badass blues and beards. fo reel.

manic mechanic!

One of them has HIV. :(

One of my friends got me Eliminator on vinyl for my birthday years ago, and never gave it to me. BAH.

Tes Hombres=AWESOME

Their last 3 (Rythmeen/XXX/Mescalero) are all really good as well; pretty much totally ignored but worth checking out

my dad is big on all the blues rock, he got me into ZZ Top, George Thoroughgood and Stevie Ray Vaughn when i was a kid.

while ZZ Top is nowhere near as awesome as the other two, they are still pretty excellent

Same deal with me. I just saw George Thorogood this past September. With fuckin Buddy Guy. SIIIIIIICKK.

I saw ZZ top a few years back. They Had Ted Nugent open. Also quite fantastic.

Pearl Necklace, Woke Up With Wood, Tush...
All classic song titles
ZZTop rocks.

Always hot chick in the video, even when they went into space with half a chick...great option!

Blasphemy! Billy Gibbons owns Thorogood! SRV slays, but I gotta give the edge to ZZ Top on these 3...Billy Gibbons was Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitarist. WIN

what?

anyone listen to guitar shorty?

well, i always found hendrix overrated, so that means nothing to me.

but as far as i'm concerned, Thorogood had more skill and personality than all three members of ZZ combined.

and Stevie Ray owns all other blues rock (and many old school blues) guitarists

I saw ZZ Top with Kenny Wayne Shepard and Ted Nugent @ Tweeter a few years back. Fucking phenomenal show.

i just got my Dusty Hill costume for halloween. i'm playin a classic rock halloween show so its perfect. psyched.

Who has HIV? I heard Dusty got the Hep-C but I dunno nothin bout no HIV.

i will give hep c to children instead of candy

Hepatitis C-Section?

Billy Gibons owns SRV. SRV was a white-boy Hendrix wannabe. Boring boring boring.

ugh what? haha

while i love ZZ Top i cant agree with that statement

I love how ZZ Top was in Back to the Future III. Fucking classic.

you have just proven that your opinion is worth shit

i do like Billy Gibbons but i think SRV and him are in different classes.

that i can agree with. blues is blues... IMHO no one is better or worse at it. its just dah blues. when you gots it you plays it.

Yes, one rocks, the other is boring boring boring.

coming from the guy who loves SRV and hates Hendrix, I'll take that as a compliment.

Jimi's revenge

The fucking guy even ripped off Hendrix's clothes

so playing a similar blues style and wearing eccentric clothing warrants a death by plane/helicopter crash?

Yes, in fact he got off light for that cover of Voodoo Child.

that cover is awesome. it was an homage. many bands do cover songs.

i thought srv made voodoo child better. but at the same note, i know taking someone's song and making it better, is probably a lot easier than coming up with that original piece of material.

lol, are you talking about powerglove, Mess? lolll

Mess no know what lol talk'n bout

its about paying tribute to a person/peice of music that inspired his musical style. not ripping off their music.

josh (and anyone else who likes that overrated hack more than Stevie Ray) is gay

translation: I got nuthin to refute what Josh said so I'll rip off his band just like SRV ripped off Jimi Hendrix.

srv and jimi hendrix are two entirely different players in my book. SRV's strength was in his tone and how hard he played, Jimi's was in his innovative song structures and use of effects. Both came from the same roots though so I can see how you can compare the two, but I still think they both have their own styles that warrant liking them both.

i ripped off your band?
hahaha
how?
by calling you gay?
like you and seth invented that?
good one

while i do think Hendrix was overrated, i do like the way you look at this particular situation.

hendrix is overrated by today's standards but nobody was doing what he did to the extremes that he did back then. ya gotta figure nobody had played like him before that.

yay drugs.

p.s.
if i wanted to rip off your band, i would just change some of your lyrics....
like this

if you like hendrix better than stevie ray - you're fucking gay
if you like bud better than sam adams - you're fucking gay
if you disagree with me - you're fucking gay
if your name is josh martin - you're fucking gay

y-o-u-r-e-g-a-y

YOU'RE GAY!

