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12-25-2006, 09:07 AM
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Dusty Hill is definetly an underrated bassist. The whole band is . People know them for the beards , fuzzy guitars and spinning guitars but underneath all that, they are an awesome band. |
12-25-2006, 09:53 AM
| | | | Dusty Hill is a bore.... |
12-25-2006, 12:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: NW IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Boo  Dusty Hill is a bore.... |
Evidently you don't even know who he is.  |
12-26-2006, 01:24 PM
| | | | Blue Jean Blues = How to play bass...... |
12-26-2006, 01:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | | Quote:
Originally Posted by emblymouse To hell with Bootsey, I've always thought ZZ Top was as funky as they come. | Let's not get carried away!
I grew up with the MTV/sequencer era of ZZ Top, so I always thought he was kind of lame. Then a friend recently played me the first album. That guy can SWING!
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12-26-2006, 02:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: NW IL | | | The last 10-15 years of ZZ top has not really been good at all.Their first 3 albums ( first album,rio grande mud,and tres hombres ) was ZZ at their best IMO. Great bass lines and Dusty sang most of the tunes.The times I saw them they were even better live than on the record. |
12-27-2006, 09:51 AM
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12-27-2006, 06:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: University of Delaware | | | The furry explorer bass automatically makes him awesome, not to mention the fact that he always lays down a mean groove.
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12-27-2006, 06:04 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Everybody loves Dusty. |
12-27-2006, 08:39 PM
|  | Bassist for The Patrick Godbey Band | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: New Orleans, LA USA | | | Dusty definitely can kick it. I saw him at the Warehouse when they were recording the live half of Fandango! Give it a listen.
ZZ rocks and Dusty is the reason.
Cheers,
Jim
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12-28-2006, 10:42 AM
|  | Fender when I have to. Spector when I want to. | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Holyoke, MA | | | That must have been so sweet. Fandango! was one of my 1st hand me down records around the age of 6. Right off the bat w/Thunderbird, he drives that Tele like an Olds 442. One of my favorite tones ever. I remember also as a kid listening to a '73 show on the King Biscuit Flour Hour radio show & there was that tone again. Wish I caught them live in the 70's, but I was a 'lil pup at the time. Dusty's killed it on every album until El Loco. After that the synths & videos took over and I just lost interest. Much respect due, for sure though.
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12-28-2006, 05:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Lancashire UK | | | Great player I have just about everything ZZ have ever released - a few TV things I have seen of ZZ live have let them down as he wasn't quite loud enough in the mix. BUT every note is in the right place and he has one of the world's best guitarists to keep up with!!!
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12-28-2006, 09:24 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | It's really too bad they went 80's. It worked for a little while and it was pretty innovative for its time but I think they should have gone back to 3-pc on Afterburner instead of making it so over the top with machines. And then those horrid remasters with the triggered drum sounds...that is what killed their career. They need to reissue the original masters of those albums pronto.
I saw them in 1980 and it was just them and no special effects or anything, and it was one of the 5 greatest shows I've ever seen. They just came on and played, and the only showbizzy thing was they showed a movie of them playing saxes to a couple songs. Dusty sang about half the songs, and he was amazing. he played this bright red custom '51 P copy with body binding, and he was right there with everything. ZZ Top would have been nothing without Dusty. Or for that matter, Frank Beard, another underappreciated guy.
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12-29-2006, 10:04 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Madison WI | | +1 I'd add Deguello and Fandango to the list but El Loco was the begining of the slide down to Legs etc... Some of the early stuff is amazing. And the live stuff is soo ballsy! I have a live tape from the Deguello tour that kills! Funky, groovin and rocking hard, sometimes all 3 at the same time! Quote:
Originally Posted by lawsonman The last 10-15 years of ZZ top has not really been good at all.Their first 3 albums ( first album,rio grande mud,and tres hombres ) was ZZ at their best IMO. Great bass lines and Dusty sang most of the tunes.The times I saw them they were even better live than on the record. |
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12-29-2006, 10:22 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Texas Panhandle | | | Looks like everyone agrees that the early ZZ TOP is the best and I agree. Started listening to them in 1972 and still do. Their support of the Delta Blues Museum is what got me starting to listen to Blues music and has pretty much took over my musical interests.
Dusty lays some good bass on the early tracks and some of Billy's best is there also. The beardless Beard was one of the bussiest drummers around on the early tracks.
It is amazing that they have lasted this long with zero changes to the band. Not many gimmicks, just good ole' Texas Rockin' Bluesy music at its finest. I can't tell you how many miles I have logged with ZZ music on the 4 track, 8 track, cassette, CD, iPod.
Heaven is coming down Independence Pass with LaGrange thumping in your earplugs, scrapin' pegs on a nice handling motorbike on a clear day. Or blasting across West Texas headed for Big Bend and hearing Mexican Blackbird on repeat.
Live long and prosper! |
12-29-2006, 10:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: League City, Tx | | | Check out their newer stuff like Rythmeen and Mescalero. They've definately gone back to their 3 piece roots rock, more serious and harder edged, just nobody plays it.
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12-29-2006, 03:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: NW IL | | I saw them in Dallas in 72. 4th row center stage. They just kicked, and holy christ were they LOUD! |
12-30-2006, 05:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: upstate ny | | | Mescalaro is right up there folks...very rocking, the humor is still there and it is a great album.
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