Hook hammerin', deep-groovin' Texas guitar-slingers armed with bar-ready blues rock.
ZZ Top: Influences
Texas rock 'n' roll superstars drew inspiration from legends.
ZZ Top: Live
They can turn a roadhouse into an arena and an arena into a roadhouse.
ZZ Top: Deep Cuts
The boogie trio are also skilled in the art of the blues ballad.
Inspired by ZZ Top
These Texas beardos pushed the Southern sound into every corner of modern rock.
Über ZZ Top
Künstler-Biographie
The only member of ZZ Top without a beard is drummer Frank Beard, but that’s just the second-strangest thing about this Texan trio. The strangest thing about ZZ Top is that they can lay claim to being both the dirtiest no-nonsense blues-rock band of the ‘70s and the glitziest camera-ready electro-boogie group of the ‘80s. Upon forming in Houston in 1969, ZZ Top were among a wave of Southern rock bands outfitting bluesy, British Invasion-schooled riffs with countrified fingerpicking and desert-baked grooves. But thanks to guitarist Billy Gibbons’ pedigree in ‘60s garage outfit The Moving Sidewalks, horndog rave-ups like “Tush” and “La Grange” eschewed epic, Skynyrd-sized jams for a raw, raunchy energy tailor-made for a target demographic of (as another one of their early standards put it) beer drinkers and hell raisers. Though ZZ Top often played the part of Southern showmen with their cowboy hats and Nudie suits, by the early ‘80s, Gibbons and bassist Dusty Hill had grown out their beards past their chests, lending this workmanlike band a quirky visual trademark just in time for the music-video era. And it wasn’t just their appearance that had changed: With 1983’s blockbuster Eliminator, ZZ Top crosswired their gritty grooves with New Wave synths and sequencers to the tune of over 10 million copies sold, while a series of videos featuring hot models cruising around in the album cover’s customized vintage Ford Coupe made the band icons of the then-nascent MTV. Since then, ZZ Top have kept on rollin’ past the half-century mark, and they remain the rare classic-rock institution that always keeps its ear to the ground for fresh inspiration. Where most veteran artists turn to Rick Rubin for a back-to-basics reboot, ZZ Top’s 2012 dalliance with the famed producer yielded “I Gotsta Get Paid,” a sleazy, grease-fried reinterpretation of DJ DMD’s Houston-rap standard “25 Lighters.”
Heimatort
Houston, TX, United States
Genre
Hard Rock
Mitglieder von ZZ Top
ZZ Top wurde im Jahr 1969 gegründet. Zu den Mitgliedern von ZZ Top gehören oder gehörten die folgenden 3 Mitglieder.