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 Fandango! (1975 UK first issue 9-track LP featuring three superb live recordings from The Warehouse in New Orleans; Thunderbird, Jailhouse Rock & Backdoor Medley, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear & the vinyl remains excellent with just a few cosmetic signs of light play SHU8482)
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ZZ TOP Degüello (1979 UK 10-track vinyl LP with picture labels, including the funky single 'Cheap Sunglasses' [yacht-rock style gold to our ears], complete with illustrated credits inner, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little edge scuffing and a small area of paper loss to the front. The vinyl displays little of its age, revealing minimal evidence of play K56701)
- ZZ Top - Degüello - German - vinyl LP - £12.00, $15.00, €14.04 (New Item) (arrived 17-Dec-2023 12:06)on April 18, 2024 at 9:35 am
ZZ TOP Degüello (1979 German 10-track LP, the sixth studio album by the American blues rock band including the singles Cheap Sunglasses & I Thank You, glossy picture sleeve with the illustrated tracklist inner. The sleeve shows just a little edge wear & the vinyl is in excellent condition WB56701)
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ZZ TOP Sleeping Bag (1985 UK 7" vinyl single, also including Party On The Patio, picture sleeve. Both sleeve and vinyl are in excellent condition W2001)
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ZZ TOP Pinchusion (1994 UK limited edition 7" vinyl single, also includes 'Cherry Red', housed in a picture sleeve complete with a Bonus 'Antenna' Stencil!)
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