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 This may be old, but it will never be out of date.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!
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!
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 !
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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..!
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.
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!
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!
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 ..
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.
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!!
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
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.
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.
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.
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 !!
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.
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.
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...
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.
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!
great cut and thank you. wished they wd cut loose with the whole show. there is a cut from 12/31/77 ft worth,arrested for drivin while blind out here on youtube. i was at this show and they recorded the entire new years gig complete with a nakid chick onstage at one point. for sum reason they will not release this fine ass show, only the arrested cut has surfaced. to bad. maybe warner bros r bill ham own the rights. ???
Yes it's true...the following Houston Summit Shows that have been released on RU-vid 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????
