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01 diciembre 2016

1650 - ZZ Top Gimme All Your Lovin' 1983

"Gimme All Your Lovin'" is a song by ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator. It was released as the album's first single in 1983. Frank Beard’s simple rock drum beat sets the pace for the riff-driven “Gimme All Your Lovin'” (which in turn sets the pace for the album). Accented by a few guitar overdubs and pad synths, this opener contains one of the more famous leads by Gibbons and reached the Top 40 on the U.S. charts.

31 agosto 2013

1413 - ZZ Top Cheap Sunglasses 1980

"Cheap Sunglasses" is a 1980 single by ZZ Top from their 1979 album "Degüello". It is one of their most famous songs and includes the use of some odd instruments[clarification needed]. The song captures many of the sounds and beats that ZZ Top is famous for. In a Guitar World article, lead guitarist Billy Gibbons said that he used a Marshall Major amplifier and a Maestro ring modulator on this song, and that the amplifier had a blown tube during recording which added to the tonal character of the song.[1] The Marshall Major is a slightly taller, 200 watt version of the classic Marshall 100 watt head.

16 julio 2013

1389 - ZZ Top La Grange 1973

"La Grange" is a song by the American rock group ZZ Top from their album "Tres Hombres", released in 1973. One of their most successful songs, it received extensive radio play. The song refers to a bordello on the outskirts of La Grange, Texas (later called the "Chicken Ranch"). Billy Gibbons played the lead on a 1955 Stratocaster with a stop tailpiece through a Marshall Super Lead 100 with Celestion greenback speakers. The song was produced by Bill Ham, and mixed by Terry Manning.

15 junio 2011

1174 - ZZ Top Tush 1975

"Tush" was the only single from ZZ Top's fourth album "Fandango!". It reached number 20 on the pop chart.
The song is a twelve-bar blues in the key of G. The recording was produced by Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning. The title is a double entendre, referring both to slang for buttocks and slang for "luxurious" or "lavish", according to a 1985 interview with Dusty Hill in Spin Magazine.
It is also one of the ZZ Top songs on "Fandango!" sung by bassist Dusty Hill.

08 noviembre 2010

1137 - ZZ Top Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers 1973

Third album by the Texas trio. After 1972's rather fractured "Rio Grande Mud" the Little Ol' Band From Texas is finally getting their unique, bluesy sound down. The hard-driving "Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers" highlights.



24 marzo 2009

913 - ZZ Top Just Got Paid 1972

"Rio Grande Mud" is the second album by American blues-rock band ZZ Top, released in 1972. Z Z Top is a blues-rooted powerhouse trio featuring guitarist Billy Gibbons, bass player Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard on drums. All are abnormally talented and resourceful performers. In "Just Got Paid", Gibbons slurs through two short verses in an anomalous Johnny Winter-ish voice to quickly reach the bridge where he cuts loose with a torrid slide guitar solo.

12 noviembre 2007

569 - ZZ Top Sharp Dressed Man 1984

1983 was the year ZZ Top went from being everyone's favourite bar-room boogie band to international superstars. Graced with mind-boggling and incredibly photogenic beards, a very neat trilogy of sexy videos and a collective ear for a quite distinct and highly stylised, if somewhat grizzled blues/pop, the sudden enormity of their success seems in retrospect like no real surprise. "Sharp Dressed Man" is a big hit of the band.

30 agosto 2007

232 - ZZ Top Legs 1983

ZZ Top is an American blues rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. They reached the peak of their commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, scoring many hit songs during that era, but they remain together today and are still touring and releasing albums. Nearly as well-known as their music is the group's appearance: Gibbons and Hill are always pictured wearing sunglasses (a nod to their 1979 song "Cheap Sunglasses"), similar if not matching clothing, and their trademark chest-length beards. "Legs" is a song from their 1983 album "Eliminator". The song was released as a single in 1984 and reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The song's lyrics feature a sexual double entendre.