Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated.
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ReplyDeleteCute lil' hound doggies.
ReplyDeleteD in California
I would have thought Texans pronounced it "Zee" as normal, unlike the rest of us colonials who still pronounce it "Zed"! - would have been a hell of a prom night. (Another U.S. institution that baffles the rest of the world)
ReplyDeleteAccording to my highly-paid research team, this is legit!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! Any idea when this pic was taken?
ReplyDeleteWhen was Keith Haring a member of the band?
ReplyDeletePhoto most likely taken in May 1970 according to Billy Gibbons who was interviewed by Texas Monthly magazine recently about the photo. Gibbons said he and Frank Beatd formed the band in December 1969 and Hill joined shortly after that. He said the Zee Zee was a mistake made by the high school yearbook where the photo was published- he said is was always ZZ with no periods. Gibbons dates the photo by saying proms are.typically held in May and the amp in the photo was only made for a short time around 1970.
ReplyDeleteIt is s very.cool photo from a high school in Orange, Texas - right on the Louisiana border.
Nobody knows guitar tech better than Gibbons.
DeleteI remember in 1983 our local radio station had a ‘rock show’, the presenter announced “Here's a great track by Eliminator from their album ZZ Top, Gimme All Your Lovin”. Hard to believe they were relatively unknown in the UK in 1983.
ReplyDeleteMy mates and me were into th' Top at Tres Hombres, the album with the big radio hit La Grange. That would be in, ooh - '73. A fantastic year.
DeleteI've boosted this piece out of the BAYMI Dept. because interest has been shown. I'll upload one of my favorite psych albums, The Moving Sidewalk's Flash, later. That would be just prior to this photo.
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