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Billy Gibbons: “I was fearless when I started playing, but learning that agonizing F chord was miserable!”
With new solo album Hardware in record stores, the ZZ Top icon sits down with TG to share some hard-earned wisdom
Dusty Hill recorded bass and vocal parts for a new ZZ Top album, Billy Gibbons reveals
The late bass guitar great will feature on the yet-to-be-announced record, though his parts are still in need of some "completion work"
![[L-R] Elwood Francis, Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vHPaYXUBRJYAvC8tLakczA-840-80.jpg.webp)
Watch footage of ZZ Top's first shows since bassist Dusty Hill's death
The band recruited longtime guitar tech Elwood Francis to handle bass duties – with Hill's full blessing, according to frontman Billy Gibbons
Dusty Hill, 1949-2021: the guitar world pays tribute
Ozzy Osbourne, Flea, Joe Bonamassa, Zakk Wylde, Paul Stanley, Jason Isbell, David Coverdale and many more pay their respects to the legendary ZZ Top bass player
Dusty Hill, ZZ Top bassist, dies at 72
The legendary bass player died in his sleep at his home in Houston, Texas, the band wrote on social media
Is Billy Gibbons’s new Wild Custom guitar the craziest signature model of the year so far?
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
16 pro guitarists name the live shows that changed their lives
Featuring Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa, Nita Strauss, Tom Morello and many more...
![[L-R] Billy Gibbons and Steven Tyler](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FRFeBdGUWnx4wwNePeuzYn-840-80.jpg.webp)
Watch Billy Gibbons and Steven Tyler team up for a blazing cover of Fleetwood Mac's Oh Well
The ZZ Top and Aerosmith frontmen's performance is taken from the Mick Fleetwood & Friends tribute concert in February 2020
