--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > I just love this. But then, when it comes to TMers who are > "celebrities," there are only two in the world I'd like to meet, because > out of the whole lot of them Dusty and Billy seem to be the only ones > who are nice guys and might have cool stories to tell. Like the one > about having to play a gig at a high school prom, shortly after your > first single hits the Billboard Hot 100? Priceless. > ZZ Top Prom: Photo Seems To Show Band At High School Dance > Emerging today from the annals of the internet: a photo that appears to > show ZZ Top at a school prom. > The picture, available below, shows Dusty Hill, Frank Beard and Billy > Gibbons as men who would appear to be in their early 20s. Though we > can't verify it at this time, the photo matches up with an account of a > 1971 appearance at the Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School prom > <http://orangeleader.com/entertainment/x681354316/ZZ-Top-band-at-71-prom\ > ?keyword=topstory> . That performance took place two years after the > band was formed. > > "People were actually crashing our prom," one student recounted. > "People were trying to sneak in anyway they could just to see these > guys perform. It was really funny." > > UPDATE: A Redditor posted the following comment > <http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ua383/best_prom_ever_starring_ze\ > e_zee_top_1969/c4ttqac> , which seems to verify the Little > Cypress-Mauriceville High School connection: > This is from my dad's senior prom in May 1971! This was taken at Little > Cypress-Mauriceville High School in Orange, Texas. > Apparently some time between signing the contract to play for the dance > and the actual prom itself, the band broke out big. They tried to get > out of the contract, but the school couldn't find a replacement on such > short notice so ZZ Top still performed. My dad said that people were > climbing through the windows, crashing their prom, just to hear the > band play. This was all at a really small school with a graduating > class of around 100, maybe less. I'll try to get him to scan his > yearbook that has this exact picture in it. > > The Reddit thread on which the image originally appeared > <http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ua383/best_prom_ever_starring_ze\ > e_zee_top_1969/> identified the photo as being taken in 1969, but Hill > didn't join the band until 1970. > > Were you at the prom? If so, leave a comment and we'll update our post > accordingly. > > [zz top prom] >
Well, at least "Frank" doesn't seem to have a Beard... LoL!
