Watched the ZZ Top documentary on Netflix last night, and it was fantastic. Great footage of their start as The Warlocks and Moving Sidewalks. Big time bonus points for drive sequence in Billy G's '32 roadster to jam at an empty Greune Hall. Sets Texas knob all the way to eleven.
Though they came from Dallas & Houston, in their earliest days they seldom played the bigger TX cities; mostly beer joints and armories in New Braunfels, Waco, etc., creating a word-of-mouth mystique. Their first album was recorded in a house in Tyler.
Gotta be one of the most underappreciated bands ever. Their big-as-Texas mythos was never in tune with the latest musical trend du jour, but still works pretty damn good today. Playing 50 years with the same original lineup is kind of astounding.
In the doc Billy Bob Thornton says ZZ Top live is "like meeting Bugs Bunny in person." God bless bands who create their own durable cartoon universe; ZZ Top, AC/DC, Cheap Trick.
*the aforementioned Billy Gibbons 1932 Ford roadster, built by Rudy Rodriguez. That is one damn fine automobile. 
