You're dead right bout Billy. I'm 54 yo. Born in 1969. It was about 1975 I'm in the first grade. I'd never heard nonthing but gospel music and country. My uncle put this record on. And my life literally changed in many ways from that moment. The song was I heard it on the x. The voice coming out of the speakers and that 59 Les paul Pearly gates was screaming as loud as Billy was. Needless to say if I ever heard country again from that day in 75. It was on someone else's radio. Or an advertisement. And to this day I can't stand country and I grew up in the sticks of North Carolina Bass fishing and deer hunting. But only rock was good enough. I became since age 12 a fairly proficient drummer. And guitarist for what I heard at home. Getting picked up from school in my uncles 1969 Plymouth road runner. Man what happened to time. Thankfully the music back then is still there.
Billy has been one of my favorite guitar players for years. He was born to play guitar and he has a style and feel that is truly unique and all his own. Play on Rev! ❤
I was introduce to ZZ Top thru the airwaves in 72ish & pot about the same time , Tres Hombres was my first, ZZ Top album, been a fan ever since, 14 then 65 now , rip Dusty.. gbnf
Love Billy. SRV's gotta be the best thing that ever came out of Texas if you're gonna frame it that way... But ultimately it's not a contest. They both taught us different things. Valuable things.
No such thing as the best. Johnny Winter, Bugs Henderson, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Anson Funderberg, Smokin Joe Kubeck, Lightning Hopkins, Mance Lipscombe, Denny Freeman, Derek O Brian, Albert Collins, JL and SR Vaughan, T Bone Walker, Charlie Christian (Oklahoma?), Johnny Guitar Watson, Dimebag, Eric Johnson. BFG is great but to say he's the best? I'm not too sure
I find Billy's playing a lot more interesting personally. SRV at times sounded similar to Jimi or Lonnie Mack.Billy sounds like nobody but Billy. He got those tones that make your hair stand. He wasn't afraid to get heavy .
"Cheap Sunglasses" was the first ZZ Top song I heard, I was with my dad in his car....Still my favorite song of theirs to this day. Every time I listen to it I think of my pop's and I riding in his car like it was yesterday.
There was an ad that ran in Guitar Player magazine for a number of years in which Mr.Gibbons used a slang term for playing guitar that I'd never before encountered: "Spankin' the Plank"! It immediately cracked me up and I made a point of paying attention to this bearded gentleman who spoke so colourfully. "Whoa-that dude's inn ZZ Top!", I brilliantly surmised. This was right around the time "Sharp-Dressed Man" came out and Mr. Gibbons spanked that plank all the way to the top! I'm genuinely moved by the fact that Dusty and the guys had talked about what they were going to do without him and concluded that the show must go on. Rest in Rock and Roll, Dusty. May the show go on and on.
I've seen ZZ Top when nobody ever heard of them. They opened for Ten Years After and Wild Turkey at Bill Grahm's Winterland in San Francisco. It was either Dec.1 or Dec.2 in 1972. My friend and I were looking at our tickets thinking..."who the hell is ZZ Top?" I have seen them 4 other times and they are one of my favorites.
My friend had a knowing smirk on his face, that day back in 1974! As he pulled Tres Hombres out of its sleeve! Wait till you hear this! As the first notes of Waiting for the Bus rang out in the room, a shiver went up my spine! I’d found what I’d been looking for! That day changed my life forever! After that, I wasn’t interested in listening to anyone else! I listened to that album every day for years! I still do! My eldest son’s name is ZZ! Full name, ZZ Dusty Billy Frank John Lee BB Muddy Hank! I met him briefly and was able to tell him that I loved him so much I named my son after him! Thank you for the video! Excellent! God Bless!
Wow…..you really didn’t think about how much of a pain in the ass that would be to write on any document did you? Kind of a dick move….literally. It doesn’t even sound cool……
("Sgt.J."). The years i, was trying to get something going worth a crap. I, was happy "Jesus just left Chicago/ Waitin for the Bus". And, a few others were known by some guys that wasn't going to do much good."Some Bartenders have heard "Tush." So, Much they get irritable. Lol. I, Think too many ppl are playing "Sharp dressed dude." Wich is... Over priced tennis shoes 👟. Baggy jeans 👖. And, A "Tu pach" T-Shirt👕. Lol. And, "Gimme 3Steps" By "Lynard Skynard." Is played to much. I, do hard rock. And, Some metal. But... I, still like what i, was learning how to play. And, listening 🎧 to. And, Going to see in Concert. ✌️, Rockin Roll.🍻🍻🎸🎸🥁🎤🎻🎺🎷🎹🎸👯👯🎙️🎛️🎚️🎧🔊🔊🎆🎇🏟️👍🤪☕☕.And, Take care.🕊️
I was about 14 or 15, my older brother took me to his friends house where I first heard tres hombres, I remembered it like it was yesterday but it was 40+ years ago.
