The Bottom of the Top: Remembering Dusty Hill

Once in 1984, the gap year between Eliminator and Afterburner, Dusty Hill accidentally shot himself in the abdomen with his Derringer when it fell from his boot. He then drove himself to the hospital, ultimately making a full recovery. It was just another day in the life of the long-bearded Texan from East Dallas.

Billy F. Gibbons may have been the mouthpiece, the cool daddy-o, the guiding vision of ZZ Top, but his literal right-hand man for more than 50 years, who kept the boom in the room while...