Live at Montreux 2013

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Live at Montreux 2013
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ReleasedJuly 22, 2014
RecordedJuly 10, 2013 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland
Genre Rock
Length93 mins approx.
Label Eagle Vision
ZZ Top chronology
La Futura
(2012)
Live at Montreux 2013
(2014)
Tonite at Midnight: Live Greatest Hits from Around the World
(2016)

Live at Montreux 2013 is a live video of a concert performed by ZZ Top on July 10, 2013 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, released in July 2014 on DVD and Blu-ray by Eagle Vision.

Contents

Overview

The set list blends tracks from early seventies albums such as Tres Hombres and Fandango through their eighties period with Eliminator and Afterburner , and up to their most recent release and return to their blues roots with La Futura . The middle section of the concert features a jazz-blues tribute to the late Montreux Jazz Festival founder Claude Nobs, with guest appearances by Mike Flanigin on Hammond Organ and Van Wilks on guitar.

Track listing

  1. "Got Me Under Pressure"
  2. "Waitin' for the Bus"
  3. "Jesus Just Left Chicago"
  4. "Gimmie All Your Lovin'"
  5. "Pincushion"
  6. "I Gotsta Get Paid"
  7. "Flyin' High"
  8. "Kiko"
  9. "I Loved A Woman" (Freddie King cover)
  10. "Foxey Lady" (The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover)
  11. "My Head's In Mississippi"
  12. "Chartreuse"
  13. "Sharp Dressed Man"
  14. "Legs"
  15. "Tube Snake Boogie"
  16. "La Grange" (with Sloppy Drunk Jam)
  17. "Tush"

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