According to Ultimate Classic Rock, the day in question was December 16, 1984. They won a number of MTV Video Music Awards during the 1980s, but their popularity declined through the 1990s. If you spend your time agonising over the past, in the end you get badly beaten up psychologically.' It's a heck of an attitude, and likely something that served him well when speaking of agonizing he accidentally shot himself in the ZZ Middle with a derringer. ZZ Top is perhaps best known for hits from its 1983 album Eliminator - "Gimme All Your Lovin,'" "Sharp Dressed Man," "Legs" and "Got Me Under Pressure. His death comes less than a week after the band announced he was leaving their current tour "to address a hip issue." The Dallas native also sang lead and backing vocals and played keyboards. Hill joined the band in 1970 - replacing previous bassists Billy Ethridge and Lanier Greig - shortly after the band's formation in 1969. We will forever be connected to that 'Blues Shuffle in C.' "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'. That look - with all three members wearing dark sunglasses and the two frontmen sporting long, wispy beards - became so iconic as to be the subject of a New Yorker cartoon and a joke on “The Simpsons."We are saddened by the news today that our compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX," Beard and Gibbons wrote in a post on the band's website. When I first saw them, I thought, ‘I hope these guys are not on the run, because that disguise is not going to work.’”
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These cats know their blues and they know how to dress it up. In a Facebook post, bandmates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard. 12 at the Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center is still scheduled.
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Said Rolling Stones lead guitarist Keith Richards in introducing the band to the Hall: “These cats are steeped in the blues, so am I. ZZ Top has announced that Hill, one of the Texas blues trios bearded figures and bassist, has died at his Houston home. After the loss of rock and roll legend Dusty Hill, the ZZ Top show scheduled for Dec. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. The band’s 1976 “Worldwide Texas Tour,” with its iconic Texas-shaped stage festooned with cactuses, snakes and longhorn cattle, was one of the decade’s most successful rock tours.
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The band went on to chart the hits “Tush” in 1975, “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Legs” and “Gimme All Your Lovin’” in 1983, and “Rough Boy” and “Sleeping Bag” in 1985. Three years later it scored its breakthrough hit, “La Grange,” which is an ode to the Chicken Ranch, a notorious brothel outside of a Texas town by that name. The band released its first album, titled “ZZ Top’s First Album,” in 1970. They didn’t give a cause of death, but a July 21 post on the band’s website said Hill was “on a short detour back to Texas, to address a hip issue.”Īt that time, the band said its longtime guitar tech, Elwood Francis, would fill in on bass, slide guitar and harmonica.īorn Joe Michael Hill in Dallas, he, Gibbons and Beard formed ZZ Top in Houston in 1969. In their Facebook post, guitarist Billy Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard said Hill died in his sleep. HOUSTON > ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill, one of the Texas blues rock trio’s bearded figures, died at his Houston home, the band announced today.