Sweden Rock Festival 2009: ZZ Top - 4th June 2009
Setlist: Got Me Under Pressure / Waitin' For The Bus > Jesus Just Left Chicago / Pincushion / I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide / I Can't Tell My Faith / Cheap Sunglasses / I Need You Tonight / Cat Fish Blues / Foxy Lady / Heard It On The X / Just Got Paid / Gimme All Your Lovin' / Sharp Dressed Man / Legs / Tube Snake Boogie / La Grange / Tush
If I have to explain how good ZZ Top are live, you wouldn’t understand anyway; you either get this band, or you don’t.
As with so many of the bands this weekend, it’s the first time I’d seen them live in 25 years or so. I saw them last in Dortmund in 1982 and I couldn’t believe how a band with their looks could be so cool and play such shit hot music.
Twenty-seven years on and nothing has changed. They are still shit hot and one of the coolest things this side of Clarence Clemons. They make it look so easy that you almost feel that they’re not trying, but then that is a lame criticism, if indeed, it is criticism at all. You can’t have a go at a band for being the best at what they do.
I really enjoyed ZZ Top, as I knew I would, and as with The Tubes, me and Mr Cotts got on stage and watched a couple of numbers from just behind the drum kit; and that is probably the coolest thing I have ever done in my life. Have I used the word ‘cool’ too many times? Probably, but then ZZ Top are the essence of cool, no two ways about it.
As with so many of the bands this weekend, it’s the first time I’d seen them live in 25 years or so. I saw them last in Dortmund in 1982 and I couldn’t believe how a band with their looks could be so cool and play such shit hot music.
Twenty-seven years on and nothing has changed. They are still shit hot and one of the coolest things this side of Clarence Clemons. They make it look so easy that you almost feel that they’re not trying, but then that is a lame criticism, if indeed, it is criticism at all. You can’t have a go at a band for being the best at what they do.
I really enjoyed ZZ Top, as I knew I would, and as with The Tubes, me and Mr Cotts got on stage and watched a couple of numbers from just behind the drum kit; and that is probably the coolest thing I have ever done in my life. Have I used the word ‘cool’ too many times? Probably, but then ZZ Top are the essence of cool, no two ways about it.