'Hardware' is het derde solo album van de ZZ Top zanger Billy Gibbons. Het album is opgenomen in Escape Studio in California's high desert. 'We holed up in the desert for a few weeks in the heat of the summer and that in itself was pretty intense. To let off steam we just 'let it rock' and that's what Hardware is really all about. For the most part, it's a raging rocker but always mindful of the desert's implicit mystery.'