Moving sidewalks - Flash (Billy Gibbons ZZtop 1969)

1. Flashback

2. Scoun da Be

3. You Make Me Shake

4. You Don't Know the Life

5. Pluto-Sept. 31st.

6. No Good to Cry

7. Crimson Witch

8. Joe Blues

9. Eclipse

10. Reclipse

11. 99th Floor

12. What Are You Doing to Do

13. I Want to Hold Your Hand

14. Need Me

15. Every Night a New Surpise

Gibbons founded the Texas psychedelic group the Moving Sidewalks, which recorded several singles and one full-length album, "Flash". The Moving Sidewalks were most prominent for opening for The Jimi Hendrix Experience during the Texas leg of Hendrix's first American tour. Also notable was the fact that the 13th Floor Elevators (considered by some to be the first true psychedelic rock band) recorded the Gibbons-penned song "99th Floor".

He formed ZZ Top in late 1969 with bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard (both alumni of the bands American Blues, the Warlocks, and the Cellar Dwellers). After honing their trademark Texas Boogie-Blues-Rock style, they released the aptly titled "ZZ Top's First Album" on London Records in 1971.

Texas Psychedlia Legends Part 23..., August 26, 2003

By	Walter Five (13th Floor Elevator, Enron Hubbard Bldg. Houston Texxas) - See all my reviews

Yes, this is the band that Billy Gibbons rose to local fame with, a band that opened and/or played with such legendary acts as The 13th Floor Elevators, The Golden Dawn, Fever Tree, Shiva's Headband, Bubble Puppy, Doug Sahm, and the Winter brothers, just to name a few. They've probably become over-rated by enthusiastic ZZ Top fans, and over-stated by justly proud native Texans lucky enough to have had them play at their local clubs, bars and youth centers back in the day. But the basis of those over-ratings and over-statments was real: they were a fine combo who could cook with the best of the bands previously named.

This LP features a nascent Billy Gibbons in his youth, already with many of the chops and licks he'd bring to ZZ Top a short while later. It's puro homegrown Texas Psychedelic Blues, specifically the genuine South Coast Sound of Galveston, (home of the Bali Room) and that muggy Baghdad on the Bayou, Houston Texas.

Granted, it sounds a little dated--most Psychedelic bands of the 60's and 70's do. Granted, you'll only catch a studio portion of the live act that made them such legends, not unlike the 13th Floor Elevators in that respect--locals who saw them still rave about their shows to this day "you should have been there". But until such a time as some live Sidewalks CDs surface, those of us unfortunate enough as to have missed these cats in their heyday will just have to make do with this.

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