Tag Archives: ZZ Top
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Q&A: ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons pushing the blues through the ‘primordial purée’
Billy F. Gibbons performs with ZZ Top at The Warfield in San Francisco on Oct. 2, 2016. Brandon Jernigan/STAFF. Billy F. Gibbons is beyond mere Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. Billy F. Gibbons 6 p.m., Tuesday to Friday, Jan. 21 to 24 Blue Note Napa Tickets: All shows…
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REWIND: Honoring ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill with some Southern blues rock
Dusty Hill of ZZ Top performs during the Gang of Outlaws Tour at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on June 20, 2012. Courtesy Amiee Stubbs/NS2. Unfortunately, only a week after I wrote a tribute to Biz Markie, I have to write another tribute, this time for ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill.…
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Obituary: Dusty Hill of ZZ Top dead at 72
Dusty Hill (left) and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top perform at The Warfield in San Francisco on Oct. 2, 2016. Brandon Jernigan/STAFF. Dusty Hill, the cofounding bassist of ZZ Top, died on Wednesday at the age of 72, the band announced on social media. Hill, born Joseph Michael Hill…
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REVIEW: Billy Gibbons brings the desert heat on ‘Hardware’
Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top has been playing with drummer Matt Sorum and guitarist Austin Hanks on the side for a while now, and his third solo album, Hardware, the trio were clearly inspired by the California desert where they recorded. Hardware Billy Gibbons Concord, June 4 7/10 Gibbons’ voice is…
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Tribute bands draw hundreds to the Bay Area’s first drive-in concert of the COVID-19 era
Concertgoers gather at the first drive-in concert in the Bay Area at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on June 12, 2020. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Several hundred people who had been cooped up in their homes gathered at the Alameda County Fairgrounds on Friday at the first ticketed concert…
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REVIEW: Lynyrd Skynyrd bids the Bay Area adieu at Concord Pavilion show
Lynyrd Skynyrd performs at the Concord Pavilion on Aug. 24, 2019. Photos: Holly Horn. CONCORD — It didn’t matter to the large crowd that packed the Concord Pavilion that Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd have just one original band member remaining. Bay Area fans came out to say goodbye to…
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RIFF Rewind—A time machine for your ears: 1973
I’m gonna be honest: In a vacuum, the songs I picked aren’t my top five. Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground,” Led Zeppelin’s “Dancing Days” and Alice Cooper’s “No More Mr. Nice Guy” would be on the list if I wasn’t doing every year. But I had Alice Cooper in the top five in 1971,…
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Review, photos: ZZ Top not under any pressure at the Warfield
Photos: Brandon Jernigan ZZ Top, the “little ol’ band from Texas,” didn’t waste any time shooting the breeze Sunday night at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco. Playing the second of two Bay Area shows on a tour supporting new live compilation album Live – Greatest Hits From Around…
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Q&A: ‘Onward forever’ with ZZ Top
ZZ Top. Courtesy. For nearly 47 years, prospector-bearded guitarist Billy Gibbons and bassist Dusty Hill, along with ironically clean-shaven drummer Frank Beard, have been uniting catchy blues rock and boldly humorous lyrics with raunchy innuendo as ZZ Top. ZZ Top 7 p.m., Saturday Mountain Winery in Saratoga Tickets: $69.5-$229.50. 8 p.m., Sunday…