European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Zzz top s Dusty Hill and bitty Gibbons performing in Frankfurt backed by drummer Frantt Beard amid layer fighting and billowing smok delivers the blues -4 by Wendy Bourland staff writer hard driving Bluesy Rock in Roll is stil Liht name of the game the Way Zzz to plays Billy Gibbons Dusty Hill and Frank Beard have changed the Way they deliver the blues Alloi 16 years but they Shl deliver. 22 top s concert at   tuesday night impressively combined the latest in stage lighting and a flecks with the music thai has transformed the Houston Power Trio Inlo a super group Over the past three years. An impatient audience wailed Lor nearly an hour after a performance by heavy Motal opening act Bonfire As stage hands worked and worked and worked Bui the Wail was Worth it As the Black stage curtain parted a Lumpy while Canvas was revealed the Canvas was quickly sucked up into fhe mooch of a glittering Gold pharaoh egyptian motifs Are featured in to videos from the current album and to fans Scio ams were All hut drowned out by the Wail of guitars 3 Zzz top opened with under pressure irom Iho 1982 Lolcus eliminator Gui Lansis Gibbons and Hill matched perfectly m baseball Caps Black knee length Coats and houses and spoiling Small ponytails uial contrasted to Ihetu trademark hawing beards they strutted and dipped guitars during sleeping Rig a Cut from the afterburner up and Clig Hlad fans with a stirring version of their old Standard Waisim Lor the bus Jesus just Lett cd Cago blues Aren t usually played under dancing laser fights of with smoke machines billowing one liner Side of a drum kit decorated with Licking tongues of flame. Surely blues Aren t played to a crowd Hal includes Punk european youngsters shouting and waving lists alongside Blue leaned american country boys. Wrong says Lead guitarist Gibbons just As Zzz top changes the Way in presents its blues so the audience changes. We re enjoying a broadening of our audience i saw a group of Guys a couple of hem could t have been Over 12 or 13. They were in there Boonying prelim Good he said in an interview Aller the show. They enjoy it. It s become a recurring common i thai one can come to a Zzz top show and see spiked hair next 1o a Cowboy  the guitarists backed by Beard s Snappy drumming performed Sharp dressed Man rough boy. Tags and velcro Fly from the Elim Malor and afterburner a Burns which have catapulted 22 top 1o supers atom after 15 years of hard work and a solid reputation As a Lun. Party time band. But the boys did l disappoint older fans who danced and shouted along to tube Snake Boogie la Grango and the 1974 top 10 hit Tush Zzz top plan to keep kicking out their modernized version of the blues indefinitely to audiences of All Ages around the world. Says Gibbons 37 Muddy Waters die it right up to when he died-1 think he was 68 his comment was just figure out another Way to play the blues and you can do it Lor As Long As you want As Long As it s Lun and for us it s pretty wife up  Friday soplember26, 1966 the stars and stripes Page 13