{"id":31052,"date":"2024-12-16T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T18:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-16-1984-zz-tops-dusty-hill-accidentally-shot-himself-in-the-stomach\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T18:02:29","slug":"on-this-day-dec-16-1984-zz-tops-dusty-hill-accidentally-shot-himself-in-the-stomach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-16-1984-zz-tops-dusty-hill-accidentally-shot-himself-in-the-stomach\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Dec. 16, 1984: ZZ Top\u2019s Dusty Hill accidentally shot himself in the stomach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-16\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Dec. 16, 1984 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>ZZ Top<\/strong> bassist <strong>Dusty Hill<\/strong> accidentally shot himself in the stomach when, while taking off his boots, his gun fell out and went off. Hill was able to drive himself to the hospital and made a full recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a 2010 interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/heavy-load-zz-top-s-dusty-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Classic Rock<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\"> <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">magazine, Hill said of the accident, \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe I\u2019d done something so stupid. To this day, I don\u2019t know how I could do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hill went on to play with ZZ Top until his death on July 28, 2021. The band continued on, with Hill replaced by<\/span> <span class=\"s1\"><strong>Elwood Francis<\/strong>, the band&#8217;s longtime guitar tech,\u00a0who was Hill&#8217;s pick to take his spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Dec. 16, 1984 &#8230; ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill accidentally shot himself in the stomach when, while taking off his boots, his gun fell out and went off. Hill was able to drive himself to the hospital and made a full recovery. In a 2010 interview with<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-16-1984-zz-tops-dusty-hill-accidentally-shot-himself-in-the-stomach\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}