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 Afterburner (1985 UK/German-pressed 10-track vinyl LP with picture labels, their ninth studio album which includes the single Sleeping Bag. The glossy picture sleeve displays an illustration by Barry Jackson and shows light edge scuffing/corner creasing while the vinyl looks barely played WX27)
- ZZ Top - Tres Hombres - UK - CD album - £8.00, $10.00, €9.36 (New Item) (arrived 11-Mar-2024 16:29)on May 2, 2024 at 12:34 am
ZZ TOP Tres Hombres (2006 issue UK 'Expanded Edition' 13-track digitally remastered CD album including 3 previously unissued bonus live recordings: 'Waitin' For The Bus', 'Jesus Just Left Chicago' & 'La Grange')
- ZZ Top - Viva Las Vegas - UK - shaped picture disc - £20.00, $25.00, €23.40 (New Item) (arrived 25-Jan-2024 15:49)on May 2, 2024 at 12:34 am
ZZ TOP Viva Las Vegas (1992 UK Special Limited Edition 'One-Armed Bandit' shaped 7" Picture Disc single, also including 2000 Blues, complete with the original backing card picture insert W0098P)
- ZZ Top - Eliminator - Gold Vinyl 40th Anniversary - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - £29.99, $37.49, €35.09 (New Item) (arrived 06-Feb-2024 11:51)on May 2, 2024 at 12:34 am
ZZ TOP Eliminator (40th Anniversary 2023 UK/EU limited edition 11-track LP pressed on Gold Vinyl - released as part of Rhino's Start Your Ear Off Right celebration campaign, this timeless 1983 albumfeatures the hit singles Legs, Gimme All Your Lovin', TV Dinners and Sharp Dressed Man. Picture sleeve with original cover artwork, hype sticker & factory sealed. Recommended)
- ZZ Top - Degüello - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $25.00, €23.40 (New Item) (arrived 08-Feb-2024 15:04)on May 2, 2024 at 12:34 am
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)
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