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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDusty Hill, bass player for ZZ Top passes away.
He was 72. https://deadline.com/2021/07/dusty-hill-dead-zz-top-bassist-1234801567/
gohuskies
(1,156 posts)ZZ Top has had an amazing run. Dusty will be missed greatly.
ProfessorGAC
(65,127 posts)I can't imagine Billy & Frank going on without him.
RIP, Dusty.
Mr.Bill
(24,311 posts)with the original members.
ProfessorGAC
(65,127 posts)So 52 years with the same members.
Hard to fathom any band beating that.
Whether through argument, death, or ego many long term bands lost a member, or two. But, on they went as a band.
ZZ went 52 years!!! Same 3 guys!
flying rabbit
(4,636 posts)They pointed out that they had been together 4 decades. Rare air. Much applause, damn good show.
Johonny
(20,870 posts)they were a great live act. Just the three of them and it was great.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The members then get into an ego contest about who is most important to the bands success.
The great thing about ZZ is they just liked smashing their Texas Rock and that appeared to be the most important thing to them.
kentuck
(111,106 posts)My favorite boogie band.
lapfog_1
(29,216 posts)signature move
Bayard
(22,121 posts)A sad day.....
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Pass gently, Dusty, and thanks for the decades of great music.
The world just lost a great one!
Uncle Joe
(58,386 posts)Thanks for the thread Mr. Bill
ruet
(10,039 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,311 posts)but for all those who never got to see ZZ Top live. There was nothing like them. I saw them probably over 20 times and they were the real deal.
TheProle
(2,192 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)So much fun
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Goonch
(3,611 posts)brewens
(13,612 posts)around but couldn't make it. For my taste, I saw them in their prime, but I loved the later stuff too. Great show but my ears rang for two days after!
edbermac
(15,942 posts)Rock on, dude.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)I am now and was much too young to die. But video and audio guarantee that he and his band mates will live forever.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
that was the last concert we were supposed to see before the pandemic shut everything down
ZZTop and Def Leppard
GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Traildogbob
(8,788 posts)Sucha NastyWoman
(2,749 posts)That I wont get to do.
Great things come out of Texas sometimes.
But also some of the worst things.
Mr.Bill
(24,311 posts)and visit them sometimes. I must admit the everyday people there are very friendly and nice. It's very easy to get caught up in the whole Texas culture thing. Once I was there and I almost bought a cowboy hat. That was a close call.
ancianita
(36,128 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Escurumbele
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|kentuck
(111,106 posts)Not ZZ with Dusty.
Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)Billy Gibbons guitar tone on the song is fantastic.
RIP Dusty
Hulk
(6,699 posts)ashredux
(2,608 posts)SYFROYH
(34,182 posts)RIP Dusty. I tried to see you before the big sleep. My loss.
kentuck
(111,106 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)the shirts with the old guys on them....
her dad said "This is who we are here to see"
TexasBushwhacker
(20,208 posts)To be honest, since he was diagnosed and treated for Hepatitis C in 2020, I really didn't expect him to make it this long. I'm sure glad he did.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Going to go listen to some tunes.
Liberal In Texas
(13,566 posts)Getting into the limo. Frist thought was who are the guys with the beards....OH, it's THEM!
Bartender said they came in all the time (it was an upscale restaurant.)
Obit said he died in his sleep. No other details.
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,816 posts)kentuck
(111,106 posts)They had about 75 tons of equipment, including long-horn steers and rattlesnakes.
Billy Gibbons had the rattlesnake in a cage below the mic stand and he began his story. "I was on my way to Atlanta Georgia and I ran across this rattlesnake. "Don't step on me Billy! Take me to Atlanta and let me boogie woogie with you!"
I believe that is the show where my eardrums were probably damaged?