Dusty Hill, ZZ Top Bassist, Dead at 72

[Big_D]

RIP Dusty! A great band together for 50+ years lost an irreplaceable member... very sad news!

 

[Cowpolk]

RIP Dusty! A great band together for 50+ years lost an irreplaceable member... very sad news!

I'm not 100% sure but from a couple of articles I read the show will go on ZZ TOP will continue to tour.

 

[Roadtrip635]

Incredibly sad day, feels like an old friend passed away.........

 

[rags]

Not the biggest fan but I did enjoy what I have heard. Actually they were my first concert. Don't remember the year just that the Black Crowes were the opening act.

Wish I could have seen that one.

 

[The Fonz]

Sad news RIP Dusy ......ZZ top won't be the same without you

 

[rags]

Sad news RIP Dusy ......ZZ top won't be the same without you

I'm surprised to hear that they're going to keep touring without him.

 

[triplets_93]

Dusty singing

 

[Vtwin]

I may find out if my neighbors like ZZ TOP I know they are hearing Rio Grande Mud right now

First song I pulled up on hearing this sad news was "Sure Got Cold, After the Rain Fell".

 

[lukin2006]

RIP,
I saw them w times…very good and very entertaining…

 

[big dog cowboy]

RIP Dusty. Sad news. Saw them just twice in concert.

 

[CouchCoach]

One of my favorite ZZ Top experiences was seeing them at The Warehouse in New Orleans on the Tres Hombres tour and they let it fly. Frank Beard did not stop hittin' the skins, he'd just change the tempo and they'd keep playing until they had played that entire album but not in order, they saved La Grange for last and I have never seen a Warehouse crowd that raucous, everyone was dancing and playing air guitar back at Billy and he was playing with us. Special night.

KZEW had a special concert at UT-Arlington with Charlie Daniels was the mid act and headlined by ZZ Top with this little known opener that was in no way a compatible act with these two acts. He came out in a black suit, white shirt, black tie and white tinnypumps and you could feel the crowd shifting in their seats but at the end of his set, they were no longer in their seats, they were standing and yelling.

When ZZ Top comes out after Charlie has played, Charlie hangs out as he's going to play the first song with them and Billy said to Charlie "Hey Charlie, maybe they should have had the kid in the second spot" and Charlie doesn't miss a beat and snaps back "Billy, the kid might oughta be headlining the show". The crowd loved it and they were laughing and both told the audience to keep their eye on the kid, he was going places. That was Billy "the Kid" Joel. Who actually had The Legend of Billy the Kid on his sophomore album, Piano Man.

Said a lot about those two artists spending some time to give a boost up to a fellow artist just starting out and trying to find his way. Especially when his music was completely different than theirs.

Some will feel it is wrong for the band to continue without Dusty Hill but fail to think what he would want. ZZ Top is a far greater whole than the sum of it's parts and what Billy and Frank want should be considered as well.

But, another large part of the music died for me with the passing of Dusty Hill as they've been a part of my life for 50 years and opened me up to investigate the music that inspired them, the Blues and Texas Roadhouse.

 

[Big_D]

I'm not 100% sure but from a couple of articles I read the show will go on ZZ TOP will continue to tour.

For people touring their entire lives, you got to just keep plugging away. Hopefully they bring in some guest bassists.. be a great way to honor Dusty.

 

[CouchCoach]

For people touring their entire lives, you got to just keep plugging away. Hopefully they bring in some guest bassists.. be a great way to honor Dusty.

He will be special and a vocalist as well. The best 3 man band and that includes some good ones like Grand Funk and Rush will honor Dusty well.

 

[Cowpolk]

Incredibly sad day, feels like an old friend passed away.........

He was a childhood friend He was almost 6 years older than me but I remember I was bigger than him

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

RIP

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

I'm not 100% sure but from a couple of articles I read the show will go on ZZ TOP will continue to tour.

A lot of bands can get by with it, but I don't think ZZ-Top is one of them. ZZ Top is Gibbons, Hill and Beard.

 

[Roadtrip635]

A lot of bands can get by with it, but I don't think ZZ-Top is one of them. ZZ Top is Gibbons, Hill and Beard.

It wouldn't be the same, like the Reverend Billy Gibbons was fond of saying "same 3 guys, same 3 chords"

 

[The Fonz]

I'm surprised to hear that they're going to keep touring without him.

Me too but maybe it s the best way for them to keep the memories alive

 

[triplets_93]

Michael Anthony can play and sing, Sammy Hagar be damned!!!

 

[triplets_93]

From a piece done by CBS Sunday Morning in 2019

ZZ Top is "Goin' 50"