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ZZ Top

Billy Gibbons, of the group ZZ Top, performs onstage at the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, March 14, 1980.
“Somehow, Something Went Haywire, but in the Right Direction”: Billy Gibbons Recalls How ZZ Top's Happy Accident, “Cheap Sunglasses,” Came to Life “So much of the stuff that you, me and the rest of the world grew up listening to, a good amount of it, if not more than half, was all done by accident,” says the ZZ Top frontman
Britt Daniel of Spoon performs as the band kicks off its tour in support of the upcoming album "They Want My Soul" at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas at The LINQ on June 26, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Spoon’s Britt Daniel Reveals How ZZ Top and Their Native Austin, Texas Inspired the Group’s Latest Album, ‘Lucifer on the Sofa’ The Fender signature artist talks technique, songwriting and gear.
Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill, 2012
How to Write a Hard Rock Classic in Five Minutes: Billy Gibbons Tells the Incredible Story of ZZ Top’s “Tush” This 12-bar blues banger was recorded using the Pearly Gates Les Paul and a Marshall Super Lead… But what’s a Cooper Time Cube?!

Latest ZZ Top

Billy F. Gibbons

Billy F. Gibbons Reveals How Jeff Beck Helped ZZ Top Score the First 110-volt Marshalls in America

By Richard Bienstock published 9 September 21

The ‘Burst-toting frontman tells the curious tale of the opening track from ‘ZZ Top's First Album.’

(from left) ZZ Top's Elwood Francis, Frank Beard, and Billy Gibbons perform live at at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Watch ZZ Top Perform Their First Show Since Dusty Hill's Death

By Jackson Maxwell published 2 August 21

As per – according to Billy Gibbons – Hill's wishes, the trio's longtime tech, Elwood Francis, took up low-end duties for the Tuscaloosa, Alabama performance.

Billy Gibbons

A Crash Course in the Texas-Sized Melodic Phrasing of Billy Gibbons

By David Brewster published 27 May 21

A comprehensive look at the smooth signature fretboard navigation techniques of ZZ Top's guitar great.

ZZ Top perform live in 1973

How Billy Gibbons Wrote ZZ Top's “La Grange“

By Joe Bosso published 7 May 21

How a warm-up jam became ZZ Top’s breakthrough hit.

Billy Gibbons performs with ZZ Top in 1975

Billy Gibbons Tells the Story Behind His 1959 Les Paul, "Pearly Gates"

By Alan di Perna published 16 December 20

"I’ve spent plenty of money putting together a collection of guitars attempting to find something to replicate Pearly, and it just hasn’t happened yet," Gibbons says.

Screen grab of ZZ Top's Legs music video

The Story Behind ZZ Top's Spinning Fur Guitars

By Damian Fanelli published 19 December 19

How they were built by Dean Zelinsky, founder of Dean Guitars and the man behind Dean Zelinsky Private Label Guitars.

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