Zz Top I Thank You

Local Lions Club Member Raises the Most Funds

For years, you’ve seen him standing at the Speedway in Channahon on Route 6 twice a year in his yellow vest. Sometimes he is handing out mints or candy rolls, other days he’s there with suckers. As you see him, he bears a strong resemblance to a number of real and fictional and memorable characters. He could be one of the Smith Brothers from the cough drops or he could be one of the members of ZZ Top or even a long lost relative to Willie Nelson…but in reality it’s Lion Bob Waters of the Channahon Lions.

On June 28, Lion Bob, who is President of the local Lions, accepted an award from Lion District Governor John O’Brien  (Minooka) and Lion Bill Keenan (Lemont) from the Lions of Illinois Foundation for 2010 Candy Day for the highest per capita donation to the Foundation. That is a huge coup for the Channahon Lions in that they are relatively small in numbers compared to some of the larger clubs in the state. The Channahon Lions have the citizens of Channahon to thank for that honor.

Over the years, the Lions have helped hundreds of children and adults in the community get much needed eyeglasses and hearing aids with the funds raised by Lions like Lion Bob.  They even sponsor a local little league team in Channahon.  Well, now those same Lions need your help to to get more team mates so that they can continue those efforts.

Membership in the Lions is open to women and men aged 21 and over.   The Lions meet on Tuesday night for the membership meetings- and have other meetings throughout the year at other times and places, but usually at Lallos at 6:30pm.

For more information regarding Lions and the work that they do in the community they can contact Lion District Governor John O’Brien at obrienthelion@aol.com   for more information about the Lions and how they may join this group of hard working Lions.

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roio » Blog Archive » ZZ TOP - PARIS 2002

ZZ Top’s 1973 album, Tres Hombres, might have gotten them known throughout the United States (it went No. 8 on Billboard) and singles such as Tush, I Thank You and Cheap Sunglasses continued to keep their name in circulation, but it is Eliminator (1983) and Afterburner (1985) that really made the bearded rockers superstars. Like many acts who made it big in the ’80s, ZZ Top also had MTV to thank - it’s hard to imagine the MTV generation forgetting the clips for Legs and Sharp Dressed Men. By then, guitar fans had also realised that Billy Gibbons is an extraordinary guitarist and the group’s crunching boogie rock is as distinctive as Mark Knopfler’s licks.

But for this show, John Douglas (who is better known as a drum tech and artist) sat in for Frank Beard (hence the title of the disc) who had to have emergency appendix surgery. This is how Douglas explains the gig:

I was playing with X O X, a fairly popular band here in Houston when Frank Beard of ZZ Top came to see the band. He liked my drums and asked if I could paint a kit for him. That chance meeting has turned into a 17+ year friendship over which I have created 13 custom drumkits and traveled the world with ZZ Top as Frank’s drum tech. In October of 2002, while on tour in Europe, Frank had an emergency appendectomy and I was asked to fill the drum spot. So with very little sleep and no rehearsal I played three sold out shows starting in Paris. In a career spanning 30+ years, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees ZZ Top have never performed without those three original guys, until then. Mucho thanks to Billy, Dusty and Frank for trusting me up there behind the kit. It was an honor and I had a blast!

A reviewer at zzlive.com commented: “This drummer did a super fine job, just perfect in fact. In an odd way, the drums almost seem to be too perfect. Without knowing it, I think most fans, even diehards would not know that this was not Frank Beard playing.”

This disc has just surfaced and thanks to Joe Blotz Records & Lawn Care for sharing the tracks.

Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality MP3s - sample rate of 224 kbps ). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.

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