Growing up in the Houston area at the beginning of ZZ Top I fell in love with their music. I was at the concert in Austin from the Fandango album. The concert was incredible, hot but oh so worth it. You can hear me on all the live parts of the album...the loudest whistle. When my adult son moved home from the west coast & found out someone had stole my Fandango album for Christmas he replaced it. I asked him to listen to it with me. The very beginning which you play here he paused the record player & exclaimed 'Holy Sh!t Mom that's you!!! I've got goose pumps' I used that whistle to call the kids home at dinner time - I agree with you, I just can't imagine ZZ without Billy.
Discovered zztop with tush on a hot summer afternoon. Like you went out and purchased fandango. Wow!. I like this. Later purchased tres hombres, followed by Rio grande mud, and first album. I was hooked. In the next couple of years I was fortunate enough to see z z top in concert 3 times in Massachusetts. Nice job on your presentation. Thanks.
I saw those guys in Boulder co in 82 just a bar on the hill i couldn't. Believe what i was seeing they were really Great thank you ZZ for 3 sets of the best picking l ever saw
Going through a box of old ticket stubs not long ago, My first rock concert May 19, 1973 (Dusty Hill's 24th birthday, I've come to find out) East Tennessee State University Rory Gallagher ZZ Top $4 It was about six months before Tres Hombres came out. Rory was pure fire right out of the gate, and I think he had as much fun as anyone. Then, BG and the boys came out. Back when they were the most badass blues rock band that ever was. Straw hats, jeans, no beards(but Frank. lol), and BG in a white tshirt w/ pack of Marlboros rolled up in the sleeve(lol). Needless to say, Rory and BG made a big impression on a 16 yr old. Blues rock, slide guitar nut ever since. RIP Dusty, Rory, Lou, Rod. Thank You!
As a union stagehand I had the pleasure of working for them on at least 7 or 8 tours. I was also the doorman/ bouncer at the carabana reggea club in Houston on times blvd. Billie Gibbons would come by occasionally, a very nice man. He tipped me $50 one night because I busted his gun toting friend and I let him stay. Dusty has a brother named Rocky if I recall who also came in occasionally. My older sister worked at the dome shadows club in 1970 and my mom and I went to pick her up one night and she took me backstage to see this great new band, ZZ Top. Needless to say I am a fan. R.I.P Dusty.
I was born in Texas but my family moved to Kansas when I was twelve. I remember listening to ZZTop has a Kansas teenager and I missed Texas. I think it was La Grange I heard first. I've been hooked ever since. I've seen them seven times in concert. I moved back home to Texas years ago and I'm still listening.
saw them in Kansas City in 1973 with Bachman Turner , they were killer , I had been listening to them since Rio Grande Mud , but when Tres Hombres. came out they became a favorite ,man lots of good music in the late 1970s
My very first real to reel recording purchase was ZZ Tops Fandango.. and I saw them in concert back in the mid-70s when a little-known musician to me at the time named Bob Seger was opening for them,. I was deaf for the next 3 days after the concert..lol I agree that Billy Gibbons is an awesome guitar player, but let us not forget Stevie Ray Vaughan also came from Texas..
back in 78 one day my friend pulled out "Tres Hombres and Tejas" asked if I heard ZZTop. "no-p". well. I could not believe what I was hearing! wow. I couldn't understand how someone could wright such lyrics and produce such clean and crisped sound. then I picked up Deguello. then El Loco LOL. I have seen them 7 times. and even had Dusty wave to me once when I called his name, I was in the stands and he was out beside the stage, that was an hour or so before they started to play on stage. when I heard Dusty passed I had a tear in my eye all day. yes. those 3 guys are that much a part of my life.
I first heard ZZ Top's "La Grange" when I was a kid in the early 70's while in the 9th grade going to Crockett HS in Austin TX. I loved it. Then I discovered ZZ Tops First Album and "Brown Sugar". Have mercy! That song is still my favorite after all these years. God bless Billy, Frank, and Elwood. Dusty gets no love from me. He's already made to heaven!
I wish I hadn't been so contrary and hade just recently (a couple of years ago....) Really started Listening to them. I'd have listened and loved ZZ Top a Lonnnnnggg time ago. But better Late than Never I guess. They Are/Were Fabulous!!
