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For their 1975 “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’s squankmaster Billy Gibbons and shuffle king Frank Beard are In the Studio with the late bass man Dusty Hill for the fiftieth anniversary of their fourth album, “Fandango”, the week of April 14.
One of the priceless pieces of twenty-five years of rock history at Q102 Dallas/Ft Worth was a tape cartridge that I had dubbed from a cassette containing a live medley of ZZ Top’s encore of “Lagrange” which had closed their headlining show at Castle Donington Raceway in England August 17, 1985. The Texas trio arguably […]
ZZ Top really worked hard in the studio on capturing new Billy Gibbons guitar sounds on their November 1979 album Deguello. ZZ Top employed what they’d learned on the subsequent tour, which had this stop at the venerable Capital Theater in Passaic NJ performing “Cheap Sunglasses”.
Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard In the Studio for “Deguello”
This is the conclusion of the ZZ Top “Antenna” world premiere radio broadcast on January 15, 1994 with Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard live from Manhattan’s Hit Factory to millions all over North America. In part two we learn that ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard had a fascinating side hustle as the owner of his own professional auto racing team, which came in second at Daytona in their first race!
The all-important breakthrough third ZZ Top album, “Tres Hombres”, will focus on the all-around improvements in recording quality and songwriting reflected in such perennials as “Waitin’ for the Bus”, “Jesus Just Left Chicago”, and “Lagrange” plus the introduction of “the squank” to guitar vernacular. Squankmaster Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard, and the dearly missed Dusty Hill tell the colorful tales of the earliest days of ZZ Top here In the Studio for the breakthrough third album, “Tres Hombres”.
And yes, the series of clever, campy videos on the upstart MTV video channel in America undoubtedly had much to do with that staggering (15 million just in US) level of popularity for “Eliminator” (truly ironic, since manager Bill Ham had steadfastly kept ZZ Top off of U.S. television until then). But the songwriting, musicianship, modern arranging, and state-of-the-art recording on “Eliminator” which I heard that day was truly extraordinary. Billy Gibbons, Frank Bread, & the late Dusty Hill are my guests In the Studio.
ZZ Top with the incredibly durable original tres hombres of the late bass player Dusty Hill, drummer Frank Beard, and squankmaster Billy Gibbons taking a turn on the Hollywood red carpet with “Sharp Dressed Man” in concert in the City of Angels.
This was something longtime ZZ Top fans had been dreaming about for decades: a horned toad’s eye view of Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard, and now dearly departed Dusty Hill at rehearsal in the Lone Star state in historic roadhouse Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, nestled in the Texas Hill Country, knocking the bottom out of the ornery bucket shuffle “Tubesnake Boogie” for the Grammy-nominated film documentary ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas.