Chicago Music Exchange | 4 years ago

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Pull down the shades. It's Full Band Friday, and the CME House Band is fixin' to get turned up Texas-style with "Cheap Sunglasses," the lead single off of ZZ Top's first album for Warner Bros. Records, 1979's Degüello. And what goes better with cheap sunglasses than two of the most collectible Gibsons in existence, a 1959 Les Paul Standard and 1959 ES-335?

In a 1985 interview with Spin magazine, ZZ Top bass player Dusty Hill explained: "We wrote that song when we used to tour in cars. And every gas station in the world had a cardboard display of the cheapest and ugliest sunglasses you could imagine. I have bought a thousand pair of them."

Guitarist Billy Gibbons added: "The hip trip for us was to throw them into the audience as an offering. We ran out and we couldn't get any more. So we now have to make to do with Sanford Hutton's creations out of New York. The Ray Ban Wayfarer was the original cheap sunglasses. You could buy a pair for six bucks originally. I saw a catalog from 1959, and by then they were up to eight bucks. We had to take a bad rap from an optometrist who said 'Don't wear ZZ Top's cheap sunglasses. They're bad for your eyes.' There was an optometrists' convention in Hawaii and there was a huge poster – this woman with a pointing finger saying, 'Don't wear cheap sunglasses.' I suppose I'll have to agree. There is a cutoff point where optical considerations must be taken into account.

Check out more Full Band Friday
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"Miss You" - The Rolling Stones - https://youtu.be/_xdwMCxz70s
"Song 2" - Blur - https://youtu.be/5aVWl54MT_A

Gear Used:
1959 Sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard
Gibson ES-335 Natural 1959
Sonor Vintage Series 13/16/22 3pc. Drum Kit California Blue: https://bit.ly/3gvJcjj

Featuring Nathaniel Murphy, Joel Bauman, Mike Larsen and Mike Hussa.

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