ZZ Top to play Dubya coronation.

January 5, 2001 9:04 AM

ZZ Top to play Dubya coronation. Yessir, America's forgotten hair-farmers will no doubt be rocking the frat...er...White House with aplomb. Think Cheney will do a kegstand?
posted by NickBarat (11 comments total)

ZZ Top smokes the hi-grade. Maybe this is a signal that Dubya's drug policy will reflect Billy Gibbons' taste for "El Loco"
posted by snakey at 9:23 AM on January 5, 2001

Three words:
Coolest Inauguration EVER!
(And you thought Fleetwood Mac was cool!)
Now, if we could just get Jethro Tull....
posted by hc at 9:39 AM on January 5, 2001

FWIW, here's the Texas House Resolution declaring ZZ Top Day back in '97.
posted by iceberg273 at 9:56 AM on January 5, 2001

Does this mean that Dubya will inherit the keys to ZZ Top's hot rod from Clinton?
posted by rorschach at 10:04 AM on January 5, 2001

Hm. Maybe they'll do "Velcro Fly" or "Woke Up With Wood" in honor of the departing President.
posted by kindall at 10:24 AM on January 5, 2001

Maybe they'll do "Arrested for Driving While Blind," "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide," or "My Mind is Gone" for the new president.

And maybe "2000 Blues" for the rest of the country. (Partisan humor, woo!)
posted by waxpancake at 10:42 AM on January 5, 2001

ZZTop? Blah! If Dubya let Ginger MacKenzie play at his inauguration, then I'd be impressed.
posted by ZachsMind at 11:17 AM on January 5, 2001

Excellent suggestions, Waxpancake. (Partisan, my ass; I'll happily mock a buffoon regardless of what party he belongs to.)
posted by kindall at 11:38 AM on January 5, 2001

Wow! All the Regan/Bush era chic is back!
Are skinny ties and Capizio's and inteventin in Nic...er, Columbia next?
posted by black8 at 5:37 PM on January 5, 2001

Golly, I hope so.

I was in the gated suburb of Houston for Christmas a few years ago (is it Richmond? I think so, but it's gone now) where one of the guys from ZZ Top (never found out which one) has a mansion and a motorbike course, and the Bushes had property in the same little "community" (which was surrounded, if I recall, by a prison farm - it creeped me out). They're neighbors, dude.

So this pairing seems like a natural.

And hey, the Reagan Years been beddy, beddy good to the Beards.

The creepier one was when the Brian Setzer Orchestra played the RNC in '96. That burst more of my bubbles than this.
posted by chicobangs at 10:10 PM on January 5, 2001

Makes sense to me. ZZ Top's music = simplistic, outdated, and painful to listen to. Dubya's political views, ditto.
posted by Optamystic at 3:08 AM on January 6, 2001