February 1970 ....

[Thumper]

... is when ZZ Top got their start. Note: This pic is from their H/S yearbook (1969, the year before their first "professional" gig) ... and the yearbook staff misspelled the band's name as Zee Zee Top!) ;)

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/34/50/14/7504684/7/920x920.jpg

[BarryBobPosthole]

I always wondered if their name was a combo of rolling papers names (zig Zags and TOPs). Wiki says its the combo of blues singers names. I kind of call bullshit. Plus, the school paper would avoid a link to the rolling paper thing by doing just what he did. Don't try to tell me high schoolers got bamds names that wrong back then.

Anyway, I have some of their stuff in my regular mix playlist. They're one of the bamds that made Les Paul a household name.

BKB

[Thumper]

Ummm, I wouldn't know anything about the brands of rolling papers. ;)

Then again, I remember nothing but nerds on the yearbook committees in H/S. I could see where they wouldn't know the proper spelling of a start-up rock band.

[LJ3]

Billy Gibbons is one of my favorites guitar players. He's a bad ass. Once sharp dressed man hit the charts I tapped out of anything else they did. It was crap.

[BarryBobPosthole]

He bad. He nationwide.

BKB

[Chicken Dinner]

Lyrically, that's a cool song. But, it's no Mexican Blackbird...

[Captain]

"Legs" was the coolest video...

[BarryBobPosthole]

"Legs" was the coolest video...

That car is the schznit.

And Frank Beard has no beard. Izzat a purposeful pun?

BKb

[Captain]

That car is the schznit.

And Frank Beard has no beard. Izzat a purposeful pun?

BKb
I always thought that was odd too!