ZZ TOP- El Loco 40th Anniversary- Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
ZZ Top “El Loco” fortieth anniversary interview with Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, & Frank Beard “In the Studio”.
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ZZ Top First Album 50th Anniversary- Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsIn Spring 1972 ZZ Top released the much-improved second album Rio Grande Mud, the vastly underrated follow-up to the woolly ZZ Top’s First Album containing “Brown Sugar“. The stronger songwriting and much better production sound of such songs as “Francine”,”Just Got Paid“, and “Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell“, like the first recorded in […]
ZZ Top- Afterburner 35th Anniversary- Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsThirty-five years ago ZZ Top’s”Afterburner” came out. But don’t go looking for it in the 2019 ZZ Top rockumentary film “That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” .That otherwise well-done pastiche of just some of the chapters in this colorful trio’s fifty year telenovella implied that all meaningful recording by ZZ Top wrapped at the conclusion of “Eliminator” way back in 1983. Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard join me here In the Studio on the thirty-fifth anniversary of “Sleeping Bag”,”Stages”,”Woke Up with Wood”, and “Planet of Women”.
ZZ Top- Fandango 45th Anniversary- Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
/in Medium RareIn this classic rock interview to mark the forty-fifth anniversary of “Fandango”, my guests Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard in “That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” ZZ Top were tellin’ tall tales here In the Studio long before Netflix or Amazon Prime were ever invented! -Redbeard
ZZ Top- Deguello- Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
/in Medium RareBilly Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard In the Studio for “Deguello”
ZZ TOP- Tres Hombres- Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock Interviewsthe 1973 ZZ TOP album Tres Hombres, the boys discuss the infamous Chicken Ranch outside of Houston, the inspiration for their breakout hit”La Grange” and years later the Broadway musical Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ; redneck roadsurfing from the back of a pickup truck in an iron cage in”Master of Sparks”; Queen Bee barbeque; and why legendary University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal was not a ZZ TOP fan.
ZZ Top- Lagrange- Castle Donington, Derbyshire UK 8-17-85
/in Live TracksOne of the priceless pieces of twenty-five years of rock history, almost criminally tossed in a dumpster by the new owners of Q102 Dallas/Ft Worth in August 1998, was a tape cartridge that I had dubbed from a cassette containing a live medley of ZZ Top‘s encore of “Lagrange/ Tush” which had closed their headlining […]
ZZ TOP- Eliminator 35th Anniversary- Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsOne of my secret weapons at making ROCK 103 the top-rated radio station in Memphis from 1980 through 1983 was the friendship that developed with the late legendary John Fry and his wonderfully talented staff at the world-renowned Ardent Studios nearby. As it turned out, one of my personal favorite bands, Houston-based ZZ Top, had […]
ZZ Top- Rough Boy- London with Jeff Beck
/in Live TracksThere has been a flurry of news coming from the Texas twisted world of ZZ Top in the last week and it’s all good. First, bass player/ singer Dusty Hill has recuperated sufficiently from a nasty backstage fall in the Spring to rejoin the band for some very high-profile gigs in the UK and Europe […]
Rock Hall Snubs: Ozzy Osbourne
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsRock Hall Snubs: Ozzy Osbourne