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Career: Guitarist Billy Gibbons met his future manager, Waxahachie native Bill Mack Ham, backstage at a Doors concert in Houston in 1967. Gibbons' band at the time, the Moving Sidewalks, had a local hit with the song "99th Floor." They soon opened on the Doors' Texas tour. After later opening for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hendrix named Gibbons his favorite guitar player during an appearance on "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson." The Sidewalks broke up and Gibbons and Ham contracted to form a new band
Billy Gibbons admired by Jimi Hendrix ..Jimmys "Favirote"..The band I was in covered ZZ Top really well .. Songs we did over the years were .. Master of Sparks,, Beer Drinkers Hell Raiser,,Just Got Paid ,,La Grange,Tush ,,.. We had a monster guitar player ..
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