zz top live greatest hits around the world album cover

Hill said there are certainly other concerts in the band’s vault that are of releasable quality – and putting out some archival live albums is an idea he’d like to explore.

It was quite the undertaking, Hill said, and the 15 tracks included on the album lean toward songs from the 1970s (“La Grange,” “Tush” and “Tube Snake Boogie”) as well as three hits (“Legs,” “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Gimme All Your Lovin’”) from the 1980s, when ZZ Top added synthesizers and a bit poppier element to its bluesy rock sound and became MTV favorites with the sly and sexy videos of those songs. The band members – Hill, singer/guitarist Billy Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard – were involved in listening to hours of live recordings from which the performances on “Live – Greatest Hits From Around The Globe” were chosen. Hill said the band for years has recorded soundchecks and concerts. The problem is not a lack of live recordings from across ZZ Top’s career. It’s always stuck in my craw a little bit through all these years that we never really finished a live album.” “We were going to do a live album then, but that’s the way it worked out. “If you remember way back, there’s an album ‘Fandango!’ that’s half live and the other half is studio,” Hill said of the 1975 album in a mid-August phone interview. Eagle Rock Records has also released a pair of concert DVDs, “Live at Montreaux 2013” (released in 2014) and “Double Down Live” in 2009 that combined the 1980 show from Germany and performances from 20.Ĭlearly big chunks of ZZ Top’s career have never been documented in the live setting, which has been a bit of a frustration for bassist Dusty Hill.

The catalog includes a 2008 release, “Live From Texas” (recorded in 2007) and 2001 saw the release of a show from the archives, “Live In Germany 1980. Last month, ZZ Top fans got the chance to enjoy something the group as rarely done in a career that now stretches more than 40 years – a live album.Ĭalled “Live – Greatest Hits From Around The Globe,” the album features concert performances of 15 of the best known songs from across the career of that “Lil’ Ol’ Band from Texas.”

Zz top live greatest hits around the world album cover