They became increasingly popular on the live circuit, breaking attendance records set by The Beatles by 1976. song driven by an insistent John Lee Hooker boogie riff and Gibbons' squealing guitar solos. Their third album, Tres Hombres broke things wide open with the smash hit "La Grange," a. He helped them score a major record deal and created a certain band mythos (access to the band was severly limited personal biographical information was closely guarded) that lingers to this day. The band toured relentlessly, guided by svengali-like manager Bill Ham, a disciple of Elvis' Colonel Tom Parker. The band started out playing hard edged, deeply blues based Boogie Rock that cruised on the power of the Hill-Beard rhythm section and Gibbons' powerful vocals and even more powerful guitar. Gibbons, only in his early twenties, was already a veteran musician whose previous band The Moving Sidewalks had had regional hit records and had opened for Jimi Hendrix. The band started out in 1970 when singer-guitarist Billy Gibbons got together with drummer Frank Beard and bassist Dusty Hill. Some might say, that they are also forward thinking musical geniuses whose appropriation of MTV and melding of Hard Rock to Dance rhythms put them so far ahead of the curve that - for a while in the mid-1980s - they seemed poised to take over the world. In the more than thirty years that they have been together, ZZ Top have mutated from a hard rocking boogie band into pop culture icons. Ironically the only one without a beard is the drummer called Frank Beard!! Billy Gibbons once said he turned down a million dollars from Gillette to shave off his beard!!
As a group, ZZ Top possesses 11 gold records and 7 platinum (13 multi-platinum) records their 1983 album, Eliminator, remains the group's most commercially successful record, selling over 10 million units. ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. ZZ Top's musical style has changed over the years, beginning with blues-inspired rock on their early albums, then incorporating New Wave, punk rock and dance-rock, with heavy use of synthesizers. Since the release of the band's debut album in January 1971, ZZ Top has become known for its strong blues roots and humorous lyrical motifs, relying heavily on double entendres and innuendo. Etheridge's departure issued primarily from his unwillingness to be bound by a recording contract. The band and its members went through several reconfigurations throughout 1969, achieving their current form when Hill replaced bassist Billy Etheridge in February 1970, shortly before the band was signed to London Records. The band consists of guitarist and lead vocalist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard and bassist and co-lead vocalist Dusty Hill who is replaced (to Dusty's wishes) by former basstechnician Elwod Francis after Hills death july 28 2021. They would initially have chosen to be called "ZZ King" but it still looked too much like the original and considering that this "King" was at the "Top", they would have opted for ZZ Top>.ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. (en) hill meaning "hill" hence "top of the hill" = ZZ Top.īilly Gibbons explains in the Rock + Roll Gearhead book that the name is chosen in honor of blues master B.B. The name may also come from the blues artist Z. A rumor also persists about the fact that it is simply a typo, the group to be called initially "22 top" and not "zz top". For others, the group would have taken this name so that their albums are always the last in the record tanks (vinyls at the time) of all the record stores (the classification in these bins being most often alphabetical). Some say it is the name of the cigarette paper used at the time by the members of the group. The legendary origin of their name remains relatively obscure.
After 50 years of almost uninterrupted career, the band has sold more than 70 million of albums around the world, half of them in the United States. This is one of the only bands in the 1970s to have never changed their band since the release of their first album in 1971. The members of this trio are Billy Gibbons (vocals and guitar), Dusty Hill (vocals and bass) and Frank Beard (drums). He knows the height of his celebrity in the 1970s and 1980s. ZZ Top (pronounce ) is an American blues rock band from Houston, Texas.
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