Billy Gibbons Talks About Texas Culture | The Big Interview with Dan Rather

Another story on how they got the name is producer Bill 'Billy Mac' Ham used to tell his friends in Waxahachie growing up, 'im tired of being poor, im going to the top!" he told Charlie Deal over and over, so when he saw stars in Billys talent in the Moving Sidewalks, it may have played into what Billy said..there are so many stories. Bill Ham really made this band what it became.

I can't remember where we were goin' but, I know the band i was with was ridin' in an early 80's Chevy Suburban. We got to a stop sign, maybe a red light there in La Grange & the fiddle/mandolin carryin' fella put his head & shoulders out the window to listen.
He sighed with disbelief that the town didn't have that tune playin' through a PA on a loop.

ZZ Top zig-zag papers and top tobacco

Pan Am Highway and Heartbreaker are two of my favorite ZZ Top masterpieces

Blacky's Blind IN IT..!! GDAY TEXAS..!!
G'DAY AMERICA !!
HI CANADA !!
HAPPY 73RD BILLY. !!!! 🇦🇺

I'm always wanting to hear Billy's voice

this is the man Jimi Hendricks said was the best guitarist in the world.

An awesome person and an awesome musician, along with his 2 colleagues (r.i.p. Dusty).

it is so weird to see Billy Gibbons without sunglasses

REV?😳

Jman

Two Texas Legends: Dan Rather and Billy Gibbons.
(Dan Rather took over the CBS anchor job from one more Texas Legend: Walter Cronkite)

I'm warming up to Texas,more & more,used to be scared shitless back in the seventies,when I was a young man with hair to the middle of my back,STAY Out of Texas !!! ( I had a DON'T Tread on me attitude) !!!

Here 'in texas I remember seeing a red neck at the dope house buying some weed.i was like what the hell.😂😂😂

November 30, 1976 Tulsa Tulsa Assembly Center - I couldn't get tickets, but I went to the Cimmaron Hotel and partied with them in the penthouse. 😀

Didn't know Billy got eyes

When I was a kid they played here in Houston and the radio promo guy said (Houston your band is coming home) I didn't know why but it gave me goosebumps...now I know why... They will bury me here

Billy Gibbons attended the Warner Brothers' art school in Hollywood, California. His father was an entertainer, orchestra conductor, and concert pianist who worked for Samuel Goldwyn at MGM Studios.
He didn't get there by talent alone. His manager was Bill Hamstein.

Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitar player

texas SUCKS.

What a cool guy and incredible musician.

I whish I can meet him. A big fan of zz

I was staying at the same hotel in Soho, London as this great man, 2 weeks ago when I was down for an Iron Maiden gig at the O2. Walked into the hotel restaurant for breakfast and he was sitting there with that exact hat on! I didn't bother him although I wash had told him how dirty, gritty and incredible the opening line of the live version of Jesus Just Left Chicago is. Can't get enough of that song and a whole lot of others by his amazing band. Legends.

Texas is full of fake christian sex cultists. I never wanted to go near texas.

Dan Rather is 91 years young! Born in 1931. Dang.

rolling papers zig zag and top both were used to smoke weed thats what we heard many years ago in Houston

Promo`SM 😉

Who's marrell Haggard???

My favorite. Wor out many zz top albums cassettes 8 tracks 😊

I've never seen an interview with him, and not terribly surprised to find him so articulate and relaxed.
Saw him 20 plus years ago, in Reno with George thorogood- and actually stumbled on him in the circle k. Dude was wearing that matador suit The kooshball hat, and damn right sunglasses.

"The walls have come down." And currently being put back up in Texas. Shame, shame that they didn't listen to the Rev.

I’ve seen ZZ Top quite a few times in my life but I missed the La Grange show which I really regret. Because that is the only time they’ve ever played there and now that Dusty Hill has passed on I will never be the same again. Hey Dusty rest in peace and thank you for all the memories and great music and I will always play the top as long as I’m living

Some of us Old Pros still call him the professor

Not much going on in LaGrannge??? Weikel's Czech bakery, Billy!

Love these guys from TX

The first album I bought in 1979, in cassette form was El loco. These guys are absolute musical geniuses

That interview was Lowdown in the Street.

God love ya Billy Gibbons. ZZ Top are sooo talented.

I had always heard that their name came from Zig-Zag & Top rolling papers?

For being so redneck now the new country music sucks. It's pop music. I

Got to love Texas Music. Eeee haaaa

I love Billy's voice. So warm confidental. R.I.P. Dusty.

God bless Billy Gibbons!

I cant think of a player with better tone

Wonderful guy, great musician ❤

Ironic how they talk about the walls coming down in Texas in the 70's. But Fast Forward to 2023 50 years later in most of the "United States" they still put Non Violent, Non Criminal people in jail for smoking pot. And it's all because of REDNECK MENTALITY (MAGA Supporters) that this is still happening today. They put people in jail to MAKE MONEY, not to stop a Violent Crime and save an innocent victim.

We’re all supposed to accept Dan rather as the gentle old retired journalist now. The guy was a tool of the cia his whole career. Total fake new establishment shill piece of shit

Texas isn’t what it used to be

Marijuana rolling papers, ZZ Top.

Dope... Idiot

It was dubbed... Cosmic Cowboy.
And we still exist.
KEEP ROCKIN'❤❤❤