Great video. I love many guitar players. Slash, SRV, Albert King, but nobody gets me to smile as much as Billy. I absolutely love the way he makes the guitar sound. Nothing is better. For me he is the absolute King.
I had Fandango Rio Grande Mud and Tres Hombres. My sister had the first album. The newer stuff I never bought the CD's but liked a few of the songs that were on the bluesy side. Hell they were all good.
had to stop at 1 15 and change.... For me Nasty Dogs from Fandango. Good intro. All in. Epi LP and IBZ V here. Saw them for Tejas, Cow Palace. Loudest but clearest bass from Dusty i ever heard , Winterland about a dozen times, etc. I'll never forget this.... Great offering !!!
I personally love the "live" side of Fandango. They were very impressive in their younger days. The singing was incredible on that side. The dialog between the 3 of them was so tight and spot on. The 1st time I heard that I been a fan ever since.
Since way back in the 70s ZZ-TOP has been my absolute favorite band, bar none. Saw them in concert three times back in the 80s. Best concerts I ever saw, my favorite was the one that had Jeff Healey as opening act. OUTSTANDING! I still have my ZZ key chain from the Eliminator tour, and the T-shirt from the 1990 Recycler tour.
And Ron from what I can tell there's still quite a bit of interest in Billy G ,ZZTOP ,Stevie Ray Vaughn and others from the southwest Texas rocking blues wave 🌊 of the whole southern rock explosion 💥 that was the beginning of the end of the British invasion into American Roc and Roll
I'm 67 group just down the street from Billy Gibbons I got some stories too would love to chat almost everything you say is authentic I know a couple things are just a slight bit different but close enough that they are the ultimate and that's what formed my lifestyle in the great state of Texas growing up. I'm in Ormond Beach Florida now but I still watch them and I've seen him since Justin is gone to even in Daytona Beach Florida metal many times backstage Billy Gibbons does remember me that makes me feel good. Would love to tell some of my stories growing up with them song so many times great band My favorite
My first encounter with zztop was tush some time in the early 70s ,don't remember where I heard but I have been a fan ever since. Going to Spotify to listen.
As I was about to say was the southwest Texas rockin blues 🌊 🌊 was the last phase of the whole southern rock explosion 💥 onto the music 🎶 scene in the late 70s to mid 80s that pretty much ended the British invasion in the music 🎶 scene world wide
Bless them 🙏❤👍👍👍👍👍 Little big band from Texas From me here in sweden Favorite album well! All of them, cant stop listening To them! 👍❤🙏⭐👍👍👍👍👍 Hockt seens 1977 tejas album 🎵🎸🎵🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸
As a native Houstonian , and TEXAN, I tend to agree, with no disrespect to the video. Fandango was my first ZZ TOP album and me and my friend ,down the street wore it out! We would put on our cowboy hats and play air guitar. I always wished I would have got to go to that bbq on the picture. Tejas is GREAT,too. Avalon Hideaway rocks,
Nobody will believe this but I took guitar lessons from him. He ran an ad in the Houston Press guitar lessons Billy 5.00. I went to his home in Belair and hung out with him in his little bedroom and we tried to discect Jeff Beck and Eric and some Peter Green. I was in awe of him and still am.
Got to see ZZ TOP just last weekend. It was a great show. Billy was great as always. Frank is amazing on drums. Sure did miss seeing Dusty, but Elwood did a fine job filling in. But where they got new bassist. Their is only one Billy
I’ve been a fan of Billy and his playing for many years. I have a Les Paul and love it. Billy’s songs play really well on it. ❤ I got to meet Billy about two years ago in Nashville, my home town. He was so nice and he even said, “Let’s take a pic together.” That pic hangs on my wall at home. 😊🙏
not sure how Gibbons does it time after time after time, but his style & solo's made me want to play to sound that cool. Same with Van Halen but Ed's on another planet whereas Billy seems attainable. I've read Billy's dad was a big shot in the movie industry (?) & somehow led to Billy meeting BB King during a recording session & who gave him a lesson. If true, can't even imagine how that would influence your life.
Great video! ZZ Top will always reign supreme - they were my first concert back in 1974 when I was in the 8th grade. I have seen ZZ 4 times and have never been disappointed. I agree, when the good Reverend Billy decides to stop, we'll have to settle back into the vast catalog of music to get our fix. Keep on rockin!'
