Tonight’s featured artist had an expensive hobby that was putting him deep into debt until he used it in a video and could write it off as a business expense.  Any guess the artist or the hobby?

Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top estimates that he spent about $250,000 buying and restoring the car, and was deep in debt on the vehicle. By putting the Eliminator in the ZZ Top video for ‘Gimme All Your Lovin’, the car became a business expense, and thus a write-off. The car was also used on the album cover and became a personification of the band.

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