Billy Gibbons: caught by the (face) fuzz.
1 Ready to jump off at the 99th Floor: young Gibbons’ yearbook photo, 1968.
2 “You‘ve got a lot of nerve”: The Moving Sidewalks (Billy, second right) with Jimi Hendrix, Forth Worth, Texas, February 17, 1968.
3 Mudlarks: outtakes (with 4, below) from the Rio Grande Mud album shoot, Texas, August 1971.
4 “Texas, even today, is its own thing, that other country”: ZZ Top (from left) Frank Beard, Billy, Dusty Hill, 1971.
5 “We’re going to take Texas to the world”: Dusty and Billy on the Worldwide Texas Tour, September 1975.
6 “Dusty and I just threw away the razor”: (from left) Hill, Gibbons and the beardless Beard.
7 Las Vegas state of mind: Gibbons with wife Gilligan Stillwater in the Nevada city, 2009.
8 What’s in a name?: Billy and Scotty Moore flank B.B., source of both ZZ and “If he was the King, then we were headed for the Top.”
9 In the shades: Gibbons performing Cheap Sunglasses, on-stage with Jack White, then of The Raconteurs, August 31, 2006.
10 “Hell, we were just having a good time”: Gibbons with his Gibson Les Paul, on-stage in 1980.