Greig is survived by Holland, his daughters Ariana and Alexis and his brother Jud.Dusty Hill, the long-serving bassist of American rock-blues band ZZ Top, has died at the age of 72, his fellow band members have announced. "He kept to himself and would play a few local shows." Holland recently posted a few of the classical pieces on YouTube. "He didn't come out with any albums over the past few years," says his son, Holland Greig. Greig, who years ago relocated to Austin, also composed and recorded beautiful and grand classical music on piano. "He did a lot of session work and he was involved in a lot of pop music, but he loved jazz and improvisation and he was great at it, a natural," Schwartz says. He spent decades there doing session work as a keyboardist while also leading jazz duos and trios. "His parents were called, and they picked him up later on," Schwartz says.Īfter leaving ZZ Top, Greig eventually made his way to Los Angeles. Lanier waited until the officer got to his car, he rolled down his window and said, 'I'll take a cheeseburger and a large orange, please.'" "Like the night the police pulled him over in his car. "He was a great entertainer and a great entertainer off stage also," Schwartz says. In addition to admiring Greig's musical gifts, Schwartz also cited the keyboardist's sense of humor.
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"He was as important as anybody in the sound of that band," Ford says. After years out of print, Ford and the Fanatics will have their recordings digitized and reissued later this year, which should draw some attention to Greig's playing. In 1967 the group placed first in the Houston Post's Teen Music Contest. Prior to his time with ZZ Top, Greig, a Memorial High School grad, was a member of Neal Ford and the Fanatics, a wildly popular band in Houston in the 1960s. Though Greig's playing was on the single was prominent, he nevertheless was soon out of the band the given reason was "creative differences." Bassist Dusty Hill took his place and with Frank Beard taking over on drums ZZ Top began its climb toward international fame.