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Billy Gibbons (* 16. Dezember 1949 in Houston, Texas als William Frederick Gibbons) ist ein US-amerikanischer Bluesgitarrist und -sänger, der vor allem durch die Band ZZ Top bekannt wurde. Der Rolling Stone wählte ihn auf Platz 32 der 100 größten Gitarristen aller Zeiten.
William Frederick Gibbons (born December 16, 1949) [1] is an American rock musician, best known as the guitarist and primary vocalist of ZZ Top. He began his career in Moving Sidewalks, who recorded Flash (1969) and opened four dates for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969 and released ZZ Top's First Album in early 1971.
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For 51 years, it consisted of vocalist-guitarist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard and bassist-vocalist Dusty Hill, until Hill's death in 2021. ZZ Top developed a signature sound based on Gibbons' blues style and Hill and Beard's rhythm section.
30. Juli 2021 · ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons tells Variety about his last exchange with Dusty Hill, and why the show will go on, amid "the waterworks" of grief.
A longtime vintage guitar collector, Gibbons owns some of the world’s most cherished and rare guitars, including a particular instrument that he’s become synonymous with, a 1959 Sunburst Les Paul Standard (which he dubbed “Pearly Gates”).
10. Nov. 2015 · At 65, Gibbons — born in a Houston suburb, the son of a pianist-conductor — has played the blues for more than half a century, across 15 ZZ Top albums with bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank...
28. Juli 2017 · Texan blues titan and ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons reveals the ten albums that soundtracked his 50-year career in rock. The first son Billy Gibbons ever learned to play was What I’d Say by Ray Charles.
17. Aug. 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.
16. Dez. 2022 · And it was guitarist Billy F Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard of ZZ Top who helped put blues back on jukeboxes in the early 1970s. Featured on the band’s ’73 album, Tres Hombres, La Grange doesn’t come over like a bunch of white kids messing around.
