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| ZZ TOP |
| Houston, Texas, USA | | * 1970 |
Billy Gibbons - voc,g
Elwood Francis - bg
Frank Beard - ds
Former Members:
Joe 'Dusty' Hill (bg, 1970-7/21)
Lanier Greig (kb, 1970)
Dan Mitchell (ds, 1970)
Albums Discography:
| # | Title | Release Date | Label | Type | UK | USA | | 1. | ZZ Top's First Album
produced by: Bill Ham | 1/1971 | London | | | | | 2. | Rio Grande Mud
produced by: Bill Ham | 4/1972 | London | | | | | 3. | Tres Hombres
produced by: Bill Ham | 8/1973 | London | | | 8 | | 4. | Fandango
produced by: Bill Ham | 5/1975 | London/studio |  | 60 | 8 | | 5. | Tejas
produced by: Bill Ham | 1/1977 | London | | | 10 | | 6. | The Best Of ZZ Top
produced by: Bill Ham | 23.12.1977 | London |  | | 94 | | 7. | Dequello
produced by: Bill Ham | 11/1979 | Warner Bros | | | 24 | | 8. | El Loco
produced by: Bill Ham | 7/1981 | Warner Bros | | 88 | 17 | | 9. | Eliminator
produced by: Bill Ham | 4/1983 | Warner Bros | | 4 | 9 | | 10. | Afterburner
produced by: Bill Ham | 28.10.1985 | Warner Bros | | 2 | 4 | | 11. | Recycler
produced by: Bill Ham | 22.10.1990 | Warner Bros | | 8 | 6 | | 12. | Greatest Hits
produced by: Bill Ham | 13.04.1992 | Warner Bros | | 5 | 9 | | 13. | Antenna
produced by: Bill Ham/Billy F. Gibbons | 17.01.1994 | RCA | | 3 | 14 | | 14. | One Foot In The Blues | 14.11.1994 | Warner Bros | | | | | 15. | Rhythmeen
produced by: Bill Ham/Billy F. Gibbons | 09.09.1996 | RCA | | 32 | 29 | | 16. | XXX
(half live) | 28.09.1999 | RCA | | | 100 | | 17. | Mescalero
produced by: Billy F. Gibbons | 08.09.2003 | RCA | | | 57 | | 18. | Chrome, Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box
(4CD box set) | 14.10.2003 | Warner Bros | | | | | 19. | Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top | 15.06.2004 | Rhino | | | 30 | | 20. | The Beginning Of ZZ Top
(2CD) | 8/2006 | Delta Music | | | | | 21. | Roots of ZZ Top | 30.03.2010 | Fuel 2000 | | | | | 22. | Live From Texas | 04.06.2010 | Eagle | | | | | 23. | Live in Germany 1980 | 21.06.2011 | Eagle | | | | | 24. | Original Album Series
(5CD) | 13.08.2012 | Rhino | | | | | 25. | La Futura
produced by: Rick Rubin | 10.09.2012 | American | | 29 | 6 | | 26. | The Complete Studio Albums 1970-1990
(10CD box set) | 10.06.2013 | Rhino | | | | | 27. | Groovy Little Hippy Pad | 11.06.2013 | | | | | | 28. | Lucky Thirteen | 23.09.2013 | Chrome Dreams | | | | | 29. | The Very Baddest Of ZZ Top | 09.06.2014 | Rhino | | | 95 | | 30. | Live at Montreux 2013 | 22.07.2014 | Eagle Rock | | | | | 31. | Preliminator | 24.06.2016 | FM In Concert Series | | | | | 32. | Hi-Fi Mama: Live 1980 | 15.07.2016 | Air Cuts | | | | | 33. | Sharp Dressed Man | 15.07.2016 | Suretone | | | | | 34. | Tush | 29.07.2016 | Suretone | | | | | 35. | Jesus Just Left Chicago | 26.08.2016 | Laser Media | | | | | 36. | Tonite At Midnight - Live: Greatest Hits From Around The World | 09.09.2016 | Suretone | | 50 | 111 | | 37. | Goin' 50 | 8/2019 | | | | 129 | | 38. | Raw - That Little Ol' Band From Texas | 22.07.2022 | Shelter |  | 81 | 141 |
