Billy Gibbons Looks Back on ZZ Top’s First 10 Albums
"We were three guys, we had three chords and the future was wide open."
"We were three guys, we had three chords and the future was wide open."
Tonight (March 30), Billy Gibbons will perform with the Moving Sidewalks, the band he was in prior to forming ZZ Top, for the first time since their 1969 breakup. In a new interview, Gibbons described what it was like to return to his garage-rock roots.
ZZ Top superfans are directed to a new eBay item: Handmade hats similar to the one Billy Gibbons wears are on sale now. They're a little pricey at $375 but, hey, everybody loves a sharp-dressed man, right?
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Most of us, of course, know the long-bearded Billy Gibbons for his work with ZZ Top, but before that, he was a member of the '60s psychedelic outfit the Moving Sidewalks. Now, the guitar great has revealed plans to reunite with that band for a one-off show in support of the career retrospective, 'Moving Sidewalks: The Complete Collection.'
The Moving Sidewalks, a psychedelic blues-rock band from Texas that lasted from 1967-69, will release its entire catalog on a new two-LP set called 'The Complete Collection.' The group is most notable for featuring the recorded debut of ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons.
Music has undergone many format changes over the years, but rarely does on old form ever come back to prominence. That's exactly what has happened in recent years, however, with a new generation of music lovers latching onto vinyl records and the warm sound they provide. For ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, that fascination never left.
Just days after the announcement of a new Fleetwood Mac tribute album, fans can hear the first offering. ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons fronts a group that slows down and swampifies the 1969 hit 'Oh Well.'
Fleetwood Mac will be the subject of a new tribute album coming Aug. 14. Direct Current reports that the still-untitled set was produced by Randall Poster, who previously helmed the Buddy Holly tribute collection, 'Rave On.'