The album contains one studio side and the other recorded live at New Orleans’s Warehouse. The song, along with "Blue Jean Blues," helped to keep their 1975 release Fandango on the charts for an amazing eighty-three weeks and to eventually sell more than a million copies. "Tush" is a fine example of the warped lyrics that have helped ZZ Top become a party favorite. "See, for white boys playing the blues, you can only get away with it if it’s amusing," Gibbons told Rolling Stone’s Daisann McLane. It was obvious by now that ZZ Top could play the blues as well as anyone, but they approached it without the scholarly attitude that causes so many other groups to sink. They scored a national hit with "La Grange" from the platinum-selling Tres Hombres. Word began to spread as the Rolling Stones asked the boys to open for their 1972 tour. Things began to pick up with their second album Rio Grande Mud. Their First Album LP received little fanfare. We decided that it was so much fun that we kept on cookin’." They knew they had a great sound together, but they also realized that it takes even more to make it in the music world. "We started off with a shuffle in C and didn’t quit for a couple of hours. "We threw a jam session together that fateful day," Gibbons informed Guitar World. On February 10, 1970, the three musicians were united. They picked up priceless experience backing up blues legends like Lightnin’ Hopkins, Jimmy Reed, and Freddie King. After that band folded in 1967, the two joined drummer Beard’s American Blues Band. Along with his brother, guitarist Rocky Hill, they formed the Deadbeats before playing in Lady Wild and the Warlocks. Hill, a Dallas native, also entered music after seeing a Presley performance on television and began playing the bass when he was thirteen. Gibbons and Bill Ham, a local record promo man, began auditioning drummers and bassists before settling with two veterans of the Texas blues scene, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. Hendrix was so impressed with Gibbons’s fretwork that he cited the Texan as one of America’s best guitarists on a "Tonight Show" television appearance. Their single "99th Floor" stayed on top of the Texas charts for five weeks and earned the band a spot as opening act for the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968. By 1967 he was working with a trimmed-down, four-member psychedlic combo called the Moving Sidewalks.
He formed his first band, the Saints, when he was fourteen and eventually moved on to the Coachmen. Gibbons was born in Houston, Texas, and, after being bitten by the Elvis bug at the age of seven, began playing guitar. King was on the "top," Gibbons settled with the name "ZZ Top." King posters, Gibbons favored "ZZ" and "King," and came up with "ZZ King," though it was too much like the guitarists' names. Gibbons, however, revealed the true origin of the group's name in his autobiographical book Billy F Gibbons: Rock + Roll Gearhead. The band's name was rumored to have derived from Zig-Zag and TOP rolling papers.
They were formed in 1970 in and around Houston from rival bands the Moving Sidewalks (Gibbons) and American Blues (Hill and Beard). This sturdy American blues-rock trio from Texas consists of Billy Gibbons (guitar), Dusty Hill (bass), and Frank Beard (drums). ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". The album scored the band peaking at #10 on Billboard charts. Fandango, from which the album gets its name, is a type of dance similar to flamenco. You know, my baby be bringin' 'em home to me.īlue Jean Blues, "Tush" and "Heard It on the X," three of their greatest songs that build on Fandango by consolidating their sound and amplifying their humor.įandango! is the fourth album by blues rock band ZZ Top, released in 1975.
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