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ZZ Top. Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969, and quickly settled on bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank "Rube" Beard, both members of the band American Blues. After honing their trademark blues-rock style, they released ZZ Top's First Album on London Records in 1971.
For 51 years, it consisted of vocalist-guitarist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard and bassist-vocalist Dusty Hill, until Hill's death in 2021. ZZ Top developed a signature sound based on Gibbons' blues style and Hill and Beard's rhythm section.
- The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th floor Elevators. Whoa! That one stands as a literal mind blower. It alters the neurons when hearing it. Roky Erickson didn’t consider adhering to any traditional boundaries or formats.
- Cream - Fresh Cream. A trio sound but like that of a freight train. Totally blues-based yet weren’t bound by any particular strain which makes the offering endlessly refreshing and innovative.
- Jim Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? The question that the title poses was immediately answered once the needle settled down in the grooves. Nothing before that one sounded anything like it and the result was a sonic explosion for just about everybody who was playing in a band at that time.
- Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward. It’s the home of Master and Servant and People are People. I am constantly impressed with how they meld a bleak world view with synch and turn it all into great pop music.
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- 'La Grange' From 'Tres Hombres' (1973) Without a doubt the most popular ZZ Top song of all time, this ode to a famous Texas whorehouse from Tres Hombres is inescapable on the radio, in TV commercials and as a mood-setter for numerous big screen films.
- 'Tush' Bassist Dusty Hill takes one of his occasional turns on lead vocals on this highly traditional, and typically supercharged blues number from Fandango.
- 'Gimme All Your Lovin'' Perhaps because it now contrasted with slick, modern keyboard accents, Billy Gibbons' guitar rarely sounded as full and rip-snorting nasty as it did on Eliminator.
- 'Waitin' for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago' From 'Tres Hombres' (1973) With Tres Hombres, ZZ Top made another bold leap forward in terms of sophistication and range, crashing the Top 10 charts and cementing their reputation as one of the best and biggest rock bands of the 70s.
- Moving Sidewalks, “99th Floor” (1967) Nobody could escape the British Invasion. "99th Floor" was part Beatles and part Rolling Stones. The triplet drumbeat came off "Taxman"; the chord change was from a Rolling Stones single.
- Jimi Hendrix, “Red House” (1967) A buddy said, "There's a song that you oughta hear." He was talking about "Red House," by Jimi Hendrix, and that completely turned us upside down.
- “Just Got Paid” (1972) This was inspired by Peter Green's opening figure in [Fleetwood Mac's] "Oh Well." I was living in Los Angeles, sitting on the steps of this apartment.
- “La Grange” (1973) You had this explosion of Southern rock. But Texas was different — Southern enough but off to the side. We were extolling the virtues of our proximity to Mexico and that gunslinger mentality.
Oct 8, 2019 · It’s hard to imagine Billy Gibbons as anything other than a legend now, but you can really hear the fire in him as a young guitar player making their first record here, and you also can hear the echoes of everything else that’s going on at the time, from Free to Freddie King." Jesus Just Left Chicago
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Jul 28, 2021 · Crass, commercial, and utterly catchy, it’s the only one of those three songs that made the Top 10. Billy F. Gibbons got downright literary when he recalled the song’s origins to Spin in...
