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ZZ Top [a] is an American rock band formed in Houston, Texas, in 1969. For 51 years, it consisted of vocalist-guitarist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard and bassist-vocalist Dusty Hill, 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 ...
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 ...
For decades — five and change, to be exact — ZZ Top was the self-proclaimed “Little Ol’ Band from Texas,” a trio of Lone Star blues and boogie misfits with an M.O. that Billy F. Gibbons ...
In 2000, Hill was diagnosed with hepatitis C and ZZ Top canceled their European tour. [19] [20] Hill resumed work in 2002. [19] Hill was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of ZZ Top in 2004. [21] In 2014, Hill fell on his tour bus and injured his hip, requiring surgery. Part of the tour was canceled.
Ham began his career as a singer, releasing a single, "Wanderer," on Dot Records in 1960. Cash Box called the song a "bright rocker" with a "sensational backbeat." [3]In 1968, Ham was working as a record promoter for Bud Daily Distributing when he saw the Moving Sidewalks, the band that would become ZZ Top, perform at a Doors concert in Houston, and went backstage to compliment them. [4]
WASHINGTON — Biden administration officials met Monday with top Jewish leaders at the White House to discuss the rise in antisemitism, a meeting participant said.. Amy Spitalnick, the CEO of the ...
Schumer — the first Jewish Senate majority leader and the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the U.S. — is leading a bipartisan delegation of senators to Israel this weekend to express ...
Francis worked as guitar tech for ZZ Top before, at Dusty Hill's request, being hired to be their bass player in 2021, following Hill's death. He is largely responsible for Dusty Hill quitting marijuana. At a hotel in Amsterdam, Dusty was smoking the drug, when Francis noticed a metal bar underneath one of the hotel windows. Francis jumped out ...