While that offer was definitely not still on the table for this new charity stunt, the members of the band were still pretty sure there would be more than $14.75 worth of interest in the shaving of their faces. The band turned the offer down, foolishly if you ask me, claiming that they’d be making that kind of money well into their 110s and that nobody wanted to see their ugly-ass mugs anyway. This is far removed from the band’s most legendary moment, where in 1984 the shaving company Gillette offered ZZ Top ONE MILLION DOLLARS to shave their faces as a mutually beneficial advertising campaign for both parties, proving not only how expert Gillette’s shaving devices were but also that a band as hip as the Top would use their blades to handle the deed. It was a truly the most unfortunate day for the classic rock trio who had once ruled, if not the airwaves, at least the public consciousness. There were children crying everywhere and a complete and total lack of facial hair. “A measly $14.75? Our concert tickets cost like ten times that amount,” he elaborated angrily before presenting an oversized check to the Hair 4 Tots Foundation. “$14.75? Are you f*cking kidding me?” says ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons in response to the financial totals he received from he and Dusty Hill having shaved off their beards for charity. So when the documentary 'ZZ Top: That Little Old Band From Texas' is released on DVD this Friday, youll get to hear drummer Frank Beard recount, in great detail, his love of drugs in the 70s, particularly heroin, and especially after ZZ Top hit it big in the late 70s and he spent his first giant paycheck, for 72,000, all on drugs.
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