![]() The trio became music video icons throughout the album’s three smash singles, “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Legs.” The melding of grungy guitar-based blues with synth-pop was seamless and continued with the follow-up album ‘Afterburner’ as they continued their chart juggernaut. The band’s momentum and success built during its first decade, culminating in the legendary World Wide Texas Tour, a production that included a longhorn steer, a buffalo, buzzards, rattlesnakes and a Texas-shaped stage.ġ983’s Eliminator album mixed their fiery blues roots with tech-age trappings that soon found a visual outlet with the nascent MTV. ![]() Their third album, 1973’s Tres Hombres, catapulted them to national attention with the hit “La Grange,” which is still one of the band’s signature songs today. Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard formed ZZ Top in Houston late in 1969. The album will be on CD, double gatefold LP and digitally through all streaming and download stores.īilly F. In an abstract surrealism style, this collection is a definitive chronicle of the band hangin’ together for four plus deluxe decades, getting down to do what we get to do. ![]() “This is the true document of life de la ZZ. “We spend the biggest stretch of every year out on the road, whippin’ wire, poundin’ skin, and rockin’ it way up,” says Billy Gibbons.
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