ZZ Top

[Thearg]

I'm not going this year,missed out on T day but hopefully I will catch them at another festie but is TBC a bit over confident,I always thought ''R'' meant about 10% chance ''SR'' 50/50 with their name being banded about a lot and TBC as a self conformation or is that website gold?

[thewayiam]

1 hour ago, Mezhyp1 said:

Hell Stage?

 

Though on a serious note, is this the best TBC ever?

Not if you don't care either way no lol.

[Mezhyp1]

17 minutes ago, Thearg said:

I'm not going this year,missed out on T day but hopefully I will catch them at another festie but is TBC a bit over confident,I always thought ''R'' meant about 10% chance ''SR'' 50/50 with their name being banded about a lot and TBC as a self conformation or is that website gold?

You'd think Amsterdam Music Hall will have some kind of full press release over their plans, I'd say that's concrete 

[tevaburger]

5 hours ago, Wooderson said:

Got Me Under Pressure
Waitin' for the Bus
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Gimme All Your Lovin'
I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
I Gotsta Get Paid
Foxy Lady
Pincushion
Cheap Sunglasses
Sharp Dressed Man
Legs
La Grange
Tush

Thats a knees up right there. But they need to add this bruiser to the mix on an urgent basis.

 

 

you missed this

 

 

[sime]

THIS NEWS IS SKILL

[tevaburger]

5 hours ago, dentalplan said:

Thanks but I didn't actually find it personally, I literally read a forum like this where somebody had posted it.

They're doing a French festival - 'Festival Retro C Trop' - on Sunday. Probably still a good bet for Saturday though.

i'm sure it's friday now...

as Neil referenced it just now, I always use Pollstar religiously to check on gaps/dates/things Glasto-related...they're generally not too late in getting dates in and they've had the ZZ Top Euro dates listed for ages - http://www.pollstar.com/resultsArtist.aspx?ID=119&SearchBy=zz%20top

I didn't know about the Sunday gig, so if that's true (is it?) i'd say we can 95% say we have them for Friday then, as if they were doing Saturday that would make it the first of 4 days in a row, and 7 gigs in 8 days, unlikely, so I'd say Saturday is their day off...think about it, ZZ Top on the friday, lovely! w/ the saturday off, why not pull a Lady Ga-Ga and do a late night follow-up in the SE Corner, of course on the Hell Stage too...someone just tell them there's a stage by that name. i might be wrong, but i think at their Bonnarroo set (here) their set time was after the 'headliners' had finished up...can you imagine strolling by in the SE corner and this little video backdrop at the beginning pops up to announce the 'special guest'

http://www.q1043.com/articles/videos-that-rock-488999/watch-zz-top-live-at-bonnaroo-13071321/

 

 

 

[FloorFiller]

yeah with Muse being on the Friday i'd say it was a good bet they'd put ZZ Top on that day as well, third or fourth on the Pyramid i imagine. this announcement has given me my first real jolt of Glastonbury excitement for this year  especially with them playing being a long time coming

[FuzzyDunlop]

2 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

yeah with Muse being on the Friday i'd say it was a good bet they'd put ZZ Top on that day as well, third or fourth on the Pyramid i imagine. this announcement has given me my first real jolt of Glastonbury excitement for this year  especially with them playing being a long time coming

This is spot on for me. I haven't thought much about the festival since ticket day. Today's news has given me the buzz

[Harmonic Prospector]

5 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

hmm if not her then i'm sure it happened with somebody, because i remember the eventual crushing disappointment of realising whoever it was wasn't on the lineup

fuck it, ZZ Top are playing. pretty great for one of (if not the first?) self confirmations. i knew all our badgering would make it happen

The Tallest Man On Earth had a gig at Koko on the Tuesday before Glastonbury last year and I was convinced he was going to be on the lineup and was so gutted when he wasn't. He is playing RAH on the Tuesday before Glasto this year and I really hope that it doesn't happen 2 years in a row!

