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ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. The band consists of guitarist and lead vocalist Billy Gibbons, bassist and co-lead vocalist Dusty Hill, and drummer Frank Beard. The band and its members went through several reconfigurations throughout 1969, achieving their current form when Hill replaced bassist Billy Etheridge in February 1970, shortly before the band was signed to London Records. Etheridge's departure issued primarily from his unwillingness to be bound by a recording contract. Since the release of the band's debut album in January 1971, ZZ Top has become known for its strong blues roots and humorous lyrical motifs, relying heavily on double entendres and innuendo. ZZ Top's musical style has changed over the years, beginning with blues-inspired rock on their early albums, then incorporating New Wave, punk rock and dance-rock, with heavy use of synthesizers. ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. As a group, ZZ Top possesses 11 gold records and 7 platinum (13 multi-platinum) records; their 1983 album, Eliminator, remains the group's most commercially successful record, selling over 10 million units. ZZ Top also ranks 80th in U. S. album sales, with 25 million units.
There's a real reason why there's a vinyl renaissance, John Vanderslice said. There's a lot of people who are having an amazing listening experience. It's not false. Vanderslice, the musician and producer behind the devoutly analog Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco, wasn't kidding. In an age of declining album sales and squabbles over Spotify and the other streaming services swallowing up the industry pie, U. S. vinyl record sales have quietly grown from less than a million in 2007 to more than 6 million in 2013, a number this year's soaring sales surpassed back in September. While vinyl numbers remain a drop in the overall bucket, just 2 percent of sales in 2013, they’ve become a pretty big drop — and the product of a global industry straining to deal with overflowing demand. On Nov. 28, Record Store Day will drive music lovers to stores with more than a hundred Black Friday releases. As vinyl sales have grown, so have the biannual mom-and-pop-store events — one in November, one in April — that in turn lead to months of jockeying as indies vie with major labels and each other. The prize: Space on retail shelves and at record pressing plants forced to run 24 hours a day to keep up with demand. In Portland, the home of more record stores than any other American city, Black Friday’s vinyl lines may well challenge the rush on cheap TVs and discount laptops. From the authenticity of its sound to the surprise of its comeback, vinyl’s return comes with loaded questions. We've dug through the history books, spoken with industry experts and surveyed the Portland scene to figure out where vinyl's been and where it's going next. Birth of the cool Record labels invented vinyl. While modern formats, from MP3 to FLAC, come from the tech world, it was Columbia Records that debuted the 12-inch, long-playing 33 1/3-rpm record, or LP, in 1948 — an advance quickly followed by the.
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