<P> ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 . </P> <P> The original line - up was formed in Houston and consisted of Gibbons, organist Lanier Greig (died February 2013) and drummer Dan Mitchell . </P> <P> The name of the band was Gibbons' idea . The band had a little apartment covered with concert posters and he noticed that many performers' names used initials . Gibbons particularly noticed B.B. King and Z.Z. Hill and thought of combining the two into "ZZ King", but considered it too similar to the original name . He then figured that "king is going at the top" which brought him to "ZZ Top". </P> <P> ZZ Top was managed by Bill Ham, a Waxahachie, Texas native, who had befriended Gibbons a year earlier . They released their first single, "Salt Lick", in 1969, and the B - side contained the song "Miller's Farm". Both songs were credited to Gibbons . Immediately after the recording of "Salt Lick", Greig was replaced by bassist Billy Ethridge, a bandmate of Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Mitchell was replaced by Frank Beard of the American Blues . Due to lack of interest from U.S. record companies, ZZ Top accepted a record deal from London Records . Unwilling to sign a recording contract, Ethridge quit the band and Dusty Hill was selected as his replacement . After Hill moved from Dallas to Houston, ZZ Top signed with London in 1970 . They performed their first concert together at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Beaumont on February 10 . </P>

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