Z.Z Top R.I.P Dusty
Rockin the trio
Just straight up badness.
There was another clip of this on UA-cam a few years ago that included the whole solo. It was only up for a short time. Did anyone else see it?
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the term "underrated" gets thrown around a lot when we speak of our heros, but subjectively speaking. Frank was FUCKING GODDAMN CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED. Listen to that guy groove.
Frank Beard is amazing, such a great drumer
Legendary
Yes! Jim B...
Big, top Fan!
..and I must say, because I heard this sorta bootleg..
Did an awesome job on the remix! Thankzz Jim!
Keep on keepin' On*
This concert is a fine good reason why someone must invent a time machine!