I’m an old dude, big fan of ZZ from the beginning. To be honest, I don’t listen to Eliminator much with the exception of Need Ya Tonight. I’ve gotten used to the “new” sound of the band and I like a lot of it but my play list is mostly the early stuff (douse that light). I ain’t mad or anything, as a matter of fact I’m happy for the guys, they gotta pay the bills and Eliminator sure done that for em. I saw em live a few years ago and it was a good show and I’ll be buying the next album. Keep on rockin and RIP Dusty.
Thanks for this, I've reall y enjoyed it. I've been a fan since I first heard them in the 70's, I play guitar and have often jammed along to ZZ Top. But Billy Gibbons is out on his own for sound and talent!
Great documentary mate. Thanks for taking the time to make this. Really awesome. Love Billy and The Top, have done since the 80’s and Eliminator. One of the best
i DO enjoy your work! i want to set down and binge watch! seen them on their "world wide Texas tour" 1st sold out show at the astrodome! when they done blue jean blues for 10-15 minutes--Billy had the house on fire--nothing short of AMAZING!! just my opinion when a band [ac/dc] loses a main member they should change their name---Dusty, Billy, Frank they made ZZ who they are!!! play the same songs-- yes! kinda respect for the fallen!
You're dead right bout Billy. I'm 54 yo. Born in 1969. It was about 1975 I'm in the first grade. I'd never heard nonthing but gospel music and country. My uncle put this record on. And my life literally changed in many ways from that moment. The song was I heard it on the x. The voice coming out of the speakers and that 59 Les paul Pearly gates was screaming as loud as Billy was. Needless to say if I ever heard country again from that day in 75. It was on someone else's radio. Or an advertisement. And to this day I can't stand country and I grew up in the sticks of North Carolina Bass fishing and deer hunting. But only rock was good enough. I became since age 12 a fairly proficient drummer. And guitarist for what I heard at home. Getting picked up from school in my uncles 1969 Plymouth road runner. Man what happened to time. Thankfully the music back then is still there.
Billy has been one of my favorite guitar players for years. He was born to play guitar and he has a style and feel that is truly unique and all his own. Play on Rev! ❤
I was introduce to ZZ Top thru the airwaves in 72ish & pot about the same time , Tres Hombres was my first, ZZ Top album, been a fan ever since, 14 then 65 now , rip Dusty.. gbnf
Love Billy. SRV's gotta be the best thing that ever came out of Texas if you're gonna frame it that way... But ultimately it's not a contest. They both taught us different things. Valuable things.
Right on. SRV surely was. Electrical bluesman
No such thing as the best. Johnny Winter, Bugs Henderson, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Anson Funderberg, Smokin Joe Kubeck, Lightning Hopkins, Mance Lipscombe, Denny Freeman, Derek O Brian, Albert Collins, JL and SR Vaughan, T Bone Walker, Charlie Christian (Oklahoma?), Johnny Guitar Watson, Dimebag, Eric Johnson. BFG is great but to say he's the best? I'm not too sure
I find Billy's playing a lot more interesting personally. SRV at times sounded similar to Jimi or Lonnie Mack.Billy sounds like nobody but Billy. He got those tones that make your hair stand. He wasn't afraid to get heavy .
Right on time hun
@@kevindean1327 Doug Sahm, too!
"Cheap Sunglasses" was the first ZZ Top song I heard, I was with my dad in his car....Still my favorite song of theirs to this day. Every time I listen to it I think of my pop's and I riding in his car like it was yesterday.
Good choice!👌
There was an ad that ran in Guitar Player magazine for a number of years in which Mr.Gibbons used a slang term for playing guitar that I'd never before encountered:
"Spankin' the Plank"! It immediately cracked me up and I made a point of paying attention to this bearded gentleman who spoke so colourfully. "Whoa-that dude's inn ZZ Top!", I brilliantly surmised. This was right around the time "Sharp-Dressed Man" came out and Mr. Gibbons spanked that plank all the way to the top!
I'm genuinely moved by the fact that Dusty and the guys had talked about what they were going to do without him and concluded that the show must go on. Rest in Rock and Roll, Dusty. May the show go on and on.
I've seen ZZ Top when nobody ever heard of them. They opened for Ten Years After and Wild Turkey at Bill Grahm's Winterland in San Francisco. It was either Dec.1 or Dec.2 in 1972. My friend and I were looking at our tickets thinking..."who the hell is ZZ Top?" I have seen them 4 other times and they are one of my favorites.
First saw the Top in '71 in South Texas. Was completely blown away by those dudes. "Don't be one way with that sh*t."
