Michael Tabor 1 year ago ZZ Top is from Texas. In1989 DJ DMD (also from Texas) had a rap song called "25 Lighters". When ZZ Top's studio was being worked on they shared a recording house with a bunch of hip-hop artists. They got to be pretty good friends and ended up reworking the song. BTW, in Houston, dealers used to take Bic Lighters apart, remove the inside and fill them with crack. So yeah, this song is about slinging rocks.
R.I.P. Dusty Hill. Classy guys, awesome music for decades. I've been listening to ZZ TOP since I was a kid and saw them live on the Eliminator tour which I think had 6 or 7 hugely popular videos on Mtv at the time. They were excellent live.
Awsome rework of Texas rap legends DJ DMD's, Lil' Keke, and Fat Pat's song, 25 Lighters. Lil' Keke and Fat Pat had already passed away and ZZ Top got permission from their estate to rework the track, .25 Lighters is a classic rap song. ZZ Top is so cool. I'm glad I got to see them live.
Going through a box of old ticket stubs not long ago, My first rock concert May 19, 1973 (Dusty Hill's 24th birthday, I've come to find out) East Tennessee State University Rory Gallagher ZZ Top $4 It was about six months before Tres Hombres came out. Rory Gallagher was pure fire right out of the gate, and I think he had as much fun as anyone. (& someone you should check out) Then, BG and the boys came out. Back when they were the most badass blues rock band that ever was. Straw hats, jeans, no beards (but Frank. lol), and BG in a white tshirt w/ pack of Marlboros rolled up in the sleeve(lol). Needless to say, Rory and BG made a big impression on a 16 yr old. Blues rock, slide guitar nut ever since. RIP Dusty, Rory, Lou, Rod. Thank You!
Believe it or not but this is a cover of a rap song called “25 lighters” by DJ DMD (ft. LIL KEKE & Fat Pat). Billy Gibbons talked w the guys and asked if he could do a bluesy cover and they said yes. This was the outcome. Here’s the original th-cam.com/video/_iTfoFLz5nA/w-d-xo.html
From Songfacts®: This song is a revamp of fellow Texan DJ DMD's 1989 rap hit "25 Lighters," which is Houston ghetto slang for taking Bic Lighters apart, removing the innards and filling them with crack
Yep I’m 66 years old And I believe that ZZ Top are the three guy’s that that brought long beards out like the old moonshiners and if you like them look at Justin Johnson Delta blues plays a shovel guitar
No, they were already famous before the beards. Then they went on separate vacations. Billy and Dusty came back with beards and they decided to keep them.
You can't help but get addicted to the masters, throw them roses! With ZZ Top, you have a while til they run out of great music. Sleeping Bag Cheap Sunglasses Blue Jean Blues Tube Snake Boogie Jesus Just Left Chicago Rough Boy Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers Sleeping Bag T.V. Dinners how deep do you want to go?
Z Z Top and their beards was a unintended consequence... it was also a huge coincidence that their drummer (without a beard!) is Frank Beard...😂When Z Z Top released their first album in 1971, the trio (guitarist Billy F. Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill & drummer Frank Beard) did not have those trademark beards. They were a band from Texas that played bluesy, boogie rock n' roll... They toured relentlessly into 1977 and built their success from the ground up w/ a string of albums. What happened was... around 1977, drummer Frank Beard ended up in rehab after years of substance abuse & wanted to get clean... The other members of Z Z Top were loyal & did not want a new drummer. So, the band took a break, while Frank Beard took some time off... Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill went away to their homes and spent the next two years fishing or doing non-music activities; neither shaved during that time... When Z Z Top got back together in 1979 to work on a new album, Gibbons & Hill showed up w/ huge beards from years of not shaving... When they rehearsed, I guess they thought they had a striking image... so they decided to keep the beards and went on tour for the 1979 album 'Deguello' (which became a platinum success in the US) and everybody recognized them as the band w/ the 2 bearded guys and 1 clean-shaven guy named Frank Beard... When MTV started putting their music videos on, that image was a huge hit in 1983 cos Z Z Top was instantly recognizable. The band was allegedly offered 7 figures to shave them off - they refused! 😂😂
Absolutely, they made the long beards famous. At least Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill, RIP, wear them that way. The only one who doesn't have a beard, is Frank (ahem) Beard.
Now play Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago...2 songs that go straight from one into the other. Off The Tres Ombres album. 🔥🔥🎶🎵👍🏼🎸🎸🥁 The drummer without a beard--his last name is BEARD!! NOBODY sounds close to ZZ TOP‼️ Another Good tune --Pearl Necklace =see what people comment on that song. Te he ✌🏽
More Top, you say? How about Tush, Thunderbird, Mexican Blackbird, or just the whole Fandango album. And yeah, the beards have almost always identified ZZ Top
Loving your reactions to rock music man... You have to get some 90's Grunge in there. Nirvana (obvious I know)... Or some Green Day, you can go old school with the hits from Dookie or, anything from American Idiot which was the last good rock album of this century, IMHO..
