Articles tagged: zz-top

Dusty Hill Auction Julien's

Dusty Hill’s crazy, brilliant, iconic fur-covered Dean bass from ZZ Top’s Legs video is heading to the auction block

By Jonathan Horsley published

The sheepskin-covered Dean is star of the show in a huge auction of the late ZZ Top bassist's gear and stage wear with his Bolin custom and 1953 Precision Bass going under the hammer too

Magnatone Billy Gibbons Super Fifty-Nine M80

Magnatone and Billy Gibbons have teamed up for one sharped dressed signature amp and cab

By Jonathan Horsley published

The Billy Gibbons Super Fifty-Nine is limited to six units worldwide, is resplendent in custom silver croc covering, with the ZZ Top blues-rock guitar icon’s signature on each one

Metallica / ZZ Top

Metallica's Kill 'Em All played in the style of ZZ Top actually works really well

By Rob Laing published

Denis Pauna has given the 40-year-old thrash classic a Gibbons makeover

Billy Gibbons and Billy Joel

Watch Billy Gibbons join Billy Joel onstage at Madison Square Garden to jam on ZZ Top classics La Grange and Tush

By Jonathan Horsley published

A little bit of Texas took over NYC as Gibbons brought the house down during one of Joel's epic sets of his MSG residency

Josh Homme and Billy Gibbons

Josh Homme says Billy Gibbons once played a harmonic with his beard

By Jonathan Horsley published

The QOTSA frontman was jamming with Gibbons when the ZZ Top legend's whiskers created guitar history: “I grabbed him by the shoulders... ‘Dude, you did the first ever beard harmonic!’”

ZZ Top

Video: ZZ Top perform for the first time after Dusty Hill's death with long-serving tech Elwood Francis on bass

By Jonathan Horsley last updated

The footage from Tuscaloosa, Alabama finds the Texan institution honouring Hill's wishes as the show rolls on