My friend had a knowing smirk on his face, that day back in 1974! As he pulled Tres Hombres out of its sleeve! Wait till you hear this! As the first notes of Waiting for the Bus rang out in the room, a shiver went up my spine! I’d found what I’d been looking for! That day changed my life forever! After that, I wasn’t interested in listening to anyone else! I listened to that album every day for years! I still do! My eldest son’s name is ZZ! Full name, ZZ Dusty Billy Frank John Lee BB Muddy Hank! I met him briefly and was able to tell him that I loved him so much I named my son after him! Thank you for the video! Excellent! God Bless!
Wow…..you really didn’t think about how much of a pain in the ass that would be to write on any document did you? Kind of a dick move….literally. It doesn’t even sound cool……
("Sgt.J."). The years i, was trying to get something going worth a crap. I, was happy "Jesus just left Chicago/ Waitin for the Bus". And, a few others were known by some guys that wasn't going to do much good."Some Bartenders have heard "Tush." So, Much they get irritable. Lol. I, Think too many ppl are playing "Sharp dressed dude." Wich is... Over priced tennis shoes 👟. Baggy jeans 👖. And, A "Tu pach" T-Shirt👕. Lol. And, "Gimme 3Steps" By "Lynard Skynard." Is played to much. I, do hard rock. And, Some metal. But... I, still like what i, was learning how to play. And, listening 🎧 to. And, Going to see in Concert. ✌️, Rockin Roll.🍻🍻🎸🎸🥁🎤🎻🎺🎷🎹🎸👯👯🎙️🎛️🎚️🎧🔊🔊🎆🎇🏟️👍🤪☕☕.And, Take care.🕊️
I was about 14 or 15, my older brother took me to his friends house where I first heard tres hombres, I remembered it like it was yesterday but it was 40+ years ago.
Sellouts? Never. Trailblazers and Pioneers? Always and forever. ZZ Top stand alone. They’ve been my life’s soundtrack for 5 decades.
“ Just Got back from Baby’s” and Nasty Dog and Funky Kings “ ! did it for me ! Now that’s early Top !
ZZ Top's First Album and Rio Grande Mud made me a fan
I came to the realization that I must be old I saw ZZ Top in concert when they had no beards they were all clean Shaved Now that's old
Amen to that. I'm still a fan too after all these years.
First show I ever went to and first show I took my son to
Growing up in the Houston area at the beginning of ZZ Top I fell in love with their music. I was at the concert in Austin from the Fandango album. The concert was incredible, hot but oh so worth it. You can hear me on all the live parts of the album...the loudest whistle. When my adult son moved home from the west coast & found out someone had stole my Fandango album for Christmas he replaced it. I asked him to listen to it with me. The very beginning which you play here he paused the record player & exclaimed 'Holy Sh!t Mom that's you!!! I've got goose pumps' I used that whistle to call the kids home at dinner time - I agree with you, I just can't imagine ZZ without Billy.
I agree, just like John Fogerty was CCR, Billy G is ZZTop. Btw my first ZZ Top album was Tres Hombres and it was on 8 track (1977).
Never forget the first time I heard Brown Sugar still blows my mind to this day
their first album was like a hit of crack for me ...still love that album. going to listen to hit today now, thanks!
That was really nice and ZZ forever!
When i heard tres hombres back in hs in the 70s...ive been a zz fan since
Discovered zztop with tush on a hot summer afternoon. Like you went out and purchased fandango. Wow!. I like this. Later purchased tres hombres, followed by Rio grande mud, and first album. I was hooked. In the next couple of years I was fortunate enough to see z z top in concert 3 times in Massachusetts. Nice job on your presentation. Thanks.
I saw those guys in Boulder co in 82 just a bar on the hill i couldn't. Believe what i was seeing they were really
Great thank you ZZ for 3 sets of the best picking l ever saw
Heard it on the X was my first ZZ Top song!
Just saw them last night and Billy was still as good as the first time I saw them in '72.
Going through a box of old ticket stubs not long ago,
My first rock concert
May 19, 1973 (Dusty Hill's 24th birthday, I've come to find out)
East Tennessee State University
Rory Gallagher
ZZ Top
$4
It was about six months before Tres Hombres came out. Rory was pure fire right out of the gate, and I think he had as much fun as anyone. Then, BG and the boys came out. Back when they were the most badass blues rock band that ever was. Straw hats, jeans, no beards(but Frank. lol), and BG in a white tshirt w/ pack of Marlboros rolled up in the sleeve(lol). Needless to say, Rory and BG made a big impression on a 16 yr old. Blues rock, slide guitar nut ever since.
