Remembering Dusty Hill, by ZZ Top’s Longtime Publicist: ‘He Was a Star and Also Literally an Average Joe’

Industry veteran Bob Merlis has been involved with publicity efforts on behalf of ZZ Top for the better part of four decades of the band’s 50+ year existence. He was publicity director at Warner Bros. Records when the group signed with that label in the late 1970s and estimates that he’s seen them perform more

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