Art and cars #8 - Solved! Billy Gibbons and his numerous rods and customs

[Allemano]

With Hendrix? I don't think so. But you might follow the trail you've just found.

There are several session pics showing Hendrix with Winwood.

[Ray B.]

Yes. Somewhere there is one, and my second pic on the same page.

[streamliner]

Could this be Chris Wood of both Traffic and Electric Ladyland?

[streamliner]

...and the 1956 Chevy from which the hood ornament was pulled to make the cover of "Blind Faith".

[Ray B.]

This man, as far as I know, has no connection with Traffic or Hendrix apart from the meeting on the photograph. He isn't british either.

[streamliner]

Then it must be Billy Gibbons before he had hair...

[streamliner]

...and his 1933 Ford "Eliminator", one of the most iconic hot rods ever.  It's got legs and knows how to use them...

[Allemano]

Unbelievable! Great puzzle esp. in particular the choice of pics!!

[Allemano]

But at least he and his former band "The Moving Sidewalks" had been opening act for Jimi Hendrix several times, so, it wasn't their only meating on page two!

[streamliner]

You've probably already found this gem, also:

When we were supporting Jimi, I was sitting in my hotel room one night and practiced a little. Then this dude stuck his head through the door — it was Jimi Hendrix! I felt paralyzed and speechless. He grabbed my guitar, laid down on the floor, looked at the ceiling and played some unbelievable licks, before asking whether I could do stuff like this, too — and then he even stepped it up a notch. Afterwards he showed me some tricks. I learned a lot from him.

There's another night I will never forget. After a show somewhere we were so full of adrenalin still that no one could sleep. Back then, there was no curfew at the venues, which meant you could stay as long as you wanted. It must've been 3 a.m. Jimi's Marshall stacks were still up on-stage, when one of his roadies brought huge sheets of paper, buckets of fluorescent color and two cleaning mops. The paper was hung as a backdrop, the cleaning mops were stuck onto two guitars. Jimi plugged in and went into a furious sound and feedback assault. Again and again he dipped his guitar in the fluorescent color and ecstatically smeared it on the paper. He told me to try it too, and that's what I did. We played until we were dizzy. That was all so bizarre, and you could feel the energy. Needless to say we didn't get anymore sleep that night.

[Ray B.]

But at least he and his former band "The Moving Sidewalks" had been opening act for Jimi Hendrix several times, so, it wasn't their only meating on page two!

Oops! I am a great ZZ Top listener but I never checked the story of the band, I reckon, and just learned of the Moving Sidewalks until recently. My mistake!
The nice part with Billy Gibbons is that you don't have to find pictures of him as a schoolboy or baby to make things a little hard. Just take off most of his beard, the sunglasses and whatever he's got on top of his head and he's another man!

I'll add the Cadzilla to the Eliminator, and be back soon with some pictures.

[Otto Puzzell]

I wouldn't have gotten that in a million years.

[metalshapes]

I wouldn't have gotten that in a million years.

Me neither...

What makes that worse is that we've met, and talked about Hot Rods.. 

[Allemano]

...and he didn't take his beard off? How ill-mannered is that?!

[metalshapes]

...and he didn't take his beard off? How ill-mannered is that?!

   

[Ray B.]

I wouldn't have gotten that in a million years.

Well, what do you say of your Cars and Tuners puzzles I am so fond of? i've spent hours trying to figure who those garage bands were, in vain. Gibbons, at least, is famous.
Revenge !!!