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A sturdy American blues-rock trio from Tx, ZZ Top specialized in down-and-dirty blues-rock through the ’70s, then scored colorful MTV hits through the 1980s. Created in Houston in 1970 by Billy Gibbons (acoustic guitar), Dusty Hill (bass), and Frank Beard (drums), the trio originated from a set of rival rings …

Although world sees ZZ Top like a trio, everyone from the band — like the members themselves — attended to see the group like a quartet with supervisor/maker Bill Ham sharing equal billing. Inside a business filled with eccentrics, oddballs, and control freaks, Ham could very well be the granddaddy …