ZZ TOP Frontman BILLY GIBBONS On Producer RICK RUBIN – “Rick Is In No Way Going To Get Set Into Motion Where It May Be Hasty Or Hurried”

Speaking with Alan Sculley for ExpressMilwaukee.com, ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons discusses the extended time it took the band to complete its last album, La Futura, it was patience. The project took several years to complete, and by the time it finally arrived in September 2012, a full nine years had passed since ZZ Top’s previous studio album, 2003’s Mescalero.

Credit some of that delay to the exacting standards of La Futura’s producer, Rick Rubin.

“Rick is in no way going to get set into motion where it may be hasty or hurried,” says Billy. “He really is sincere when he works with any artist. And he said, ‘Let’s keep working on it until it’s right.’ It’s funny, you may find yourself returning to a particular track—it may be months tucked away in the can—and you say, ‘Oh yeah, I remember that. Let’s come back to that.’ So I really think Rick is one of the rare individuals that is willing to let the material develop and reach a logical zenith.”

Read more of the interview at this location.

ZZ Top play the Riverside Theater in Wisconsin on Sunday, March 29th. The band’s complete live itinerary can be found at this location.