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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 14:12 |
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 The Dallas Morning News reports that everyone knows ZZ TOP is the self-proclaimed "Lil Old Band From Texas."
But most fans think the weird beards hail from Houston when, in fact,
two-thirds of the group grew up in Dallas.
With the recent DVD arrival of Live From Texas - filmed last year
at Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie - singer-bassist Dusty Hill set the
record straight about ZZ Top's local roots.
"You can't take the Big D out of 'Dusty.' Then you'd have 'Usty,' " says Mr. Hill, speaking by phone from a Georgia hotel room.
"Even though I moved from Dallas, I still live there in my heart."
Little Dusty grew up near Fair Park and studied at Roberts
Elementary and Long Junior High. But school didn't excite him nearly as
much as rock 'n' roll and he dropped out of Woodrow Wilson High at 15
to join the DEADBEATS and later, the WARLOCKS.
The year was 1964, Beatlemania was in full bloom and teens
everywhere were dreaming of becoming rock stars, including 15-year-old
Irving High student Frank Beard.
But stardom would have to wait. Mr. Beard and his girlfriend had
gotten pregnant, so he left school to get married and work at a
sporting goods store.
After work, he'd thrash away at the drum set his dad bought him at
Montgomery Ward in Fort Worth. And soon he was landing gigs at the
Cellar, the infamous underground strip club-juke joint in Cowtown that
later opened a branch in Dallas.
Read the full report at this location.
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