{"id":2531,"date":"2010-01-27T12:15:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:15:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-27T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T14:51:56","slug":"bullshit-on-zz-top-s-tour-supposedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bullshit-on-zz-top-s-tour-supposedly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullshit On: Livestock Claims Regarding ZZ Top&#8217;s Worldwide Texas Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/bullshit2.swf\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/bullshit2.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockhall.com\/inductee\/zz-top\" target=_blank><strong>ZZ Top<\/strong>&#8216;s Rock &#8216;n Roll Hall of Fame page<\/a> that repeats the claim I&#8217;ve heard for as long as I can remember that ZZ Top did a Texas cattle ranch-themed tour that included real livestock on stage with them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ZZ Top carried stagecraft to elaborate heights with its Worldwide Texas Tour: Taking Texas to the People. For this mid-Seventies extravaganza, which came between Fandango! and Tejas, ZZ Top lugged 75 tons of equipment and animals native to Texas, including a buffalo, a longhorn steer, buzzards and rattlesnakes. They also performed on a Texas-shaped stage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s from the Rock &#8216;n Roll Hall of Fame, remember, an actual, industry-approved museum with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/04\/04\/rock_town_hall_interviews_curator\">dedicated curators<\/a>! I&#8217;ve never been there, but if a fruitless community-wide, 3-day search of the Internet indicates anything I bet the Hall of Fame doesn&#8217;t even possess photographic evidence of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/09\/05\/adolescent_rock_conspiracy_theories\">rock myth<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p><em>Following is the photographic result of our search of ZZ Top pictured on stage with even a single, living buffalo, longhorn steer, buzzard, or rattlesnake.<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/zztop1.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"333\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On behalf of Rock Town Hall, until photographic evidence is brought forth, I hereby call BULLSHIT ON livestock claims regarding ZZ Top&#8217;s Worldwide Texas Tour!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from ZZ Top&#8216;s Rock &#8216;n Roll Hall of Fame page that repeats the claim I&#8217;ve heard for as long as I can remember that ZZ Top did a Texas cattle ranch-themed tour that included real livestock on stage with them: ZZ Top carried stagecraft to elaborate heights with its Worldwide Texas Tour: <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bullshit-on-zz-top-s-tour-supposedly\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[87,46,47,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}