ZZ Top were playing the Mark C ... Watch the video down toward the bottom of this post. Francis' 17-string bass guitar headstock clearly says Fender, but we're assuming it's a creation custom ...

ZZ Top bassist Elwood Francis has now explained why he whipped out a massive 17-string bass guitar onstage with the long-running classic rock band last week. Francis, formerly a stage technician ...

Francis joined the ZZ Top last following the death of bassist Dusty Hill. Since then, the musician, who had served as the group’s longtime guitar ... to whether the 17-string bass will be ...

But the band has carried on without him, with longtime guitar ... ZZ Top began their set with a run through “Got Me Under Pressure,” Francis was playing a comically huge 17-string electric ...

Dusty Hill left some big shoes to fill in ZZ Top and Elwood Francis is doing a grand job, but we didn't see this coming; the band's former tech and current bassist used a 17-string bass guitar to ...

he recently told GW) and keeping one of rock’s most amusing guitar collections in operable shape. He moved on to bass ...

ZZ Top’s Elwood Francis—that’s who ... “I was doing night internet searching [and] turned up a picture of this crazy 17-string bass. I sent a picture to Billy and we laughed about it ...

In 2022, ZZ Top guitar tech-turned-bassist Francis Elwood made headlines throughout the guitar press and beyond when he whipped out an almighty 17-string bass guitar with the Texas blues-rock legends.

But when Billy Gibbons came calling, it led to a wild adventure that’s seen Francis go from restringing “pain in the ass” fuzzy guitars to brandishing a 17-string bass for ZZ Top.

Or, should that be ‘mane attraction’, because this four-string inaugurated ... Z model electric guitar with a matching look too. It’s a look that only ZZ Top could pull off. Only they would dare. Hill ...

“Are we havin’ a good time tonight?” asked ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons rhetorically on stage last week in Gary, Indiana as the group’s “Elevation” tour reached the new Hard Rock Live ...