RIP Dusty, Rory, Lou, Rod. Thank You!
As a union stagehand I had the pleasure of working for them on at least 7 or 8 tours. I was also the doorman/ bouncer at the carabana reggea club in Houston on times blvd. Billie Gibbons would come by occasionally, a very nice man. He tipped me $50 one night because I busted his gun toting friend and I let him stay. Dusty has a brother named Rocky if I recall who also came in occasionally. My older sister worked at the dome shadows club in 1970 and my mom and I went to pick her up one night and she took me backstage to see this great new band, ZZ Top. Needless to say I am a fan. R.I.P Dusty.
Cool story. Thanks for sharing!
Three coolest and sweetest dudes on the planet...Billy the Tone Master...
I was born in Texas but my family moved to Kansas when I was twelve. I remember listening to ZZTop has a Kansas teenager and I missed Texas. I think it was La Grange I heard first. I've been hooked ever since. I've seen them seven times in concert. I moved back home to Texas years ago and I'm still listening.
saw them in Kansas City in 1973 with Bachman Turner , they were killer , I had been listening to them since Rio Grande Mud , but when Tres Hombres. came out they became a favorite ,man lots of good music in the late 1970s
Frank lives down the street from me. Great guy and a scratch golfer!
The best trio
As great as he is Johnny Winter was the greatest guitar slinger from Texas
My very first real to reel recording purchase was ZZ Tops Fandango.. and I saw them in concert back in the mid-70s when a little-known musician to me at the time named Bob Seger was opening for them,. I was deaf for the next 3 days after the concert..lol
I agree that Billy Gibbons is an awesome guitar player, but let us not forget Stevie Ray Vaughan also came from Texas..
I was 18 years old in 83’. Those MTV Videos are part of my life. They were in very heavy rotation.
long live rev. willy g. seeing him holding a strat or tele is blowing my mind right now
back in 78 one day my friend pulled out "Tres Hombres and Tejas" asked if I heard ZZTop. "no-p". well. I could not believe what I was hearing! wow. I couldn't understand how someone could wright such lyrics and produce such clean and crisped sound. then I picked up Deguello. then El Loco LOL. I have seen them 7 times. and even had Dusty wave to me once when I called his name, I was in the stands and he was out beside the stage, that was an hour or so before they started to play on stage. when I heard Dusty passed I had a tear in my eye all day. yes. those 3 guys are that much a part of my life.
I'm from Kansas City Missouri and he's always been my favorite guitarist, no one sound like the Reverend.
I first heard ZZ Top's "La Grange" when I was a kid in the early 70's while in the 9th grade going to Crockett HS in Austin TX. I loved it. Then I discovered ZZ Tops First Album and "Brown Sugar". Have mercy! That song is still my favorite after all these years. God bless Billy, Frank, and Elwood. Dusty gets no love from me. He's already made to heaven!
There was no such thing as a “the” or a “ninth grade” in the ‘70’s! It was being a Freshman in High School
In 1969, I was in the 9th grade at Junior High. High school started in the 10th
@@arkyxrider must be one of the slow kids
Ilove this Man BillyGibbons
I wish I hadn't been so contrary and hade just recently (a couple of years ago....) Really started Listening to them. I'd have listened and loved ZZ Top a Lonnnnnggg time ago. But better Late than Never I guess. They Are/Were Fabulous!!
Great video. I love many guitar players. Slash, SRV, Albert King, but nobody gets me to smile as much as Billy. I absolutely love the way he makes the guitar sound. Nothing is better. For me he is the absolute King.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!
I had Fandango Rio Grande Mud and Tres Hombres. My sister had the first album. The newer stuff I never bought the CD's but liked a few of the songs that were on the bluesy side. Hell they were all good.
1976 on the way to school heard La Grange and was hooked...Texas legends to the world...
Grew up listening to ZZ Top and Johnny Winter in the 70’s. I listen to them to this day. Being from Houston I was very much a fan. 👍👍
Great tribute to Billy! Thanks for sharing. A sad day for me when Dusty passed on. These guys sure passed the test of time.
No one can replace Dusty's vocals on TUSH .
Of course you can’t deny Billy Gibbons and his band mates
No way! It's good to see Billy and band carrying on! I believe dusty would of done the same? It's hard to put damn good to bed!!!
No one makes a guitar reveal it’s soul, like Billy .
Well Said!
had to stop at 1 15 and change....
For me Nasty Dogs from Fandango. Good intro.
All in. Epi LP and IBZ V here.