Much respect to ZZ Top but you react to the real version of the song. This is actually a cover from a rap song by a rapper from Houston named “DJ DMD- 25 lighters”
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Michael Tabor
1 year ago
ZZ Top is from Texas. In1989 DJ DMD (also from Texas) had a rap song called "25 Lighters". When ZZ Top's studio was being worked on they shared a recording house with a bunch of hip-hop artists. They got to be pretty good friends and ended up reworking the song. BTW, in Houston, dealers used to take Bic Lighters apart, remove the inside and fill them with crack. So yeah, this song is about slinging rocks.
LeGrange is a must. Boom Boom Boom with John Lee Hooker and ZZTop is also a must listen.
"My Head's in Mississippi"
R.I.P. Dusty Hill. Classy guys, awesome music for decades. I've been listening to ZZ TOP since I was a kid and saw them live on the Eliminator tour which I think had 6 or 7 hugely popular videos on Mtv at the time. They were excellent live.
Always one who has remind of death.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it now and I’ll say it again, Billy Gibbons is the baddest man on the planet.
Bro, Just Got Paid is what they wanted. It’s older but more famous than this newer one which is good too.
That’s what I thought the video was gonna be.
They right. You gotsta check out "Just Got Paid".
While your at it listen to "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide".
Billy's new Solo stuff is incredible too.
nope we want this one
ZZ Top - La Grange --- ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin' (Official Music Video) are fire !! Oh and ZZ Top - Tush !!!!!!
Can still remember my first ZZ tune ever heard, "MEXICAN BLACKBIRD"
They all called her, "Puta".😎
My fav zz song nation wide.... I am bad bad bad I am nationwide 😅
ZZ TOP
just got paid today
🎸🎼🎧❤
Awsome rework of Texas rap legends DJ DMD's, Lil' Keke, and Fat Pat's song, 25 Lighters. Lil' Keke and Fat Pat had already passed away and ZZ Top got permission from their estate to rework the track, .25 Lighters is a classic rap song. ZZ Top is so cool. I'm glad I got to see them live.
Bro Lil Keke still alive. Fat Pat's brother HAWK did pass away though.
This is a great one! Check out "Tube Snake Boogie" and "LaGrange" you will love them both!
Not many people are aware, but this is avidly a cover of a rap song "25 lighters" by Fat Pat
Going through a box of old ticket stubs not long ago,
My first rock concert
May 19, 1973 (Dusty Hill's 24th birthday, I've come to find out)
East Tennessee State University
Rory Gallagher
ZZ Top
$4
It was about six months before Tres Hombres came out. Rory Gallagher was pure fire right out of the gate, and I think he had as much fun as anyone. (& someone you should check out) Then, BG and the boys came out. Back when they were the most badass blues rock band that ever was. Straw hats, jeans, no beards (but Frank. lol), and BG in a white tshirt w/ pack of Marlboros rolled up in the sleeve(lol). Needless to say, Rory and BG made a big impression on a 16 yr old. Blues rock, slide guitar nut ever since.
RIP Dusty, Rory, Lou, Rod. Thank You!
It's a cover to a rap song called 25 lighters
I didn't know they re-did that rap song lol that's awesome. ZZ top is bangin screw H-town style lol.
"My Heads in Mississippi" great song
YEEEEEESSSSSS!!!
Bad ass band, bad ass cars, and definitely bad ass babes. The holy trinity.
One of my favorite ZZ songs and the groove "My Heads in Mississippi"
I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide; I Thank You or Tubesnake Boogie!! 🔥🔥🔥
I'm Bad I'm Nationwide gets my vote.
Believe it or not but this is a cover of a rap song called “25 lighters” by DJ DMD (ft. LIL KEKE & Fat Pat). Billy Gibbons talked w the guys and asked if he could do a bluesy cover and they said yes. This was the outcome.
Here’s the original
th-cam.com/video/_iTfoFLz5nA/w-d-xo.html
ZZTop is one of the ALL TIME GREATEST Bands to ever hit the stage. They are so cool, you're getting frosty just hearing this tune.
From Songfacts®:
This song is a revamp of fellow Texan DJ DMD's 1989 rap hit "25 Lighters," which is Houston ghetto slang for taking Bic Lighters apart, removing the innards and filling them with crack
Got me under pressure
Just got paid today
Tube snake boogie
Gimme all your lovin
Give those a whirl. All good songs.
Yep I’m 66 years old And I believe that ZZ Top are the three guy’s that that brought long beards out like the old moonshiners and if you like them look at Justin Johnson Delta blues plays a shovel guitar
No, they were already famous before the beards. Then they went on separate vacations. Billy and Dusty came back with beards and they decided to keep them.
I love that you love all music! I've never heard you say you don't like something. There's gotta be something. Lol
(I'm Bad, I'm) Nationwide
Just that lil ole 3 man band out of Texas . The whole Fandango album it lit up !
