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You always turn into the coolest person in the room when you say "ZZ Topp played my senior prom."
Just a ‘lil ‘ol band from Texas…Tejas
Unless you were Scott Halpin, who would've said, "Oh, yeah? I was the spectator who took over on drums for Keith Moon when he passed out on stage in '73." Laid achieved.
We have a winner!
Apparently Merlin Olsen was an original member of the band.
Man, you’re showing our age.
You didn't claim to have to look it up yourself... =..]
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(But I didn't have to, either =..[ )
A bouquet of FTD flowers are coming your way
Better than a wreath...
You went back for that one. Can't say too much about his acting chops but he was on an episode of Petticoat Junction.
Can’t say much? Someone gave him his own show that lasted two seasons. 🤷🏾
And that was two too many for me mais a chacun son gout. I felt the same about Fred Dryer's acting career.
When I was a kid, he was at some event and signed an autographed photo. It wasn’t a photo of him as a football player, it was him as FTD spokesperson with a floral arraignment. Now I need to find it.
Edit: spokesperson
The beginning of the beard
Frank Beard looks like Neil Peart there.
And he’s the only one out of the three that looks anything like a rockstar.
And the only one of the three that didn’t wear a beard
Yep. I love that. The band always rocked, but had a sense of humor.
And always put on a good show, I saw them several times (usually as an opener or a second act), consistently entertaining
He has recently!
I will consider this a sign of the apocalypse and plan accordingly
Billy looks like a nerd, who wants to tell you about what Shakespeare really intended. Dusty looks like a foundry worker, or a janitor. Frank looks like the spirit of don't give a damn rock and roll.
Apparently Dusty was just lookin for some tush.
I always thought it was funny that when the band took a hiatus in the 70s, Dusty worked at D/FW airport handling luggage. He just wanted to feel normal.
Imagine being Billy and opening for Jimi Hendrix and then play a prom a couple years later 😅
Money green no matter the scene
Especially in Gruene
This had to have been before that. maybe they got the date wrong
Nope, he opened for Hendrix in 68, couple of shows houston and dallas with his Sidewalk band. All the accounts of this prom say it has to be 70/71’ time frame and the fact this this pic is ZZ that means after the sidewalks
If Dusty kept wearing tennis shoes, he couldn't have shot himself in the foot.
Pretty sure thats Frank Beard (drummer) in the tennis shoes, Dusty (bass) is on the left. Did I miss something?
Ironically the guy with the last name beard never really had a beard.
IIRC, they had just signed their first deal the week before this?
I think they had a deal already. What happened was there was a bunch of interest in them as a local "supergroup" forming from their previous bands, so their rep was starting to blow up. Still, a gig's a gig and they played the prom.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/billy-gibbons-on-the-zee-zee-top-prom-photo/
Ahh, thank you for the refresher. I knew there was a gap somewhere in my story.
Is that Pearly Gates?
I just asked the same question!
I was also wondering!
RIP Dusty
Bad asses then. Bad asses now. RIP Dusty.
I’m pretty sure a lady at my local record shop was at one of these highschool shows, they weren’t even called ZZ Top then.
I find it how much different BFG looked before the beard
They got a lot of nice girls … how how how how
Black sheep Black.
Man, my back is sore,
That was in Orange High School in Orange, TX.
Waltrip high school they played also
Zee Zee Top guys were a Houston group.
Looking for some tush.
Is that Pearly Gates that Billy is holding?
No way!
Pre-Beard era
No franks right there in the middle
Eventually, unlike his cohorts, Frank Beard did not live up to his namesake
Cool picture of the guys
I remember hearing that zz top got their start as a fake version of the Zombies. Basically the zombies had broken up already when they released their magnum opus oddesy and oracle and suddenly there was tons of demand for the British band.
So several Americans bands went out and pretended to be the zombies to audiences who were I guess none the wiser
Such an awesome band! They were destined for greatness!
That's from a fraternity dance at Tyler Junior College while recording their first album in 1970.
Dem boyz did good!
Wow
I wonder what town this is in.
This has to be like right after Dusty was in The Zombies. ‘Time Of The Season’ was a hit in the US in early to mid ‘69 and it was right about then that he joined “The Zombies”.
La Grange High School
Billy F. Gibbons scans prom crowd, thinks: "Every girl crazy about a sharp dressed man."
Making beautiful music with their dates too
Dorks