![]() The late musician played keyboard, bass and even served as the secondary lead vocalist. Born Joseph Michael Hill on May 19, 1949, the Dallas, Texas native grew up in the Lakewood neighborhood. THE music industry is mourning the loss of one of their own. He has also maintained a solo career in recent years, starting with his first album Perfectamundo (2015). ![]() ![]() He formed the band with Billy Gibbons in 1969. Dusty Hill Was A Founding Member Of ZZ Top. Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969 and released ZZ Tops First Album in early 1971. Maybe it’s just because we got out of town on time.” The original recording was Gibbons solo with co-writer Linden Hudson playing bass on a synth (and, yeah, that’s a drum machine), but when ZZ Top played it live, Gibbons and Hill would trade lyrics, making the tableau described in the song a sort of twisted ménage à trois that would confound even Freud. Dusty was a part of ZZ Top for more than four decades. “And if not, whose was it? Well, fortunately that kind of pressure we’re not under. “Everybody asks if ‘Under Pressure’ was about a girlfriend of mine,” Gibbons told Spin in 1985. By the time he’s ready for a break, in the song’s bridge, he expects her to beat him up and leave him in a ditch when he tells her it’s over, but hey, such was the imaginary life of ZZ Top in 1983. The band played at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater in Alabama on Friday, and at Wild Adventures, in Valdosta, Georgia on Saturday. All he’s capable of is trying to keep up with her predilections for French food, art museums, and having sex in cars while wearing London Fog slickers. ZZ Top have played their first live shows since the death of bassist Dusty Hill last week. ![]() “Tush” (1975)īilly Gibbons never explains how he hooked up with a hoity-toity dominatrix cokehead in the Eliminator hit “Got Me Under Pressure,” because she got him so stressed out. If the guy’s got good wine, it’s OK.” The way the song seamlessly segued into Hombres’ bar rocker “Jesus Just Left Chicago” as if nothing happened made for one of the best one-two punches in the history of road rock. The thing about a bus is who you have to sit beside. “You can meet some very unique people on a bus and in a bus station,” Hill told Spin in 1985. The Homeric track that opened their iconic Tres Hombres album starts with a thin, precise bluesy guitar lick and a tight, sighing drum line that foreshadows the band’s electro-blues era, setting up Gibbons and Hill to plead for compassion in concert: “Have mercy!” Gibbons goes on to explain they’ve been waiting for the bus all day, with a bottle of booze and some leftover scratch, but, horror of horrors, when the bus arrives, it’s “packed up tight.” Blues harp virtuoso James Harman takes a solo, and by the time the song finishes up, the ZZ guys are dreaming of getting a Cadillac someday (fast forward to Eliminator ). “You will be missed greatly, amigo,” Beard’s and Gibbons’s statement added.Poor ZZ Top, they just wanted to get home. You may have even seen him on screen in various appearances such as “Back to the Future Part III” and on “Deadwood.” The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. “Per Dusty’s request, ‘The show must go on!” the band had written in a statement.Īlthough Gibbons was the lead vocalist for most of the band’s songs, Hill stepped up to sing “Tush,” an early hit. Charleen first revealed that Hill suffered from chronic bursitis, but her post brought even. Hill’s death surprised many, who only heard some passing mentions of hip pain that would keep him from ZZ Top performances per Hill’s wishes, the show would go on. The band’s longtime guitar tech, Elwood Francis, stepped in for Hill. The late Dusty Hill, husband of actress Charleen McCrory / Flickr Elvis Kennedy. Last week, the band’s official site shared that Hill was being sidelined due to a “hip issue.” Hill was born in Dallas, and after trying to break into the music scene there, he eventually moved to Houston, where he met Gibbons. Among their most famous hits are “La Grange,” “Tush” and “Gimme All Your Lovin’.” Hill performed alongside Beard and Gibbons and together they went on to have a string of hits and put out 15 studio albums. Hill joined not long after, staying with ZZ Top for more than five decades, until his death. “We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans around the world, will miss your steadfast presence, your good nature and enduring commitment to providing that monumental bottom to the ‘Top’.” “We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX,” the statement, from surviving members Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons, said. His rep confirmed the musician’s death, but said a cause of death was currently. Dusty Hill, the bearded bassist with American blues-rock band ZZ Top, has died, according to the band’s official website. ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill, who played with the Texas blues-rock trio for over 50 years, died Tuesday at age 72.
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