Discussion: ... Pearly Gates were held ...

... Pearly Gates were held to my throat

A fan of the right reverend Billy G eh? You do realize he's one of them there Texans, right? I dearly wish they'd stop playing their recent crap and go back to stuff like Blue Jean Blues and Hot, Blue and Righteous....

I wish they would go back to playing stuff like "Francine", "Jesus Just Left Chicago", and "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers", and never get tempted to stray from those heavenly sounds again. I agree with you 100% about all the more recent crap!

I just don't understand what is happening these days in the once great Lone Star State. It's like free-range lunacy every day, all of the time. When even groups such as ZZ Top lose track of their sound, you know how strong the forces of darkness have grown.

I even seen a picture the other day where one of them average dude-in-the-street Texans was wearing some kinda vast, flopped over, translucent blue flykiller hats.

A haow haow haow haow...

I had my chance last night, but I decided to pass. I don't see a review of the show on line.
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/09/11...

I am feeling right immune to fashion myself. Too bad those fine soundin' hombres didn't make the scene last Saturday here; what a perfect halftime show that would have been.

Is it my imagination, or is Beard sporting a beard? Yes, I do believe it's true:

Of course, appearances have changed over the years...

Indeed. Check out this vintage photo:

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Mercy! And who is that cat with the guitar? He looks vaguely familiar...

So, is that picture the Moving Sidewalks?

Hey, Billy Gibbons is 60 today! He has the same birthday as my mother!

I dunno. I'm concentrating on trying to figure out the chord shape the guitar cat is using. It looks like something from another universe.

I found this interesting titbit about ZZ Top:

In 1984, the Gillette Company reportedly offered Gibbons and Hill $1 million each to shave their beards for a television commercial but they declined, stating "We're too ugly without 'em."

It make you wonder how much Proctor & Gamble offered PG to shave off his beard, doesn't it?

At any rate, too late for me to grow a beard. People have already well identified how ugly I am.

So, in light of the ancient photos, it appears that Billy didn't look so bad after all. I think. I mean, I can never tell. Pretty girls, yeah, I know in an instant, but I can't figure out what makes a guy handsome. So what do you think, people, who looks better without a beard, Peter G. or Billy G.? (Billy is the one on the right wearing a white hat in the picture with the Japanese writing.)

Could that guy on the left be Ross Burnett in his younger days and not Frank Beard?