Up here we say Zee Zee Top. Not Zed Zed Top.
Enuff small talk let`s get to my point.

I always knew what La Grange was about. A brothel. Immortalized in The Best Little Whoarehouse in Texas. I do love Dolly & Burt. Doesn`t everybody?

I could take a good guess what Tube Snake Boogie was about. I knew a girl. She lives up on the hill. She won`t do it but her sister will... She do the tube snake boogie.

However Pearl Necklaceescaped me. I thought it was about a pearl necklace untilw...well...someone explained it.

All this from three guys from Texas. A gawd fearin` conservative state.

3rd time for me to see ZZ was 2 weeks ago here in Lubbock. Sold out the Spirit Arena again. They did away with all the flash/bang and spinning guitars and just played music ZZ style. Indeed for 3 guys they sure kick ass. Saw them in Denver and Hawaii years ago.

I think my ears are still ringing. I'm getting to old for Rock concerts. You know the saying,"If it's too loud, You're too old".....

Saw them in the very early 80's and they just hotly jammned for 2 1/2 hours. No big light show just down home boogying.
Great band.

How about "Heard it on the X"

Can you still hear the X in Texas, Do they still broadcast?

My wife loves the Pearl Necklace!!
I'm happy to give her one!

1977 a great year, and quite the ticket to see a concave, and slightly semi-circled wall of double-stacked Marshall Amps spanning the entire rear stage for the feature act, ZZ Top.

Theses were the hey-days of real old fashioned rock genre. Tailgate parties in the parking lot from noon lay in wait for a first inline general admission tidal wave that could crush the high school football team. Rushing through the area gates was just the next step where your only hope was that you were not to be the one in every 3 or 4 who would be searched at the door for an eventual cumulative side room stash rivaling Fort Knox. You hoped you had paced that buzz.

Once in you felt free again. Soon the Bics were abuzz while the fog was thickening. Not to worry as you were among fellow cohorts in great anticipation for the first act, Thin Lizzy. Anything beyond this, we’d figure it out later.