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The members of ZZ Top had previously played in other Texas-based groups, Gibbons
in Moving Sidewalks, and Hill and Beard in American Blues. By 1969, both groups
had disbanded. Gibbons invited Frank Beard to join his new group, a blues-rock
foursome. Beard suggested his former band mate, "Dusty" Hill, and the band
became a trio.
The origin of the band's name is claimed to be a hybrid of two popular brands of
rolling paper, Zig-Zag and Top. It is also a tribute to blues legend Z. Z. Hill.
However, Gibbons wrote in his autobiography, Rock + Roll Gearhead, that it
derives from the blues guitar master B. B. King. The band originally planned to
call themselves Z.Z. King, but thought it seemed too similar. Since B.B. King
was also at the "top", they chose ZZ Top.
The group played its first show in February, 1970, and toured Texas for several
years. They signed a contract with London Records; their first two albums, ZZ
Top's First Album and Rio Grande Mud, were made at Robin Hood Studios in Tyler,
Texas.
In January 1973, ZZ Top opened for The Rolling Stones three shows in Hawaii.
They also began recording with engineer Terry Manning at Ardent Studios in
Memphis. The resultant third album, Tres Hombres (1973), was the first for
which the band gained a million-seller and wide acclaim. Hombres featured ZZ's
classic hit "La Grange," written about the Chicken Ranch, a famous La Grange,
Texas bordello (that was also the subject of the musical The Best Little
Whorehouse in Texas). Other album cuts like "Waitin' for the Bus" and its
immediate follower "Jesus Just Left Chicago" became fan favorites and rock-radio
staples.
By September 1974, ZZ Top was drawing tens of thousands to shows such as the
Labor Day stadium concert in Austin, dubbed “ZZ Top’s First Annual Texas-Size
Rompin’ Stompin’ Barndance and Bar-B-Q.” Also on the bill were Santana, Joe
Cocker, and Bad Company.
A photo of the 1974 crowds was used on the record sleeve of Fandango!, released
in 1975. The album—half studio material and half live document—spawned the
infamous hit "Tush" as well as "Heard It on the X", a paean to Mexican
border-blaster stations whose call sign began with X. The band continued touring
heavily in 1976, releasing Tejas and the single "Arrested for Driving While
Blind".
By 1977, after hefty touring and recording schedules, ZZ Top drifted into an
extended and unplanned hiatus. Manager-producer and overall image-meister Bill
Ham used the time to negotiate a recording deal which allowed the band to retain
rights to their catalogue on London Records, which would then be distributed by
their new label, Warner Bros. Records.
ZZ Top reunited in 1979 for live shows and a new album, Degüello, under their
new Warner Brothers contract. Unbeknownst to each other, Hill and Gibbons had
both grown out their now-famous beards. (The only beardless band member remained
the mustachioed Frank Beard.) The album displayed a strikingly minimalist
approach to the ZZ Top sound. Along with Gibbons' clean guitar and the sparse
Hill-Beard rhythm section, Deguello sported saxophone harmonies courtesy of
Gibbons, Hill, and Beard—touted as the "The Lone Wolf Horns"—and yielded famous
hits such as "Cheap Sunglasses" along with a cover version of Isaac Hayes' "I
Thank You".
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