All of ZZ Top’s Shure UR4D wireless systems are housed in vintage tobaccos tins found in antique stores by technician Elwood Francis. Hill and Gibbons once had real bullets in their instrument straps until airport customs confiscated them, so they filled those holes with $2 bills for now.











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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Shop Scott's Rig



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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.