You can't help but get addicted to the masters, throw them roses! With ZZ Top, you have a while til they run out of great music.
Sleeping Bag
Cheap Sunglasses
Blue Jean Blues
Tube Snake Boogie
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Rough Boy
Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
Sleeping Bag
T.V. Dinners
how deep do you want to go?
Nice list - love Tube Snake Boogie and Blue Jean Blues. I'd add Jesus Just left Chicago/Waitin for the Bus.
MASTER OF SPARKS. TRUE STORY THAT THE LYRICS TALK ABOUT.
La Grange, Beer drinkers Hell Raisers, Jesus just left Chicago, Tush...there'so many.
Any song by ZZ Top, you won’t be disappointed
Billy Gibbons the only man who can put a fuzz box (guitar pedal) to good use.
Your reactions give me so much joy 🥹 thanks for another great one youngster 👵🏼☮️❤️🔥
"Hot Blue and Righteous" and "Rough Boy"
This video,IMO, is King for the Top
Z Z Top and their beards was a unintended consequence... it was also a huge coincidence that their drummer (without a beard!) is Frank Beard...😂When Z Z Top released their first album in 1971, the trio (guitarist Billy F. Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill & drummer Frank Beard) did not have those trademark beards. They were a band from Texas that played bluesy, boogie rock n' roll... They toured relentlessly into 1977 and built their success from the ground up w/ a string of albums.
What happened was... around 1977, drummer Frank Beard ended up in rehab after years of substance abuse & wanted to get clean... The other members of Z Z Top were loyal & did not want a new drummer. So, the band took a break, while Frank Beard took some time off... Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill went away to their homes and spent the next two years fishing or doing non-music activities; neither shaved during that time...
When Z Z Top got back together in 1979 to work on a new album, Gibbons & Hill showed up w/ huge beards from years of not shaving... When they rehearsed, I guess they thought they had a striking image... so they decided to keep the beards and went on tour for the 1979 album 'Deguello' (which became a platinum success in the US) and everybody recognized them as the band w/ the 2 bearded guys and 1 clean-shaven guy named Frank Beard... When MTV started putting their music videos on, that image was a huge hit in 1983 cos Z Z Top was instantly recognizable. The band was allegedly offered 7 figures to shave them off - they refused! 😂😂
RIP Dusty
ZZ Top brown sugar is a must
you gotta listen to "Thank you" from ZZ TOP
ADogg! Waitin For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago!! Bluesy!!
Jesus Just Left Chicago by ZZ Top
Tv dinners is a quirky must
Absolutely, they made the long beards famous. At least Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill, RIP, wear them that way. The only one who doesn't have a beard, is Frank (ahem) Beard.
Now play Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago...2 songs that go straight from one into the other. Off The Tres Ombres album. 🔥🔥🎶🎵👍🏼🎸🎸🥁 The drummer without a beard--his last name is BEARD!! NOBODY sounds close to ZZ TOP‼️ Another Good tune --Pearl Necklace =see what people comment on that song. Te he ✌🏽
Best song(s) in the catalog
Hey bro! What it is? Check just got paid today from ZZ- top! I guess they like they chedda!
Zzz tops daughter worked on NCI as Abbey
Pauley perrette is not related to any member of ZZ Top however billy gibbons was on the show bones and played the father of angela
More Top, you say? How about Tush, Thunderbird, Mexican Blackbird, or just the whole Fandango album. And yeah, the beards have almost always identified ZZ Top
R.I.P., Dusty......
Badass song
ZZ Top song( Legs)
I like Waitin on a bus/Jesus just left Chicago
I would have to say yes they're first with beards
Try "My Head's in Mississippi"!
Their beards and their hot rod.
You should check out Ghoultown "Drink With The Living Dead"
Fandango live.
Waiting for the bus/ Jesus left Chicago
Nasty dogs and funky kings is their most underrated songs but check out squank it's another as boogie woogie as it gets
Jesus left chicago
Yes the beards were famous. The drummers name is beard yet he don’t wear one!
This was OP by a Houston rapper that ZZ Top adapted. I think they cut him off a chunk
Zz top Just got paid
She's a Heartbreaker. Not a big hit but a great song.
You need to listen to KANSAS WAYWARD SON Very good music
Loving your reactions to rock music man... You have to get some 90's Grunge in there. Nirvana (obvious I know)...
Or some Green Day, you can go old school with the hits from Dookie or, anything from American Idiot which was the last good rock album of this century, IMHO..
Much respect to ZZ Top but you react to the real version of the song. This is actually a cover from a rap song by a rapper from Houston named “DJ DMD- 25 lighters”
More of a reinvention.
Dreadmonboogaloo ZZ Top
If you are going to stick with ZZ Top got to listen to “Legs”
(I wanna) Thank You
LaGrange
Too much bottom end.
Love the reaction .
Have a chat with your sound man.
Love your reactions young man! Keep up the good work!
I saw then in the late 70s and the beards were grown. Yes they were incredible!