'Ten Dollar Man' is a wildly underrated ZZ Top song. The guitar playing, the stops, it's fucking bonkers. You can REALLY hear how they influenced Curt Kirkwood (of the Meat Puppets) on this one, especially for the Puppets' Up on the Sun era stuff.
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Today In Metal History 🤘 March 23rd, 2024 🤘 JUDAS PRIEST, GWAR, VAN HALEN, ZZ TOP, IRON MAIDEN, FATES WARNING
TALENT WE LOST R.I.P. David Murray "Dave" Brockie (GWAR): 1963 – 2014 (aged 50) HEAVY BIRTHDAYS 64th Bill Metoyer (Legendary producer/engineer) - 1960 54th Kyle Thomas (EXHORDER, TROUBLE) - 1970 HEAVY RELEASES 48th JUDAS PRIEST's Sad Wings Of Destiny...
This week's #ThursdayFiveList is #TheSleep and the first three here all have the same title - the Static-X one is a GREAT cover of the Sabbath one. The Smithereens one is a different song (but still great, they were big Sabbath fans too - their song was definitely a nod):
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Today In Metal History 🤘 January 16th, 2024 🤘 BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, BOB KULICK, ZZ TOP, ACCEPT, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
TALENT WE LOST R.I.P. Dead (real name Per Yngve Ohlin; MAYHEM) - 1969 - 1991 (aged 22) R.I.P. Robert “Bob” Joel Kulick (KISS, W.A.S.P., ALICE COOPER, MEAT LOAF): 1950 – 2020 (aged 70) HEAVY BIRTHDAYS Happy 62nd Robert...
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Today In Metal History 🤘 2023🤘ZZ TOP, HELLOWEEN, GUNS N' ROSES, IRON MASK
HEAVY BIRTHDAYS Happy 74th Billy Gibbons (ZZ TOP) - 1949 Happy 62nd Andre Andersen (ROYAL HUNT) - 1961 Happy 54th Marios Iliopoulos (NIGHTRAGE) - 1969 HEAVY RELEASES Happy 37th GUNS N’ ROSES’ Live ?!*@ Like A Suicide - December 16, 1986 Happy 14th HELLOWEEN’s Unarmed - Best Of 25th Anniversary...
🎧 Greenville, NC, 1979 | I pretended to study English and PoliSci while I got stoned, hosted middays on the local AM station and DJ'd at The Elbo Room, the college town's disco.
A friend who DJ'd at the local shitkicker/frat bar asked me to fill in for him one Friday afternoon at their legendary Happy Hour—quarts of draft Bud for 50¢.
He left notes on some of the LPs. "Play this every hour" on #NittyGrittyDirtBand's "Rocky Top" and THIS track by #ZZTOP.
ZZ Top - Rough Boy (youtu.be)