Fandango

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It's not a Tres Hombres or an Eliminator, but it's still a great, fun album. Well worth a listen, but avoid the 80s remixed album where possible. 8/10. The live/studio flip is just so jarring that it screams to me “contractual obligation” and makes Fandango! a difficult album to rate. But there’s enough quality and swagger to get me to a seven. Matrix / Runout (Scribed in runout A, Variant 4, [STERLING is stamped]): T1 SAHS-1660-1 STERLING RL D Ratliff, Ben (September 6, 2012). "Traveling at the Speed of Molasses". The New York Times . Retrieved July 28, 2014.

Let's get the record straight: I am not very keen on the live side. It is a typical 1970s show, where the jams go on for a little too long and the covers make up the majority of the material. Had I been there I would probably have enjoyed it, but I wasn't and on record it just doesn't work. Frost, Deborah (1985). ZZ Top - Bad and Worldwide. New York: Rolling Stone Press. pp.103, 106–107, 115. ISBN 0020029500. Pinfold, William (January 15, 2010). "Double Down Live 1980/2008 – ZZ Top". Record Collector. No.372 . Retrieved May 3, 2022. New ZZ Top tour features West Seattle talent". West Seattle Herald. September 7, 2012 . Retrieved February 22, 2015. VH1 to Premiere ZZ Top "Storytellers" " (Press release). AHN. June 10, 2009. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011 . Retrieved December 18, 2010.The original line-up was formed in Houston and consisted of Gibbons, bassist/organist Lanier Greig, [5] and drummer Dan Mitchell. [5] The name of the band was Gibbons' idea. The band had a small apartment covered with concert posters and he noticed that many performers' names used initials. Gibbons particularly noticed B.B. King and Z. Z. Hill and thought of combining the two into "ZZ King", but considered it too similar to the original name. He then figured that "king is at the top" which gave him the idea of naming the band "ZZ Top". [6]

Matrix / Runout (Scribed in runout B, Variant 1, [STERLING is stamped]): SAHS-1661-2X RL T1 STERLING On December 12, ZZ Top announced a co-headlining tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd for summer 2023, titled The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour. The tour is scheduled to commence July 21, 2023 in West Palm Beach and conclude September 17, 2023 in Camden. Katsilometes, John (April 20, 2020). "Billy Gibbons says ZZ Top 'cooking up' new album". Las Vegas Review-Journal . Retrieved May 9, 2020.

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In short, just because it is a ZZ Top release and it contains Blue Jean Blues, Heard It On The X and Tush it doesn't mean it deserves a great score. 5 out of 10 from me.