The best-selling ZZ Top record, “Eliminator,” saw the band shift in terms of image and marketing, and the band added a synthesizer or two to the mix for a synthpop vibe, though the trio didn’t by any means lose their ability to rock, as evidenced by “Got Me Under Pressure" and “Gimme All Your Lovin.’” The party fun album, “El Loco” (1981), features “Tube Snake Boogie.” The classic pick-up rocker, “Tush,” is from “Fandango!” (1975), while the Texas rocker, “Cheap Sunglasses,” is from Deguello (1979). The “Tres Hombres” rocker “Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers” has been covered by everyone from Van Halen to Motorhead, while the bluesy “Waitin’ for the Bus” and “Jesus Just Left Chicago” are perennial fan favorites. On “Tres Hombres”, the song “La Grange” was ZZ Top’s breakthrough single as well as a boogie rock tune that anyone who went into live area clubs in the 1970s heard live and loud. The live album should be an indicator of the songs the band will likely perform in Wichita Falls and draws heavily on its two most popular albums, “Tres Hombres” (1973) and “Eliminator” (1983), featuring four songs from each. The groups played ZZ Top’s “Rough Boy” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady,” and three years later the fan created a video of ZZ Top and Beck playing Tennessee Ernie Ford’s classic, “Sixteen Tons.” Gibbons and Beck saw the video and decided to record the song live for ZZ Top’s 2016 album. The idea for the album was helped along when one of the group’s fans mashed together two-video tracks from Jeff Beck and ZZ Top’s performance together in 2009 at Madison Square Garden. The current tour follows the band’s “Live! Greatest Hits from Around the World” record, featuring 15 live tracks recorded on tour in 2015. To date, the band has released 15 studio albums, beginning with “ZZ Top’s First Album” (1971) and has sold more than 30 million albums in the United States. ZZ Top is on its Tonnage Tour and will leave for Europe for most of July to perform on “The Tonnage Tour: Metric Edition.” This will be the trio’s first show in Wichita Falls since 2010, when the group played on the huge stage with a futuristic amp set up at Kay Yeager Coliseum.
ZZ Top has been playing Wichita Falls since the early 1970s, beginning with Kickapoo Cantico on old Jacksboro Highway. At 48 years, ZZ Top can boast it's the longest-playing band in rock music, or as Gibbons once said, “We’re the same three guys, bashing out the same three chords.” He finalized the band several musicians later with members of Houston’s American Blues, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard. The group was formed by Billy Gibbons, guitarist for the psychedelic blues band Moving Sidewalk. ZZ Top, that “Little Ol’ Band From Texas,” has traveled a long way from its 1969 startup in Houston.
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