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Singles Discography:
| # | SP/EP Title | Release Date | Label | UK | USA | | 1. | Salt Lick / Miller's Farm | 1970 | Scat | | | | 2. | (Somebody Else Been) Shakin' Your Tree / Neighbor, Neighbor | 2/1971 | London | | | | 3. | Francene / Francene (Spanish) | 5/1972 | London | | 69 | | 4. | Francene / Down Brownie
(v GB) | 7/1972 | London | | | | 5. | La Grange / Just Got Paid | 3/1974 | London | | 41 | | 6. | Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers / La Grange | 6/1974 | London | | | | 7. | Tush / Blue Jean Blues | 18.07.1975 | London | | 13 | | 8. | It's Only Love / Asleep In The Desert | 10.09.1976 | London | | 44 | | 9. | Arrested For Driving While Blind / It's Only Love | 3/1977 | London | | 91 | | 10. | Arrested For Driving While Blind / Neighbor, Neighbor
(v GB) | 4/1977 | London | | | | 11. | El Diablo / Enjoy And Get It On | 5/1977 | London | | 105 | | 12. | I Thank You / A Fool For Your Stockings | 1/1980 | Warner Bros | | 34 | | 13. | Cheap Sunglasses / Esther Be The One | 27.06.1980 | Warner Bros | | 89 | | 14. | Leila / Don't Tease Me | 7/1981 | Warner Bros | | 77 | | 15. | Tube Snake Boogie / Heaven, Hell Or Houston | 12/1981 | Warner Bros | | 103 | | 16. | Gimme All Your Loving / If I Could Only Flag Her Down
12" + Jesus Just Left Chicago / Heard It On The X / Arrested For Driving While Blind | 3/1983 | Warner Bros | 61 | 37 | | 17. | Sharp Dressed Man / I Got The Six
12" + La Grange
(v GB 11.11.83) | 7/1983 | Warner Bros | 53 | 56 | | 18. | TV Dinners / Cheap Sunglasses
12" + A Fool For Your Stockings / Legs | 09.03.1984 | Warner Bros | 44 | | | 19. | Legs (remix) / Bad Girl
(v GB 2/85) | 5/1984 | Warner Bros | 14 | 8 | | 20. | Gimme All Your Loving / If I Could Only Flag Her Down
(reissue) | 9/1984 | Warner Bros | 6 | | | 21. | Sharp Dressed Man / I Got The Six
(reissue) | 12/1984 | Warner Bros | 18 | | | 22. | The ZZ Top Summer Holiday EP
(Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers / I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide / Tush / Got Me Under Pressure) | 7/1985 | Warner Bros | 51 | | | 23. | Sleeping Bag / Party On The Patio
7"(2) Sharp Dressed Man / I Got The Six | 10/1985 | Warner Bros | 23 | 8 | | 24. | Stages / Hi-Fi Mama | 1/1986 | Warner Bros | 43 | 21 | | 25. | Rough Boy / Delirious
12" + Legs (mix) | 3/1986 | Warner Bros | 15 | 22 | | 26. | Velcro Fly / Can't Stop Rockin' | 7/1986 | Warner Bros | | 35 | | 27. | Velcro Fly / Woke Up With Wood
12" + Can't Stop Rockin' ('86 mix) | 9/1986 | Warner Bros | 54 | | | 28. | Doubleback / Planet Of Women
CD + Doubleback (AOR mix) | 5/1990 | Warner Bros | 29 | 50 | | 29. | Concrete And Steel | 9/1990 | Warner Bros | | | | 30. | Give It Up / Sharp Dressed Man
12",CD + Cheap Sunglasses (live) | 11/1990 | Warner Bros | | 79 | | 31. | My Head's In Mississippi / A Fool For Your Stockings
12",CD + Blue Jean Blues | 4/1991 | Warner Bros | 37 | | | 32. | Viva Las Vegas / 2000 Blues
CD + Velcro Fly / Stages / Legs | 30.03.1992 | Warner Bros | 6 | | | 33. | Rough Boy / Viva Las Vegas (remix)
