ZZ Top: Live from Texas

ZZ Top Director: Milton Lage

Overview

This concert film features rock legends ZZ Top performing over a dozen of their songs including "Tush," "Sharp Dressed Man," "Cheap Sunglasses," "Gimme All Your Lovin'," and "Pearl Necklace," and "Legs."

Product Details

Release Date:	06/24/2008
UPC:	0801213025299
Original Release:	2008
Source:	Eagle Rock Ent
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:02:00
Sales rank:	5,168

Special Features

Poker game; Dallas show day; Photo shoot; Foxey lady

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

ZZ Top	Primary Artist
Milt Lage	Director

Technical Credits

Marc Schrobilgen	Editing
Geoff Kempin	Executive Producer
Carl Stubner	Executive Producer
Peter A. Barker	Producer
Rick Canny	Management,Executive Producer
Billy Gibbons	Group Member
Barry Ehrmann	Producer
Dusty Hill	Group Member
Frank Beard	Group Member
Tom Vickers	Liner Notes
Terry Shand	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

Given the importance of music videos in ZZ Top's career, it's surprising that the band took nearly 30 years to get around to making a full-length concert video. But here it is, taped in Dallas, TX, in 2007. The 85-minute performance is what fans would expect, with faithfully performed hits like "Gimme All Your Lovin," "Sharp Dressed Man," and "Legs" (complete with fur-lined guitars) from the music video era mixed with non-hit favorites like "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide," "Got Me Under Pressure," and "Pincushion," all ending up, inevitably, in the encore with the early classics "La Grange" and "Tush." Bassist/singer Dusty Hill and guitarist/singer Billy Gibbons, sporting their trademark long beards, sunglasses, and hats, do some simple choreography that serves to send up themselves and the trappings of show business. Gibbons, the frontman, makes occasional remarks to the crowd on the order of "Are we having a good time now?" But for the most part the band sticks to business, laying out one heavy blues-rock riff after another for an audience that couldn't be happier to hear them. A few hits are missing (notably "Sleeping Bag"), but the show provides a good sense of ZZ Top's music. Thirty-four minutes of extras include an 18-minute group interview with some amusing recollections of the Rolling Stones and Roky Erickson, as well a bonus cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxey Lady." ~ William Ruhlmann