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On the fifth and final leg of their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at The Taylor County Expo Center, Abilene, Texas, USA, supported by Muddy Waters and Jay Boy Adams. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, a black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.Full article:
Billy Gibbons : When we came down to Texas to do some home dates, we were just wondering what flavourful addition could we include to really embrace the feeling that we were trying to give back to our home state. And the blues being such a big part of not only our music but everybody's music in Texas, Muddy Waters seemed to be a logical choice. He was just doing some of his best playing, and it was really a moving experience.
(Source : interview with Timothy White, Rolling Stone, 1986)
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(Source : interview with Timothy White, Rolling Stone, 1986)