Uploaded August 2013 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Stories of how ZZ Top came up with it's name have floated around the music world for years. Everything from the Z shape on a barn door on property bassist Dusty Hill owned to Zig Zig & Top rolling papers being their favorite medium for smoking weed. Guitarist Billy Gibbons finally gave up the goods in his book Rock and Roll Gear-head and confirmed it on a 2008 interview on KLRU Public Television in Austin, TX.
Stories of how ZZ Top came up with it's name have floated around the music world for years. Everything from the Z shape on a barn door on property bassist Dusty Hill owned to Zig Zig & Top rolling papers being their favorite medium for smoking weed. Guitarist Billy Gibbons finally gave up the goods in his book Rock and Roll Gear-head and confirmed it on a 2008 interview on KLRU Public Television in Austin, TX.
