The Last Bass Outpost

He has a whole army of canned rhythm guitar tracks behind him when they play the 80ies hits and the background vocals don't sound real either, let's not even talk about the sequencers, but does he lip sync too? It wouldn't surprise me. ZZ Top's legacy as a great live band goes back to the 70ies and early 80ies, ever since then they have become more and more "augmented" live.

You know, when Britney Spears or Madonna do it - they’re dance acts. If Paul Stanley does it - KISS are putting on an amusement park type show. But if Don Henley does it - what the hell does he have to do on stage other than sing? And if Desperado is too high for him by now, then change the f***ing key and sing it lower.

The Thunderqueen gigs in style!

That's the lame "British guitarist reacts" guy. I won't waste my time listening to anything he has to say.

You fearsome revolutionary Yankee Doodle, you don't even have to listen to that King-grovelling lame Limey,



just start at 03:07 and listen to a 'live' vocal of Don singing Desperado on the left channel from 2023 and one from another gig in 2024 on the right channel. There is no - zero, keine, zilch, nada, null - difference.

Rob, let's not even talk about the Live album by the Eagles from 1980 about which Glenn Frey once quipped: "It's the only "live" album in rock history where the backing vocals to one and the same live performance were recorded on different coasts weeks apart years later!"

I actually prefer Henley's (real) singing when he is playing drums while doing it - he sits more on the beat with his voice then. But for some reason he got this thing in his head that he had to stand in front with the umpteenth acoustic guitar in the Eagle's line-up - he was always an awkward front man, with none of Frey's Detroit schmooze.

PS: I didn't know you really cared, Rob. About live albums being undoctored. I  mean as a Thin Lizzy fan and all ...

For better or worse, it's David Gilmour, what do you expect, it's like waiting for Mark Knopfler to do something different. Not a bad track and some Ezrin'esque habits stick - like adding a kiddie choir (Alice Cooper, Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd ...).

Seeing Gilmour explore the limits of the pentatonic blues scale on a Les Paul sure looks weird, but the man can play what he wants.

His many fans will no doubt be pleased and I wasn't prompted to cut the song short either. There are a few bum notes in the solo, he left those, I like that.

Three hours is long, true. There is a reason why all these vintage acts are cutting their sets. And if I’m honest, I don’t feel much like watching a band standing for three hours in the audience anymore either.

Paice has by now become something like the spokesman and voice of reason of the band, has his own podcast (drum tribe) etc. He says it's something he grew into when Jon Lord left the band. Of course, he's also the sole remaining first line up member and one of the Blackmore-Lord-Paice virtuoso instrumental triumvirate Purple was always identified with.

Roger is still the social worker and glue that holds the band together. And he's happy that Bob Ezrin relieved him of production duties because taking care of those went always at the cost of his recorded bass playing, he says. By the time he got around to that, there wasn't much room to play anymore.

Nostalgia time tonight, way back before the Stones became just another Stones tribute band.

Never cared much for the song, but Bill is so friggin' cool in that vid, the gentleman bass player!