ZZ Top – RAW (‘That Little Ol’ Band From Texas’ Original Soundtrack) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:09 minutes | 1023 MB | Genre: Blues Rock, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
‘RAW’ was recorded in connection with the band’s wildly popular and critically lauded 2019 Netflix documentary ‘That Little Ol’ Band From Texas’. The first track released from the album is ‘Brown Sugar’, one of the earlier recordings in the band’s career. The Grammy-nominated feature from Banger Films and director Sam Dunn includes an interlude that finds the group’s classic line up – Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard and the late Dusty Hill – gathering for a very intimate session at Gruene Hall, ‘the oldest continually run dance hall in Texas’ located in New Braunfels, in the heart of Texas hill country. That performance provided the basis for the ‘RAW’ album release.
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Title: ZZ Top – That Little Ol’ Band from Texas
Released: 2019
Genre: Blues Rock / Southern Rock / Documentary
Released: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Duration: 02:04:00
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Audio Codec: DTS-HD, PCM
Video 1: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 29978 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Video 2: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 21971 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio 1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio 2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3543 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 31.86 GB
ZZ Top is one of the more interesting bands in the American rock scene, one that has sold tens of millions of records, and one with an instantly identifiable sound and a perhaps even more instantly identifiable look, but one which may not have penetrated into the mass public consciousness enough that anyone who is not a diehard fan of the band would be able to even name its three members, let alone offer any biographical information about any of them. Fans of course would be able to list off Dusty Hill, Billy F Gibbons and Frank Beard* within seconds, but even some of those selfsame fans might not be able to list much biographical data beyond those names. For anyone in either of those categories (non-fan or fan), ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas may be an agreeable information dump of sorts, giving a glut of datapoints on what the back cover of this release probably correctly states as being “the extraordinary tale of a band whose image we know, but whose story we don’t.”
One of the many talking heads in this piece mentions how ZZ Top’s early music videos created almost an aura of mystery, distancing the trio from the audience in a way, and that in and of itself may help to account for how little seems to be generally known about these guys. This very appealing documentary may not provide a bunch of “early childhood” biography, but it really has some hugely entertaining archival video and reminiscences from all three that get into their early music making activities, as well as their eventual formation and success as ZZ Top. There’s also some touching content given to their longtime manager Bill Ham, who passed away recently. Some of the anecdotes are kind of funny, including their recounting of their own first encounter with MTV, which they initially mistook to be some kind of special, watching for untold hours and wondering when it was finally going to end.
*It’s always struck me as a little funny that Frank Beard is the one without “the beard”.
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Title: ZZ Top – Live At Montreux 2013
Released: 2014
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Blues Rock
Released: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Duration: 1:25:35
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio Codec: PCM, DTS-HD MA
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 27189 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio 1: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 96 kHz / 8389 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio 2: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 27.04 GB
With an unchanged line-up stretching back to 1969 and global album sales in excess of 50 million, ZZ Top continue to delight fans around the world with brilliant live concerts and great music. The band has made a number of visits to Montreux over the years, and this concert from the 2013 Festival is undoubtedly one of their finest live performances. The set list blends tracks from early seventies albums such as ‘Tres Hombre’ and ‘Fandango’ through their eighties blockbuster period with Eliminator and Afterburner and up to their most recent release and return to their blues roots with ‘La Futura’. The middle section of the concert features a jazz-blues tribute to the late Montreux Festival founder Claude Nobs with guest appearances by Mike Flanigin on Hammond Organ and Van Wilks on guitar. ZZ Top, the ‘lil’ ol’ band from Texas , are rocking the blues as strongly as ever!
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Title: ZZ Top – Live From Texas
Released: 2008
Genre: Rock
Released: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Duration: 1:25:35
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio Codec: DTS, AC-3, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 16994 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 /
Audio 1: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 5148 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio 2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio 3: Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps
Size: 22.1 GB
ZZ Top, the “little ol’ band from Texas”, has enjoyed enormous success on a global scale since their breakthrough in the early seventies and then their groundbreaking albums in the mid-eighties. Now for the first time one of ZZ Top’s legendary live performances has been filmed for simultaneous release on DVD & Blu-ray. The track listing spans their career from early tracks such as “Waitin’ For The Bus”, “Just Got Paid” and the classic “La Grange”, through their eighties blockbusters including “Gimme All Your Lovin'” and “Legs” (complete with furry guitars!) and up to more recent hits like “Pin Cushion”. Filmed in their home state of Texas in front of a wildly enthusiastic audience, this DVD & Blu-ray captures ZZ Top at their very best.
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ZZ Top – The Complete Studio Albums: 1970-1990 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 370:49 minutes | 11,9 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | Rhino/Warner Bros.
This ten-album, must-have set includes ZZ Top’s acclaimed albums: ZZ Top’s First Album, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango!, Tejas, Deguello, El Loco, Eliminator, Afterburner and Recycler.
This sturdy American blues-rock trio from Texas consists of Billy Gibbons (guitar), Dusty Hill (bass), and Frank Beard (drums). They were formed in 1970 in and around Houston from rival bands the Moving Sidewalks (Gibbons) and American Blues (Hill and Beard). Their first two albums reflected the strong blues roots and Texas humor of the band. Their third album (Tres Hombres) gained them national attention with the hit “La Grange,” a signature riff tune to this day, based on John Lee Hooker’s “Boogie Chillen.” Their success continued unabated throughout the ’70s, culminating with the year-and-a-half-long Worldwide Texas Tour.
Exhausted from the overwhelming workload, they took a three-year break, then switched labels and returned to form with Deguello and El Loco, both harbingers of what was to come. By their next album, Eliminator, and its worldwide smash follow-up, Afterburner, they had successfully harnessed the potential of synthesizers to their patented grungy blues groove, giving their material a more contemporary edge while retaining their patented Texas style. Now sporting long beards, golf hats, and boiler suits, they met the emerging video age head-on, reducing their “message” to simple iconography. Becoming even more popular in the long run, they moved with the times while simultaneously bucking every trend that crossed their path. As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers; Gibbons is one of America’s finest blues guitarists working in the arena rock idiom — both influenced by the originators of the form and British blues-rock guitarists like Peter Green — while Hill and Beard provide the ultimate rhythm section support…
ZZ Top – Live: Greatest Hits From Around The World (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:03 minutes | 884 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Suretone Records
A live compilation album of ZZ Top’s greatest hits played live across various concerts.
With seven Billboard Top 10 albums to their name, multiple Platinum album certifications all over the world and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the legendary ZZ Top are officially the world’s longest running rock band with its original line-up intact. Now after over 45 years together, the Texan trio are finally set to release their first official live album ‘Greatest Hits Live’ on Suretone Records. Recorded over the course of several tours in cities all around the world, ‘Greatest Hits Live’ picks the greatest moments and biggest hits from ZZ Top’s illustrious back catalogue captured with the phenomenal energy of their renowned live performances.‘Greatest Hits Live’ covers everything from their breakthrough hit ‘La Grange’ plus three snappy blues-rock classics from the 1973 album ‘Tres Hombres’, through to their huge crossover hits – ‘Gimme All Your Lovin’’, ‘Sharp Dressed Man’, ‘Legs’ – and then to the present day with their recent collaboration with Jeff Beck on the Tennessee Ernie Ford / Merle Travis standard ‘Sixteen Tons’.
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