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Billy Gibbons – guitars, lead and backing vocals (1969–present) Frank Beard – drums, percussion (1969–present) Elwood Francis – bass, backing and lead vocals (2021–present) Former members. Dan Mitchell – drums (1969) Lanier Greig – Hammond organ, bass (1969; died 2013) Billy Ethridge – bass, keyboards (1969–1970)
Jul 30, 2021 · Billy Gibbons got on stage for the first time since longtime band mate Dusty Hill died, Friday, July 30, 2021 at Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Gibbons introduced Elwood Francis to take Hill’s...
Jul 29, 2021 · Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top has affirmed that the band will soldier on after the death this week of founding bassist Dusty Hill, asserting that it was his wish to “let the show go on.” Gibbons...
Oct 27, 2023 · Future ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons was still in his teens when he founded Houston, Texas psych-blues band The Moving Sidewalks, and secured a booking to support The Jimi Hendrix Experience at shows in Fort Worth and Houston in February 1968. The Moving Sidewalks were required to play a 40-minute set each night in their contract, and Gibbons quickly realised that the only way that his band ...
Oct 18, 2022 · The album, which was released July 22, is drawn from a session at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas in which singer/guitarist Billy Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard set up and ...
Jul 28, 2021 · Dusty Hill, the quiet, bearded bass player who made up one third of ZZ Top, among the best-selling rock bands of the 1980s, has died at his home in Houston. He was 72. His bandmates Frank Beard...
Aug 17, 2021 · Growing up in Houston, Texas in the 50s and into the 60s, the young Billy Gibbons fell in love with the music of arch bluesmen such as Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, Freddie King and Lightnin’ Hopkins. He woodshedded hard with his 1962 Gibson Melody Maker, cut his teeth with psych-rockers The Moving Sidewalks, and in ’69 joined up with now-deceased ...
