Billy F Gibbons: Rock + Roll Gearhead

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Book Description The ZZ Top frontman offers fans an exclusive look at his multifaceted interests and collections. Gibbons riffs on his childhood and adolescence in Texas, a recording career that has now spanned nearly four decades, and his life on the road, in which he has shared the stage with the likes of Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. The Good Reverend also profiles many of his favorite personal artifacts, revealing the tales behind dozens of guitars and outstanding rods, customs, and daily drivers, including Kopperhed, CadZZilla, and the Eliminator coupe.

Just Customz Review

There can't be many car, guitar or rock enthusiasts that haven't heard of ZZ-Top in most places in the world. This book is about Billy F Gibbons the ZZ-Top front-man and covers his life, cars, guitars and much more.

The first thing you'll notice about this book is its size, it is a large hard-cover book packed with superb pictures documenting the life and passions of Billy F Gibbons' (BFG) life. The book's index reflects this very simply with only 3 chapters The Life, The Cars and The Guitars.

The first chapter entitled 'The Life' gives a fascinating insight into the life of BFG. He talks about how growing up in Texas strongly influenced the music that the create today and describes the music from the Texas/Mexico border as a kind of good, spicy hot soup which feeds his inspiration.

On every page of this chapter there are a couple of pictures ranging from the very early days (even beardless) to the modern day ZZ-Top we all recognise today.

The Cars chapter describes how BFG's love affair with cars started when the won their first beat-up car from a local car dealer. One of his first cars was a 1960's T-Bird "Desafinado" and was one of the 10 best customs in of the early 1960's. From there he went onto build many other cars such as the Eliminator Coupe, Slampala and Kopperhed.

The Car chapter has lots of double page pictures of his most famous cars and bikes that will leave you feeling very envious!

The final chapter is dedicated to his other passion which is guitars. This chapter has a dazzling collection of BFG's guitars from the mild to the extreme.

This is a great book and would be a good buy for any ZZ-Top, Car or Guitar enthusiast, the only problem maybe finding a shelf big enough to put it on.