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The Associated Press contributed to this report. Unfortunately, as they say, things come in threes, ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill has passed away. 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." 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. Said Rolling Stones lead guitarist Keith Richards in introducing the band to the Hall: "These cats are steeped in the blues, so am I. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
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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. 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. At 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. "Per Dusty’s request ‘The show must go on!’" the band wrote last week. However, last Friday, the band said Hill was going back to Texas to "address a hip issue."
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ZZ Top is on tour and scheduled to play six shows over the next week, including a concert Wednesday in South Carolina.