1977-April-30 ZZ Top Birmingham, Alabama (speed corrected) Disc 1 - 45.46 1 Introduction .06 2 Thunderbird > 2.27 3 Chevrolet 3.32 4 Precious And Grace > 2.21 5 Waiting On The Bus > 2.19 6 Jesus Just Left Chicago 4.10 7 Enjoy And Get It On > 3.25 8 Pan Am Highway Blues 2.43 9 Move Me On Down The Line 2.55 10 It's Only Love 3.26 11 Ten Dollar Man 3.10 12 Heard It On The X 2.54 13 Arrested For Driving While Blind 5.33 14 Balinese 2.29 15 Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings 4.09 Disc 2 - 40.54 1 She's A Heartbreaker 3.26 2 Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers 2.54 3 Blue Jean Blues 5.57 4 Rattlesnake Shake > 4.26 5 La Grange > 2.24 6 La Grange Pt 2 > 1.35 7 Sloppy Drunk > 1.51 8 BBQ 1.37 9 Mexican Blackbird 2.38 10 El Diablo > 3.07 11 Tush 3.01 12 Backdoor Love Affair > 3.32 Mellow Down Easy > Backdoor Love Affair 13 Long Distance Boogie 4.19 Notes that came with this recording: This is from the info file: Speed corrected by floydrocks Thanks to E-rroneous for providing original FLACs. Lineage: Tape (probably master) > ? > CD > Trade > FLACs from E-rroneous > Sony Soundforge (speed correction) > FLAC I speed corrected this to the best of my ability. It may not be perfect, but original tape was running way too fast. I believe I used -50 to get as close as I could to regular pitch (used other boot from 1977 as a reference) It's a great show that surfaced recently. Enjoy! -floydrocks From zzlive.com: April 30th, 1977 ~ Zz Top Live In Birmingham Alabama (Worldwide Texas Tour) Quality on this is B+ / A-. Another RARE 1977 recording that just surfaced in early 2006. Not a bad recording for the day, 29 years ago. Outstanding performance! Billy announces their new album Tejas. The original tape sounds heat distorted during Thunderbird but it clears up quite nice during Chevrolet and for the rest of the show. Thank goodness this was converted to digital in 2006 so it was not lost forever. (2) CD SET 01) Thunderbird 02) Chevrolet (Extended version with bizarre guitar jam!) 03) Precious and Grace (Alabama) 04) Waiting for the Bus 05) Jesus Just Left Chicago (Birmingham Alabama) 06) Enjoy & And Get It On 07) Pan Am Highway Blues 08) Move It On Down The Line Billy says "Well, I don't know about everyone back there in the back row but it smells like everyones having a good time right up here in the front!" 09) It's Only Love 10) Ten Dollar Man Billy says "Oh yeah, everybody having a good time so far this evening? That's right ladies, that is Dusty Hill right there from the Lone Star State of Texas. He's gonna sing this one for ya right heh!" 11) Heard it on the X (Fast paced version, jams hard!) 12) Arrested for Driving While Blind 13) Balinese 14) Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings 15) She's A Heartbreaker Billy says "Oh me, lemme introduce you to a little girlfriend of mine, miss Pearly Gates, she's been with me for a long time. And before the show started we had a little conversation she said Billy don't let the night go by without playing me something maybe something everyone one here in Birmingham might understand. And I said what might that be? And she said how about a little beer drinkin' and hell raisin'!" 16) Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers 17) Blue Jean Blues (Billy says during the song, I sure hope I can hear somebody say get down tonight, cause I am gonna tear this guitar up! And the crowd screams GET DOWN!) .. A very bizarre and awesome version where Billy really does tear it up hard. Includes an extra version of a guitar solo and Billy says "That wasn't in the record, just something special for tonight." Also includes a short sermon about being treated bad by your old lady or your old man. And "I don't care if you're a lowdown hillbilly from Texas or a lowdown hillbilly from Alabama". 18) Rattlesnake Shake (Long extended version, unbelievable!) 19) La Grange 20) La Grange Part II 21) Sloppy Drunk 22) BBQ Encore: Billy says "Ya'll about ready for the second set to start?" 23) Mexican Blackbird (Vocals by Billy) 24) El Diablo 25) Goin' Down To Mexico 26) Tush 27) Backdoor Love Affair 28) Mellow Down Easy 29) Backdoor Love Affair Part 2 30) Long Distance Boogy (Alabama lyrics) The show is ended with both Billy and Dusty yelling "Boogie Train" not once, but twice, then a final single verse jam and the crowd goes insane as they exit. Enjoy, and my sincere thanks to anyone who has uploaded early ZZ in the past.