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Runic Sunnyview
Runic Sunnyview
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ZZ Top Advice please
Aug 16, 2011, 02:15
I'm just making conversation.

I'll get me coat (and beard)
joudicca
joudicca
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Re: ZZ Top Advice please
Aug 16, 2011, 12:50
grow one, thats my advice
Moon Cat
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Re: ZZ Top Advice please
Aug 16, 2011, 17:38
Loads of the early Top albums are genuinely wonderful. Blues and boogie riffage in excelsis and some great guitar often coupled with an almost Zappa like sense of absurdity.
sakedelic
sakedelic
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Edited Aug 19, 2011, 12:34
Re: ZZ Top Advice please
Aug 17, 2011, 15:20
Avoid "Texas Six Pack" like the plague! They butchered the mixes of their 70s lps with 90s drum samples and the results are criminally bad.
For cd, the Chrome, Smoke & Barbecue or Rancho Texicano compilations have a good selection of their early material with un-fucked-with sound but
their first 4 or 5 LPs on vinyl are the ideal way to go.
Sun Of Bytch
Sun Of Bytch
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Re: ZZ Top Advice please
Aug 17, 2011, 22:29
Runic, Here's a whole thread from last year, should guide you fine.

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/unsung/topic/59028/
zphage
zphage
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Re: ZZ Top Advice please
Aug 19, 2011, 17:05
sakedelic wrote:
Avoid "Texas Six Pack" like the plague! They butchered the mixes of their 70s lps with 90s drum samples and the results are criminally bad.
For cd, the Chrome, Smoke & Barbecue or Rancho Texicano compilations have a good selection of their early material with un-fucked-with sound but
their first 4 or 5 LPs on vinyl are the ideal way to go.


agree

i would even recommend the 90's studio albums,

they're cheap $2-$4 and have a great dirty sound

good to see you sakedelic, hope all is well in the big Apple
duckbreath
254 posts

Re: ZZ Top Advice please
Aug 29, 2011, 22:16
Fandango or Rio Grande Mud! Be prepared for some fairly crude expressions of old-fashioned american male values though
zphage
zphage
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Re: ZZ Top Advice please
Aug 30, 2011, 02:02
'Flying High' from upcoming Rick Rubin produced album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn7boyyKHQA
Wiggy
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Re: ZZ Top Advice please
Aug 30, 2011, 10:00
Were they not on one of the Pebbles/Nuggets albums as an earlier incarnation? I've got a feeling they were involved making "I can only give you everything" (the excellent riff being famously lifted by Beck)or some other garage classic.
I could be wrong, as I often am, but someone here is sure to know.
IanB
IanB
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Edited Aug 30, 2011, 11:46
Re: ZZ Top Advice please
Aug 30, 2011, 11:44
Wiggy wrote:
Were they not on one of the Pebbles/Nuggets albums as an earlier incarnation? I've got a feeling they were involved making "I can only give you everything" (the excellent riff being famously lifted by Beck)or some other garage classic.
I could be wrong, as I often am, but someone here is sure to know.


Moving Sidewalks are on one of the early Pebbles. 99th Floor probably. Vinyl is in the loft so can't easily check which volume.
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