ZZ Top, why am I only just getting into them?

zepp76

EricTheWeary said:

zepp76 said:

I never realised there was so much love for the Top! I am really hooked on their early stuff it's just fantastic, not since hearing Led Zeppelin for the first time have I been moved by a band but there is some crazily good stuff on the albums I bought. I so far have:

Rio Grande Mud
Tres Hombres
Fandango!
Deguello
Eliminator
Afterburner
recycler
El Loco
Tejas
First Album

Is there anything missing that I should be looking for?

Just as mentioned above probably Live in Germany - Rockpalast 1980. DVD or CD/ streaming. I think XXX for the better of the modern albums.
If you want to be a real completist nerd then The Texas Tapes by Rainer and Das Combo although it doesn't sound that much like ZZ Top. Billy's last solo album for some straight ahead blues. 

I watched the 1980 Rockpalast gig last night and it blew me away! How a little three piece band can fill such musical space I don't know, Billy's tone is to die for.