![]() ![]() The group continued to record and tour - with venues getting larger. Showbiz & Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2021 – Photo Gallery ![]() 20 on the Hot 100 and also became a radio mainstay. ZZ Top’s momentum continued to build with 1975’s Fandango!, which also made the Top 10, fueled by the single “Tush,” which peaked at No. ![]() The track remains a staple on rock radio. Their fortunes changed in 1973 with Tres Hombres, which spawned “La Grange,” an ode to that shack “out on the range.” The song was a minor pop hit, just missing the Billboard Top 40, but expanded the group’s fan base and drove the album into the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart. The 1972 follow-up Rio Grande Mud was their first to hit the charts and expanded their popularity. The boogie-blues trio released ZZ Top’s First Album as they built a name playing Texas clubs. The group was featured in the 2019 documentary ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas, which scored a Grammy nom for Best Music Film. Seven of their LPs, including two hits compilations, are platinum or multiplatinum, with four others going gold. ZZ Top has released 15 studio albums during its career - including half live/half-studio album Fandango! - selling more than 25 million records in the U.S. They went on to become one of rock’s best-loved trios - and bands - with their massive success driven by signature videos that then-nascent MTV played in heavy rotation. Long considered the rock band with the longest-tenured original lineup, ZZ Top was formed in 1969 in Houston, with bassist-singer-songwriter Hill playing alongside guitarist Gibbons and drummer Beard. Here’s the setlist they’ve been doing so far on this tour.Dusty Hill Remembered: MTV's Martha Quinn, Flea, Texas Governor & More Pay Tribute To ZZ Top Bassist Dusty Hill, left, and Billy Gibbons on stage with ZZ Top at the Beacon in New York City in 2012 Everett Collection Bassist Elwood Francis will be joining the band for this run. ZZ Top is bringing The Raw Whisky Tour to the Venetian for five dates in December. Hill died in his sleep at home last year. Beard and Gibbons agree that Hill is still very much present with them even though he’s passed away. The RAW: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas Original Soundtrack track list includes some popular hits, like La Grange and Gimme All Your Lovin’ as well as some deep cuts, like Brown Sugar. We were bonded as brothers”, the two remaining original band members reminisced. “It was as bare bones as when we first started touring in a behemoth Chrysler station wagon, driving vast stretches between those early far-flung shows under blackened Texas skies and first hearing our records on the radio. Just us and the music, no audience of thousands, no concession stands, no parking lot social hour, no phalanx of tour busses” ( nme.com). “It was, in a very real way, a return to our roots. In the album’s linear notes, Beard and Gibbons comment on the record. That Little Ol’ Band From Texas shows the original trio perform an intimate set at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas, without an audience.
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