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2. ZZ Top - Wikipedia

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   ZZ Top [a] is an American rock band formed in Houston, Texas, in 1969. It consisted of vocalist-guitarist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard, and bassist-vocalist Dusty Hill for 51 years until Hill's death in 2021. ZZ Top developed a signature sound based on Gibbons' blues style and Hill and Beard's rhythm section. They are known for their live ...

3. Frank Beard (musician) - Wikipedia

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   Beard performing with ZZ Top in 2014. Before joining ZZ Top, Beard was a member of a fake version of the British band the Zombies, which toured in the US without authorization from the original band members, and also was part of the Outlaws with later ZZ Top member Dusty Hill. [1]

4. Billy Gibbons - Wikipedia

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   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. Although all three members were born in 1949, Gibbons was the youngest member ...

5. Eliminator (album) - Wikipedia

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   The videos greatly advanced ZZ Top's visibility. [36] According to Texas Monthly, the album's synthesizer sound was "perfect" for the MTV audience, who had previously seen ZZ Top as an "old-fogey band". [4] The videos earned ZZ Top awards for Best Band and Best Group Video at the 1984 MTV Awards. [4]

6. ZZ Top to perform at Black Oak Amphitheater on Oct. 6. Here's ...

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   ZZ Top is performing at the Black Oak Amphitheater in Lampe on Sunday, Oct. 6, as part of the band's "The Elevation Tour." Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday on the Black Oak Amphitheater website .

7. Elwood Francis - Wikipedia

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   Francis long worked as ZZ Top’s guitar technician. He is largely responsible for Hill quitting marijuana. At a hotel in Amsterdam, Hill was smoking the drug when Francis noticed a metal bar underneath one of the hotel windows. Francis jumped out of the window while holding onto the bar, something Hill could not see from his perspective ...

8. Dusty Hill - Wikipedia

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   In 1968, he and the drummer Frank Beard joined the guitarist Billy Gibbons in ZZ Top; they went on to release albums including the bestselling Eliminator (1983). Hill favored simple compositions and a "big", distorted sound. Critics described his basslines as a critical part of ZZ Top's sound, complementing Gibbons' guitar showmanship.

9. Degüello - Wikipedia

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   Degüello (/ d ɛ ˈ ɡ w eɪ oʊ / de-GWAY-oh) [4] is the sixth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in November 1979. It was the first ZZ Top release on Warner Bros. Records and eventually went platinum. It was produced by Bill Ham, recorded and mixed by Terry Manning, and mastered by Bob Ludwig.