{"id":44440,"date":"2021-07-28T19:37:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T00:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=44440"},"modified":"2021-07-28T19:37:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T00:37:25","slug":"in-memoriam-dusty-hill-of-zz-top-dead-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/28\/in-memoriam-dusty-hill-of-zz-top-dead-at-72\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Dusty Hill of ZZ Top Dead at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44443\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/07\/dusty.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"dcr-125vfar\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/jul\/28\/dusty-hill-zz-top-bassist-dies-aged-72\">ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill dies aged 72<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>I have been a HUGE ZZ Top fan since I was a kid and was saddened to hear of Dusty&#8217;s passing today.<\/h2>\n<h2>Billy Gibbons and his crew were one of my biggest influences when I started playing guitar as a youngster&#8230;I still consider them one of the FINEST Three piece Blues\/Rock Bands Ever.<\/h2>\n<h2>I can still hear one of their finest albums <em>&#8220;Tres Hombres&#8221;<\/em> playing on my Uncle&#8217;s turntable&#8230;<a id=\"emoji-info-url\" class=\"ek_link\" href=\"https:\/\/emojikeyboard.org\/copy\/Crying_Face_Emoji_%F0%9F%98%A2?utm_source=extlink\"><span id=\"emoji-info-value\">\ud83d\ude22<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>You will be missed Dusty! RIP my Friend.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Join me as I pour myself a Cold One and Jam some of their Tunes Tonight In Memoriam:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ZZ TOP - Blue Jean Blues\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b76kjd5nvMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ZZTop &quot;Hot, Blue And Righteous&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/erWB_HRV6Cw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ZZ Top - Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ULR1syAj1Z4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Apologies to Pearly\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yBl8XUnDdPg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill dies aged 72 &nbsp; I have been a HUGE ZZ Top fan since I was a kid and was saddened to hear of Dusty&#8217;s passing today. Billy Gibbons and his crew were one of my biggest influences when I started playing guitar as a youngster&#8230;I still consider them one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3675],"tags":[9316,9317],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}