File:ZZ Top, Frank Beard's c.1985 Tama Drums customized by D & D Stuart, Billy Gibbons & Dusty Hill's c.1990 BG Custom Guitars - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2014-07-12 15.59.09 by Zurich 99).jpg

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ZZ Top, Frank Beard's c.1985 Tama Drums customized by D & D Stuart, Billy Gibbons & Dusty Hill's c.1990 BG Custom Guitars - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame


            Dusty Hill of ZZ Top
                   Bass Guitar
          Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top
                Electric Guitar
        Custom Yunker Guitars, c. 1986
                    Collection of ZZ Top
Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill played these guitars in the 1986
video for "Rough Boy." The song reached Number 22.[1]
      Frank Beard of ZZ Top Drums
                     Tama Drums,
   customized by D & D Stuart, c. 1985
                    Collection of ZZ Top
Frank Beard played these drums named "Sasquatch," in the
video for "Sleeping Bag." The song reached Number 8 in 1985.[2]
         Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top
               Electric Gutiar
  Dusty Hill of ZZ Top Bass Guitar
         BG Custom Guitars, c. 1990
                  Collection of ZZ Top[2][3]
Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill played these ...

                ZZ TOP                
      The self-described “little of” band from Texas," ZZ
Top has been making high-spirited blues-based rock and
roll since 1969. They've cultivated a colorful image to go
with it, writing odes to fast cats, cheap sunglasses, sharp
threads and TV dinners, while playing fur-covered guitars
and sporting the longest beards in rock and roll. Yet for all
their conspicuous wit, ZZ Top has stayed true to the spirit of
the blues. The three musicians — guitarist Billy Gibbons,
bassists Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard — grew up in
Texas, gaining first-hand exposure to such native legends
as Lightnin' Hopkins, T-Bone Walker and Freddie King. An
early band of Gibbons', the Moving Sidewalks, once shared
a bits with Jimi Hendrix, who praised the young guitarist on
national television.

       The Texas trio toured relentlessly in their early
years and built a huge grass-roots following. They were one
of the first bands to succeed in the album-oriented radio
format. By their third album, Tres Hombres (1973), they
had crossed over to Top 40 with “La Grange.” The group
mounted increasingly ambitious shows, including a
memorable menagerie — buffaloes, buzzards and rattle-
snakes — on their Worldwide Texas Tour. ZZ Top's star
soared with the release of Eliminator (1983), an album of
witty, danceable blues-rock that launched such radio and
video hits as “Legs” and “Sharp Dressed Man.” The group
has remained popular by doing what it has done all along
straddling blues and rock, while mixing hot licks with
whimsical self-mockery “We're just a garage band that gets
to play in some real big garages,” joked bassist Hill.

      ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
of fame in 2004.[2][3]

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