And he gladly accepted his supporting role for his bandmate’s masterful lead guitar playing.
Hill rarely gave interviews, preferring to let Mr. Hill a grinding, precise musical mechanic. Gibbons were often mistaken as twins, their musical styles differed - Mr. Beard, the drummer, sports just a mustache.) Their stage sets might include crushed cars and even livestock. Gibbons, in matching sunglasses and Stetson hats, would swing their hips in unison, spinning their instruments on mounts attached to their belts. The band paired their grungy sound and innuendo-filled lyrics with a knowing, sometimes comic stage act - Mr. Hill - to their hard-driving guitars, producing MTV-friendly hits like “ Legs” and “ Sharp-Dressed Man.”
#ZZ TOP WITHOUT BEARDS SERIES#
Hill grew their signature 20-inch beards and the band released a series of albums that added New Wave synthesizers - often played by Mr. Gibbons, the lead singer and guitarist, and Mr.
But the band really took off in the 1980s, when Mr.
Starting in the early 1970s, ZZ Top racked up dozens of hit records and packed hundreds of arenas a year with their powerful blend of boogie, Southern rock and blues. They did not provide a cause or say when he died. His bandmates Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons announced the death on Wednesday through Facebook and Instagram. Dusty Hill, the quiet, bearded bass player who made up one third of ZZ Top, among the best-selling rock bands of the 1980s, has died at his home in Houston.
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