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Looking Back With Billy Gibbons

Alan Paul, Guitar School, March 1995

FORMED IN 1969, ZZ Top rode lascivious, raucous tunes like ‘Tush’ and ‘La Grange’ to stardom in the early and mid-Seventies, culminating in 1976 with the "Worldwide Texas Tour," featuring 75 tons of gear, a Texas-shaped stage and live animals, including buffaloes and buzzards.

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