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Watch footage of ZZ Top's first shows since bassist Dusty Hill's death
By Sam Roche published
The band recruited longtime guitar tech Elwood Francis to handle bass duties – with Hill's full blessing, according to frontman Billy Gibbons

Is Billy Gibbons’s new Wild Custom guitar the craziest signature model of the year so far?
By Matt Owen published
The ZZ Top icon's unique new six-string sports the brand's marvelously ingenious Gyrock system, which features a rotating pickup loading bay for seamless sonic swaps

Watch Eric Gales deliver jaw-dropping Jimi Hendrix, Billy Gibbons and Robin Trower covers as he puts his signature MXR Raw Dawg pedal through its paces
By Matt Owen published
The blues master makes the riffs of Purple Haze, Just Got Paid, Bridge of Sighs and Red House his own in a playthrough that demonstrates his elite tone and virtuosic feel

Watch Billy Gibbons rip out some mean slide licks – using a beer bottle – in new My Lucky Card video
By Richard Bienstock published
The ZZ Top legend’s third solo album, Hardware, is out in June
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Watch Billy Gibbons and Steven Tyler team up for a blazing cover of Fleetwood Mac's Oh Well
By Sam Roche published
The ZZ Top and Aerosmith frontmen's performance is taken from the Mick Fleetwood & Friends tribute concert in February 2020

From spaghetti Western atmospherics to unrelenting, demonic death metal: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche, Matt Owen published
Tuck into the latest and greatest six-string sonic offerings from Weezer, Wolf Alice, Illuminati Hotties, Cannibal Corpse, Aziya, and many more

Billy Gibbons gets atmospheric on new spoken-word-and-guitar single, Desert High
By Richard Bienstock published
The ZZ Top legend’s third solo album, Hardware, is out in June

Billy Gibbons announces new “raging rocker” solo album, Hardware, unveils first single
By Richard Bienstock published
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