As a gift for Hill, Francis custom-painted a mural of Hill’s hero, Freddie King, on the back of this bass. Francis outfitted the bass with knobs from an old camper, and Francis’ daughter found some rusted metal for the pickguards. Francis says a future project might be painting a B.B. King guitar for Gibbons.











ZZ Top’s guitar and bass tech, Elwood Francis, explains the ins and outs of the newest guitars and basses that Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill have out on the road for 2015.





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Zach loves his Sovtek Mig 60 head, which he plays through a cab he built himself at a pipe-organ shop in Denver. Every glue joint is lined with thin leather for maximum air tightness, and it’s stocked with Celestion G12M Greenback speakers.








