White Boy Blues Update

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes:

ZZ Top have a new album coming out on Tuesday, and it’s getting raves.

Guitarist Billy Gibbons in the New York Times:

“It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness,” Mr. Gibbons said of himself. “White people get nervous and speed things up.”  But, he suggested, “you don’t have to be in a hurry because you ain’t got nothing to gain and you ain’t got nothin’ to lose. And that’s where the groove lies. Consider that as a mental concept for a second!”

Listen to the first track from the album here. It’s a cover of a 1999 hip-hop song.

Previously.

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4 Responses to White Boy Blues Update

  2. chucho's avatar chucho says:
    September 11, 2012 at 12:18 am

    Pretty lame comment, considering Gibbons slays just about any black guitar player post-Hendrix you could name.

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  3. Steve Sailer's avatar Steve Sailer says:
    September 15, 2012 at 7:40 am

    “White people get nervous and speed things up.”

    That was my objection to ZZ Top in 1979: they weren’t playing fast enough! Dinosaur rock I called their music in a review for the Rice U. paper.

    But, they were right and I was wrong.

    I’ve never seen anybody explore why a bunch of intelligent young white guys felt such a need for speed starting in the late 70s.

    I never met Billy Gibbons, but ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard was a friend of Prof. William Martin, my dorm’s headmaster at Rice U., so he came by the dorm for dinner a couple of times in the late 1970s.

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    • Blowhard, Esq.'s avatar Blowhard, Esq. says:
      September 15, 2012 at 8:49 pm

      “I’ve never seen anybody explore why a bunch of intelligent young white guys felt such a need for speed starting in the late 70s.”

      More research needs to be done.

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