It will make a stop in Fort Myers at The Barbara B. The tour is continuing despite the death in August of bassist Dusty Hill. For the rest of 2021, he’ll be on the road, continuing what might be considered a 50-year anniversary tour for ZZ Top. ![]() Whether Gibbons will do a solo tour behind “Hardware” remains to be seen. His snarling guitars and gruff vocal tones, coupled with the wallop drummer Sorum puts into songs like the driving “She’s On Fire,” the heavy and tuneful “S-G-L-M-B-B-R” and the cool and crazy “Stackin’ Bones” (with great vocal touches from guest Larkin Poe) give “Hardware” a rocking, grittier than-desert-sand personality. Still “Hardware” sits comfortably alongside the previous two Gibbons solo albums. Gibbons’ 2015 release “Perfectamundo” brought a Cuban/Latin influence into Gibbons’ blues-rock sound, while 2018’s “The Big Bad Blues” lived up to its title with its rough and rowdy songs. This spontaneous approach to writing and recording meant “Hardware wouldn’t have a musical theme. But you know, with blank paper in one hand and a pencil in the other, the only way out of doing nothing is to start doing something.” “Of course, those 30 minutes turned into 30 days, and then we look up and a month had gone by. “I was under the impression we were going to take a 30-minute tour,” Gibbons elaborated. There ain’t much out there.’ And they said ‘We’ve found a recording studio that’s willing to open their doors and let us start making loud noise out of it.’ ![]() We’re going to scoop you up and squire you over to Joshua Tree.’ I’m like, ‘That’s the desert. ![]() “I received a phone call from Matt Sorum and Austin Hanks. “I think the element of surprise is certainly a big piece to this puzzle,” Gibbons said, starting to unfurl the tale of “Hardware” in a recent phone interview. Far from having a concept for the album, when Gibbons (the singer/guitarist of ZZ Top), drummer Matt Sorum (of Guns N’ Roses) and bassist Austin Hanks arrived at the studio near Joshua Tree, California, that was pretty much the start of the entire project.
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