Entre_Perpetuo Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Which texan blues rocking artist do you choose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_hi_water._ Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 ZZ Top all the way 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushFanForever Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Van Wilks, who's an underrated blues-rock guitarist from Austin, Texas. He has connections to both ZZ Top and Double Trouble noted here and here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 ZZ Top clean sweep, but originally I did vote for Couldn't Stand the Weather. I thought about it though and had to change it. I really like Couldn't Stand the Weather. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepphead Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 I'll go ZZ Top with all three, primarily because I am much more familiar with their stuff whereas I have only listened to bits and pieces of SRV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 ZZ Top over the insanely overhyped SRV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefox4000 Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 ZZ Top all the Way. everbody out there drooling over SRV. i just hear playing a billion notes with no real point or melody. yay? lol Mick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 ZZ Top all the Way. everbody out there drooling over SRV. i just hear playing a billion notes with no real point or melody. yay? lol Mick I wonder how much praise SRV would get today if he was still alive? Because we all know dying young in the music world automatically means the artist ascends to god status and everything they did is now a masterpiece. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefox4000 Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 (edited) ZZ Top all the Way. everbody out there drooling over SRV. i just hear playing a billion notes with no real point or melody. yay? lol Mick I wonder how much praise SRV would get today if he was still alive? Because we all know dying young in the music world automatically means the artist ascends to god status and everything they did is now a masterpiece. see kurt Cobain. john Lennon's solo career. Mick Edited September 18, 2020 by bluefox4000 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Tough one for me, and I don't think I can choose. I certainly don't think Stevie Ray Vaughn is overhyped, and what a terrific showman - I prefer watching him play, which is mesmerizing. But then ZZ Top just has that groove, and the great lead playing as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted September 19, 2020 Author Share Posted September 19, 2020 Tough one for me, and I don't think I can choose. I certainly don't think Stevie Ray Vaughn is overhyped, and what a terrific showman - I prefer watching him play, which is mesmerizing. But then ZZ Top just has that groove, and the great lead playing as well. Yeah, I thought this would be a lot closer, lol. SRV is totally mesmerizing, that's exactly the right way to put it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 SRV is a pretty sterile 80s take on blues. billy gibbons is a master 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 ZZ Top all the Way. everbody out there drooling over SRV. i just hear playing a billion notes with no real point or melody. yay? lol Mick I wonder how much praise SRV would get today if he was still alive? Because we all know dying young in the music world automatically means the artist ascends to god status and everything they did is now a masterpiece. see kurt Cobain. john Lennon's solo career. Mick randy rhoads probably would have ended up joining whitesnake or doing video game menu music 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom55 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 ZZ Top to bottom in this vote. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. Backer Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Top. If Eliminator, Afterburner or Recycler had been put up against Texas Flood or CStW I would have picked one of them. As it stands though, I have to give it to Stevie's albums here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 ZZ Top all the wayYeah. I know I'm supposed to like Stevie Ray more than I do, but it just doesn't click with me. Amazing talent, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 ZZ Top all the Way. everbody out there drooling over SRV. i just hear playing a billion notes with no real point or melody. yay? lol Mick I wonder how much praise SRV would get today if he was still alive?A ton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 ZZ Top all the Way. everbody out there drooling over SRV. i just hear playing a billion notes with no real point or melody. yay? lol Mick I wonder how much praise SRV would get today if he was still alive?A ton. Probably. But it would still not compare to the amount of praise he gets because he died young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 ZZ Top clean sweep, but originally I did vote for Couldn't Stand the Weather. I thought about it though and had to change it. I really like Couldn't Stand the Weather. I love that record too Pat.My one regret in life was when I was working the 3 to midnight shift at Safeway. Safeway owned your soul but the money was great.I had tickets to see SRV open for Jeff Beck in Oakland.My asshole manager at the time didn't give me my request day off.I was going to call in sick but I figured I would catch Stevie next time around as a headliner.Of course a year later he died in that horrific helicopter crash.I was very upset. That being said, I have to go with ZZ TOP.I love every record up to "Afterburner."I know "Afterburner" was much more commercial even more so than MTV's "Eliminator" album.But just give me "Tres Hombres.""Beer Drinkers And Hellraisers" is my favorite song by them.I've seen ZZ TOP twice.The last time was in 2019 and they played "Beer Drinkers And Hellraisers" live. My night was made!