How old is dusty hill

When Rocky formed a band called the Starliners, he needed a bass player and recruited Dusty, who had been learning to play the cello at the local Woodrow Wilson high school.

Dusty found himself onstage in a Dallas bar, working out how to play bass as he went along. In Dusty and Beard moved to Houston, where they joined Gibbons, who had been in the Dallas-based psychedelic band the Moving Sidewalks, and replaced existing members of his newly-formed ZZ Top.

Hill had suffered several health problems. In , he was accidentally shot in the abdomen when his girlfriend pulled off his boot, causing his Derringer pistol to fall out and discharge itself. In they had to reschedule dates after he injured his hip in a fall on their tour bus. Earlier this month when he needed medical treatment for his hip, he was replaced on stage by their guitar technician, Elwood Francis.

He is survived by his wife, the actor Charleen McCrory, whom he married in , and a daughter, Charity. Dusty Hill obituary. Bassist known for his inventive playing with the multiplatinum-selling band ZZ Top. Read more. Named in part for Texas blues singer ZZ Hill, the band played some of their first shows at cafeterias, Knights of Columbus halls, lumber yards and a National Guard armoury. Hill had been influenced by Jack Bruce, the adventurous bassist for Cream, but said he learned to take a more minimalist approach to his instrument while playing with a trio.

In the mids, ZZ Top staged the Worldwide Texas Tour, performing on a Texas-shaped stage home to wagon wheels, corral fences, cacti and live animals including rattlesnakes, vultures, a longhorn and buffalo.

In a interview with The Washington Post , Hill and Gibbons recalled that they each started growing their famously long beards during a three-year break from touring in the late s, without realising that the other person was doing it. By the time their music videos started airing on MTV, the beards were an essential part of their stage persona. Hill said there was no question of ever shaving, even if he were to retire.

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