ZZ TOP Bassist Dusty Hill - "We're Ready To Get Something New Out"
The following report is courtesy of John Benson from Billboard.com:
More sooner than later is the word from
ZZ TOP bassist
Dusty Hill regarding a new album from the Texas-based rock act, which is currently between labels.
"As soon as we can write it, put it down and make a deal, but I don't really know how long that takes," Hill tells Billboard.com. "It's always important for us to record, so if we're not performing live, that's what we're doing. We're ready to get something new out."
Hill says there are plenty of ideas for the follow-up to 2003's Mescalero, but no finished songs and timeframe for their release.
"We've come up with about 50 of them so I hesitate to even bring them up," Hill says. "We have 50 different titles, 50 different song ideas. Through the years we've had hundreds of ideas. We've been writing one song for about 25 years and if we ever did finish it, it would scare me."
This past weekend, the threesome took part in the Las Vegas taping of the second annual VH1 Rock Honors, which is due to air May 24. The band was saluted alongside
GENESIS, OZZY OSBOURNE and
HEART. But considering
ZZ Top has been together nearly 40 years, what else is there to accomplish? "There's quite a bit," Hill says. "It's just onward and upward. [We] just [want to] keep on making the best music we can, every night we can."
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