The world is mourning today for the late, great Dusty Hill of Zz Top, who died Tuesday. He was a beer drinker, hell-raiser, sharp-dressed broom duster, and bassist in the same trio for more than 50 years. But Dusty was more than just a legendary bluesman — he and Zz Top helped define music videos in the early Eighties, conquering MTV with their Eliminator Trilogy. The little ol’ band from Tejas, the most proudly unfashionable rockers around, became MTV’s unlikeliest superstars ever. And they did it without cleaning up their look: beards,...
- 7/29/2021
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Even before they revved themselves up into synth-boosted MTV hitmakers in the Eighties, Zz Top were never an ordinary blues-rock band. After Cream and Jimi Hendrix warped electric blues into psychedelia, Zz Top pulled it back to the dusty ground of Texas, but they weren’t as straight-ahead as they seemed: The rhythm section of drummer Frank Beard and late bassist (and sometime vocalist) Dusty Hill could groove so uncannily hard that a song like “Jesus Just Left Chicago” could feel otherworldly — and then the interdimensional squall of Billy Gibbons’ lead guitar would arrive.
- 7/28/2021
- by David Browne, Kory Grow, Brian Hiatt, Joseph Hudak, Angie Martoccio and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Dusty Hill, the longtime bassist for rock band Zz Top, has died in his sleep at home in Houston. He was 72.
His death was announced today by bandmates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard.
“We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX,” the two wrote on the band’s Instagram page. “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 will forever be connected to that ‘Blues Shuffle in C.'” See the post below.
Hill had suffered a hip injury that prompted his departure from the band’s recent post-lockdown concerts. The shows are thought to be the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band’s first ever with him. It had booked...
His death was announced today by bandmates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard.
“We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX,” the two wrote on the band’s Instagram page. “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 will forever be connected to that ‘Blues Shuffle in C.'” See the post below.
Hill had suffered a hip injury that prompted his departure from the band’s recent post-lockdown concerts. The shows are thought to be the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band’s first ever with him. It had booked...
- 7/28/2021
- by Erik Pedersen and Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Author Terry J. Benton has found a home for Blood Debts, a new YA fantasy trilogy described as “Dynasty with magic.” Publisher Tor Teen has acquired the rights in a six-figure deal and will begin publishing the series in winter 2023.
Blood Debts centers on two Black twins, 16-year-olds Clem and Christina. The siblings must put aside their differences to reunite their family to take back the New Orleans magic counsel their family once ruled. Along the way, they must also solve a decades-old murder that sparked the rising tensions between New Orleans’ magical and non-magical communities to avert a war....
Blood Debts centers on two Black twins, 16-year-olds Clem and Christina. The siblings must put aside their differences to reunite their family to take back the New Orleans magic counsel their family once ruled. Along the way, they must also solve a decades-old murder that sparked the rising tensions between New Orleans’ magical and non-magical communities to avert a war....
- 12/3/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Author Terry J. Benton has found a home for Blood Debts, a new YA fantasy trilogy described as “Dynasty with magic.” Publisher Tor Teen has acquired the rights in a six-figure deal and will begin publishing the series in winter 2023.
Blood Debts centers on two Black twins, 16-year-olds Clem and Christina. The siblings must put aside their differences to reunite their family to take back the New Orleans magic counsel their family once ruled. Along the way, they must also solve a decades-old murder that sparked the rising tensions between New Orleans’ magical and non-magical communities to avert a war....
Blood Debts centers on two Black twins, 16-year-olds Clem and Christina. The siblings must put aside their differences to reunite their family to take back the New Orleans magic counsel their family once ruled. Along the way, they must also solve a decades-old murder that sparked the rising tensions between New Orleans’ magical and non-magical communities to avert a war....
- 12/3/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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