Bill Mack Ham (b. 1937) is the former manager, producer, and image-maker for ZZ Top from its inception in the late 1960s until 2006. He started the band with Billy Gibbons and then helped Gibbons find the other two members, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. Ham was born in Waxahachie, Texas in 1937. Ham is widely known to be instrumental to this band's success, in much the same way that George Martin was to the Beatles--or, perhaps more appropriately, … Wikipedia
Career: Guitarist Billy Gibbons met his future manager, Waxahachie native Bill Mack Ham, backstage at a Doors concert in Houston in 1967. www.famoustexans.com/zztop.htm
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