ZZ Top - kind of disappointed

[TeleRumble]

Always like their music/songs and act.
A** kicking rock and blues, but...
Caught a video, Sharp Dressed Man, great riff and curiosity got the best of me.
Went and checked Gibbons and the band's wikis.
Gibbons is just another groomed Miley Cyrus or grown up Mouseketer.
Was expecting a rough and tumble guitar slinger from a Texas barrio.
Far from it, really removes the aura.

 

[FortuneTele]

Gibbons is just another groomed Miley Cyrus or grown up Mouseketer.

Moochie or Annette?

 

[drmordo]

I don't know what exactly you mean, but Billy Gibbons laid down a ton of brilliant guitar work in the 70s.

 

[Mjark]

Who cares where they grew up? Ridiculous.

 

[Preacher]

As a fellow Texan I feel like I have to defend him.

The guy has been a musician from his early days, met his bassist from the "Moving Sidewalks" at a guitar show and Billy has always been the showman.

He was like 17 when they formed the first band before the Vietnam war which broke them up. His father was instrumental (get what I did there) in Billy's development and he has music school training.

After MS went away, they formed ZZ Top in 1969 (Billy was 20). They have rode that fame for the last fifty years.

Some would say they sold out late in life, there was a post on here about a failed performance, but the guy is 75 now and still rocking, even with help...

They were the down and dirty Texas blues band for the first thirty years and even though their music is not complicated, it still makes my toes tap at the end of the day.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

It's like finding out someone you admire is actually a Nepo Baby

I bet Billy Gibbons enjoys a flinty Sancerre.

 

[boop]

Looking at the wiki… his dad sent him to study percussion with Tito Puente when he was a kid. That is awesome.

Yeah I don’t see any Mouseketeer stuff. His dad was a musician and gave him a guitar when he was 13?

I know what you mean though. ZZ Top presents an outlaw image, and belies an upbringing from a middle class artistic family. I’d argue they are the real deal. Just look at the music they made. He could have made disco or pop. But he wanted to play hard driving Texas blues rock

 

[Bones]

If you really want to be disappointed, go back in time and see them live on the Eliminator tour.. worst live show that I ever saw. Those first 5-6 albums were amazing but El Loco marked the beginning of the end, for me.

Not sure why his upper middle class upbringing changes the fact that he is a student and master of the blues. The guy's guitar skills are legit and he seems like he would be a fun hang.

 

[TeleRumble]

Looking at the wiki… his dad sent him to study percussion with Tito Puente when he was a kid. That is awesome.

Yeah I don’t see any Mouseketeer stuff. His dad was a musician and gave him a guitar when he was 13?

I know what you mean though. ZZ Top presents an outlaw image, and belies an upbringing from a middle class artistic family. I’d argue they are the real deal. Just look at the music they made. He could have made disco or pop. But he wanted to play hard driving Texas blues rock

Like monied Springsteen pretending to be a poor guy singing to rich guys about being poor.
Elvis and Johnny were the real deal, did not attend a music academy in Hollywood like Gibbons.

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Like monied Springsteen pretending to be a poor guy singing to rich guys about being poor.
Elvis and Johnny were the real deal, did not attend a music academy in Hollywood like Gibbons.

You and I read the following and got different things out of it…

 

[Killing Floor]

Everyone who plays guitar has someone who bought them a guitar or enabled them to buy their guitar.

Everyone who has taken a guitar lesson has someone who paid for that first lesson.

Everyone has someone who influenced them in a positive way to take up music.

What’s the problem?

 

[ISmellSmoke]

You like his music but don't like the musician because he studied music ?

Ok...

 

[Wildcard_35]

You know what they say. The best way to make a million dollars is: First, get a million dollars and...

I still like Billy.

 

[mandoloony]

Like monied Springsteen pretending to be a poor guy singing to rich guys about being poor.
Elvis and Johnny were the real deal, did not attend a music academy in Hollywood like Gibbons.

Nah, all those folks were just posers compared with bluesers like Deaf Mango Adams and Septic Doc Martins.

And they, in turn, were groomed fakers compared with Angus MacAngus, the bagpiper who invented roots music in 1604.

And Angus was nothing compared with Marcus Fungus Septum, who invented sound in 23 AD. Now he was the real deal.

 

[Ron R]

Like monied Springsteen pretending to be a poor guy singing to rich guys about being poor.

Springsteen himself has acknowledged the irony in the fact that he still sings for the working man. Myself, I respect the fact that coming into all that money hasn't made him forget where he came from.

 

[Ron R]

Always like their music/songs and act.
A** kicking rock and blues, but...
Caught a video, Sharp Dressed Man, great riff and curiosity got the best of me.
Went and checked Gibbons and the band's wikis.
Gibbons is just another groomed Miley Cyrus or grown up Mouseketer.
Was expecting a rough and tumble guitar slinger from a Texas barrio.
Far from it, really removes the aura.

Is an actor's role as a killer/villain/drug addict, etc invalidated because he was never one himself?
I don't see the problem with Billy's upbringing in all of this.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

Is an actor's role as a killer/villain/drug addict, etc invalidated because he was never one himself?
I don't see the problem with Billy's upbringing in all of this.

D'you mean I killed a man just to watch him die -- ALL FOR NOTHING?!

 

[Knows3Chords]

It's the working class hero purity test. You have to remember, it's just entertainment.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

On the flip side, I found out this guy isn't all that interesting.

 

[ruger9]

Good lord, the BS people think about. BG and ZZ Top are legends. It's not subjective. End of story.