ZZ Top equipment ZZ Top equipment This is the musical equipment used by the members of the hard rock/blues rock band ZZ Top. Gibbons' most famously known guitar is the white spinning fur guitar made by Dean Zelinsky of Dean Guitars (and matching bass played by ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill) featured in the 1983 "Legs" music video. Billy Gibbons' choice of electric guitars has primarily been Gibson. His first guitar was a sunburst 1962 Gibson Melody Maker. In 1968 Gibbons acquired the instrument most associated with the sound and style of ZZ Top, when he purchased a sunburst 1959 Gibson Les Paul
The Tripp in May 1967 to play with Ricky James Matthews in The Mynah Byrds and then Bruce Cockburn’s band, The Flying Circus. Dennis Pendrith from Simon Caine & The Catch replaced him and later that month the band changed name again to Livingston’s Tripp and then Livingston’s Journey. ^Bob Ablack "I Don’t Love You" / "I Can Tell" (Quality 1738) 1965 - single The Tripp The Tripp, known earlier as The Just Us and later Livingston's Journey, was a Canadian rock band, based in Toronto, Ontario from the mid-1960s, featuring Neil Merryweather and Stan Endersby. Keyboard player Ed Roth, drummer Bob