Early ZZ Top and Frank Beard was a huge influence on me. I'll never forget hearing this song for the first time cranked up on a juke box in my home town.
First concert I ever saw was on my 16th birthday, 1983 in Nashville...ZZ Top, The Eliminator Tour. Sammy Hagar, aka The Red Rocker, opened for them. Sweet show!
I don't remember my first show but it was in San Antonio. I think I've seen them 4 times including opening for the Stones at the Astrodome in the early '80's. I think the message Top sent to the Brits that night was you're on our turf now. Have Mercy.
I always like Frank Beard's drumming but I hated Eliminator. Imagine my relief when I learned it was all drum machine (at least the hits were, never listened to the whole thing ...)
Frank went into the studio to lay down drum tracks and was not happy that his pals had used the drum machine. lol
On Master of Sparks there's a line, We were out in the sticks off of Highway 6. I remember when Hwy 6 was like that. Houston's megalopolis growth changed that long ago.
One day when I go to that empty hall in the sky I'll have someone play Mexican Blackbird as a send off.
"They all call her puta
Cause no one really knows her name."
Thinking about the shuffle, brought my mind right around to Frank.
There are so many ZZ Top songs in which he brings a simple but perfectly groovin feel...very hard to emulate. I love (LOVE) playing Waitin' For the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago!!
Not a lot of posts on this thread, but when you search for shuffle, or blues drummers, or favorite drummers, there are a fair amount of posts; and Bernhard has some good stuff on him as well.
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