* 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 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.

Billy Gibbons, who previously formed the Moving Sidewalks in 1966, had suggested " ZZ King " as a potential name for the band after looking at posters of Z.

After Tom Moore and Don Summers were drafted into the United States Army, Gibbons and Mitchell added Lanier Greig and formed the original ZZ Top.

In the 1970s, Jimmie Vaughan formed The Fabulous Thunderbirds and in the 1980s his brother Stevie Ray Vaughan broke through to mainstream success with his virtuoso guitar playing, as did ZZ Top with their brand of Southern rock.

In December 2006, Sanctuary Management added ZZ Top to its roster.

When the album came out in January 1990, critical reception was mostly favorable: Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars and its readers and critics voted the Black Crowes ' Best New American Band ' in 1990 ; the band appeared on the cover of the magazine's 605th issue ( May 1991 ) following their firing from the ZZ Top tour in March that year.

Winger followed the release of its second album with a 13 month world tour, playing over 230 dates with Kiss, Scorpions, ZZ Top, Extreme and Slaughter.

The full album is currently unavailable on CD in its original mix ( though " Brown Sugar ", " Goin ' Down to Mexico " and " Just Got Back from Baby's " are available in their original mix on 2003's Chrome, Smoke & BBQ boxset, and " Backdoor Love Affair " is available on 1977's The Best of ZZ Top ).

By the 1970s, Texas blues had lost its popularity, but was revived by the blues rock stylings of artists like Johnny Nitzinger, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, ZZ Top, Bugs Henderson and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, who set the stage for Stevie Ray Vaughan's blues revival in the 80's.

In addition to being the launchpad for new and upcoming performers, The Tube became known for its high profile music performance ' scoops ' from established world class bands such as U2 live at Red Rocks, Robert Plant, Bo Diddley and ZZ Top.

The founder of the genre was Yoshiyuki Tomino, who was the director of the original Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam, and its sequels Zeta Gundam, Gundam ZZ and Char's Counterattack.

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

Universal Century characters ' Hyper Modes are typically a representation of their Newtype power reaching its peak ( as seen many times in Zeta Gundam, Gundam ZZ and Char's Counterattack ), while the Alternate Universe series characters ' Hyper Modes are usually linked to their Gundams ' special systems ( such as Wing Zero's ZERO System or the ∀ Gundam's Moonlight Butterfly ).

However, the company also builds weapons for both the Earth Federation, its elite faction Titans, enemy of the AEUG, and the Axis Zeon, which in turn became the enemies of the AEUG until the end of the sequel, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ( aired in 1986 ).

The company continues its manufacturing contracts in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ and Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack ( aired in 1988 ), where its weapons are always seen in both sides of the conflicting factions.

In the novel Gundam Sentinel, which happens between the conflicts of the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Mobile suit Gundam ZZ, Anaheim Electronics became the main contractor of the Earth Federation of its new mass-production units like Nero and the Z Plus series for the Task Force alpha and also provided prototype units such as S Gundam as a testbed for the Federation.

In 2006, Anime Evolution held its first convention concert, featuring Japanese band ZZ on the convention's Saturday night and local visual-kei band eqlipsE on Sunday night.

Sizzler has launched its " ZZ " food truck as a way to expand sales and market test new dishes.

The initial pre-planned step is called EOLine, and is the most distinctive hallmark of the ZZ method.

The higher trim level packages offered " ZZ handling by Lotus " and " specification Irmscher " as the performance models in the lineup, but was carryovered from previous generations. The top model was the " Irmscher R " JT191S type is equipped with a high-power engine + full-time 4WD.

ZZ Top had been scheduled to perform on Day 1 but were dropped from the bill “ due to a scheduling conflict .” Band of Horses replaced ZZ Top in the lineup.

The hard rock of ZZ Top was born out of the bands American Blues and Moving Sidewalks in Houston in 1969.

In late 1969 he joined The Moving Sidewalks guitarist and vocalist Gibbons ' ZZ Top.