ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses

This sturdy American blues-rock trio from Texas consists of Billy Gibbons (guitar), Dusty Hill (bass), and Frank Beard (drums). They were formed in 1970 in and around Houston from rival bands the Moving Sidewalks (Gibbons) and American Blues (Hill and Beard). Their first two albums reflected the strong blues roots and Texas humor of the band. Their third album (Tres Hombres) gained them national attention with the hit "La Grange," a signature riff tune to this day, based on John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen." Their success continued unabated throughout the '70s, culminating with the year-and-a-half-long Worldwide Texas Tour.

Exhausted from the overwhelming workload, they took a three-year break, then switched labels and returned to form with Deguello and El Loco, both harbingers of what was to come. By their next album, Eliminator, and its worldwide smash follow-up, Afterburner, they had successfully harnessed the potential of synthesizers to their patented grungy blues groove, giving their material a more contemporary edge while retaining their patented Texas style. Now sporting long beards, golf hats, and boiler suits, they met the emerging video age head-on, reducing their "message" to simple iconography. Becoming even more popular in the long run, they moved with the times while simultaneously bucking every trend that crossed their path. As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers; Gibbons is one of America's finest blues guitarists working in the arena rock idiom -- both influenced by the originators of the form and British blues-rock guitarists like Peter Green -- while Hill and Beard provide the ultimate rhythm section support.

Full Biography Here: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gifwxqr5ldte~T1

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ZZ
• Top
• Cheap
• Sunglasses
• Degüello
• original
• studio
• version
• with
• lyrics
• music
• video
• high
• quality

[Muggrug]

11 people can't afford cheap sunglasses.

[JayR1784]

@QUIROPTEROHOLLOW

I broke up with a girl because she had $400 sunglasses. I was like "Bitch you do nails for a living. I'm done."

[probrojeffro]

One of my top ten bands of all time. Genius.

[agent4051]

I love the part at 1:06.

[trident01101]

ohh yeah.... my kind of music.

[sexpistolsdaz]

I am cross-eyed and don't need glasses.

[Jacksonkellyfreak]

@Midnightsun115 haha it must be something with tn people, cuz i lost a $55 pair when i took a flying lesson in nc. first i dropped em outta the plane when i opened the door then left em on the pilots desk lol.

[casestudyification]

Would 12 dollar sunglasses be considered cheap?.....One thing's for sure, when I keep losing them all the time, it stops being cheap after a while

[fight609]

@ctoedtman mine cost 25 bucks!.. lol but my diesel cost 52k! haha..