* 1949 – Billy Gibbons, American guitarist ( ZZ Top )

It is also used in rock, by bands and artists such as Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Ry Cooder, Chris Rea, Bonnie Raitt, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Little Feat, Eagles, ZZ Top, Whitesnake and AC / DC.

The show highlighted blues music and also had performances by the rock band ZZ Top and singer James Brown.

:* XXX ( ZZ Top album ), a 1999 album by the rock band ZZ Top

ZZ Top is an American rock band from Houston, Texas.

ZZ Top formed its initial lineup in 1969, consisting of Gibbons, Anthony Barajas ( bass and keyboards ) and Peter Perez ( drums and percussion ).

ZZ Top incorporated New Wave and punk influences into their sound and performances, and embraced a more iconic image, with Gibbons and Hill sporting chest-length beards and sunglasses.

On their 2003 album Mescalero, ZZ Top adopted a more contemporary sound while maintaining their influences from their earlier musical pursuits.

Maintaining the same members for over forty years, ZZ Top has released 15 studio albums and are among the most popular rock groups, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, half of this figure concerning the United States alone.

VH1 ranked ZZ Top at number 44 in its list of the " 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock ".

ZZ Top formed in Houston on June 20, 1969.

According to Gibbons ' autobiography Rock + Roll Gearhead, he settled on " ZZ Top " because B. B.

Etheridge quit the band in January 1970, and was replaced by Michael " Cadillac " Johnson ; Johnson was replaced by Dusty Hill the following month: The finalized lineup of ZZ Top performed their first show on February 10, 1970 in Beaumont, Texas.

After touring in support of the album, ZZ Top released Tres Hombres in 1973.

Erlewine wrote that the album " brought ZZ Top their first Top Ten record, making them stars in the process ".

ZZ Top recorded the live tracks for their 1975 album, Fandango !, during this tour and showcased their prowess in exciting live audiences.

ZZ Top continued the Worldwide Texas Tour in support of Tejas, though they had been touring for seven years.

In 1979, ZZ Top signed with Warner Bros. Records and released the album Degüello.

In April 1980, ZZ Top made their first appearance in Europe, performing for the German music television show Rockpalast.

According to former stage manager David Blayney ( 15 years with ZZ Top ) in his book, Sharp Dressed Men, sound engineer Linden Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the album as a live-in high-tech music teacher to Beard and Gibbons.

David Sinclair, of the London Times, described in his book The Story of ZZ Top how Linden Hudson drew Billy's attention to the possibility of using a drum machine for the final recording of the Eliminator album.

ZZ Top's grueling Afterburner World Tour lasted well into 1987, which also saw the release of The ZZ Top Sixpack, a three-disc collection of ZZ Top's albums from 1970 to 1981, with the exception of Degüello.

Recycler was also the last of a distinct sonic trilogy in the ZZ Top catalogue.

In addition to recording and performing concerts, ZZ Top has also been involved with films and television.

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It also influenced the sound of many mainstream rock acts, such as Bruce Springsteen, ZZ Top and Van Halen.

ZZ Top also covered " Reverberation ( Doubt )" for the Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye tribute album in 1990 and re-released it again on their Chrome, Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box compilation in 2008.

Groups such as Ozark Mountain Daredevils, ZZ Top,. 38 Special, Confederate Railroad, Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, Point Blank, Black Oak Arkansas, and the Edgar Winter Group also thrived in this genre.

Def Leppard toured 41 US cities plus Toronto, Canada, during mid-2009 with Poison and Cheap Trick and also played the Download Festival with Whitesnake and ZZ Top.

Out of the major Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam characters, Captain Bright Noa and Axis leader Haman Karn are featured prominently in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ; Hayato Kobayashi, Kamille Bidan, Fa Yuiry, Wong Lee, Yazan Gable, Mineva Lao Zabi, and the children Shinta and Qum are featured in various episodes as well ; Sayla Mass, who had appeared in the first series but had no speaking role in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, also appeared in several episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ; Char Aznable's planned appearance was canceled when Tomino was given the go-ahead to do the Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack movie.

It also foreshadowed ZZ Top's New Wave direction later in the decade, with early experimentations in synthesizer backing on certain tracks.

The label also originally issued some early LPs and singles by Texas-based band ZZ Top ( whose catalog went to Warner Brothers when the band moved there ).

Many " regulars " returned, but many new artists also appeared on stage: Sting, Bob Dylan, Fats Domino, Deep Purple, Al Jarreau, Chaka Khan, Johnny Cash, Cheap Trick, Cheb Mami, Youssou N ' Dour, Marianne Faithfull, Ice-T, Jazzmatazz, ZZ Top, Simply Red, Eric Clapton, Marisa Monte, George Benson, Jazzkantine, Alanis Morissette, David Bowie, Paul Simon ...

Cowboy Town was also the name of the duo's 2009 tour, which featured Rodney Atkins and ZZ Top.

Allen Fieldhouse has also hosted several NCAA tournament regionals, NBA exhibition games, and occasional concerts such as The Beach Boys, Elton John, James Taylor, Sonny and Cher, Leon Russell, Alice Cooper, ZZ Top, Tina Turner, Harry Belafonte, Henry Mancini, The Doobie Brothers, Kansas and Bob Hope as well as speakers, including former U. S. President Bill Clinton in 2004, U. S. presidential candidate Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( which drew over 20, 000 ) in 1968 and the anarchist Abbie Hoffman in 1970.

" It should be also noted that its chorus gets about as close as we're likely to see ZZ Top attempt rap.

The band also contributed to the label compilation Lieber Zuviel Als Zuwenig ( ZZ 45 ).

He is also a character in the sequel, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ.

It is also featured on the greatest hits collections ZZ Top's Greatest Hits, Chrome, Smoke & BBQ and Rancho Texicano.

The album ( the title of which is taken from a lyric in Mosquito Song from Songs for the Deaf ) featured several guest appearances, most notably ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, who performed backing vocals and lead guitar on " Burn the Witch " and the ZZ Top cover Precious and Grace.

The group's debut album, ZZ Top's First Album, was released in January 1971 ; the single, "( Somebody Else Been ) Shakin ' Your Tree ", peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100.

ZZ Top's next album was even more successful.

The albums ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango and Tejas were remixed with the result that the sound of the material from the first five albums was changed to sound like they had been recorded in the 1980s, with echo and drum machines, and very unlike their original album sound.

Recycler, released in 1990, was ZZ Top's last studio album under contract with Warner Records.

In 2003 ZZ Top released a final RCA album, Mescalero, an album thick with harsh Gibbons guitar and featuring a hidden track – a cover version of " As Time Goes By ".

As of 2006, it was reported that ZZ Top were recording their 15th studio album.

From the RIAA, ZZ Top has achieved 4 gold, 3 platinum, and 2 multi-platinum album certifications, in addition to one diamond album.

* La Grange ( song ), released on the 1973 ZZ Top album Tres Hombres

After staying mostly out of sight in the 1980s, Erickson gradually returned to music in the 1990s, especially when the tribute album Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye --- featuring players from ZZ Top, The Jesus and Mary Chain and R. E. M., all of whom claimed Erickson's or the Elevators ' influence --- was released.