Re: [ARSCLIST] Recorded blues--was: Is The Record Shop Dead?

[phillip holmes <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep.  After MTV and those awful videos for Eliminator, it was down hill 
fast.  Of course, Eliminator sold like hotcakes.  When that happens, it 
dooms a band to retry that formula again (and again-----and 
again...................................and again..............).
"I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" is one of my favorite driving tunes. 

Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   
> > Hey, call me low-brow, but early ZZ Top definitely does it for me. Bob Ludwig
> >     
> remastered new CD's of
>   
> > "Tres Hombres" and "Fandango" in the last couple of years and I think they're
> >     
> great. Album notes are
>   
> > by a guy who claims to be ZZ Top's "archivist." Bonus material is from I think
> >     
> King Biscuit Flower
>   
> > Hour radio shows, really badly recorded.
> >
> >     
> Speaking as a bluesman-wannabe myself...the first three (IIRC) ZZ Top LP's
> were outstanding permormances of blues music! From that point onward, they
> gradually became a "guitar-based rock band"...with only occasional flashes
> of their early blues brilliance!
>
> Case in point...look up (listen up?!) their recording titled "Blue Jean
> Blues!" The lyrics would seem to verge on parody...but the guitar work
> is excellent!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
>