All this means that Afterburner is merely a product of its time - the only record ZZ Top could have made at the time, but it hardly exists out of that time. Apart from the chugging "Sleeping Bag," not even the singles sound like ZZ Top (though "Dipping Low (In the Lap of Luxury" is a blatant "Gimme All Your Lovin'" rewrite): the terrific post-new wave rocker "Stages" is the poppiest thing they ever cut, the ballad "Rough Boy" is far removed from slow blues, and the full-fledged synth dance of "Velcro Fly" is a true mind-bender. As an artifact of that time, Afterburner is pretty good - never has a hard rock album sounded so artificial, nor has a nominal blues-rock album sounded so devoid of blues. That's all just a sign of the times, when even hard rock bands had to sound as slick as synth pop, complete with clanging DX-7s and cavernous drums. So, Afterburner, their most synthetic album, will not please most ZZ Top fans, even if it did go platinum several time over and reached number four. And blues-rock just doesn't kick when it's synthesized, even if ZZ Top's grooves always bordered on robotic. Sometimes they can trick you into thinking they're a little flashier than usual, but they're still a lil' ol' blues band from Texas, kicking out blues-rockers. Problem is, no matter how much you dress ZZ Top up, they're still ZZ Top. If you look at things that way, then Afterburner, ZZ Top's follow-up to their blockbuster Eliminator, makes sense - they're just giving the people more of what they want. ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas.
While you're at it, you might visualize how space age this all is by turning your signature car into a space shuttle. A group of young adults share their last week of teens and first week of twenties together experiencing freedom and all the firsts of adulthood. And if you were praised for being visionary because you played all your blues grooves to a slightly sequenced beat, you'd probably be tempted to not just continue in that direction, but to tighten the sequencer and graft on synthesizers, since it'll all signal how futuristic you are. When a self-appointed expert on love tries to teach a timid prince the art of seduction, the plan backfires, leading to scandal and unexpected romance. “You will be missed greatly, amigo,” Beard’s and Gibbons’s statement added.Well, if you just had your biggest hit ever, you'd probably try to replicate it, too. You may have even seen him on screen in various appearances such as “Back to the Future Part III” and on “Deadwood.” The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. “Per Dusty’s request, ‘The show must go on!” the band had written in a statement.Īlthough Gibbons was the lead vocalist for most of the band’s songs, Hill stepped up to sing “Tush,” an early hit. The band’s longtime guitar tech, Elwood Francis, stepped in for Hill. Last week, the band’s official site shared that Hill was being sidelined due to a “hip issue.”
Hill was born in Dallas, and after trying to break into the music scene there, he eventually moved to Houston, where he met Gibbons. Among their most famous hits are “La Grange,” “Tush” and “Gimme All Your Lovin’.” Hill performed alongside Beard and Gibbons and together they went on to have a string of hits and put out 15 studio albums. Hill joined not long after, staying with ZZ Top for more than five decades, until his death. “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 ‘Top’.”
“We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX,” the statement, from surviving members Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons, said. Dusty Hill, the bearded bassist with American blues-rock band ZZ Top, has died, according to the band’s official website.
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