ZZ Top “Rick Rubin Said We Needed One More Song for the Album”: Billy Gibbons Explains How ZZ Top Melded Hip Hop and Blues Rock With “I Gotsta Get Paid” “We had this great meeting of the minds,” says the frontman “We Were Still the Little Band From Texas, Interpreters of That Great American Art Form the Blues”: Billy Gibbons on the Making of “Gimme All Your Lovin’” How ZZ Top’s 1983 classic took the blues “up a notch” “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 Latest ZZ Top Spoon’s Britt Daniel Reveals How ZZ Top and Their Native Austin, Texas Inspired the Group’s Latest Album, ‘Lucifer on the Sofa’ By Jim Beaugez published 19 April 22 The Fender signature artist talks technique, songwriting and gear. How to Write a Hard Rock Classic in Five Minutes: Billy Gibbons Tells the Incredible Story of ZZ Top’s “Tush” By Rod Brakes, Richard Bienstock published 5 October 21 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?! 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.’ 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 12Archives Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors MOST READ1“We all grew up with their music, looking at the album covers, and learning these classic guitar riffs and parts”: Jackson Browne, John Mellencamp, Mavis Staples honored by Bruce Springsteen at second annual American Music Honors show2“If we were recording at Olympic Studios, we would often hear Led Zeppelin. I’d see Jimmy Page sitting there, overdubbing in darkness”: Peter Frampton reveals the stories behind five of his classic tracks3Three guitars that exemplify the PRS SE line in 2024 – reasonably priced, impeccably put-together, and versatile in terms of both tone and playability: PRS SE CE24, SE Custom 24 Quilt and SE Swamp Ash Special review 4“I bought my ’59 sunburst Les Paul from my first wife’s brother... he’d gotten sick – he called me and said, ‘I’m probably not gonna make it. Will you buy my Les Paul?’ Now it gets to live on and still make music”: Vince Gill on his beloved 'Burst 5“Noel’s process is purely guitar. He’s so in love with the chords, and he was cycling through and through... He wouldn’t stop until he was satisfied”: How Noel Gallagher and Beck helped bring the Black Keys' latest funky full-length, Ohio Players, to life
Spoon’s Britt Daniel Reveals How ZZ Top and Their Native Austin, Texas Inspired the Group’s Latest Album, ‘Lucifer on the Sofa’ By Jim Beaugez published 19 April 22 The Fender signature artist talks technique, songwriting and gear.
How to Write a Hard Rock Classic in Five Minutes: Billy Gibbons Tells the Incredible Story of ZZ Top’s “Tush” By Rod Brakes, Richard Bienstock published 5 October 21 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?!
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.’
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
