Billy Gibbons interview

ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons talks to Josh Leeson ahead of Australian tour.

Transcript

00:00I've been put on point. The lovely Miss Gilligan, she's zeroed in. There's a couple of

00:08high-profile fashion designers, and she said, put your guitar aside. You already know how to play it.

00:16I'm going to send you to the fashion girls and let you buy me some clothes.

00:20Oh, my God.

00:21But we're bringing some loud noise down your way. I'm excited about it.

00:26Well, yeah, we discovered, as most visitors come to find out, the major cities are scattered

00:36along the coastline. And being a fan of the surf, we were absolutely delighted. Now, granted,

00:47it takes a while to get from one town to the next, but it gave us plenty of time to

00:55see the waves. It's really cool. There was a momentary bit of curiosity, but Dusty,

01:05he laid the law down. And he said, listen, he said, I don't know what's up, he said,

01:11but if I'm late coming back to the next wave here, he said, give my guitar to Elwood.

01:18Elwood's been with us for, gosh, three decades, I want to say. In fact, he and Dusty were trading

01:28licks. Elwood started as a guitar player and was, he was learning bass licks and teaching

01:35Dusty bass licks. So between the two of those guys, they had it wired. And I guess the, well,

01:45I'll, I'll, I'll leave it at that. I'll Elwood will be coming along and I think you'll find

01:51the, he's keeping the bottom of the top.