The Best of ZZ Top: A Step-By-Step Breakdown of the Guitar Styles and Techniques of Billy Gibbons
The Plummet Onions (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
It seems ZZ Top guitarist likes being a tourist, and took the tube to Wembley before the band’s big gig last week [ BBC story ]. In true London fashion, the line he wanted to take was down, and he had to detour. He still beat his bandmates to the stadium. Thanks to the Aussie for the story tip. Posted in commute, London, music Tagged: Billy Gibbons rides the tube, ZZ Top
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Filed under: News , UK When you're a rock star of the stature of ZZ Top 's Billy Gibbons, you're used to a certain level of luxury when it comes to turning up to your own gig. Helicopters. Limousines. Luxury people carriers with blacked-out windows. However, the Tops' lead guitarist used a novel approach to get to the band's Wembley Arena gig in London last week -- public transport....
eat drink one woman (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Even though this is what I look like on a good day (one of my birthday dresses):This is what I'll always look like in my mind's eye: When's Billy Gibbons going to send three slutty fairy godmothers to reveal my...
LSI Online News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... ChildLine Rocks. Guests, who included Slash, Ronnie Wood, Brian May, Iggy Pop, Aerosmith, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and Iron Maiden, all applauded the free music lesson scheme whilst Joe Bonamassa who is a patron of the initiative also received the 'best breakthrough act' award on the night.The programme sees Yamaha's national network of Music Schools offering free music lessons aimed...
Hypatia Avenue (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
ZZ Top Rocker Takes The TubeOriginally on Londonist here: I ponder the potential for tube-based adventures with Billy Gibbons of ZZ TopIf you're preparing to head home on the tube, be vigilant for the famous grizzled beard of Billy Gibbons, guitarist of the honourable rock band ZZ Top. He favours the tube over a fancy limo as demonstrated when he played Wembley last week,...
Twangville (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... Beck, Metallica and U2 Guests: Jerry Lee Lewis, Annie Lennox, Lenny Kravitz, Sting, Buddy Guy, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Lou Reed, Ozzy Osbourne, Ray Davies, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Black Eyed Peas, Mick Jagger. Aretha Franklin I wasn’t quite sure what to make of Franklin’s (HoF class of 1987) set. She hit the stage in a formal red gown, fronting a 20-piece band that included...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
image author's own If you're preparing to head home on the tube, be vigilant for the famous grizzled beard of Billy Gibbons, guitarist of the honourable rock band ZZ Top. He favours the tube over a fancy limo as demonstrated when he played Wembley last week, and took the Metropolitan line there, unaccompanied. Gibbons wanted a taste of the Londoner's everyday public transport...
TMZ (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Filed under: Who'd You Rather? Billy Gibbons, 59, of ZZ Top and Slash, 44, got into a scruff at the same event in London this week.Question is ... See Also Iggy Pop vs. Ronnie: Who'd You Rather? ... Permalink
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
ZZ TOP guitarist BILLY GIBBONS shunned a chauffeur-driven car ahead of the band's recent gig in London - deciding to test out the city's public transport network...
Celebrity - Female First (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Iggy Pop was named Living Legend at the Marshall Classic Rock Roll of Honour awards last night (02.11.09).The legendary Stooges frontman joined rockers including Queen guitarist Brian May, Slash, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, The Who guitarist Pete Townshend and ZZ Top rocker Billy Gibbons at the awards, held at the Park lane Hotel in Londo...
Jackaranda (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
ZZ Top star tells of Tube odyssey By Tim Masters Entertainment correspondent, BBC News Billy Gibbons fans recognised him on the tube ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons has revealed that he chose a very un-rock star method of transport to the band's Wembley concert last week. Instead of the usual chauffeur-driven car, the Texas rocker bought a ticket for the Tube - which then...
Nightwatcher's House Of Rock (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
In a career spanning over three decades Austin, Texas based guitarist Van Wilks has forged a blazing blues rock path filled with some of the most impressive playing to be found in the genre. Lauded as one of the city's master players by both critics, fans and fellow musicians such as Eric Johnson and Billy Gibbons, the consistency of his work has made him stand out in a scene overfilled...
Celebritology (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Somewhere in the fashion void that lies between ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and Captain Jack Sparrow, Brad Pitt now rests comfortably -- challenging us to scoff at his sassy beard beads. Pitt shows off his new accessorized goatee at the Tokyo premiere of 'Inglorious Basterds.' (Pix: AP, Getty Images) Well, scoff I must. I was always a bigger fan of scuzzwad Brad Pitt (think "12 Monkeys")...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons reveals he chose a very un-rock star method of transport to the band's Wembley concert last week.
Riverside Views (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... gave you "a credit card that's got no limit." It's not that the FSA didn't have Billy Gibbons growling "butchya gotta pay it baaaaackk". It was that if you defaulted then the banks thought they could always flip the "big black jet with a bedroom in it" to someone else ... those boys needed Billy to tell 'em you can join the "mile high club...
