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ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas

We were functioning far outside the pale of what journalism was trying to embrace

We were functioning far outside the pale of what journalism was trying to embrace

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We were functioning far outside the pale
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of what journalism was trying to embrace.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
00:49:03
Uploaded
Jun 10, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, music
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The story of how three oddball teenage bluesmen became one of the biggest, most beloved bands on the planet.
That was back to that thing of, you got to go to California. - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:04
That was back to that thing of, you got to go to California.
I think we were just provincials over there, you know? - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:04
I think we were just provincials over there, you know?
They called us a Southern rock band. They didn't know what to call us. - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:05
They called us a Southern rock band. They didn't know w...
I don't think was meant so much as a compliment, when it first was said. - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:05
I don't think was meant so much as a compliment, when i...
But I think it was really actually supposed to be kind of a cut, you know? - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:05
But I think it was really actually supposed to be kind of a ...
[Howard Bloom] The Village Voice said: "ZZ Top has a sound like hammered shit." - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:13
[Howard Bloom] The Village Voice said: "ZZ Top has a so...
I had worked with Michael Jackson and Bob Marley - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:10
I had worked with Michael Jackson and Bob Marley
So, I thought that I could handle ZZ Top. - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:04
So, I thought that I could handle ZZ Top.
I went down to Texas. I interviewed them in a hotel room in Houston. - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:06
I went down to Texas. I interviewed them in a hotel room in ...
I got all the background I could, - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:11
I got all the background I could,
And something started to come out of these guys. - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:04
And something started to come out of these guys.
The rest of us in the United States of America, we have 50 states - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:10
The rest of us in the United States of America, we have 50 s...
No. What the guys were revealing to me was they grew up in a foreign country. - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:06
No. What the guys were revealing to me was they grew up in a...
They grew up in a country with its own founding fathers - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:07
They grew up in a country with its own founding fathers
[Dusty] When I was a kid, you took Texas history before you took American history. - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:05
[Dusty] When I was a kid, you took Texas history before you ...
The pride in Texas is a real thing and I take it with me everywhere I go. - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:07
The pride in Texas is a real thing and I take it with me eve...
I mean, I know that my father's family came into Texas in 1836, - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:14
I mean, I know that my father's family came into Texas ...
So, you know, we started bringing that to the fore. - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:05
So, you know, we started bringing that to the fore.
Obviously we took it much further when we did the Worldwide Texas Tour - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:09
Obviously we took it much further when we did the Worldwide ...
[Ralph Fisher] I guess, uh, probably about '74, - ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas 00:07
[Ralph Fisher] I guess, uh, probably about '74,