Notable Deaths

[Sworntothecans]

Get loaded weapon into you. Love Tim's performance in that

"WEEEEEELLLLDERRNESSS GURRRLLLLS"😂

[jpm4]

Was looking over a list of celebrity deaths this year with a friend a couple of days ago - he made a joke that Tim Curry needed to be careful as the Home Alone cast had already taken such a hammering this year 

[Ducky]

Peter Cullen, AKA Optimus Prime since the original cartoons.

Shite week for the arts!

[Anton Arcane]

And the voice of the Predator and so many others. He was the voice of Karr in Knightrider and that was childhood nightmare fuel. A true legend.

[Uinsion]

Tres Hombres (1973)
Fandango! (1975)
Degüello (1979)

Those 3 albums pre-Eliminator (1983) are absolutely stompin'...
With an honourable mention to Rio Grande Mud (1972)...
In fact, I really only listen to their earlier output nowadays, and have done for aeons...

RIP Frank x

I love Eliminator too though , got them out there for sure.

Sad, have to agree with all those.
this has to be my favourite live vid though, how do 3 people get such a sound.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG-4cbLChoM

[astfgyl]

Tres Hombres (1973)
Fandango! (1975)
Degüello (1979)

Those 3 albums pre-Eliminator (1983) are absolutely stompin'...
With an honourable mention to Rio Grande Mud (1972)...
In fact, I really only listen to their earlier output nowadays, and have done for aeons...

RIP Frank x

I love Eliminator too though , got them out there for sure.

Sad, have to agree with all those.
this has to be my favourite live vid though, how do 3 people get such a sound.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG-4cbLChoM

I promise I'm not being smart arsed here at all but was that sound already generic when they released it, and they were simply excellent at the most generic possible sound or did they just make it as generic as possible before it was cool?

Even the ending there like was it done 3000 times before or were they the original and it was done 3000 times after them?

Go on so, I'm surely missing a trick by misunderstanding why they should be so popular. Is there a particular tune that will make me appreciate their non generic chops?

[Kunt 4 Life]

How's this year comparing to 2016 celeb cull?

[Barrytron]

Go on so, I'm surely missing a trick by misunderstanding why they should be so popular. Is there a particular tune that will make me appreciate their non generic chops?

Big ZZ Top fan here - they are weird alright, a song might seem like nothing but you can't shift it out of your head for weeks. Like AC/DC for every great tune there is 10 also-rans. I think my fave era is Deguello (79). Try that - Cheap Sunglasses is great. So cool. They've a lot of great little tunes though. I love the Afterburner album as well, Planet of Women - what a tune

[Barnacle Billy]

Go on so, I'm surely missing a trick by misunderstanding why they should be so popular. Is there a particular tune that will make me appreciate their non generic chops?

Big ZZ Top fan here - they are weird alright, a song might seem like nothing but you can't shift it out of your head for weeks. Like AC/DC for every great tune there is 10 also-rans. I think my fave era is Deguello (79). Try that - Cheap Sunglasses is great. So cool. They've a lot of great little tunes though. I love the Afterburner album as well, Planet of Women - what a tune

Here Barry....
What's your take on the jump from the little bit of experimenting they did on El Loco {1981) to the huge sounds of Eliminator (1983)..?
Talk about "the Great Leap Forward" 
Brilliant brilliant band...
The Afterburner (1985) tour of 1986 was the highest grossing tour of that year, and there was some stiff competition in the mid 80's....

A wee story on the ZZ druqs:
Beard struggled with addiction in the 1970s, claiming to have spent "every bit" of his money earned from ZZ Top's tours on drugs. Beard explains that he had different reasons for taking different drugs, saying "the pills thing came about just from the workload. And the heroin thing came about because I just liked it. I mean, you ever done heroin? It's great. It's a fucking vacation for the mind, and I liked it. I liked it a lot." Beard entered rehabilitation in the 1980s and was sober as of 2020.

Hill would "[occasionally] partake" in marijuana until one occasion in a hotel in Amsterdam, when Hill was smoking marijuana with guitar tech (and eventual replacement) Elwood Francis, who noticed that a metal bar was embedded into the window frame of the hotel room. Francis, seeing an opportunity for a prank, jumped out the window and (unbeknownst to Hill) grabbed onto the metal bar, making it appear that he had committed suicide. Hill apparently never smoked marijuana again after the incident.