excontradiction wrote:Gross.
I guess I saw them at 2012 Freefest?
Dropping Like Flies
Everything that band did after Deguello was gross.
StoneTheCrow wrote:I meant Freefest.
Everything that band did after Deguello was gross.
Ron Popeil, Infomercial King. But wait, there's more!
excontradiction wrote:
I guess I saw them at 2012 Freefest?
We were there. My wife just recalled that they "horrible, horrible, horrible." Can't say I disagree but still rip DH.
I read he had hepatitis
Who knows what happened..it’s bizarre
Anyways it’s pretty sad…
I saw them at Jackfest in Baltimore about 2006… I had a great ticket like 20th row center..very enjoyable… but once felt like enough… their live sound was a bit processed like their recordings became from Eliminator on…. Give me Tres Hombres, Tejas any day
Still I wouldn’t call Eliminator crap! Legs! Sharp dressed man! Gimme all your loving! Problem is those songs were beat to death but at some point bands have to do what they have to do to sell records.. ZZ Top couldn’t continue being a Texas bar band! After El Loco they realized they needed to make a change
Some of those MTV videos are iconic
Every artist that wants to appeal to new generations and get new fans has to make a change or the fan base dwindles and they fade away
The great ones are able to pull the trick more than twice… the Stones did it at least three times..U2 twice at least.. Bob Dylan five times at least…
I just don’t know why ZZ Top fell apart so bad after Eliminator.. Billy Gibbons is a helluva good guitar player but he ran out of gas songwritingwise
Who knows what happened..it’s bizarre
Anyways it’s pretty sad…
I saw them at Jackfest in Baltimore about 2006… I had a great ticket like 20th row center..very enjoyable… but once felt like enough… their live sound was a bit processed like their recordings became from Eliminator on…. Give me Tres Hombres, Tejas any day
Still I wouldn’t call Eliminator crap! Legs! Sharp dressed man! Gimme all your loving! Problem is those songs were beat to death but at some point bands have to do what they have to do to sell records.. ZZ Top couldn’t continue being a Texas bar band! After El Loco they realized they needed to make a change
Some of those MTV videos are iconic
Every artist that wants to appeal to new generations and get new fans has to make a change or the fan base dwindles and they fade away
The great ones are able to pull the trick more than twice… the Stones did it at least three times..U2 twice at least.. Bob Dylan five times at least…
I just don’t know why ZZ Top fell apart so bad after Eliminator.. Billy Gibbons is a helluva good guitar player but he ran out of gas songwritingwise
Ironically, MTV saved their career. Videos were supposed to kill off the ugly rock dinosaurs and lift the beautiful. ZZ Top knew this and commenced with the most successful reinventions of a public image ever. They should have died; instead, MTV practically killed supposed rock sex symbol Billy Squire, his "Rock Me Tonite" video being considered one of the worst ever.
(Squire lived on though with sample royalties from hip-hop artists. But his video dancing was all his. Just look at his video for "The Stroke"; his style could be considered a form of juggling.)
(Squire lived on though with sample royalties from hip-hop artists. But his video dancing was all his. Just look at his video for "The Stroke"; his style could be considered a form of juggling.)
Poor Billy Squier can't even generate enough attention such that anyone even knows how to spell his name. But everyone knows how to spell Billy Gibbons.
Space wrote:They’re both fifth tier bluegrass/jam acts, yeah?
Poor Billy Squier can't even generate enough attention such that anyone even knows how to spell his name. But everyone knows how to spell Billy Gibbons.
Julian, wrote:Space wrote:They’re both fifth tier bluegrass/jam acts, yeah?
Poor Billy Squier can't even generate enough attention such that anyone even knows how to spell his name. But everyone knows how to spell Billy Gibbons.
Don't forget Billy Springs.
Julian, wrote:Space wrote:They’re both fifth tier bluegrass/jam acts, yeah?
Poor Billy Squier can't even generate enough attention such that anyone even knows how to spell his name. But everyone knows how to spell Billy Gibbons.
Julian . . . mines the gems.
Mike Howe, Metal Church Singer, Dead at 55.
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/mike-howe-metal-church-singer-dead-55
Not the Chuck E. that first came to mind but ok.
Kelli Hand aka K-Hand
The First Lady of Detroit Techno
Detroit DJ, producer and founder of Acacia records
The First Lady of Detroit Techno
Detroit DJ, producer and founder of Acacia records
i'm kinda shocked how much this one still stings. been listening to a lot of zz over the past week.
Surprised this one was overlooked.
J.R. Richard
J.R. Richard
Didn’t hear about that. Had a brilliant career cut short.
That sucks