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Good to hear this. Top is one of my favorites.
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ZZ Top hitches ride with Rick Rubin for comeback
By Jonathan Cohen Thu Jul 3, 5:17 AM ET
NEW YORK ) - Texas rock trio ZZ Top has signed to producer Rick Rubin's American Recordings imprint, hoping for a commercial and critical revitalization along the lines of prior Rubin clients Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond.
The veteran rockers and the similarly hirsute Rubin plan to make an album more in keeping with the blues boogie of such tunes as 1973's "La Grange" than their pop-friendly '80s sound, according to manager Carl Stubner.
The band recorded for London and Warner Bros. for the first 20 years of its career before being wooed to RCA in the mid-1990s with a five-album contract reportedly worth $30 million.
ZZ Top's most recent album, "Mescalero," spent just three weeks on the Billboard 200 in 2003, and sold 103,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Its stint at RCA, beginning with 1994's "Antenna," failed to match its run at Warner Bros., where it recorded the biggest hit of its career, 1983's "Eliminator."
Singer/guitarist Billy Gibbons, singer/bass player Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard announced two years ago that they had ended their RCA tenure and also parted ways with manager Bill Ham, who helped form the band in 1969.
Stubner, who began managing ZZ Top a year-and-a-half ago, has worked to increase ZZ Top's visibility via an increased focus on licensing and TV appearances, including the finale of "American Idol" this spring.
"We thought this was a great brand that was kind of dusty," he says. "My goal was to polish it and do certain things they hadn't done before."
To that end, Eagle Rock earlier this month released the first ZZ Top live DVD, "Live From Texas 2007," which debuted this week at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Music Video chart.
The band begins a European tour Friday in Oporto, Portugal, which will be followed by 18 co-headlining North American dates with Brooks & Dunn. In the fall, "our plan is to go do smaller theaters, like 3,000-seaters for a low-dough ticket price. Then we'll go finish the record," Stubner said.
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I was shovling thru the Texas sand but my.....luv ZZT!
Dobe
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most of the music I listen to these days comes from Texas. XM crosscountry is a great station.
lazs
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SWEET! I'd love to see ZZ get back to their roots. :rock
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SWEET! I'd love to see ZZ get back to their roots. :rock
What? No collaboration with Celine Dion?
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yup they will be returning to their tres hombres days. great news as far as I'm concerned
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Yah, about time--they've been re-doing 'Eliminator' for 25 years
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most of the music I listen to these days comes from Texas. XM crosscountry is a great station.
lazs
Yeah, but Willie's Place and Bluegrass Junction are mobetta :)
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95.9 The Ranch is a great crosscountry station in DFW.
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Stubner's a good man and a good friend.......if anyone can get the boys back on top......he certainly can.
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They should set their sites on another Fandango! style album. Forget the synths, forget the drum machine, just plug in, turn it up, and floor it...ZZ Top style!
They should have fired Ham 2 decades ago.
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to this day...."fool for your stockings" is a primary "new home/car stereo" test song for me.
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"Hot, Blue, and Righteous" has been my car's theme song since I bought it.
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Oh yeah, it's time for another "World-Wide Texas Tour"!
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I'd rather they go all the way back to the last time I saw 'em live at the Moose Lodge for $1.00 :rock
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I can't stand bluegrass.. if it has a banjo and/or a washtub in it then their is a 99% chance I will not be able to stand it.
they screwed up crosscountry on sunday with that horrible "barn burning" crap they play when I have to be on the road.
The best part of crosscountry on xm now that hubbard is not a dj is the request times.. the people calling in don't ask for that bluegrass crap or that hours of some loser band live playing the same thing over and over.
lazs
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I can't wait until the Harley 105th here in Milwaukee this year... They are headlining! I have always wanted to see them :aok
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Hope they do a little sumpin sumpin like Rio Grande Mud.
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la Grange.... how how how how..
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My friends they all tol' me, "Man there's sumpin' gonna change your life!"
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"Got ta have that brown sugar".
Love the old bluesy ZZTop.
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I can honestly say there hasnt been a genre of ZZ Top I havent liked.
I've liked pretty much anything they've done.
Glad to see they are on the comeback trail No matter what they are playing.
Hopefully a bitof everything.
But all they had to do was hold a "Farewell Tour I"
Like half a dozen other bands have LOL
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I can honestly say there hasnt been a genre of ZZ Top I havent liked.
I've liked pretty much anything they've done.
Glad to see they are on the comeback trail No matter what they are playing.
Hopefully a bit of everything.
+1
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"She don't love me she loves my automobile!"
Damn skippy!
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Out in the sticks down Highway 6 :devil