Saw them for Tejas, Cow Palace.
Loudest but clearest bass from Dusty i ever heard , Winterland about a dozen times, etc.
I'll never forget this....
Great offering !!!
ZZ top was a huge part of my teenage years!
Billy is on my personal Top 5 guitarist list. Simply awesome! Great video!
Great choice.
I personally love the "live" side of Fandango. They were very impressive in their younger days. The singing was incredible on that side. The dialog between the 3 of them was so tight and spot on. The 1st time I heard that I been a fan ever since.
I love the mellow down easy , so fast, when I was a kid and Colombian gold was king lol
"They don't call me the Texas, Heartbreaking, Homewrecker for nothing"!!!
The Best of ZZ TOPP was my first listen and I was hooked. Been a fan of them ever since.
Oh yeah
Fandango was my first ZZ Top ...8-track tape😉😉. And it was "Blue jean blues" that made a fan out of me... I was 14...
Billy could fall in a outhouse , then come out smelling like a rose. Cause that guitar is nearly priceless.
I agree with your assessment that once OG Billy retires the Band shall too
I'm sitting here watching this in Tanglewood, where Billy was born!
Since way back in the 70s ZZ-TOP has been my absolute favorite band, bar none. Saw them in concert three times back in the 80s. Best concerts I ever saw, my favorite was the one that had Jeff Healey as opening act. OUTSTANDING! I still have my ZZ key chain from the Eliminator tour, and the T-shirt from the 1990 Recycler tour.
Hey Ron I hope I'm not being too rude in asking if Stoner is really your last name
And Ron from what I can tell there's still quite a bit of interest in Billy G ,ZZTOP ,Stevie Ray Vaughn and others from the southwest Texas rocking blues wave 🌊 of the whole southern rock explosion 💥 that was the beginning of the end of the British invasion into American Roc and Roll
Hey my youngest sons mother in law, knew Billy's mother, and yes he was from Houston texas.
I'm 67 group just down the street from Billy Gibbons I got some stories too would love to chat almost everything you say is authentic I know a couple things are just a slight bit different but close enough that they are the ultimate and that's what formed my lifestyle in the great state of Texas growing up. I'm in Ormond Beach Florida now but I still watch them and I've seen him since Justin is gone to even in Daytona Beach Florida metal many times backstage Billy Gibbons does remember me that makes me feel good. Would love to tell some of my stories growing up with them song so many times great band My favorite
Hard not to like this band & that's what a good band does. Makes you like 'em.
Unless ya hate them, then your theory is blown.
I like them. One of my best pals was their sound man not long ago.
Good Afternoon.....Thank's for this Documentary of ZZ TOP and cie.........I LOVE ZZ TOP BECAUSE HE IS VERRY COOL MAN and PERFECTLY GUITARIST
You're welcome and thank you for watching!
My first intro to the Reverend Willie G was a late night in '72 with 'Rio Grande Mud' and I've loved BG ever since....
My first encounter with zztop was tush some time in the early 70s ,don't remember where I heard but I have been a fan ever since. Going to Spotify to listen.
As I was about to say was the southwest Texas rockin blues 🌊 🌊 was the last phase of the whole southern rock explosion 💥 onto the music 🎶 scene in the late 70s to mid 80s that pretty much ended the British invasion in the music 🎶 scene world wide
Tush hit as a single in 1975.
@@larryn2682 I am 64 I have killed a lot of brain cells since the late 70s.😎
Bless them 🙏❤👍👍👍👍👍
Little big band from Texas
From me here in sweden
Favorite album well!
All of them, cant stop listening
To them! 👍❤🙏⭐👍👍👍👍👍
Hockt seens 1977 tejas album
🎵🎸🎵🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸
Even to this Day.
There ain’t nothing like a Texas Bluesmen.
ZZ Top is One of a kind .
So true! Thanks for watching and commenting chase. Appreciate it!
As a native Houstonian , and TEXAN, I tend to agree, with no disrespect to the video. Fandango was my first ZZ TOP album and me and my friend ,down the street wore it out! We would put on our cowboy hats and play air guitar. I always wished I would have got to go to that bbq on the picture. Tejas is GREAT,too. Avalon Hideaway rocks,
Nobody will believe this but I took guitar lessons from him. He ran an ad in the Houston Press guitar lessons Billy 5.00. I went to his home in Belair and hung out with him in his little bedroom and we tried to discect Jeff Beck and Eric and some Peter Green. I was in awe of him and still am.
Got to see ZZ TOP just last weekend.
