This totem was sent on tour as a fundraising focus for The Delta Blues. Friday through, and at the Amphitheater box office. Live: ZZ Top Elkhart County Fairgrounds Elkhart, IN JI did not expect my first live concert experience post-pandemic to be a show by rock legends ZZ Top, nor did I expect it to be at a county fairgrounds not even an hour’s drive from my house, but the pandemic taught us to expect the unexpected so I should. ZZ TOP a/k/a That Little Ol Band From Texas, lay undisputed claim to being the. In 2019, a documentary film about their five-plus decades in music was released, titled "ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas." ZZ Top’s hits include “Tush,” “Legs,” “Tube Snake Boogie,” “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Sleeping Bag,” “Got Me Under Pressure,” “Velcro Fly,” “Stages,” “Rough Boy,” “Concrete and Steel,” “Give It Up,” “Pincushion,” “Doubleback,” a cover of “Viva Las Vegas” and the rollicking “La Grange.” They’ve sold more than 25 million records in the U.S. From a three-piece using only guitars, bass and drums, they experimented with synthesizers, horns, dance-heavy rhythms and more in smash ‘80s-‘90s discs including “Eliminator,” “Afterburner,” “Recycler” and “Antenna.”īut just as with earlier albums “Tres Hombres,” “Fandango,” and “Tejas,” they still built their songs around blues and boogie-woogie. With the MTV era exploding, the ZZ Top look quickly became iconic, while their sound evolved somewhat as well. When they came back together, it was with greater focus on image, including Nudie suits, towering Stetson hats, and their seemingly magic ride Eliminator, a sleek hot rod built from a ’33 Ford coupe. ZZ Top /zizitp/ is a rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. Initially pounding out electric blues with Texas twang, touring extensively around often-elaborate stage shows, the trio took a couple of years off in the late ‘70s due to physical and mental burnout.ĭuring that stretch, Gibbons and Hill grew their Old Testament beards.
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