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Billy Gibbons with his Pearly Gates replica Les Paul Standard.

Gibson has just made a forensic Custom Shop replica of Billy Gibbons’ Pearly Gates Les Paul

By Jonathan Horsley Published 2 September 26

This Collector's Edition replica is limited to just 30 instruments worldwide and Gibbons is launching it himself with an exclusive event on October 16 at the Gibson Garage Nashville

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MADRID, SPAIN - JULY 20: Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top performs on stage during Noches del Botanico music festival at Real Jardin Botanico Alfonso XIII on July 20, 2026 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Mariano Regidor/Getty Images)

"Some of you probably know there’s a new man in town”: ZZ Top return days after Frank Beard’s death

By Beth Simpson Published 24 August 26

Michael Monahan is behind the kit on their current US tour

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Frank Beard, ZZ Top drummer, dies aged 77

By Will Groves Published 19 August 26

Billy Gibbons hails "great friend and collaborator"

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Billy Gibbons on ZZ Top’s blues roots, ’80s mega-hits and their unique “sense of weird”

By Paul Elliott Published 29 June 26

“In Texas there’s still a little of that gunslinger mentality in the air”

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Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian presents ZZ Top frontman Billy F. Gibbons with a custom Explorer that he designed and built himself.

Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian has made a stunning custom Explorer – and Billy Gibbons is playing it onstage with ZZ Top

By Jonathan Horsley Published 8 April 26

And the Gibson CEO also given us a sneak peak of the forthcoming DES lineup in the shape of a Ghost Burst SG?

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Buddy Guy [left] smiles as he takes a solo on his Fender Stratocaster. He wears a red jacket and black hat. Billy Gibbons [right] wears shades, a wide-brimmed hat and a red blazer as he plays his custom SG-style electric with the V-style headstock.

Billy Gibbons on the tip Buddy Guy gave him after they jammed a T-Bone Walker classic

By Jonathan Horsley Published 8 January 26

Blues guitar's greatest showman shared a little stagecraft after the ZZ Top man's cameo during a live show

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Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons tear it up as ZZ Top play the Aragon Ballroom at Chicago in 1980, with Gibbons playing his legendary Les Paul Standard, Pearly Gates

“"There is something magic in that instrument”: Billy Gibbons on why Pearly Gates is one of the greatest Les Pauls ever

By Jonathan Horsley Published 26 September 25

All Gibson Les Paul Standards from 1959 are special but what is it about the ZZ Top frontman's Pearly Gates that makes it so unique? As Gibbons says, it might be something entirely supernatural

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