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re: "Two career" bands/artists
Posted on 10/31/17 at 9:21 am to AlxTgr
Posted on 10/31/17 at 9:21 am to AlxTgr
ZZ Top is a fair answer. I don't think it's unreasonable to say many of the millions of folks who bought Eliminator wouldn't have been a "typical" ZZ Top fan prior to it, and the clock might've been ticking on the band if it wasn't for that album...
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Posted on 10/31/17 at 9:43 am to vandelay industries
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don't think it's unreasonable to say many of the millions of folks who bought Eliminator wouldn't have been a "typical" ZZ Top fan prior to it, and the clock might've been ticking on the band if it wasn't for that album...
I agree with this. Prior to Eliminator, ZZ Top was heavily blues based hard rock, 1 part Rolling Stones, 1 part Dr. John, 1 part AC/DC. Eliminator still sounded like ZZ Top, but was polished. Without looking, you might have thought that Mutt Lange took over production, but, no, it was still Bill Ham.
What's crazy is that Ham took a break from those ZZ Top records in the '70s to produce Freddy Fender and Kinky Friedman. Just bizarre change of pace from Top records.
But, he clearly had been influenced by the early Glam and Hair metal, at least production techniques, including Lange's influence on the genre.
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