{"id":1041112,"date":"2021-07-28T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1041112"},"modified":"2021-07-29T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:24:01","slug":"zz-tops-dusty-hill-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1041112","title":{"rendered":"ZZ Top&#8217;s Dusty Hill dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/Dusty-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1041113\" \/>HOUSTON (Staff\/AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d ZZ Top member Dusty Hill has died at age 72. A Wednesday Facebook post signed by longtime colleagues Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons reads, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX. 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTop\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. We will forever be connected to that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBlues Shuffle in C.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 You will be missed greatly, amigo.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ZZ Top had been scheduled for a December 1 appearance at the UT Tyler Cowan Center. KTBB has reached out to the university, but there was no immediate word on how Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death might affect those plans. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>A July 21 post on the band&#8217;s website said Hill was &#8220;on a short detour back to Texas, to address a hip issue.&#8221; At that time, the band said its longtime guitar tech, Elwood Francis, would fill in on bass, slide guitar and harmonica.  ZZ Top had been scheduled for a December 1 at the UT Tyler Cowan Center. KTBB has reached out to the university, but there was no immediate word on how Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death might affect those plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (Staff\/AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d ZZ Top member Dusty Hill has died at age 72. A Wednesday Facebook post signed by longtime colleagues Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons reads, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX. We, along with legions of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1041112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ZZ Top&#8217;s Dusty Hill dies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1041117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/Dusty-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"ZZ Top\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dusty Hill dies","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 04:35:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/Dusty-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"ZZ Top\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dusty Hill dies","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041144,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041112\/revisions\/1041144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}