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Stevie would have kept the blues thang alive and well into the 2000's.This brings me to a point about Eric Johnson.I love him too but what the hell has happened?I wish he would put out a harder blues infused rock record with his original three piece again!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 I had to go all ZZ TOP too. I LOVE THOSE RECORDS!!!!!!!!! "I'm Bad I'm Nationwide!" I'm RUSHHEAD Muther Truckers! Lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 ZZ Top clean sweep, but originally I did vote for Couldn't Stand the Weather. I thought about it though and had to change it. I really like Couldn't Stand the Weather. I love that record too Pat.My one regret in life was when I was working the 3 to midnight shift at Safeway. Safeway owned your soul but the money was great.I had tickets to see SRV open for Jeff Beck in Oakland.My asshole manager at the time didn't give me my request day off.I was going to call in sick but I figured I would catch Stevie next time around as a headliner.Of course a year later he died in that horrific helicopter crash.I was very upset. That being said, I have to go with ZZ TOP.I love every record up to "Afterburner."I know "Afterburner" was much more commercial even more so than MTV's "Eliminator" album.But just give me "Tres Hombres.""Beer Drinkers And Hellraisers" is my favorite song by them.I've seen ZZ TOP twice.The last time was in 2019 and they played "Beer Drinkers And Hellraisers" live. My night was made!!!I sometimes even love Afterburner. What do you think of Recycler? Channel 4 over here used "Decision or Collision" as background music for NFL highlight packages in the 90's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Manic Mechanic is the shit. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 ZZ Top clean sweep, but originally I did vote for Couldn't Stand the Weather. I thought about it though and had to change it. I really like Couldn't Stand the Weather. I love that record too Pat.My one regret in life was when I was working the 3 to midnight shift at Safeway. Safeway owned your soul but the money was great.I had tickets to see SRV open for Jeff Beck in Oakland.My asshole manager at the time didn't give me my request day off.I was going to call in sick but I figured I would catch Stevie next time around as a headliner.Of course a year later he died in that horrific helicopter crash.I was very upset. That being said, I have to go with ZZ TOP.I love every record up to "Afterburner."I know "Afterburner" was much more commercial even more so than MTV's "Eliminator" album.But just give me "Tres Hombres.""Beer Drinkers And Hellraisers" is my favorite song by them.I've seen ZZ TOP twice.The last time was in 2019 and they played "Beer Drinkers And Hellraisers" live. My night was made!!!I sometimes even love Afterburner. What do you think of Recycler? Channel 4 over here used "Decision or Collision" as background music for NFL highlight packages in the 90's. Nice Pat. I really do love "Afterburner." I'm going to give "Recycler" a spin tomorrow. I think it's good!!! After that one? Hit or miss. You like it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 ZZ Top clean sweep, but originally I did vote for Couldn't Stand the Weather. I thought about it though and had to change it. I really like Couldn't Stand the Weather. I love that record too Pat.My one regret in life was when I was working the 3 to midnight shift at Safeway. Safeway owned your soul but the money was great.I had tickets to see SRV open for Jeff Beck in Oakland.My asshole manager at the time didn't give me my request day off.I was going to call in sick but I figured I would catch Stevie next time around as a headliner.Of course a year later he died in that horrific helicopter crash.I was very upset. That being said, I have to go with ZZ TOP.I love every record up to "Afterburner."I know "Afterburner" was much more commercial even more so than MTV's "Eliminator" album.But just give me "Tres Hombres.""Beer Drinkers And Hellraisers" is my favorite song by them.I've seen ZZ TOP twice.The last time was in 2019 and they played "Beer Drinkers And Hellraisers" live. My night was made!!!I sometimes even love Afterburner. What do you think of Recycler? Channel 4 over here used "Decision or Collision" as background music for NFL highlight packages in the 90's. Nice Pat. I really do love "Afterburner." I'm going to give "Recycler" a spin tomorrow. I think it's good!!! After that one? Hit or miss. You like it?I remember getting Antenna when it came out. The band appeared on Des O'Connor Tonight in 1994 playing Pin Cushion! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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