It was a great show. Billy was great as always. Frank is amazing on drums. Sure did miss seeing Dusty, but Elwood did a fine job filling in. But where they got new bassist. Their is only one Billy
Hey Edward thanks for your response I haven't heard much about ZZTOP lately except on UA-cam and most of the videos are not very recent
My favorite group since 1973. Never got to see them in concert though.
I’ve been a fan of Billy and his playing for many years. I have a Les Paul and love it. Billy’s songs play really well on it. ❤
I got to meet Billy about two years ago in Nashville, my home town.
He was so nice and he even said, “Let’s take a pic together.” That pic hangs on my wall at home. 😊🙏
Yep Billy is just an awesome guy!!
not sure how Gibbons does it time after time after time, but his style & solo's made me want to play to sound that cool. Same with Van Halen but Ed's on another planet whereas Billy seems attainable. I've read Billy's dad was a big shot in the movie industry (?) & somehow led to Billy meeting BB King during a recording session & who gave him a lesson. If true, can't even imagine how that would influence your life.
Great band! Love the blues!
Love ZZ Top and Rev. Billy! Great video, Doc!
Thanks man. Appreciate it!
Great video! ZZ Top will always reign supreme - they were my first concert back in 1974 when I was in the 8th grade. I have seen ZZ 4 times and have never been disappointed. I agree, when the good Reverend Billy decides to stop, we'll have to settle back into the vast catalog of music to get our fix. Keep on rockin!'
Love his stripped down guitar sound.
Truly stand alone
Another great video!!! Keep them coming! Oh, and I agree, without Billy there is no ZZ Top!!!
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I’m an old dude, big fan of ZZ from the beginning. To be honest, I don’t listen to Eliminator much with the exception of Need Ya Tonight. I’ve gotten used to the “new” sound of the band and I like a lot of it but my play list is mostly the early stuff (douse that light). I ain’t mad or anything, as a matter of fact I’m happy for the guys, they gotta pay the bills and Eliminator sure done that for em. I saw em live a few years ago and it was a good show and I’ll be buying the next album. Keep on rockin and RIP Dusty.
beautiful
Thanks for this, I've reall y enjoyed it. I've been a fan since I first heard them in the 70's, I play guitar and have often jammed along to ZZ Top.
But Billy Gibbons is out on his own for sound and talent!
You're welcome! Thank you for watching!
Great Guitarist !!!
Damn dude you are so cool like me lol at 61 and still listening . My favourite song is sharp dressed man !!!
Billy is the coolest Guitarist I know. I never know another who sounds like him
Fandango changed my life. I was 11 and into John Denver. Possibly the greatest live recording there is.
Yep, one of the best ever live albums,no doubt….
I always love it when Billy picks up a Strat.
Mine started with their first, back in 69. Being from s Texas I like Going down to Mexico.
Very well done! Enjoyed the hell out of it! And your right , when Billy gives it up no one can fill his shoes!
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!
This guy has a great voice. Good storyteller too
Thanks Wayne. Appreciate you stopping by and watching the video.
Great documentary mate. Thanks for taking the time to make this. Really awesome. Love Billy and The Top, have done since the 80’s and Eliminator. One of the best
You're very welcome my friend. Glad you enjoyed it
I saw zz top in the mid 80s in Australia backed by the Angel's and rose tattoo great band and a great concert.
Holy cow, $250. Great job on the band's history, I love your delivery, man. Thanks for posting.
I dunno man, I was done after El Loco.
Great video dude. Agree with everything you said. And their guitar tech earned his place on stage next to Billy. Long live ZZ Top
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It's very simple... there is no 1 2 3 ... they are one! And still are! ❤
The ultimate party band when I was in HS......
I love it. I obviously know the guitar very well but didn’t know how much serendipity was involved in the story. Great vid.
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Early to mid 70s. Radio and 8 track tape decks in cars lol.
These boys turned Texas loose, world wide . The Lonestar State has spoken.
Saw ZZ top in 76 with Johnny Winter Aerosmith.38 special at Angels stadium California
💯 percent agree Great blues man.Not too mention a great band.
i DO enjoy your work! i want to set down and binge watch! seen them on their "world wide Texas tour" 1st sold out show at the astrodome! when they done blue jean blues for 10-15 minutes--Billy had the house on fire--nothing short of AMAZING!! just my opinion when a band [ac/dc] loses a main member they should change their name---Dusty, Billy, Frank they made ZZ who they are!!! play the same songs-- yes! kinda respect for the fallen!
My very first CD i've ever got was ZZ Top greatest hits :D