CD1 + Velcro Fly (extended) / Doubleback (AOR mix)
CD2 + TV Dinners / Jesus Has Just Left Chicago / Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers | 08.06.1992 | Warner Bros | 47 | | | 34. | Pincushion / Cherry Red | 17.01.1994 | RCA | 15 | | | 35. | Breakaway / Mary's | 14.03.1994 | RCA | 60 | | | 36. | She's Just Killing Me | 17.06.1996 | Epic | | | | 37. | What's Up With That | 17.06.1996 | RCA | 58 | | | 38. | Gimme All Your Lovin'
& Martay | 27.09.1999 | | 28 | | | 39. | Texicali EP | 6/2012 | | | 106 | | 40. | Tush (Live From Chicago) | 02.09.2016 | Suretone | | |
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Billy Gibbons:
| # | SP/EP Title | Release Date | Label | UK | USA | | 1. | Honky Tonk Stomp
& Brooks & Dunn | 10/2009 | | | 96 | | 2. | Oh Well / Storms
& Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy | 15.11.2012 | PIAS | | |
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Videos:
1. Greatest Hits - 1992, Warner Music
2. Double Down Live - 20.10.2009, Eagle Rock, live 2DVD
Movies:
1. ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas (8/2019)
Bibliography:
David Sinclair: Tres Hombres: The Story Of ZZ Top
Billy F. Gibbons: Rock and Roll Gearhead (6.10.2005, MBI Publishing's Motorbooks)
Awards:
1999 RIAA Diamond Award (LP "Eliminator", 10 mil. copies)
2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
WWW Links:
http://www.zztop.com
Various:
original name Moving Sidewalks
Compilation Appearances:
"La Grange" on OST "Armageddon: The Album" (23.6.98, Columbia)
Billy Gibbons:
appeared on the LP:
John Mayall & Friends: Along For The Ride (26.3.01, Eagle)
Les Paul & Friends: American Made, World Played (30.8.05, Capitol)
B.B. King: B.B. King & Friends - 80 (13.9.05, Geffen)
Queens Of The Stone Age: Era Vulgaris (6/07, Interscope)
Ron Wood: I Feel Like Playing (27.9.10)
Leslie West: Unusual Suspects (13.8.11)
Alice Cooper: Paranormal (28.7.17)
William Shatner: Shatner Claus - The Christmas Album (26.10.18, Cleopatra)
Ronnie Milsap: The Duets (19.1.19)
The Black Keys: Dropout Boogie (13.5.22)
Morris Day: Last Call (11.11.22, Bungalo)
Gov't Mule: Peace... Like A River (16.6.23)
Slash: Orgy Of The Damned (17.5.24, Gibson)
Press References:
| &musiQ | | Year | Issue | Date | Page | Column | Type | | 2002 | 12 | | 71 | Live | gig review | | Bang! | | Year | Issue | Date | Page | Column | Type | | 1994 | 3 | 26.01.1994 | 15 | | profile | | 1994 | 4 | 02.02.1994 | 9 | | album review | | 1994 | 43 | 07.12.1994 | 11 | | album review | | 1994 | 43 | 07.12.1994 | 24 | | interview | | 1995 | 1 | 11.01.1995 | 15 | Live Bang! | gig review | | Big Beng! | | Year | Issue | Date | Page | Column | Type | | 1996 | 16 | 19.09.1996 | 4 | | profile | | 1996 | 16 | 19.09.1996 | 25 | Forum kritikum | album review | | 1997 | 7 | 20.02.1997 | 13 | Live | gig review | | 1998 | 45 | 17.12.1998 | 345 | Hard & Heavy Masters | | | 1999 | 37 | 28.10.1999 | 25 | Forum kritikum | album review | | 1999 | 41 | 25.11.1999 | 27 | Forum kritikum | album review | | 2002 | 18 | 08.11.2002 | 35 | Live | gig review | | Melodie | | Year | Issue | Date | Page | Column | Type | | 1988 | 9 | | 7 | Metalový pravěk | | | 1991 | 6 | | 30 | Recenze | album review | | 1991 | 9 | | 16 | | gig review | | 1993 | 5 | | 37 | Recenze | album review | | Melody Maker | | Year | Issue | Date | Page | Column | Type | | 1976 | 37 | 11.09.1976 | 48 | Singles Extra | single review | | 1980 | 19 | 28.06.1980 | 16 | Singles | single review | | 1983 | 22 | 28.05.1983 | 28 | Albums | album review | | 1983 | 35 | 27.08.1983 | 14 | It's Alive | gig review | | 1983 | 36 | 03.09.1983 | 22 | Singles | single review | | 1983 | 50 | 10.12.1983 | 16 | It's Alive | gig review | | 1984 | 10 | 10.03.1984 | 4 | Fast Forward - Record News | | | 1984 | 11 | 17.03.1984 | 26 | Singles | single review | | 1984 | 45 | 22.12.1984 | 54 | Singles | single review | | 1990 | 0 | 27.10.1990 | 40 | Albums | album review | | 1992 | 16 | 18.04.1992 | 29 | Singles | single review | | 1992 | 18 | 02.05.1992 | 35 | Albums | album review | | 1994 | 3 | 22.01.1994 | 33 | Albums | album review | | New Musical Express | | Year | Issue | Date | Page | Column | Type | | 1973 | 0 | 08.09.1973 | 22 | Albums | album review | | 1976 | 0 | 19.06.1976 | 6 | | interview | | Rock & Pop | | Year | Issue | Date | Page | Column | Type | | 1991 | 13 | 04.07.1991 | 14 | | profile | | 1991 | 18 | 13.09.1991 | 30 | Live | gig review | | 1991 | 19 | 27.09.1991 | 20 | Recenze | album review | | 1992 | 13 | 29.06.1992 | 28 | Recenze | album review | | 1994 | 5 | 14.03.1994 | 24 | | profile, interview | | 1994 | 5 | 14.03.1994 | 27 | Recommandé | album review | | 1994 | 17 | 30.08.1994 | 19 | Roskilde '94 | gig review | | 1994 | 23 | 22.11.1994 | 31 | Live | gig review | | 1995 | 1 | 10.01.1995 | 9 | Rock & Top | gig review | | 1995 | 7 | 11.04.1995 | 27 | Recenze | album review | | 1996 | 11 | | 9 | Rock & Top | interview | | 1997 | 1 | | 106 | Recenze - Novinky | album review | | 1997 | 3 | | 96 | Live | gig review | | 1999 | 11 | | 109 | Recenze - Novinky | album review | | 1999 | 12 | | 111 | Recenze - Novinky | album review | | 2001 | 2 | | 15 | Pelmel | | | 2003 | 11 | | 77 | Recenze | album review | | 2006 | 9 | | 61 | Recenze | album review | | 2006 | 12 | | 8 | News | | | 2008 | 8 | | 66 | Record - DVD | album review | | 2008 | 10 | | 72 | Record | album review | | 2008 | 11 | | 92 | Rewind - Classic Rock | profile | | 2009 | 3 | | 8 | Rock & Top - News | | | 2009 | 5 | | 80 | Replay - Máš lístek? | | | 2009 | 5 | | 92 | Rewind - Classic Rock | profile, interview, discography | | 2009 | 7 | | 79 | Replay - Live | gig review | | Rock'88 | | Year | Issue | Date | Page | Column | Type | | 1991 | 3 | | 10 | Recenze | album review | | Rolling Stone | | Year | Issue | Date | Page | Column | Type | | 2000 | 1 | | 18 | Otázky a odpovědi | interview | | Spark | | Year | Issue | Date | Page | Column | Type | | 1994 | 2 | | 18 | | profile, discography | | 1994 | 2 | | 27 | Shot | album review | | 2003 | 6 | | 57 | Records | album review |
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