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
Heart (band) band later in the year. Nancy kept busy scoring her husband's movies "Jerry Maguire" (1996), "Almost Famous" (2000), "Vanilla Sky" (2001), and "Elizabethtown" (2005). In 1999, Nancy released a solo album, "Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop". Also in 1999, Nancy and Ann undertook their first tour without a backing band. In 2001, Ann participated in the A Walk Down Abbey Road: A Tribute to the Beatles tour, which also featured Todd Rundgren, John Entwistle of the Who, and Alan Parsons. The sisters also appeared at benefits and special events, including the tribute to Brian Wilson at New York's Radio City