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01-04-2009, 06:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Frozen Wastelands of Michigan | | | Dusty Hill of ZZ Top
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Today I was listening to Fandango! on vinyl, and realised that Dusty is one hell of a bassist. So who else here loves Dusty's simple yet incredible bass playing?
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01-04-2009, 06:35 PM
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01-04-2009, 06:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | great bass player for sure!!
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01-04-2009, 07:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Canada | | | I love the early ZZ, and Dusty's playing on it. Fandango is one of my all time faves. The live side sounds like 10 guys playing, not 3! The playing is great and the sounds are KILLER. |
01-04-2009, 08:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas | | | He sings better than Billy too! |
01-04-2009, 08:47 PM
|  | Wild boys always shine | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Hooterville, Arkansas BR549 | | | Count me in.... loves me some Dusty
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01-04-2009, 08:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Las Vegas | | | He's the coolest- a total trucks, guns, beer & farting kind of bass player. 'Pearl Necklace' has got to be my favorite bass song to play live.
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01-04-2009, 08:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Cincinnati, OH | | | How couldn't you like him? Awesome tone and a great singer. |
01-04-2009, 09:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Antonio | | | First saw the Top in Odessa, Texas, in '72. I've played bass for 36 years, coming up on 37! I would not characterize his bass work as "simple." When you watch live footage of what he's doing, it looks simple. When you try to nail about 12 of their songs on bass, you realize that his lines are perfect. Just like a really good snifter of cognac or grappa. "Distilled" is what I'd call it. Distilled like a fine spirit. First thing that hits is the nose then a broad flavor. Then the complexities begin to come out and each and every subsequent taste reveals layers and layers and layers of flavor. That's Dusty! Frank Beard's drumming is no different. No wasted effort. No filler. Just meat!
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01-04-2009, 09:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: St Louis, MO, USA | | | Very cool and a huge influence on my playing. ZZ Topp was the first concert I ever saw. It was the Fandango tour back in '76. When ever I do a blues gig, I channel Dusty.
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01-04-2009, 09:18 PM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | | badass, for sure! love the little bass licks at the end of "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide." tasty!
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01-05-2009, 09:24 AM
|  | On the TB leaderboard for low talent/gear ratios! | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: NJ | | | His playing on the early albums is fantastic, as is his tone. And as others have said, his vocals are equally good.
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01-05-2009, 09:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: COLORADO | | | +1 to what everybody above has said. |
01-05-2009, 11:23 AM
| | | | No one mentioned the "Pleaser" yet.
For those of you that may not have heard, Dusty played HS football and got the middle (?) finger of his right hand broken. It healed, but with unusual girth.
Noe, some more useful trivia:
Musical equipment
Throughout his career Hill has used many different basses and amplifiers in different combos, and has a large collection of vintage and custom basses. However, he claims he prefers simple and non complicated basses with a single pickup with a single volume knob and sometimes with an additional knob for tone control.[2][3]
Bass guitars
"Since I play in a three-piece group, my job is not to play too much, but you still have to play all the time. I've always loved Jack Bruce of Cream and that style of playing but he moved around a lot on the fretboard. I'll stay down there for the foundation, then maybe move. With the songs on 'Eliminator' I still did that same kind of thing, but with more preciseness...And I enjoy that, in a way, but you don't have the freedom to move around and throw in this and that occasionally, to play the part more"
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Vintage Fender Telcaster - Only used during recordings.
Custom Fender Telecaster - Fitted with custom wound DiMarzio pickups.
Custom reversed Telecaster
Custom Telecaster - With reversed headstock.
Gibson Explorer - Covered in sheep skin.
Fender Precision Bass
Bolin Guitars custom - White hollowbody bass.
Dean Z
Danelectro Longhorn
James Trussart SteelCaster
044, 063, 080 and 102 gauge strings
Effects
"My sound is big, heavy, and a bit distorted because it has to overlap the guitar. Someone once asked me to describe my tone, and I said it was like farting in a trash can. What I meant is it’s raw, but you’ve got to have the tone in there."
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SansAmp Bass DI
Two Groove Tubes Speaker Emulators
Two Peavy Autograph II EQ's
Amplifiers
Three Marshall JCM900 100 watt heads
Six Custom Creme cabinets - With 4x12" Celestion speakers. |
01-05-2009, 11:28 AM
|  | (aka Greg Harman) | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Dunbar, West Virginia | | | Yep, I'd buy him a beer...
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01-05-2009, 11:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: england | | | the man is an idol
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01-05-2009, 01:58 PM
| | | I'd love him if he wasn't such an ATHEIST. Quote:
Originally Posted by DoomandHeavy Today I was listening to Fandango! on vinyl, and realised that Dusty is one hell of a bassist. So who else here loves Dusty's simple yet incredible bass playing? | |
01-05-2009, 02:01 PM
|  | Bababooey to y'all | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Central Florida | | | You have to love Dusty, he is Hank Hill's cousin....
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01-05-2009, 02:06 PM
|  | Regal User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Orange County, CA | | | yeah i have always had a secret love of ZZ Top and his playing/tone fits in just perfectly. |
01-05-2009, 02:17 PM
| | | I once read an interview with Dusty where he described his distorted midrangey bass tone as sounding like "a fart in a trashcan". What an atheist. Quote:
Originally Posted by DoomandHeavy Today I was listening to Fandango! on vinyl, and realised that Dusty is one hell of a bassist. So who else here loves Dusty's simple yet incredible bass playing? |
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