I’ll admit - I’m not a huge ZZ Top fan. Let’s say I wouldn’t change the station if a ZZ Top song came on, but I wouldn’t rush to buy concert tickets either. But a band’s gotta be doing something right to still sell records 37 years after they formed.
Dusty Hill has held down the low end for the band’s 37 year tenure, and sports a new bass for every other photo he appears in. (Billy Gibbons & Dusty Hill are both known for their guitar collecting addiction….err….hobby.)
Most of Hill’s basses are solidbody. Usually some variation on an early 50’s Fender Precision Bass, or a Dean “Z’ Bass. However, he’s sported a few hollowbodies, built by Bolin Guitars. Below are the only two that I could find pictures of, but I’m sure there have to be more. Both have bodies styled after the Gibson L-5 guitar, with Gibson Thunderbird-shaped headstocks.
If you’ve got $7,500 just laying around, you can have your very own Bolin Dusty Hill “Crazy Cowboy” Bass: http://www.iwantguitars.com/store/?product=9392
Jeff Richey said,
July 26, 2007 @ 6:23 am
I’ve enjoyed your site very much. I’m surprised at how few musicians are listed under “Hollowbody Bassists,” however. Missing are some fairly obvious wielders of the hollowbody four-string:
Jack Casady (http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/2000/mar10a.html)
Phil Lesh (http://www.hollowbodybass.com/bass-sightings/irwin-alembic-guild-starfire.htm)
Chas Chandler (http://retrosellers.com/images/an1.jpg)
John Entwhistle (http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipment/bass/equip-entwistlegear-60-66.html#s1964)
Bill Wyman (http://geosound.org/stones-billwymanvoxad.htm)
Glen Cornick (http://www.gibsonbass.com/GlennCornick3.php)
Perhaps you can incorporate these bass heroes into your list. Again, thanks for the great site!