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ZZ Top bass player Elwood Francis has moved past explaining why he whipped out a massive 17-string bass guitar onstage with the classic rock band. Now, he's frankly admitted which YouTuber inspired ...

Billy Gibbons revealed that the next ZZ Top album will feature late bassist Dusty Hill and his replacement Elwood Francis trading licks on several songs. The follow-up to 2012’s La Futura was already ...

ZZ Top’s Elwood Francis—that’s who. The ZZ Top bass player broke one out at the band’s show in Huntsville, Alabama earlier this week on November 5. The musician played the odd-looking instrument when ...

UPDATE (Nov. 16, 2022): ZZ Top's Elwood Francis has now explained why he used the 17-string bass and shared who inspired him to do so. ZZ Top were playing the Mark C. Smith Concert Hall at the Von ...

Rare is the band that can go through 51 years — including 15 studio albums — without a lineup change. But that was ZZ Top — until just three years ago. When Joe “Dusty” Hill, the Texas trio’s bassist ...