Subject: Dusty Hill

• Lingering Long on Love Street

  November 28, 2007

• Classic Rock Corner: Mudcrutch, Golliwogs, Mynah Birds, Moving Sidewalks and More

  May 1, 2008

• Billy Gibbons Tells an Awful Blonde Joke: Video and Pictures from ZZ Top's DVD Release Party

  June 24, 2008

• The Anti-Clapton

  Rocky Hill hopes to find a smooth patch on his rocky road

  July 11, 2002

• Living the Unexamined Life, Happily

  November 3, 1994

• Besieged by the Bay

  June 26, 1997

• ZZ Top's Dusty Hill is 60 Today

  You didn't think we'd get out of here without wishing happy birthday to Houston's own Dusty Hill, the ZZ Top bassist who turns 60 today, did you? Hell no! To celebrate - and give any neophytes an idea of just how widely loved the Top really is - here's a pair of covers from about as far apart as you can get on the rock and roll spectrum: Phish doing "Jesus Just Left Chicago" and Ministry's version of "Just Got Paid." Can't wait for the Top/Aerosmith twin bill July 17 at the Woodlands... happy bi

  May 19, 2009

• The Greatest Texas Rock Album of All Time

  October 9, 2008

• Voodoo Healing

  Stan Ridgway is still tuning in "Mexican Radio."

  April 23, 2009

• Amplified

  Eliminated

  December 30, 1999

• Everybody Is a Starr

  Two women hold a drawing to breathe some life into a stagnant Houston indie rock scene

  July 28, 2005

• Pop Quiz

  Think you know local music? Take the Bayou City Music Mindbender and find out.

  June 10, 2004

• Oh, Won't You Stay

  ZZ Top brings down the curtain at a venerable venue

  November 20, 2003

• Aftermath: ZZ Top and Aerosmith at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

  Photos by Mark C. Austin Make all the Guitar Hero jokes you want. Whatever it is that's kept ZZ Top and Aerosmith in the public eye for almost four decades - video games or beards-n-babes videos, Back to the Future cameos or Michael Bay ballads, bee-stung lips or cheap sunglasses - they've never forgotten that eventually it all circles back around to the stage. And never been unable to deliver when it does. Formed half a continent but not many years apart, ZZ and Aerosmith found common ground e

  July 20, 2009