INSIGHTS Dusty Hill, Long-Bearded Bassist for ZZ Top, Dies at 72 By Staff Monday, August 2, 2021 12:04 AM "People ask how we’ve stayed together so long. I say separate tour buses. We got separate tour buses early on, when we probably couldn’t afford them. That way we were always glad to see each other when we got to the next city."Dusty Hill, the bearded bass player who made up one-third of the band ZZ Top, in a 2015 interview with The Charlotte Observer. The comments were reported again in Hill’s obituary last week in The New York Times. Hill’s life was remembered by the Times in its obituary, “Dusty Hill, Long-Bearded Bassist for ZZ Top, Dies at 72.”