Dusty Hill ZZ Top Fur Guitar Is Going Up For Auction In December

Born in 1949, in Texas, Dusty Hill began at 13 playing local bar in bands until 1968. Dusty Hill moved to Houston where he teamed up with Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons and the ZZ Top brand was born. ZZ Top released  their debut album, followed by "Rio Grand Mud," & "Tres Hombres." ZZ Top's first big hit was a hit single," La Grange." Dusty Hill's lead vocal became recognized on the hit, "Tush."

the late 70's ZZ Top signature look was topped off with matching beards. Except it sounds funny, everyone except Frank Beard. But the band did the show with sunglasses. and you guessed it another hit single from the 1979 album, "Deguello." The song was, "Cheap Sunglasses." The concert stop was on December 1st, 1979 at Detroit's Cobo Hall.

ZZ Top decided that the 80s needed an update to their sound. And they found the perfect formula. The 1983’s Eliminator album shot ZZ Top into super duper rock stars. with  hits, “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” and “Legs.” The songs dominated radio and television with their funny videos featuring the band's signature ZZ keychain, a red Eliminator Coupe hot rod, and made MTV music television heavy rotation. The album sold over 10 million copies and stayed on the Billboard charts for 3 and a half years.

The band-made videos featured custom-made fur guitars that would spin and became the trio’s trademark look. Hill’s fur bass guitar played on the “Legs” music video with the logo, was attached to Hill’s waist to make it spin.  Dean Guitars created the instruments. It was Billy who had the idea when ZZ Top toured the UK found some sheepskin in Scotland shipped them to Dean Guitars and asked to make a duplicate pair of fur guitars and history was made in the videos.

The auction will feature nearly 1,200 lots showcasing the rock icon’s spectacular one-of-a-kind instruments, custom-made wardrobe, worn on stage and in appearances, gear, signature style items such as his favorite cowboy hats, boots, buckles, and his signature sunglasses, memorabilia, and more from his groundbreaking five-decade career coming directly from Dusty Hill’s collection. Julien’s Auctions has a three-day auction Thursday, December 7th Friday, December 8th, and Saturday, December 9th, 2023. Dusty Hill’s fur bass guitar played on ZZ Top’s iconic “Legs” music video, estimate: $80,000 - $120,000.

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Cool musicians have long been known for their persona vibes and fashion.  A rock star easily turns into a current crazy fad or wickedly cool trend around the world. Some didn't wear glasses till later in their careers, some from the beginning of rock and roll itself.  

So we’ve made a list of the top glasses-wearing musicians who have made their pair of frames iconic across space and time. Over the length of rock history, these are the musicians who made it look good. Some of the musicians we don't remember a time and place when they didn't have their glasses on.

The great thing is some of the stories behind the frames. Each has its style and flair that helped a rock star shoot to the top. From press reports to teen magazines, rock stars wore frames to shade the flashbulbs from local paparazzi. Hide in a dark club or had a hit song about wearing their pair of cheap sunglasses, to another artist who wore their sunglasses at night. Dust off your 200-dollar Ray-Bans for the ones that they show on tv to help you see when the sun is directly in front of you driving. Let's check out some Legendary Rock And Roll Musicians That Wore Glasses

Buddy Holly made his thick-framed wayfarers famous when he became a pioneer in rock and roll in the 1950s.

John Lennon - his glasses that made him look so, John. His small round-framed glasses became the glasses to have in the late 60s and 70s. George Harrison said in the early Beatles days when John Lennon didn't wear his glasses he was blind as a bat. THE MOST ICONIC SUNGLASSES IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY. In 1966, John Lennon was given a pair of round glasses to prepare for his role in Richard Lester's film How I Won the War. You can check them out when they were up for auction in 2019 by clicking here:

Elton John certainly knows how to make a statement. And so it comes as no surprise that his glasses make a statement too. Nobody else had more glasses than him. Prove me wrong.

Maybe Ozzy Osbourne is the Prince of Darkness because of the sunglasses he has on? The colored round-framed glasses make his face one of the most recognizable rockers in the rock world.

The lead singer of the band U2, Bono is known for sporting all kinds of glasses. His look is always changing as the years go by. Always is ahead of the curve when it came to style.

When it comes to rock god SLASH, there aren't too many videos or photos where SLASH doesn't have his chrome sunglasses on.

Raymond Manzarek  is best known as the keyboardist of the rock band The Doors, co-founding the band in 1965 with fellow UCLA friend Jim Morrison

ELVIS PRESLEY   The man in the white jumpsuit and the gold sunglasses. This was the later ELVIS as he rarely wore glasses on stage.

When you get up in the morning and the light is hurt your head
The first thing you do when you get up out of bed
Is hit that streets a-runnin' and try to beat the masses
And go get yourself some cheap sunglasses… That's all you need to know

ELVIS COSTELLO from 1970 to today in his signature black glasses introduced style and punk music to the world. Singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including two Grammy Awards in 1999 and 2020

Toni Iommi  from the band Black Sabbath is considered to be the one responsible for many bands that followed in rock and roll.

Lemmy Kilmister was the founder, lead singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead,