From Loudersound.
Billy Gibbons has shared a the video for Desert High, the new single from his forthcoming album, Hardware, and it features name checks for The Doors’ former frontman Jim Morrison, late country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.
The video sees ZZ Top guitarist Gibbons cruising across the Californian desert around the iconic Joshua Tree, offering spoken word shouts out to Morrison (“The desert toad takes me for a ride/The Lizard King’s always by my side”) and Parsons, the Flying Burrito Brothers singer who died in a Joshua Tree hotel in September 1973.
“Gram died in room eight and left it all to Keith/Just a couple of miles from the salt and sea,” Gibbons sings, referencing Keith Richards; the Stones had encouraged their friend Parsons to record Sticky Fingers classic Wild Horses before they themselves released it.
“The song is, perhaps, not typical of Hardware as a totality but it gives an indication of the album’s desiccated sonic sensibility,” Gibbons says of Desert High. “The desert is a truly mysterious place and we were privileged to have spent all that time there absorbing the heat, the vibe, and cranking it out. It’s where natural background is at its most raw and untamed. We suspect what we’ve done is something of a reflection or, perhaps, a mirage, that relates.”
Hardware, co-produced by former The Cult/Guns N’ Roses’ drummer Matt Sorum, will be released on Concord Records on June 4.
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ZZ TOP Eliminator (1983 original issue German 11-track vinyl LP including the classic hit singles Legs, TV Dinners, Sharp Dressed Man and Gimme All Your Lovin'. Picture sleeve with cool cover artwork of Billy Gibbons' iconic customized 1933 Ford Coupe. An excellent condition example of this essential eighties ZZ Top album!)
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ZZ TOP Recycler (1990 UK 10-track LP manufactured in Germany for the UK market, the tenth studio album by the American blues rock band including the singles Doubleback, Concrete And Steel & My Head's In Mississippi, glossy picture sleeve withillustrated inner. The sleeve displays just a little light wear with minor creasing to bottom right whilst the vinyl shows little evidence of play, a really nice example WX390)
- ZZ Top - Degüello - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $24.80, €24.00 (New Item) (arrived 02-Jan-2025 18:00)on February 10, 2025 at 12:06 pm
ZZ TOP Deguello (1979 UK 10-track LP with picture labels, including the funky single 'Cheap Sunglasses' [yacht-rock style gold to our ears], complete with the illustrated credits inner. The picture sleeve & vinyl remain in superb Excellent condition K56701)
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ZZ TOP The Best Of ZZ Top (RSD Stores Exclusive 2024 UK/EU limited edition 10-track LP pressed on 140-gram Blue-Jean Blue Vinyl, their classic 1977 Best-Of album re-released as part of the Rhino Rocktober campaign and now back in print. Featuring hits from their first six albums including Tush, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Francine, Just Got Paid, and more. Picture sleeve with hype sticker, factory sealed)
- ZZ Top - Afterburner - German - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.60, €18.00 (New Item) (arrived 14-Jan-2025 14:43)on February 10, 2025 at 12:06 pm
ZZ TOP Afterburner (1985 German 10-track vinyl LP including Sleeping Bag and Velcro Fly. Glossy picture sleeve with the band's catalogue insert. The sleeve displays some edgewear and a couple of pressure marks to the back, whilst the vinyl remains in Excellent condition with only few signs of play)
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