Description
Eagle Vision: ZZ Top – Collector's Edition (Live From Texas + Live In Germany 1980) – 2-DVD Set
In VERY GOOD condition! As pictured! Buy with confidence!
Product Details:
- UPC: 5034504981973
- Catalog Number: EREDV819 (box set); discs EREDV688 (Live From Texas) & EREDV799 (Live In Germany)
- Product Type: DVD (2-disc Collector's Edition box set)
- Brand / Label: Eagle Vision (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
- Artist: ZZ Top
- Release Year: 2010 (box set); Live From Texas © 2008, Live In Germany © 1980
- Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
- Condition: Very Good (used) — see photos
Product Features
- Format: 2 × DVD-9 (dual layer)
- Disc 1 — Live From Texas: approx. 122 min, PAL, 16:9
- Disc 2 — Live In Germany 1980: approx. 93 min, NTSC, 4:3
- Audio: DTS 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Stereo
- Language: English
- Subtitles (Live From Texas bonus features only): English, Français, Italiano, Español, Deutsch, Português, Nederlands
- FSK: 0 (no age restriction)
Overview
Two ZZ Top concerts, three decades apart, in one Collector's Edition box. It's the easiest way to hear how that little ol' band from Texas held its sound steady across thirty years — same boogie, same beards, same grin.
"Live From Texas" catches Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard on home turf in 2008, running through the hits in their own unhurried style: "Gimme All Your Lovin'," "Sharp Dressed Man," "Legs," "La Grange," "Tush." It's their first-ever live concert DVD, and the extras are a treat — the band telling the ZZ Top story over a poker game, a behind-the-scenes Dallas show-day segment, a photo shoot, and a bonus take on Hendrix's "Foxey Lady."
"Live In Germany 1980" rewinds to the band's 1980 Rockpalast appearance at the Grugahalle in Essen, recorded for German TV just after the "Degüello" album. Twenty-two songs, lean and raw, packed with early staples like "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers," "Cheap Sunglasses" and a stomping "Jailhouse Rock." For the ZZ Top fan, this pairing — polished arena show plus scrappy early-career set — is the whole appeal.
Interesting Facts
- "Live From Texas" was ZZ Top's first official full-length live concert DVD, filmed in their home state in 2008.
- "Live In Germany 1980" comes from the long-running German TV series Rockpalast, recorded at the Grugahalle in Essen.
- The 1980 set arrived hot on the heels of "Degüello," the album that included "Cheap Sunglasses" and "I Thank You."
- The Texas show's bonus features include the band narrating their own history over a poker game — a nod to ZZ Top's card-and-Texana iconography.
- Both shows feature the classic, unchanged lineup of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, together since 1969.
Track Listing
Disc 1 — Live From Texas (2008) Got Me Under Pressure / Waitin' For the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago / I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide / Pin Cushion / Cheap Sunglasses / Pearl Necklace / Heard It On the X / Just Got Paid / Rough Boy / Blue Jean Blues / Gimme All Your Lovin' / Sharp Dressed Man / Legs / Tube Snake Boogie / La Grange / Tush Bonus features: Poker Game / Dallas Show Day / Photo Shoot / Foxey Lady
Disc 2 — Live In Germany 1980 (Rockpalast, Essen)
- I Thank You / 2. Waitin' For the Bus / 3. Jesus Just Left Chicago / 4. Precious and Grace / 5. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide / 6. Manic Mechanic / 7. Lowdown in the Street / 8. Heard It On the X / 9. Fool for Your Stockings / 10. Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings / 11. El Diablo / 12. Cheap Sunglasses / 13. Arrested for Driving While Blind / 14. Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers / 15. La Grange / 16. She Loves My Automobile / 17. Hi Fi Mama / 18. Dust My Broom / 19. Jailhouse Rock / 20. Tush / 21. Tube Snake Boogie / 22. Just Got Paid
Individual track timings aren't printed on the packaging, so they're omitted — happy to add them if you'd like them researched.
Publishers
An Eagle Vision release (Eagle Vision is a division of Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd.). Box artwork ℗ & © 2010 Eagle Rock Entertainment. "Live From Texas" © 2008 Tower Top Tours Inc.; "Live In Germany 1980" produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, © 1980, under license from Studio Hamburg.
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