Houston's ZZ Top enjoyed 50-plus years without turnover. After the death of Dusty Hill, the band charts a new path.
“Ah,” Beard replied. “Where’s your bathroom?”In 2021, I had the good fortune to talk to Hill about “ZZ Top’s First Album,” which was celebrating its 50th anniversary. I asked Hill, all these years later, what was the meaning behind the song and song title “Squank.” Was it an animal? A metaphor?
ZZ Top returns to its hometown this week for a show without Hill. But the band has done a great job presenting its music to its fans without him. Gibbons’ longtime friend and guitar tech Elwood Francis knew the music inside out and also had a pandemic beard that facilitated an aesthetic continuity. While the band is looking forward, it’s also looking back with the summer release of “Raw,” which is a curious new entry in the ZZ Top discography.
The band started at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Beaumont in Feb. 1970. In the 21st century, the historic dance hall in Gruene would have to suffice.He says the film team and ZZ’s tour crew got signals crossed. Perhaps that is Gibbons feeding a bit of mythology. Regardless, for a band that has issued a few back-to-basics albums that nevertheless sounded fairly modern, “Raw” really serves as such, with several bluesy tunes from that half-century-old debut album.
Which isn’t entirely accurate. ZZ mythology puts a single fan at one of their earliest shows. The group bought him a Coke in hopes he wouldn’t leave.
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