Ting Ho Dung Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 I really enjoyed this one in my self isolation. https://www.netflix.com/search?q=zz&jbv=81212488&jbp=0&jbr=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shankyboy Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Required viewing for us Texans. The Keyboard player from the Moving Sidewalks, Tom Moore, is a very good friend of the guy that plays Keys in my band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooks Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 I was hoping for more live 70s footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoogieMKIIA Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Loved it. Fun seeing clean cut Billy G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommy p Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 13 hours ago, Brooks said: I was hoping for more live 70s footage. I agree. I was loving all the pre-Eliminator footage. Not to rag on Eliminator; I really do like that album, but seeing stuff from before that is so much more rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordsoftheJungle Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 I've been enjoying the old footage,,, it's an amazing transformation they've gone though, both musically and in appearance. Quality stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velorush Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Thoroughly enjoyed it and posted a Hamer case sighting earlier this week. Kind of stopped after the 80's - I really would have liked some additional post - Eliminator details. The Rhythmeen back-to-their-roots move, for example. At any rate, laughed out loud in too many places. And the oft, overlooked, ante-Eliminator "El Loco" is absolutely my favorite ZZ Top album - sneak peeks into the synths and sequencers to come but still recognizable as ZZ Top, just enough quirkiness. Fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommy p Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 ^^^^ Great choice! Here's my favorite: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biz Prof Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 On 3/25/2020 at 2:28 PM, tommy p said: ^^^^ Great choice! Here's my favorite: My all-time favorite Top album. Enjoyable from beginning to end, and quite diverse in terms of song structure and guitar tones. IHMO, if they'd stopped their run with El Loco, they wouldn't be as wealthy, but they'd still have a hell of an anthology. Eliminator wasn't a bad record at all, but it was to the tres hombres what Hysteria was to Def Leppard. Watched the documentary film earlier today. I felt like it had a rather generous amount of pre-Top and early era photos and footage, especially given Bill Ham's iron grip over the band's image and promotion. IIRC, the film's coverage of the Eliminator era came along when there were only 20 minutes left on the clock. The personal historical anecdotes were cool, as I'd not heard some of those factoids in the past. Beard's descriptions of his drug addiction were the most succinct and complete narrative I've encountered, and it very clearly showed how the band (and Deguello) benefited greatly from their hiatus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navigator Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Thanks for posting this Ting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyB Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 On 3/24/2020 at 2:54 PM, Brooks said: I was hoping for more live 70s footage. Yup! I lived in a college dorm 1973-77, and one room had a pretty massive 4-channel receiver and they always were blasting ZZ. I was a few doors down the hall and blasting Buddy Rich, Don Ellis, Count Basie, etc.through a pair of 85-lb. Altec-Lansing 6844 Studio monitors. I came to love ZZ blasting out of the room down the hall. Good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamerica Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Saw this when it was running in theaters. Good enough to watch on Netflix and of course it is available on Blue Ray and DVD for those that just need to have Tres Hombres. Hamerica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princeofdarkness56 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Really enjoyed that. Gibbons makes guitar playing look so damn easy. Just a real cool laidback dude with a guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Great doc. My favorite part - Billy plays "Brown Sugar" on some weirdo nocaster Tele and it still sounds pretty much the same as the album. In fact, the way it is layered into the doc, I thought it was the album version until it showed them back in Gruene. Proof that tone really is mostly in your hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princeofdarkness56 Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Definitely tone to the bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disturber Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Not available on Netflix in Europe. This sux. 😕 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 4 hours ago, Disturber said: Not available on Netflix in Europe. This sux. 😕 Get a VPN, daywalker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadroller Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Last January, at a sales kick off in Vegas, a younger member of our team mentioned her parents were in town and they were going to see a show, "do any of you guys know a band called ZZ Top?" I've never felt so old. I roasted her a little, asking if she'd heard of a breaking band from England called "The Beatles." God bless her, but not knowing ZZ hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biz Prof Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 55 minutes ago, Toadroller said: Last January, at a sales kick off in Vegas, a younger member of our team mentioned her parents were in town and they were going to see a show, "do any of you guys know a band called ZZ Top?" I've never felt so old. I roasted her a little, asking if she'd heard of a breaking band from England called "The Beatles." God bless her, but not knowing ZZ hurt. You could have given her a turn by telling her it was a group formed by extended family members of the Robertson clan of Duck Dynasty fame. She might have swallowed that hook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burningyen Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Finally watched the doc last night. Loved it, especially the clips of them playing in their studio. I keep reading that the Reverend has lost a step, but he sounded killer there. Loved the over-the-top Bolin relics, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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