20 Things You Somehow Missed In Back To The Future Part 3

16. ZZ Top Plays The Town Band

Back to the Future Part 3
Universal

You'll likely be aware that legendary rock outfit ZZ Top provided the song "Doubleback" on the film's soundtrack, but you might've missed that the band themselves appear in the movie too.

Despite their distinctive look, they rather blend into the ambience of the Hill Valley Festival, playing hairy members of a fiddle band who perform, would you guess it, an Old West-style version of Doubleback. In a recent interview, bassist Dusty Hill recounted the experience:

"We stopped by the set one night. I can't remember where it was, somewhere out in California. They built a whole damn Western town. It was really cool. Anyway, they were doing all-night shooting, so we stopped by at midnight or 1AM and they were shooting this scene. They broke for lunch and I remember that I made sure I was sitting over there by Robert Zemeckis, the director. I kept saying, 'You know, it looks like we belong in this movie! I mean, you don't hardly even need to use makeup on us!' They already had a band, so they just added the three of us."
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