On Friday, Beard and Gibbons played their first ZZ Top show without Dusty, revealing he was on “a short detour back to Texas, to address a hip issue”.
Hill had suffered a number of health scares in recent years – in 2000, ZZ Top cancelled a European tour after he was diagnosed with Hepatitis C. Joseph Michael (Dusty) Hill, musician, singer and songwriter, born died 27. According to Ultimate Classic Rock, the day in question was December 16, 1984. He is survived by his wife, the actor Charleen McCrory, whom he married in 2002, and a daughter, Charity. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. If you spend your time agonising over the past, in the end you get badly beaten up psychologically.' Its 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. The trio celebrated its 50th anniversary at a San Antonio, Texas concert in February, 2020.Īs a member of ZZ Top, Hill appeared on hits like Tush, La Grange, Sharp Dressed Man, Gimme All Your Lovin’, Legs, I Gotsta Get Paid, Got Me Under Pressure, and Rough Boy. Hill and Beard formed a band in the late 1960s and moved to Houston, where they eventually joined Gibbons’ ZZ Top.
That way we were always glad to see each other when we got to the next city. We got separate tour buses early on, when we probably couldn’t afford them. “People ask how we’ve stayed together so long,” he told The Charlotte Observer in 2015.
And they remained close friends, even after 50 years of near-constant touring. Hill and his bandmates kept a low, relatively sober profile. No cause of death was cited for Hill, who played bass for the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers from Texas for more than 50 years. It is unclear whether that had any connection to his death.Ĭontrary to their image - and the hard partying that their music seemed to encourage - Mr. NEW YORK, July 29 Dusty Hill the long-serving bassist of American rock-blues band ZZ Top has died at the age of 72, his fellow band members announced on Facebook yesterday. Although all three members were born in 1949, Gibbons was the youngest member of the band. 12 at the Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center is still scheduled. On July 23, he left their latest tour, citing problems with his hip. Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969, and quickly settled on bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank 'Rube' Beard, both members of the band American Blues.After honing their trademark blues-rock style, they released ZZ Tops First Album on London Records in 1971. After the loss of rock and roll legend Dusty Hill, the ZZ Top show scheduled for Dec. Dusty Hill, the bassist and secondary lead vocalist of the band, died in his Houston home at age 72. He required surgery, and part of the tour had to be canceled. TYLER, Texas (KETK) ZZ Top announced one of their members passed away in his sleep Wednesday. In 2014 he injured his hip after a fall on his tour bus. Information on survivors was not immediately available. Hill married his longtime girlfriend, Charleen McCrory, an actress, in 2002. ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
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