Tuesday, November 3, 2026
In May 1970, the senior class of Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School in Orange, Texas, booked a young, local three-piece band called ZZ Top to play their high school prom. Posing on stage with their gear for the school yearbook—which humorously printed their name as Zee Zee Top—a clean-shaven Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard, and Dusty Hill were just beginning their journey as That Little Ol’ Band from Texas
Opened for Leonard Skinner
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I love learning about stuff. This is really cool. Thank you, CW!
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ReplyDeleteBeing alive in 1970 and on, and yet not living in the USA, we would pronounce their name as Zed Zed Top, because we speak actual English.
ReplyDeleteHaving photographic proff of the way they said it would have hastened our being seen as cool.
We smoked herb back then ... what you guys call erb for some strange reason.
Yet you don't say ospital.
Anyhow, a lot of good times, and good driving times, were had with ZZ Top playing loudly.
Coolness in abundance.
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