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ZZ Top: Deguello (Warner Bros.)

Joe Nick Patoski, Creem, April 1980

FIRST TIME I heard "that lil' ole band from Texas" ZZ Top in the flesh was some five years ago in a football stadium where 80,000 heathens and me fried on an Astro-turf griddle in search of El Gran Getdown.

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