ZZ TOP dvd

le très attendu dvd live officiel de ZZTop arrive le 9 juin 2008
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au menu un DVD live et un nouvel album, les barbus sortent de leur trou ! :

ZZ TOP PREPARE "UNTOUCHED" LIVE DVD:
Forgive me - I forgot to run this a week or so back....
With a live DVD, a new album and some touring on the docket, ZZ Top is revving up for a busy year.
While he was hanging out at this year's South By Southwest Music + Media Conference in Austin, Texas -- where he performed at Rachael Ray's Feedback party and psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson's annual Ice Cream Social -- Gibbons told Billboard.com that bandmates Dusty Hill and Frank Beard were back in Dallas "in the studio, preparing a new series of sessions of new material" for ZZ Top's first studio set since 2003's "Mescalero."
Gibbons says the band hopes to finish the album before the summer. "The challenge of the studio is much different than live appearances," Gibbons says. "The live experience is hundreds of distracting events. The studio is one microphone. It's one event, so it raises our level of attention to a place where we can really come together as the band we started off as. It's almost a small club environment, so it's really fun."
Before we see the album, however, ZZ Top is planning to release a concert DVD taped Nov. 1, 2007, at the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie, Texas, near Dallas. No date or title has been determined yet for the Eagle Rock release, but Gibbons says the final product is "untouched. It's full of mistakes, and that's the way we like it." [How refreshing!!!!]
Gibbons also recently taped a guest appearance on the May 16 season finale for the Fox TV series "Bones" -- "I thought I was gonna be the blind date or the boyfriend but, no, I have to be the dad," he laments -- and says that in addition to the recording, ZZ Top is starting to line up its 2008 road schedule.
"Hopefully we'll be able to return to the road as early as June -- even, if we can pull it off, into May," Gibbons says. "The European window of weather you can get out in is very short. So they are ready to rock. And we might pick up a string of dates through the U.S., too."
WebLink: www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003727816

le dvd live
un extrait : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9w36uqQFBw

Legendary ZZ TOP Bassist Dusty Hill - "There's A Lot Stories About Our Name"

Legendary ZZ TOP bassist Dusty Hill spoke to the Clarionledger.com recently about a number of topics including their first-ever DVD, Live from Texas, due out via Eagle Vision on June 24th. Here are a few excerpts from the chat:

Q: You're putting out your first-ever DVD, Live from Texas, on June 24. What's that all about?
A: "It's been a long time coming. You know, it's one of those things where people asked and we've thought about doing it for a long time and finally the situation was right for it; and, as a matter of fact, we got to do it in Texas outside of Dallas, so it was very home-friendly and all that. It's a good performance with a few little tidbits off the stage, so I'm pretty excited about it."

Q: Is it true that you'll be working with producer Rick Rubin for your next studio album?
A: "Well, yeah, we're certainly talking. We've known him for awhile, and we're definitely getting in the studio and going to record here as soon as we can wrap up the tour. Pretty much that's the plan. The only reason I'm evasive at all is because unless I'm in there right now - you know what I mean? We are who we are and Rubin's who he is, which ought to be a great collaboration, really. That's also very exciting. If you look at his track record, he seems to get what you need to get out of who he's working with."

Q: There's been many rumors about what the name ZZ Top means, and one is that it's a tribute to Mississippi native bluesman B.B. King. Is that true?

A: "There's a lot stories about our name. I'll put it this way. I've never told my wife where it came from, I've never told my daughter. It's even getting a little fuzzy to me, it's been so long. So what I always say is whichever one of those stories you enjoy the most, well then that sounds good to me. There's many - the old blues guy Z.Z. Hill, B.B. King, Zig-Zag and Top rolling papers, whatever. There's a lot of stories."

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