![]() SAGAL: But, you know, I felt kind of shy about that. SAGAL: Well that's what I loved about you guys when I first saw your music, first saw your music on videos. But when we started later doing videos and whatnot - I mean, we weren't exactly a long-hair, pretty group, so we kind of went that way. M: But I mean - so that was just an accident. M: So, you can read into that whatever you want. M: But anyway, when we got together for rehearsals, Billy's beard was considerably longer and so was mine, and Frank Beard had just shaved. M: Yeah, exactly, and we wouldn't answer that anyway. ![]() SAGAL: Neither of you said, hey why does your voice sound weirdly muffled lately? So, I had just let my beard grow because I didn't care and evidently, Billy did, too, but it did not come up in conversation. And we traveled independently and we talked over the telephone but not in person. Finally, we took what we thought was about three or four months off, and it turned into a lot longer. M: We were on the road for over 300 days a year for a year or so. Was that something that just happened - that you said, oh, let's grow long beards - or was it like, an intentional decision for the look or. You both have very long beards that everybody has seen from your many videos in the '80s and later. SAGAL: So, we'll start right in with the beards. The third, of course, is the drummer Frank Beard who, of course, is the only one without a beard. You, of course, are two of the three members of the band. We are joined now by Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons, better known as two-thirds of the band ZZ Top. SAGAL: And I said to myself, man, have I got to get to Texas. And they were sort of supervising as these custom dragsters delivered gorgeous models around to solve guys' problems. We ask them to play a game called "Not my Job." So a while ago - a long while ago - I was a teenager in New Jersey watching MTV, and on came these videos of these three guys in sunglasses, two of them with amazing beards, and they were playing hard-driving blues rock. Fox, you know, that’s like saying ‘I’m going to cook you a steak dinner and I’m going to hold the beef.’ You can’t do that.And now, the game where we ask people who've done a lot to do one more thing. “The idea of making another Back to the Future movie without Michael J. Fox is not in the best of shape with his Parkinson’s,” Gale said in 2018. Zemeckis and Back to the Future co-creator Bob Gale have been been adamant that a fourth movie will never happen. ZZ Top are touring with Cheap Trick this summer, but don’t expect to hear “Doubleback.” They haven’t touched it in concert since 1991.īack to the Future, meanwhile, remains one of the few classic movie franchises from the 1980s that hasn’t been revived in recent years. The complete, electric version of “Doubleback” played over the final credits of Back to the Future Part III and appeared on their 1990 LP Recycler, but not on the Back to the Future Part III soundtrack. In between takes, they’d sit and play blues on the acoustic guitars and have mini jam sessions. “They have the beards and everything, as advertised. “We wanted to put a little spin on it, so we were able to convince ZZ Top to come down and put some period clothes on and come and play with the band.” “We didn’t just want a classic fiddle band,” Back to the Future Part III director Robert Zemeckis said. But once they started jamming with the fiddle band, they had a lot of fun. ![]() When the band first showed up on set, some members of the crew saw their beards and thought they were merely extras dressed up for the time period. (And ignore the fact the few bits of dialogue aren’t in English - this was the best version on YouTube.) ZZ Top play an acoustic version of their song “Doubleback” with a large fiddle band as much of the town dances. It comes about halfway through the movie when Marty and Doc, trapped in 1885, attend a festival in the center of Hill Valley celebrating the dedication of the town’s new clock tower. One moment the film will hopefully touch on is their brief, but memorable appearance in Back to the Future Part III. The film - which traces their 50-year saga from their earliest days gigging around Houston through their period as MTV-era superstars and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees - premieres August 13th at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood and will play all over the country in the fall. ZZ Top rolled out the trailer for their upcoming documentary ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas earlier this week.
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