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About ZZ Top

ZZ Top formed in Houston in 1969, when guitarist Billy Gibbons of local psychedelic band Moving Sidewalks joined up with bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard. That trio went on to keep the same lineup for more than five decades, one of the longest unchanged runs in rock history, until Hill's death in 2021.

The band turned Texas blues into arena rock with songs like "La Grange" and "Tush," then conquered MTV in 1983 with Eliminator and its hits "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man." Their 1976 Worldwide Texas Tour famously brought a Texas-shaped stage complete with live buffalo and rattlesnakes on the road. ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 by Keith Richards.

Did You Know

  • • Formed in Houston in 1969.
  • • Kept the same three-man lineup, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard, for over 50 years.
  • • "La Grange" (1973) is about the infamous Chicken Ranch outside La Grange, Texas.
  • • The 1983 album Eliminator, with "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man," sold over ten million copies in the US.
  • • The 1976 Worldwide Texas Tour featured a Texas-shaped stage with live buffalo and rattlesnakes.
  • • Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

Locations in Lyrics

39 location references across 17 songs

Songs & Places

My Head’s in Mississippi
West Point, MS Memphis, TN Texas Mississippi Mississippi Delta, MS
"She was mumbling to some howling wolf"
My Head's in Mississippi
Mississippi
"But my head's in Mississippi"
Tush
Dallas, TX Los Angeles, CA Frankston, TX
"Dallas, Texas, Hollywood"
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Chicago, IL New Orleans, LA Mississippi California forests and the pines (California), CA
"Jesus just left Chicago"
Viva Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
"Viva Las Vegas"
Heaven, Hell or Houston
Houston, TX
"Heaven, Hell or Houston"
La Grange
La Grange, TX Frankston, TX
"About that shack outside La Grange"
Heaven; Hell or Houston
Houston, TX
Legs
Houston, TX
Sharp Dressed Man
Houston, TX
Viva Las Vegas (2019 Remaster)
Las Vegas, NV
Chevrolet
Simonton, TX Katy, TX Brazos River, TX Houston, TX
"Approachin' Simonton down by the cotton gin"
Balinese
Galveston, TX South Texas Gulf of Mexico, TX
"Everybody knows it was down at the Balinese"
Heard It on the X
Del Rio, TX
She’s A Heartbreaker
Beaumont, TX
What it is Kid
Rio Grande, TX
I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide (2019 Remaster)
New York City, NY
"With my New York brim and my gold tooth displayed"

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Region: Upper Gulf Coast / Houston Area Conference: Texas

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