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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 - Velcro Fly - UK - 12" vinyl - £8.00, $10.32, €9.52 (New Item) (arrived 22-Jul-2024 11:48)on July 26, 2024 at 7:26 pm
ZZ TOP Velcro Fly (Original 1986 UK Warner Bros label 3-track 12" vinyl single featuring Extended Mix, Dance Mix and Woke Up With Wood, full colour picture sleeve with European Tour Dates printed on the reverse W8650T)
- ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag - UK - shaped picture disc - £25.00, $32.25, €29.75 (New Item) (arrived 11-Jun-2024 09:13)on July 26, 2024 at 7:26 pm
ZZ TOP Sleeping Bag (1985 UK limited edition 7" Shaped Picture Disc single, also featuring Party On The Patio, housed in the original custom stickered clear PVC sleeve W2001P)
- ZZ Top - The Best Of ZZ Top - Blue-Jean Blue Vinyl - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - £31.99, $41.27, €38.07 (New Item) (arrived 30-Apr-2024 11:53)on July 26, 2024 at 7:26 pm
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 - Rio Grande Mud - VG Sleeve - UK - vinyl LP - £75.00, $96.75, €89.25 (Back In Stock) (arrived 10-May-2024 15:18)on July 26, 2024 at 7:26 pm
ZZ TOP Rio Grande Mud (1972 UK first issue 10-track stereo vinyl LP on the purple London label with matrices both ended with the '1L' prefix, housed in a front laminated picture sleeve. Great early set of southern blues rockers from Billy Gibbons and Co. The sleeve is graded as 'VG' and shows creasing and discolouration to the spine and non laminated edges but with no rips or tears and all text intact whilst the vinyl grades a strong Excellent with minimal spindle wear and a couple if faint hairlines not affecting play SHU8433)
- ZZ Top - First Album - Japanese - vinyl LP - £95.00, $122.55, €113.05 (New Item) (arrived 20-May-2024 15:22)on July 26, 2024 at 7:26 pm
ZZ TOP First Album (Rare 1976 Japanese issue of the 1970 10-track vinyl LP on the blue & silver London Records label, housed in a textured picture sleeve with Japanese text biography/English lyric insert. The cover displays just a little lightgeneral wear, whilst the vinyl remains in a 'near mint' condition SLC-808)
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