It was the night before Easter on 42nd Street in New York City.....Lord have mercy. We were about to hear and see Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top reunite with his previous band, the Moving Sidewalks.
Tonight (March 30), Billy Gibbons will perform with the Moving Sidewalks, the band he was in prior to forming ZZ Top, for the first time since their 1969 breakup. In a new interview, Gibbons described what it was like to return to his garage-rock roots.
Those looking for insight into what originally sparked the ZZ Top phenomena won't get much help from this comprehensive look into Billy Gibbons' predecessor band, the Moving Sidewalks.
Most of us, of course, know the long-bearded Billy Gibbons for his work with ZZ Top, but before that, he was a member of the '60s psychedelic outfit the Moving Sidewalks. Now, the guitar great has revealed plans to reunite with that band for a one-off show in support of the career retrospective, 'Moving Sidewalks: The Complete Collection.'
The Moving Sidewalks, a psychedelic blues-rock band from Texas that lasted from 1967-69, will release its entire catalog on a new two-LP set called 'The Complete Collection.' The group is most notable for featuring the recorded debut of ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons.