Live - Greatest Hits From Around The World ZZ Top

• 1Got Me Under Pressure (Live from New York)04:18
• 2Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers (Live from Las Vegas)03:37
• 3Cheap Sunglasses (Live from Paris)04:03
• 4Waitin For The Bus (Live from Nashville)03:00
• 5Jesus Just Left Chicago (Live from Nashville)04:38
• 6Legs (Live from Sao Paolo)04:40
• 7Sharp Dressed Man (Live from Los Angeles)04:40
• 8Rough Boy (feat. Jeff Beck) [Live from London]05:30
• 9Pincushion (Live from Berlin)04:25
• 10La Grange (Live from Dallas)05:46
• 11I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide (Live from Vancouver)04:43
• 12Tube Snake Boogie (Live from Rome)03:27
• 13Gimme All Your Lovin (Live from Houston)04:46
• 14Tush (Live from Chicago)03:40
• 15Sixteen Tons (feat. Jeff Beck) [Live from London]03:18
• Total Runtime01:04:31

Info for Live - Greatest Hits From Around The World

Mit sieben Billboard Top 10 Alben, mehreren Platin-Auszeichnungen auf der ganzen Welt und einem Platz in der Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, sind die legendären ZZ TOP offiziell die weltweit am längsten existierende Rockband mit einer immer noch intakten Originalbesetzung. Jetzt, nach über 45 Jahren, veröffentlicht das Texaner Trio schließlich ihr erstes offizielles Best of Live-Album 'Live-Greatest Hits From Around The World' am 09. September auf Suretone Records/ADA.

Auf diesem Album finden sich die größten Momente von ZZ TOP's illustrem Back-Katalog wieder, kombiniert mit der phänomenalen Energie ihrer renommierten Live-Auftritte. Das Album umfasst sowohl den Hit 'La Grange', der Ihnen einst den Durchbruch einbrachte, als auch die drei markigen Blues-Rock-Klassiker aus dem 1973 erschienenen Album 'Tres Hombres“. Auch die großen Crossover-Hits 'Gimme All Your Lovin'', 'Sharp Dressed Man“ und 'Legs' sind auf diesem Album vertreten, genauso wie ihre jüngste Zusammenarbeit mit Jeff Beck zu Tennessee Ernie Ford's / Merle Travis' Klassiker „Sixteen Tons“.

“We spend the biggest stretch of every year out on the road, whippin' wire, poundin' skin, and rockin' it way up,” says Billy F. Gibbons. “This is the true document of life de la ZZ. In an abstract surrealism style, this collection is a definitive chronicle of the band hangin' together for four plus deluxe decades, getting down to do what we get to do. Enjoy and listen to loudness!”

In der Zwischenzeit trat die Band vor Millionen von Fans auf, sowohl auf verschiedenen Tourneen durch Nordamerika als auch in Übersee, wo sie Ihr Publikum von Slowenien bis nach Argentinien, von Australien bis Schweden, von Russland bis nach Japan, und auch in den meisten Orten dazwischen, begeistert haben. Die Diskographie der Band ist in der Zwischenzeit weiter gewachsen, zuletzt mit dem 2012 erschienenen, fünfzehnten Studioalbum 'La Futura', das von Rick Rubin co-produziert wurde. Der „Guardian“ stellte in seiner Rezension des Albums fest: “The band sound both timely and timeless... It's an unexpectedly wonderful return from an undervalued band.”

„Allen, die ZZ Top noch nie im Konzert erlebt haben, wird dieses neue Live-Album ein Trost sein.“ (Audio)

Billy Gibbons, Gitarre, Gesang, Baritonsaxophon
Dusty Hill, Bass, Gesang, Tenorsaxophon
Frank Beard, Schlagzeug, Percussion, Altsaxophon

Digitally remastered

ZZ Top
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.

The only rock & roll group that's out there with its original members still aboard after three decades (an anniversary celebrated on 1999's XXX), ZZ Top play music that is always instantly recognizable, eminently powerful, profoundly soulful, and 100-percent American in derivation. They have continued to support the blues through various means, perhaps most visibly when they were given a piece of wood from Muddy Waters' shack in Clarksdale, MS. The group members had it made into a guitar, dubbed the "Muddywood," then sent it out on tour to raise money for the Delta Blues Museum. ZZ Top's support and link to the blues remains as rock solid as the music they play. A concert CD and DVD, Live from Texas, recorded in Dallas in 2007 and featuring a still vital band, were both released in 2008. The Rick Rubin and Gibbons-produced La Futura, the band's 15th studio album, and the group's first new studio outing since 2003's Mescalero, appeared in 2012.

This album contains no booklet.