Shadowing Practice: Billy Gibbons on Frank Beard and ZZ Top | R.I.P. Frank Beard - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Dusty Hill, my bearded partner, we still can't figure out how Frank Beard, the man with no beard,
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managed to weave his way.
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He can go to the shopping mall undisturbed, unmolested.
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Well, I want to talk to you about that.
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I don't know of any parallel to that, not just in music, but I can't think of it anywhere.
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I think that it probably rivals some marriages.
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We're constantly asked what might be the secret behind the scenes.
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The answer is quite simple.
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We really enjoy getting to do what we get to do.
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Let me start by asking a question I'm sure you've never been asked before.
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Tell me the story of the beard.
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One word, lazy.
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We started ZZ Top in 1969.
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We carried on without stop up until the bicentennial year of 76.
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And at that time, we were looking at an invitation to join the ranks of the Warner Brothers group.
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And it was the decision by management to take a brief
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break after literally seven years of non-stop touring maybe a 90-day hiatus would give us a little breathing room
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which turned into 120 days later it was one year and we all kind of scattered keeping in touch only by telephone.
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Now it's two years running and all the machinations to join the ranks of Warner Brothers were still underway.
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Meantime as I mentioned the word lazy came in.
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Now there's one telltale photograph.
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Our first official release for Warner Brothers contained a photograph on the little sleeve inside the 12-inch long playing album.
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Actually, the only evidence of Frank Beard with a beard is hiding inside of that Degueo record.
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He quickly grabbed the razor and went to town,
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but Dusty and I, what started out as a disguise turned into a trademark.

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