If you see ZZ Top in action in 2025, you’ll witness bassist and former guitar tech Elwood Francis playing an absurd 17-string bass. The late Dusty Hill’s replacement brings out the yellow instrument ...

ZZ Top's Elwood Francis has become a key part of the band's live lineup, but he has one major regret about his performances. That would be having introduced the gigantic bright yellow 17-string bass ...

ZZ Top bassist Elwood Francis has posted an update, introducing the world to his new two-string bass. Francis was formerly the band’s guitar tech: the man tasked with maintaining their fuzzy guitars ( ...

Rare is the band that can go through 51 years — including 15 studio albums — without a lineup change. But that was ZZ Top — until just three years ago. When Joe “Dusty” Hill, the Texas trio’s bassist ...

ZZ Top confirmed that co-founding drummer Frank Beard has now returned to the band after two months of absence. He’s back in time to take part in the North American dates of their current Elevation ...

ZZ Top’s “Raw” is as close to being an accidental album as it gets. The album, which was released in July 2022, is drawn from a session at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas, in which ...

The rock band known as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas" is making its way to the Ozarks this fall. ZZ Top is performing at the Black Oak Amphitheater in Lampe on Sunday, Oct. 6, as part of the band's ...

Billy Gibbons uttered a phrase about ZZ Top many times over many years, adapting it every so often to acknowledge the passing of time: “Three guys, three chords, (some number) of years.” The counter ...

ZZ Top confirmed that drummer Frank Beard has taken a leave of absence from the band's 2025 tour for health reasons. "Mr. Frank Beard has temporarily stepped away from the current tour to attend a ...