now i ripped off your band

lol @ yay drugs, hahaha

but no, i just mean i think he is overrated, in that he probably would not have the same reputation, were he white and right handed.
it's just an opinion, but back then, there was still a ridiculous amount of public racism, and i think Hendrix got alot of (maybe too much) credit for being a black dude in predominantly white rock music scene.

plus, people from that era had a strange fascination with left handed guitarists.....at least that's what i've gathered from people i've known/met who were around (and fans of his) when he was "in his prime"

it's possible, but you can't deny that if there was no jimi hendrix then modern metal today wouldn't be the same.

i also can't deny that most of his music was drug-induced wanking

Right, like you would've said that to me otherwise. Give me a fucking break.

Regardless, you still have yet to give one single musical argument or even example of why SRV is better than Hendrix. You probably like Lenny Kravitz too.

What's next, St. Vitus is better than Black Sabbath? Pig Destroyer is better than Napalm Death?

Stop eating so much crap. The transfat is clogging your ears.

Iced Earth v. Blind Guardian. Takin all bets.

Seriously, what are you basing that on? Do you have any facts or evidence to back that up at all? That just sounds so ridiculously stupid.

Not to mention, there were tons of black rock perfomers who were huge among white audiences. Going back to Chuck Berry in 19fucking55.

Examples?

right, i never called anyone gay before i heard anal cunt, haha.
you are retarded.

no, i hate kravitz.
Napalm Death are gods of grind
Sabbath rules.

oh a fat joke, very original. i'm so very offended. hah.

right, but hendrix was the first black man in the rock scene.
i don't mean old timey rock n' roll, i mean fucking rock.

haha, another thread arguing about hendrix.
the only way to even remotely comprehend anything that was going on back then was to have been ALIVE while hendrix was in his prime; even to the point while seeing him live. I wasn't alive and kicking in 1968-9 but I'm sure if I was, I would have been blown away by his music and performances

his entire catalogue?

i'm basing on conversations i have had with both white and black hendrix fans who were in their teens and twenties when hendrix was still touring

i wouldn't say hendrix not being around would have made a huge impact on metal, there are so many other places from which to draw influence.

but i do have do admit, alot of good bands did love the guy.

as much as i have no problem admitting that i am an overeating slob (which is no worse than being a junkie) i do avoid transfats.....especially since they have been banned at most fast food joints.

well put sir

Yeah, I didn't think you had any.

umm...i fail to see what i did wrong there. the man was on pretty much every drug known to man at the time. purple haze was based around some tripped out dream that he had. when he was all fucked up he heard different types of guitar tones and then proceeded to get fucked up in the studio and try all sorts of different methods to get the sounds he was hearing in his head. i'm sure all that lsd had nothing to do with it.

Arthur Lee, Otis Redding, the Temptations, Sly Stone...that's just off the top of my head. I could go to allnusic.com and list a ton more.

So you're basing on the word of people who were completely drugged out of their minds.

Even if they weren't on drugs. Think of how wrong the average person today is about music stuff. Just look around the internet and you'll find a ton of wrong information about every band you can think of. And that's just about recent stuff. I'm supposed to believe your theory based on the word of a handful of guys trying to remember 40 years ago?
Show me stuff written back then or you are just making up stuff to fit your opinion.

I asked for examples of "wankery" you give a wise ass answer, which one would only do when you can't think of a real answer. And I'm talking music, not lyrics.
Hendrix was a perfectionist to the point of it being a fault in the studio. He was not messed up during his sessions. Where are you getting your information from?
"wankery" implies unnecessary guitar masturbation. With the exception of Third Stone from the Sun, there was nothing Hendrix released that fits that defintion.

right....there is a difference between old timey rock n roll and actual rock

comparing hendrix to redding, is like comparing AxCx to Slayer

AC and Slayer would fit on a bill together. In fact we almost did play with Slayer but we ended up going to CA instead.