[FloorFiller]

3 minutes ago, Harmonic Prospector said:

The Tallest Man On Earth had a gig at Koko on the Tuesday before Glastonbury last year and I was convinced he was going to be on the lineup and was so gutted when he wasn't. He is playing RAH on the Tuesday before Glasto this year and I really hope that it doesn't happen 2 years in a row!

ah yeah that was definitely one of the omissions i was gutted about. would be a great addition to the Park so fingers crossed for that one

[Cooter]

Wow, just wow, needed some brighter news after the Lem passing. And actually Lemmy loved ZZ Top.

Here's a feel good hd but somewhat bizarre vid

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DTwR5TJljo

[Gnomicide]

9 hours ago, Cooter said:

Wow, just wow, needed some brighter news after the Lem passing. And actually Lemmy loved ZZ Top.

That may explain why they nicked the riff from Tush for No Class.

[mungo57]

Finally, been wanting ZZ Top to play for fucking ages.

I would be all over wherever they play like a rash. So long as they do Legs and LA Grange I will be happy!

Edited January 7, 2016 by mungo57

[CaledonianGonzo]

Cheers me to see that in the longer sets they're playing My Head's In Mississippi makes the cut.

No Rough Boy though :o(

[Hotchilidog]

Still buzzing from this "announcement". Listened to the most recent album yesterday and this is a band that still sounds really strong. They'd be great on the pyramid, but a bluesy set at West Holts would blow my mind though.

I'd agree that the Motorhead slot on friday is most likely though, particularly if Muse are headlining that day.

Edited January 7, 2016 by Hotchilidog

[Gnomicide]

La Grange, when played as part of La Grange / Sloppy Drunk Jam, is their 2nd most played song.

Top 30:

1 Tush 996
2 La Grange / Sloppy Drunk Jam  988
3 Jesus Just Left Chicago  939
4 Waitin' for the Bus  931
5 Sharp Dressed Man  921
6 Gimme All Your Lovin'  915
7 Legs  888
8 Got Me Under Pressure  730
9 Cheap Sunglasses  711
10 Pincushion  679
11 I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide 587
12 Tube Snake Boogie  509
13 My Head's in Mississippi  484
14 Just Got Paid 465
15 Heard It on the X 398
16 I Gotsta Get Paid 315
17 Foxy Lady (The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover)  290
18 Party on the Patio  264
19 Chartreuse 261
20 Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers  227
21 Flyin' High Play  215
22 Future Blues (Willie Brown cover) 206
23 I Need You Tonight  194
24 Catfish Blues (Robert Petway cover) 1932
25 Manic Mechanic 187
26 Rough Boy 185
27 Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley cover) 180
28 I Thank You (Sam & Dave cover)  177
29 Brown Sugar 158
30 Ten Foot Pole 154

Looking at it, unless they record some new material, you're pretty much guaranteed the setlist Wooderson posted a few pages back.

[The Nal]

Any excuse to post this

 

 

 

[FloorFiller]

1 hour ago, The Nal said:

Any excuse to post this

 

 

 

this was the first thing my friend mentioned when i told him about ZZ Top being at Glastonbury haha

[mr gumby]

Heineken Music Hall have removed the mention of glasto from that article. Hmmm.....

[mungo57]

6 minutes ago, mr gumby said:

Heineken Music Hall have removed the mention of glasto from that article. Hmmm.....

doesn't mean anything really, maybe Glasto didn't want them to steal their thunder so to speak and asked them to take down?

[CaledonianGonzo]

If anything it strengthens the impression of a cat being let out of a bag a bit early.

[mr gumby]

8 minutes ago, mungo57 said:

doesn't mean anything really, maybe Glasto didn't want them to steal their thunder so to speak and asked them to take down?

Yeah, they probably made a call once chatter on here and on FB filtered through. It'll be interesting to see if glasto announce it officially, though, now the news is 'out there' so to speak. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Something similar happened last year with Mavis Staples, but they didn't bother then.

[CaledonianGonzo]

|The story's been picked up by The Independent.

[FloorFiller]

could just be that they're trying to crack down on leaks a little more this year... hopefully it doesn't mean it was an error on their part