Their lyrics often focus on humourous and sexual themes. The band's musical style has been described as hard rock, blues rock, and boogie rock. One of the most successful rock groups of all time, ZZ Top has sold over 50 million albums worldwide.
Formed in 1969, the group consists of guitarist and lead vocalist Billy Gibbons, bassist and co-lead vocalist Dusty Hill, and drummer Frank Beard. They nonetheless continue to make vital music that draws deeply from the blues and R&B tradition, while always trying to bring something new to it.ZZ Top is an American rock band from Houston, Texas. They went back in the direction of their earlier work. In the 1990s the group's popularity waned some, and they moved away from the sequencers and synthesizers. Eliminator and its follow-up Afterburner sold gazillions of records and the band was, for a time, as popular as a band can be. That the accompanying music videos included hot rod cars, leggy models, and the band doing oddly choreographed dance moves that rendered them at once hip and cartoonishly funny probably helped their album sales. It was the sound of money being minted as the singles "Sharp Dressed Man," "Gimme All Your Lovin'," and "Legs" shot up the charts. That record was propelled by a sound that wedded Texas Blues guitar heroics to banks of churning synthesizers and sequenced rhythms. Returning after a three year hiatus in 1979, they emerged with their now-trademark hirsute look and the hard-hitting record Deguello, which included the hit "Cheap Sunglasses." Gibbons' longtime fascination with all sorts of Dance music came into play with Eliminator (1981), which coincided with the rise of the music video as a promotional tool and took the band to new commercial heights. 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. ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas.
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