Antenna is the 11th studio album by American blues rock band ZZ Top, released in 1994. It was the bands first album to be released under the RCA label. It was also the first time ZZ Top had a song with the album title in its name (Antenna Head). The opening track and first single from the album, Pincushion, reached #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. >>> ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. As a group, ZZ Top possesses 11 gold records and 7 platinum (13 multi-platinum) records; their 1983 album, Eliminator, remains the groups most commercially successful record, selling over 10 million units. ZZ Top also ranks 80th in U.S. album sales, with 25 million units. >>>The original line-up formed in Houston, by Billy Gibbons, organist Lanier Greig (died February 2013) and drummer Dan Mitchell. On The Tonight Show, Jimi Hendrix stated that Billy Gibbons would be the next hottest guitarist There were longstanding rumors that, at the end of a tour, Hendrix gave Gibbons the pink Stratocaster he had been playing as token of his appreciation for Gibbons level of talent. ZZ Top was managed by Waxahachie-native Bill Ham, who had befriended Gibbons a year earlier. They released their first single, Salt Lick, in 1969, and side B contained the song Millers Farm; both songs were credited to Gibbons. Immediately after the recording of Salt Lick, Greig was replaced by bassist Bobby Cartlidge, a band mate of Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Mitchell was replaced by Frank Beard of the American Blues. Due to lack of interest from record companies, ZZ Top was presented with a record deal from London Records. Unwilling to sign a recording contract, Cartlidge quit the band and Dusty Hill was selected as his replacement. After Hill moved from Dallas to Houston, ZZ Top signed with London in 1970. They performed their first concert together at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Beaumont on February 10. youtu.be/ZHwWyM26bHs
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