If you are Texan, you are too. Austin Chronicle: I mean, I have written about this several times. But ZZ Top created a new way to be a Texan. Austin Chronicle: You did. Gibbons: Yep. And we accomplished three nights. I was scanning the first couple of rows, and I saw no frowns. Quite the opposite. Austin Chronicle: I wrote that ZZ Top was never flashy, the way so many loud rock bands steeped in the blues in those days were.
You guys were always gonna search for that one perfect note, and you were gonna ride it to death. Gibbons: His steadfast bottom end really did become the cornerstone, which allowed Frank and I to sprinkle on the cinnamon over the gingerbread that Dusty was baking up. You guys were always gonna sound like ZZ Top. It was always gonna be recognizably ZZ Top. And that steady bass line was a large part of it. Gibbons: Yes. Dusty joined me just recently, when we were passing through Nashville.
We were invited to a songwriting session — kinduva pass-around-the-guitar session. Gibbons: He was. Of course, we all shared just about equally. It could have been a songwriting session, it could have been a rehearsal session, or a studio session. Once that big, broad smile came in and he started laying down the good groove?
Again, Frank and I had the luxury of tip-toeing around something that was so solid, we were left smiling. But to have the solidity that Dusty provided was a real bonus. Austin Chronicle: Absolutely. He certainly had the bottom end, and you have a fairly dark guitar sound, yourself.
It bears repeating: I recall giving Dusty the greenlight to twist off during a recording session. We thought that all of the bass parts had been duly delivered, until we came to a section that was missing two bars. Two bars?
Go ahead and lay down that little missing section. Austin Chronicle: I remember you one time claiming Dusty had a built-in fuzztone in his index finger. The index finger in his right hand had been injured in a football accident in his high school days, and what do you call it when an extremity expands? Gibbons: The tip of his index finger, when it healed, it was more like a lightbulb than a fingernail. Austin Chronicle: I spent all day crying yesterday, Billy.
I am not afraid to admit. I mean, Dusty was the character. Billy attended and graduated from Robert E. Lee high school in Houston, TX. Billy Gibbons has a new hot rod called the Whiskey Runner, which is a coupe car, just like the Eliminator hot rod is also a coupe car.
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