RIP Dusty Hill

[BTL]

I'm very sorry to hear this.

[Pilgrim]

Let's not forget the Minimalist Bass Player's Oath, as posted on TBL way back when:

"I promise to play the root, the whole root, and nothing but the root, so help me Dusty Hill."

Wisdom. 

[gearHed289]

RIP Dusty. What a loss. He was a great groove keeper. I had a gig outside Houston on Thursday and dedicated a song to him.

[Pilgrim]

RIP Dusty. What a loss. He was a great groove keeper. I had a gig outside Houston on Thursday and dedicated a song to him.

Since there's no "Like" button, I just had to add: Good for you! 

[Dave W]

From his wife, on FB 8/2

After 19 wonderful years of marriage that ended too soon, I’ve decided to step out into Dusty’s spotlight to thank all of his fans, colleagues and friends for the overwhelming outpouring of love for The Dust.  It makes me hopeful he will not be forgotten.

He was the kindest, most gentle and caring man a woman could ever Hope to find in a lifetime.   Many don’t believe in fairy tale marriages but Dusty and I truly lived one!    We were inseparable.   
He wasn’t supposed to leave me or all of you.  That wasn’t the plan he and I had.   The plan was for another round of physical therapy, with a different approach,  to help his chronic bursitis.   The plan was he would return to the second leg of the tour in September.
 
Early Wednesday morning my world and yours would lose a great musician and I would lose my greatest love.   He woke me up and we talked and as he was sweetly chatting with me he suddenly stopped and he was gone in an instant.   So, while I feel numb and lost and alone and in a million pieces, I know he will always be with me in my heart and soul and I will join him when the Lord calls me home to be with them.   It is my hope you will always keep him in your hearts.   He loved his fans and always remembered that without fans music is not heard. So, know he truly appreciated each and every one of you.   

Dusty was an avid tv and movie buff…always quoting lines and so I share an embellished quote from “This Is Us”  as my last love letter I send with him to his final resting place.

My Sweet Dusty,
The single most extraordinary thing I have ever done in my life is fall in love with you.   The single most extraordinary gift I have ever received in my life was for you to ask me to marry you.   I have never been seen so completely, loved so passionately and protected so fiercely.

I will be with you again.

Love you to infinity and back.

Your wife,
Chuck

I will lay my husband to rest tomorrow.   I would ask that you look to the heavens at noon and wish Dusty Godspeed.

With great love, respect and appreciation to Dusty’s fans, colleagues and friends,
Mrs. The Dust

[uwe]

He died from septic bursitis? I had no idea you actually could. 

[Dave W]

He died from septic bursitis? I had no idea you actually could. 

Where did you hear that? Billy did say that Dusty had bursitis but I hadn't read anything about cause of death.

[uwe]

My animal attorney instinct deduced it from this here:

"He wasn’t supposed to leave me or all of you.  That wasn’t the plan he and I had.   The plan was for another round of physical therapy, with a different approach,  to help his chronic bursitis.   The plan was he would return to the second leg of the tour in September."
 
And "dying peacefully in your sleep" kinda fits with a septic collapse/shock. It's what injured reptiles do if their immune system fails, I've seen it happen lots of times, it's a very gradual process.

And then there is this which I just googled ...

https://www.metalcastle.net/zz-tops-billy-gibbons-reveals-the-cause-of-death-of-dusty-hill/

[Alanko]

It's what injured reptiles do if their immune system fails, I've seen it happen lots of times, it's a very gradual process.

You trouble me sometimes. One room of your mansion is dedicated to collecting every type of bass Gibson ever built. Another room of your mansion is dedicated the the various beautiful life cycles of the reptile kingdom. 

[uwe]

That is because I'm weird allround!



And having pets means you see them die too unless they are one of the few species that outlives you. I read an ad about a pair of tortoises that were looking for a new owner a few years ago. Their first owner had been a German soldier who had brought them home from Greece in WW II as a member of the occupation force there. They had been with the family ever since and lived with him until he died as an old man.