ZZ Top
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Year:
2004
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Inducted by:
Keith Richards
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Category:
Performers
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Billy Gibbons -
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Frank Beard -
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Dusty Hill
Introduction
The rough and gruff Texan band had a reverence for their roots, but never took themselves too seriously.
ZZ Top charmed millions with their party anthems and brash music videos. Their mammoth tours solidified a nationwide following and featured everything from Texas-shaped stages to live rattlesnakes.
Keith Richards Inducts ZZ Top
Keith Richards Inducts ZZ Top at the 2004 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
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Keith Richards Inducts ZZ Top00:03:35 -
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ZZ Top acceptance speech00:01:27 -
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"La Grange" and "Tush"00:06:51 -
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Members of ZZ Top Induct Freddie King00:03:01
Hall of Fame Essay
2004
After thirty-five years as the world’s longest-running band with no personnel changes, ZZ Top is instantly recognizable, by both sight and sound.
ZZ Top’s beards and blues-based Texas rock have made the band a cultural icon. Their likenesses have appeared in The New Yorker- a cartoon depicting a long-bearded police officer, captioned “ZZ Cop” - and in an episode of The Simpsons in which Bart spies three Hasidim and yells, “Hey, look. It’s ZZ Top. You guys rock!”
these cats know their blues, and they know how to dress it up.
