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http://www.fanfire.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/fanfire.woa/wa/artist?sourceCode=ZZTWEB&categoryName=Apparel&artistName=ZZ+Top 9/28/2007, New York City. ZZ Top is: Billy Gibbons (guitar, lead vocals), Dusty Hill (bass, vocals), and Frank Beard (drums, percussion) - the same lineup that they began with in 1969! ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2004. Their song lyrics often feature sexual innuendo and humor. Gibbons and Hill are also famous for their custom guitars, many of which were co-designed by Gibbons with master luthier John Bolin of Bolin Guitars. Hill requests that his basses have a similar neck profile to the 1950's Fender Precision Bass he used extensively in the early days of the band. Nearly as well-known as their music is the group's appearance: Gibbons and Hill are always pictured wearing sunglasses (a nod to their 1979 song "Cheap Sunglasses"), similar if not matching clothing, and their trademark chest-length beards; ironically, Beard sports a mustache, but rarely a beard. In 1984, the Gillette Company reportedly offered Gibbons and Hill US$1 million apiece to shave their beards for a television commercial but they declined. They reached the pinnacle of popularity with their 1983 album Eliminator, boosted to prominence by memorable music videos for the tracks "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man" each of which featured a small bright red 1933 Ford Coupe 3 window hotrod called The Eliminator and a trio of mysterious, beautiful women who travel around helping various people. The album also featured a distinctive synthesizer-laced sound—a rarity in the blues rock genre—which added a modern, electronic edge to the music, and helped the album become successful and a fan favorite. Eliminator remains their most successful album to date. The astonishing TV series "St. Elsewhere" featured ZZ Top and the ZZ Top girls in the eighth episode of Season Three, "Sweet Dreams," one of the best remembered episodes in the history of the award-winning series. "Sweet Dreams" originally aired on November 14, 1984. The band and the girls performed a variation of their music video for "Legs" in the context of a daydream of hospital orderly (and later, paramedic) Luther Hawkins, in and in front of the fabled St. Eligius Hospital of Boston. The dream sequence/video ends with Luther and the girls entering The Eliminator, parked in front of the heroic hospital, which then pulls out from the curb and is last seen heading east on Newton Street... http://www.zztop.com/index.php?module=tour

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Uploaded: October 16, 2007 at 11:52 pm
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Tags: St. Elsewhere Sweet Dreams Luther Hawkins Eric Laneuville Jeana Tomasino Daniele Armaud Kymberly Herrin Eliminator

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