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, bassist and co-lead vocalist Dusty Hill, and drummer Frank Beard. Top, Zz Top, ZZ-Top ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. It reached a very reasonable number 6 placing on Billboard and was their first Top 10 release since 1990's 'Recycler'.ZZ Top Gibbons-Hill-Beard, Z Z Top, Z. ZZ Top released their 15th studio album, 'Futura', in 2012, their first for almost a decade. Included are some of the band's most iconic and best-loved songs: Cheap Sunglasses, Fool For Your Stockings, I'm Bad I'm Nationwide and She Loves My Automobile. ZZ Top: Bad and Worldwide (1985) ZZ Top (Mitchell Craven, 1985) ZZ Top (Philip Kamin, 1986) ZZ Top (Robert Draper, 1989) Elimination: The ZZ Top Story (1991) Sharp-Dressed Men: Zz Top Behind the Scenes from Blues to Boogie to Beards (1994) ZZ Top: Elimination (1998) ZZ Top Greatest Hits (1999) The New Best of Zz Top for Guitar (Easy Tab Deluxe. This is a collection of the Music Videos originally shot for each of the songs on the Greatest Hits album. This is not a NEW release, originally published on VHS in 1992 I've been waiting 15 years for the DVD edition (my VHS tape is worn thin). This long awaited DVD has finally arrived. Great live versions of "Tres Hombres"double-barrelled opening salvo, Waitin' For The Bus and Jesus Just Left Chicago are included here.Īt the time of this broadcast, ZZ Top's most recent album was 1979's 'Degüello' and so it's no surprise that during this dynamic show it featured heavily with live versions of no less than eight of the record's ten tracks. ZZ Top's 'Greatest Hits' is a fantastic album. Now, after more than 40 years together, it is almost impossible to find another band with such a perfectly consistent line-up! Earlier inspirational hard rocking power trios like Taste, Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience have come, and indeed gone, but ZZ Top motor on, rolling relentlessly across the years. The Definitive ZZ Top Greatest Hits Collection Featuring 'Gimme All Your Lovin,' 'Sharp Dressed Man' & 'Got Me Under Pressure' With seven Billboard Top 10 albums to their name, multiple Platinum album certifications all over the world and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the legendary ZZ Top are officially the world s longest. This epic live radio broadcast captures ZZ Top at the very cusp of their worldwide success, recorded during the East coast leg of their 1980 breakthrough tour at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey.
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