LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien’s Auctions has announced today additional marquee headliners and the full catalog of “The Collection of Dusty Hill of ZZ Top,” a three-day auction event honoring the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bass legend of one of the best-selling acts and biggest touring bands of all time, who sold over 50 million albums worldwide. The year-end single artist event culminating Julien’s 20th Anniversary celebration will take place on Thursday, December 7th Friday, December 8th and Saturday, December 9th, 2023 live at the legendary musician and vocalist’s birthplace of Dallas, Texas at the auction venue 915 Slocum Street and online at Julien's Live.

Over 1,000 relics featuring the rock icon’s sensational one-of-a-kind instruments, custom made stage and appearance worn western style wardrobe, gear, creative ephemera, signature style items such as his favorite cowboy hats, boots and buckles, memorabilia and more from his groundbreaking five-decade career coming directly from Dusty Hill’s personal collection is now available online on their website Julien's Live.

A portion of the auction proceeds will benefit MusiCares and their mission to help the humans behind music because music gives so much to the world. Offering preventive, emergency, and recovery programs, MusiCares is a safety net supporting the health and welfare of the music community.

Highlights include (with estimates): Dusty Hill’s circa 1983, Wayne Charvel, Custom Eliminator Hot Rod car shaped bass guitar in custom red and yellow Eliminator hot rod finish. This instantly recognizable, one-of-a-kind bass with its incredibly unique and striking design was previously on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The guitar has a "W.C." on back of headstock and early Wayne Charvel neck plate that reads "W.C. / 143 / P.O. Box 1093 / Redlands / C.A. 92373 / U.S.A" indicating it is an early instrument made by Charvel himself. The bass was photographed with Billy Gibbons’ matching Eliminator guitar for a 1985 Rolling Stone magazine shoot and many other live performances in 1983 in conjunction with the release of the Eliminator album ($40,000 - $60,000).

Dusty Hill’s "Gimme all your Lovin" and "Sharp Dressed Man" Music Video Bass Guitar ($15,000 - $20,000). A circa 1960s Fender body Telecaster bass, in grey / blue finish with custom pinstriping by Houston artist Jim Carnifax done in 1983, with later headless neck featured prominently in the music videos for the band's iconic hits "Gimme all your Lovin" and "Sharp Dressed Man" which were the first two singles from ZZ Top's best-selling 1983 album Eliminator.




Dusty Hill’s 1965 Fender Fretless Precision Bass ($7,000 - $9,000). Dusty Hill was photographed playing this bass in Olympic white finish with tortoise pickguard in some of the earliest live performance photographs taken of the band circa 1970. Hill logged a lot of hours on this bass as evidence by the extensive wear to the finish.

A circa 1985 Eric Yunker conceptual bass guitar used in ZZ Top music videos, "Rough Boy” and "Give It Up" ($10,000 - $15,000). San Francisco artist/musician Eric Yunker created a number of instruments for ZZ Top from scavenged parts and found objects creating completely unconventional but functional instruments that are works of art in and of themselves. This bass guitar was used during a promotional photo-shoot of the band that resulted in the image used for the sleeve of "Rough Boy" the third single released from ZZ Top's 1985 Afterburner album and was previously on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Hill’s vintage colorful wool knit dragon face sweater by Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto worn in promotional images with the Eliminator car for the band's best-selling 1983 album Eliminator and during Eliminator era live performances ($1,500 - $2,500).

Dusty Hill’s personal collection of art such as: his oil on canvas portrait painting by Frederic J. Brown titled "Dusty" signed and dated by the artist 1990 ($3,000 - $5,000). Frederick J. Brown was a Chicago-born, New York-based artist best known for his figurative painting, and many portraits of jazz and blues musicians, including Ornette Coleman, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Lionel Hampton among others; a Robert Jessup (b. 1952) oil on canvas painting titled "Jack with Guitar," commissioned by Dusty in 2005 ($3,000 - $5,000), signed by the artist "JSSP" that incorporates a number of references to Dusty including one of his signature Bolin guitars on "Jack" the dog's back, a fur Explorer style guitar in the distance, and a pair of Dusty's signature dark sunglasses in the foreground. Both guitars featured in this painting are being offered for sale in this auction; original King of the Hill production cels such as one setup presented on reproduction background and framed in a custom television set style frame signed by the series' supervising director Wes Archer, with 20th Century Fox seal lower right. ZZ Top appeared in an April 2007 episode of the show called "Hank Get's Dusted" in which Dusty Hill played himself and is revealed as Hank Hill's never mentioned cousin. Dusty commented in a 2020 interview posted on the Ultimate Classic Rock website: “I played a character named Dusty Hill who plays in a rock band called ZZ Top…I kind of already had the role down, so to speak.”

Other additional announced items include: a 2000s Bolin Jazz style bass, in green metallic finish with tribal style design and a Dusty caricature bass with two TV Jones pickups and Hipshot Badass bridge ($4,000 - $6,000); a Former Texas Rangers Foundation Official Identification metal card certifying that "Dusty Hill" is a "Captain" in the Frontier Battalion with a sheriff star "Captain" badge in original box ($600 - $800); Hill’s numerous awards such as his 1986 MTV Music Video Award for “Rough Boy” ($8,000 - $1,200) and RIAA triple platinum record awards for Eliminator and Afterburner ($1,500 - $2,500 each); his 1986 Spin magazine cover worn Grey wool and black leather varsity style jacket with ZZ on the chest and Eliminator car on back ($8,000 - $1,200), a performance stage, design model for ZZ Top's 1990-1991 Recycler Tour that features a stage design that emulates an automotive salvage yard that is illuminated, created by French artist Jean-Pierre Berger ($8,000 - $1,200), framed “Dusty Hill” Afterburner Tour dressing room sign, camel saddle stools, guitar straps, western spurs, cowboy boots and more.

Fans will have a chance to view these highlights and other incredible items from the Collection of Dusty Hill at Julien’s exclusive exhibitions at Hard Rock® Cafe in Times Square New York November 20th-November 26th before the auction at 915 Slocum Street in Dallas, Texas November 30th-December 7th.

As previously announced, "Duzzty’s Stash" pop store will be set up at the exhibition and auction venue 915 Slocum Street in Dallas which will offer T-shirts, posters and other memorabilia that Hill collected personally.