Please click here to log in or create a Username for leaving comments. ZZ Top : Tejas (LP, Album, Wad) is available for sale at our shop at a great price. You cannot leave comments for this CD because you are Other highlights include the driving 'Enjoy and Get It On,' 'Avalon Hideaway,' and the fine instrumental 'Asleep in the Desert. "Arrested For Driving While Blind" seems the closest thing to a hit here, a typical fun-loving shuffle. While the album lacks any singles as strong as 'Tush' or 'La Grange,' 'Arrested for Driving While Blind' is one of ZZ's classic anthems, capturing the group's wacky humor and jaunty good-time boogie. Plus, "It's Only Love," "El Diablo" and 'Ten Dollar Man" all give Frank Beard a chance to really show off on the drums. Songs like "Enjoy And Get It On" and "Pan Am Highway Blues" have monster riffs. The funny thing is, just think how fucking HEAVY some of these riffs could have been if played with more gain. It sounds like Billy Gibbons is barely playing with any distortion at all, except on his solos. And yet the album itself is surprisingly understated. Yet at the time, they mounted a massive tour, complete with live farm animals, and semi-trucks with custom paint jobs that were supposed to depict some vast western landscape, and all had to go down the highway in a certain order to preserve the artwork. You never hear any of these songs on the radio, and I don't think they figure prominently in the band's live sets. Tejas is kind of a forgotten ZZ Top album. Long as they are at least 4 songs in length.Įxisting comments about this CD From: rick kerch vzlaĪ cool kinda old style Southern Rock album."Enjoy And Get It On" & "Ten Dollar Man" are my acks 1,2 & 8 are also good ones.83/100 Please only submit officialĬD releases no bootlegs or cassette-only or LP-only releases.ĮPs and CD-singles from ZZ Top are also welcome to be added, as
Stained black, topped with resin and ready to hang or sit on a shelf. LP housed in top-loading roll-fold cover with the three interior panels featuring images of the band members. Even if it is an obscure greatest-hits or liveĬompilation CD, we want to add it to the site. Original album cover mounted on custom Canadian wood wall board. ZZ TOP - Tejas CD 1 Its Only Love 2 Arrested For Driving While Blind 3 El Diablo 4 Snappy Kakkie 5 Enjoy & Get It On 6 Ten Dollar Man 7 Pan Am Highway. The ultimate goal is to make the discographies here at Heavy HarmoniesĪs complete as possible.
Consisting of 5 legs and 97 concerts performed between May 1976 - December 1977, the Tejas World Wide Texas Tour was arranged, to promote ZZ Tops most recent album, at the time, Fandango, which had been released in 1975. Notice that a particular ZZ Top CD release or compilation is missingįrom the list above, please submit that CD using the CD submission page. This ZZ Top vintage concert fashion tshirt is from the classic rock bands Tejas World Wide Texas Tour 76-77. The music discographies on this site are works in progress. Live tracks, etc.), please post them in the corrections section of the On Tejas, ZZ Top countrified the bluesy posture of their previous albums, resulting in a slight detour between the madcap spirit of Fandango and the. If you see any errors or omissions in the CD information shown above,Įither in the musician credits or song listings (cover song credits, But this is the first trio to hark back to country music as well as blues, and they're brawnier than anything that comes out of Austin.Personnel Billy Gibbons Vocals, Guitar, Fiddle, Harmonica Touring the way this band does tears you up by the roots, until the digs at Rolling Stone assume an authenticity lacking in the tales of the Pan-Am Highway.
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