How nitpicky are you going to be to make your theory work? Face it, Hendrix was not the first darky in rock.

yes, you're right josh, i am making stuff up...

listen, i have an opinion, based on what i have heard (both musically, and from fans of his music who were alive when he was), if you disagree with it, that's fine, i don't need prove a fuckin thing to you, i still have a right to state my opinion, and make fun of yours.

slayer has also played with slipknot, that doesn't mean shit.

all i'm saying is, ac is heavy, slayer is heavy....but are 100 PERCENT DIFFERENT STYLES OF MUSIC.

just like hendrix and every other black rock and roll artist before him.

hendrix's style of rock is completely different from redding.

maybe him and some of those artists could have played together as well.

but it doesn't change the fact that he was the first black to play that "woodstocky" style of rock.

Otis Redding ftw
/thraed

This thread got gayer than a pink plateau of intentionally-colliding erections.

sittin' on the dock of the bay

Yeah, I think you are right.

I've made my point. I'm done.

I never knew Hendrix causes so much argument.

well, he's black

nah, he's the opposite of michael jackson. he was a white kid who turned into a black guy

maybe that's why he played guitar backwards

your only point is that you are a cokefiend who thinks he knows way more about music than he actually does, and is delusional enough to believe that no opinion (or fact for that matter) could ever disprove any of his opinions.

I used to have a long beard, I used to be in this band, they threw me out now I am all pee pee and tee hee

Man, I've never heard so much SRV hate in my life. Hendrix hate, I have heard, but damn. Eh, fuck it. I like em both.

I used to be the first man on the moon and now I sell ice cream to old people on ice

I've never heard so much hate towards Josh Martin and Orgy before. Eh, fuck it, I like em both.

I used to be

I used to have a long beard. Then when I was in Graveside Service, they insisted on shaving my balls. There went my beard.

thats the funniest shit I ever read

Actually my point was, just like last time you brought it up, was that your Jimi Hendrix theory is wrong and retarded.

Seeing as how you are clearly taking this personally, I win.

Though I do kinda take offense at the cokehead remark. I don't even like coke that much. If you're going to throw shit like that around, get your facts right.

I used to have a point now I fuck goats like goat catalyst

josh....i'm not taking anything personally.
i'm being a dick....a concept i figured you may be familiar with.

the cokehead thing was a joke referring to a time in which you said "two bottles of cisco, and a coke bender seems like a fun idea"

as far as my opinion on hendrix, disagree all ya want, it's just music, and i still think you are wrong.

anything else i say when i sling shit around, is just a joke, calm down, go drink a pissweiser and relax.

MOAR ZZ TOP

there are an awful lot of damp tampons in this thread.

i love used tampons!!!
nothin tastier than menstrual koolaid

I was having this conversation about zz top recently.
which band has more sexual innuendos?
ZZ Top or AC/DC?

definately ZZ....
but AC/DC is up there....and awesome

Due to volume of albums out. I would say AC/DC
zz top has 14 albums and ac/dc has 20.

Any Album from either band + Any case of beer = PARTY.

AC/DC AT THE TD BANK NORTH GARDEN WHOS GOING TO PARTYYYYY

give me a ticket and i will come party

WORD -l-

In sheer numbers, I don't feel like counting. But I don't anything ZZ ever did could top Squaler or Big Balls.

tush? mornin wood?

Taste is taste. but if Hendrix had been white and played exactly the same (although I'm not sure that would've been possible) the impact would've been the same.
Jimmy Page was white. Biggest riff thief ever, didn't have 1/100th of the creativity Hendrix did. Also one of the most influential players ever.

Nope. And look at all the lyrics, not just the titles.
Bon Scott was the greatest sex lyricst ever.
#2 = Lemmy.

fair enough

yeah Lemmy!

if you dont like zz top, i dont like you

bennyhillifier

One of my favorite things to do on a coke bender was to play along to El Ranco Texicano back when I lived at The Compound

rough boy is one of my personal favorite songs while eating pussy.