ZZ Top

ZZ Top is a rock band, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s, from Houston, Texas. The band members are Billy Gibbons (vocals and guitar, of Moving Sidewalks), Dusty Hill (bass, of The American Blues) and Frank Beard (drums, of The Cellar Dwellers, The Hustlers, and The American Blues).

Interesting trivia

• Billy Gibbons has often been referred to as The Reverend Willy G. In 2002, he made that title official and was ordained so he could perform a Dallas wedding.
• In December 1984, Dusty Hill accidentally set off a derringer he kept in his boot and shot himself in the stomach. He fully recovered.
• "La Grange" is a song about a brothel. The real name of the brothel is "Gracie's Chicken Farm". This brothel is also the subject of the film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds.
• The band appeared in the film Back to the Future Part III playing period (i.e. 1885) equivalents of their instruments.
• ZZ Top is a sponsor of the Delta Blues Museum.
• In a 1984 episode of Saturday Night Live, Father Guido Sarducci "nominated" ZZ Top for the Democratic presidential primary. In a national phone-in poll conducted during the broadcast, the band won by a significant margin.
• Frank Beard is the only band member who doesn't have a beard.
• Is the only rock band to have the same band members for three decades.
• Marilyn Manson talks of how when he befriended Dave Navarro he had to try to keep him from giving him a blow job, and that he and former bassist Twiggy Ramirez bought hookers and had sex with them to the songs of ZZ Top's album Eliminator.