Texas Band Turned Down Millions Of Dollars To Shave

I'd shave for $100 dollars or even $10. Hell, a couple of beers would work. These Texas rockers turned down a cool 3 million.

You've probably already figured out who the band is but, just in case you haven't, let me just throw it out there. It's that little 'ole band from Texas - ZZ Top.

Their beards aren't "paid for", like a boob job or botox, they're natural. They did, however, give up a fortune to keep them.

It was $1 million per man, which means drummer and totally beardless member Frank Beard, (ironic name, huh?), would have been way overpaid. Billy and Dusty had the big beard thing going and stood to make a fat wad of cash from the Gillette corporation to do some serious manscaping. But, no.

Billy Gibbons recently confirmed this long standing rumor that, apparently, the Gillette corporation has even tried to deny. Or, so Billy says in this clip. Whether they have or not, The Reverend Willie G has never lied to us before so, I'm with him.

Cue into about 39:19 to hear Billy confirm this, hairy, urban legend.

When bassist Dusty Hill passed away in 2021, he named his own successor ... ZZ Top guitar tech Elwood Francis. This was shortly after the pandemic, during which Elwood had, (coincidentally?), grown a bigass beard of his own.

At least when he got and accepted the offer to fill Dusty's shoes; he looked the part.  When asked how the beards came about in the first place, Billy summed that up for Dan Rather in one word ...

The original lineup of ZZ Top held together for over 50 years, unchanged. An amazing feat in and of itself especially since those 5 decades of stability took place in a world of chaotic and unstable change that ZZ Top weathered calmly.

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From the hippie movement to Charles Manson. From rock n roll to Punk, Metal and MTV. From a giant wall to a unified Germany and the fall of communism; as the world turned crazily, ZZ Top held steady and dependable. To each other but, moreso, to us.

With barely even a trim.