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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

I thank you - for revisiting this band and album. The reverend is my kind of guitarist, and there are plenty of catchy hooks, licks, runs, and riffs throughout this one.

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Kartik Krishnaiyer's avatar

A true classic!

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Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

Had no idea there was a pre-beard ZZ Top era

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Brad Kyle's avatar

Well, Chris, there was even a pre-beard, pre-ZZ Top era (Billy's a fellow Houston home-boy, yo!): https://bradkyle.substack.com/p/venue-without-pier-zz-top-and-the

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Jeremy Shatan's avatar

I've never done a deep enough dive on ZZ Top to say where this fits in...but this post-punk/new wave kid sure liked Cheap Sunglasses when it came on the radio!

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Shaggy Snodgrass's avatar

Yeah, in a lot of ways this album was exactly where they needed to be at the time; + it's one of my touchstones with my hard rock band of where we'd like to be (sans the keyboards, of course). One disagree, tho'; "Manic Mechanic" is funny as hell, and beloved by my old psych-rock band boss and his cronies from back in The Day. He even has the pitch-shifter to play it if he wants to.

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Marshall Bowden's avatar

Nice one! I'm not a ZZ Top fan, but this album, well, it's undeniably a great, fun listen. Thanks for reminding me.

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Kevin Alexander's avatar

Of course! That's why I'm here. :)

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