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How Slash made the blues sound like a party again – only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Also in this issue: Eagles, Pink Floyd, Kerry King, Sebastian Bach, Lenny Kravitz, Steve Harley, The Black Keys, Walter Trout, Nazareth, Troy Redfern and more
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Slash Announces New Blues Album Featuring Brian Johnson, Steven Tyler, Iggy Pop, and Demi Lovato
Listen to the first single "Killing Floor" featuring Johnson on vocals and Tyler on harmonica. Slash Announces New Blues Album Featuring Brian Johnson, Steven Tyler, Iggy Pop, and Demi Lovato Jon Hadusek
- EntertainmentFlorida Today
ZZ Top comes to Melbourne: 'You can't lose with the blues'
Legendary band ZZ Top brings "The Elevation Tour" to the King Center in Melbourne on March 6. We got the scoop from singer Billy Gibbons.
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“We treated them like a bunch of hairy blues wankers… I wish we’d had the sales Eliminator had!” How British synth-pop duo OMD unwittingly set ZZ Top on the path to mega-stardom
It may seem unlikely, but Billy Gibbons and co. learned their best moves from electro-pop duo OMD
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"Waiting for the Bus and Jesus Just Left Chicago? In essence, it’s a blues suite in 4/4 and 6/8 time..." The career of Billy Gibbons, blues guitar supremo, in five songs
From early days in Moving Sidewalks, opening for the Jimi Hendrix Experience to taking the world by storm on 1980s MTV with ZZ Top, he’s defied convention. Here are five deep cuts Billy Gibbons considers his best
- EntertainmentSPIN
Watch Elvis Costello Join Billy Joel At Madison Square Garden
Billy Joel welcomed Elvis Costello last night (Dec. 19) at New York's Madison Square Garden for performances of two classic tracks.
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"They couldn't transport the snakes in the cattle trailer because it upset the Longhorn and the buffalo": How ZZ Top took Texas on the road in the most sanity-defying tour ever staged
ZZ Top's Worldwide Texas Tour featured a plexiglass pyramid filled with rattlesnakes, trained buzzards, a fake wolf, and a night in Pittsburgh one doctor called "the most horrible thing I have seen since World War II"
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Famous birthdays for Dec. 16: Krysten Ritter, Lesley Stahl
Actor Krysten Ritter turns 42 and journalist Lesley Stahl turns 82, among the famous birthdays for Dec. 16.
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“In keeping with Billy’s directive to ‘retain the gain or feel the pain’”: Billy Gibbons has helped Magnatone develop the Baby M-80 – its smallest and lightest tube amp yet
The ZZ Top legend’s feedback helped shape the gain structure of the “unbelievably versatile” new compact head and combo
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“A traveling museum of rock music”: The Jim Irsay Band is playing a free show in LA next month featuring Buddy Guy, Billy Gibbons, Kenny Wayne Shepherd – and some of the world’s most valuable guitars
The owner of the world’s most famous guitar collection is hosting a star-studded concert on the west coast – and tickets cost nothing
- EntertainmentGuitar World
“Billy drops the line, ‘I'm sending you some sheepskins. I want you to put them on some guitars’”: Dusty Hill’s iconic fur-covered spinning bass from ZZ Top’s Legs video just sold at auction – and abs
The Dean Zelinsky-made model went under the hammer alongside Hill's custom Hot Rod car bass – but both were outsold by the late ZZ Top bassist's vintage 1953 Fender Precision model
