ZZ TOP To Work With RICK RUBIN On New Album
November 25, 2007, 16 years ago
According to the Houston Chronicle, ZZ TOP's new manager, Carl Stubner - CEO of Los Angeles-based Sanctuary Artist Management - is banking on producer Rick Rubin (SLAYER, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS) being able to put ZZ back on top, or failing that, at least to earn the group some respect from a generation that doesn't remember its heyday.
Stubner is sufficiently excited about the prospects of ZZ Top and Rick Rubin working together that he let it slip at (a recent) concert as though it were common knowledge.
ZZ Top could use a little optimism. The band hasn't been that visible since Mescalero went thud. It continued to tour, but even that hasn't been without complications. A European tour was scrapped this summer when bassist Dusty Hill was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a benign growth in one of his ears.
Stubner says writing and rehearsing sessions will begin before year's end. For the first time, other people will be involved in that process. It's too early to say, but he hopes a new album will be released on Columbia (where Rubin is now an exec) before the end of 2008. Rubin's rep says he prefers to stay mum and let the artists discuss upcoming projects.
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