I saw them in Jacksonville around 1990 or so. One of the best shows I’ve seenGrowing up in Jacksonville Florida the radio DJ's called their music "Thunder Boogie". One of the first albums I bought was Fandango. Yep, if you're a rock and roll fan our hero's are starting to slip away one by one. Great band and a personal favorite.
Watched a documentary on them last year. Really liked Dusty. One of the most iconic bands in history.
RIP Dusty. Had some great times listening to ZZ Top.
RIP, Dusty. An irreplaceable rock icon, and one of my rock -n-roll heroes. One of the best bassists of all time, and a good singer and songwriter to boot. I have the serious sadz ever since I heard it. Here's some Dusty in his prime:
One thing in the documentary that impressed me too was when Frank Beard developed a drug problem. They took like a year off right in the middle of being popular and selling out shows until he got straightened back out, instead of hiring another drummer and keeping on going. They always stuck together from the start.That brings goosebumps as well. It reminds of the part in the above mentioned documentary where they talk about when they all three first got together in some studio to tryout. They started in on the Texas Shuffle at some point and they loved it so much they continued playing it for hours. That's when they decided, this is it. This is going to be our three member band.
One thing in the documentary that impressed me too was when Frank Beard developed a drug problem. They took like a year off right in the middle of being popular and selling out shows until he got straightened back out, instead of hiring another drummer and keeping on going. They always stuck together from the start.
One thing in the documentary that impressed me too was when Frank Beard developed a drug problem. They took like a year off right in the middle of being popular and selling out shows until he got straightened back out, instead of hiring another drummer and keeping on going. They always stuck together from the start.
Agreed.
They you have greedy schmucks like the Van Halens and Glenn Frey & Don Henley who cut people out of the band.
Their pre-Eliminator stuff is the best. Their last album wasn't bad, though.Sharp Dressed Man...
Dusty and Frank were one of the tightest rhythm sections in the business. Also, on the albums, Billy usually laid down about five layers of guitar tracks-but, they always sounded great live as a three-piece, too. Part of that was Dusty distorting his bass to thicken the sound up.Agreed +1. I have always been a big fan ever since Rio Grande Mud and Tres Hombres came out. Last night I spent hours listening to boob-tube replays. Even some of the stuff I wasn't overly crazy about as a teen, like Fandango, appealed a lot more to me now as a senior citizen.
As much as I love Billy Gibbons' guitar work, there was another thing that struck me on every single song, all the way from their first album, through the MTV superstar years, and up to some of the "more recent" ones that I had never really heard before. And that was the constant rock-solid precision beat served up by Dusty and Frank. Almost within 0.001" tolerance to quote the engineering world. Also, didn't know a lot of the riffs that I always thought were the lead guitar was actually Dusty on the bass.
Find another 3 guys that accomplished what they did in the music recording business for 50+ years.