Isn't this the first album after Billy and Dusty grew theirs though? If I recall correctly, they went into a full hermit mode for a while after the "Texas World Tour" or whatever it was called and never shaved again.
The vocalist for Sharp Dressed Man and La Grange is guitarist/vocalist Billy Gibbons. The three members on the album cover are Billy Gibbons (guitar/vocals), Dusty Hill (bass/vocals), and the only member without a bread: Frank Beard (drums).
This song is about the brothel in La Grange (The Chicken Ranch) that the Best Little Whorehouse is Texas is based on. It existed for Generations for Texas boys and men between Houston, San Antonio and Austin and points around. Everyone knew about. It needed great song to memorialize it.
La Grange is the county seat of Fayette County, Texas. In the 1970’s, there was an oil boom, in Fayette, Lee, Washington, and Bastrop Counties. That oil boom was called the Austin Chalk play; named after the geologic formation that was yielding the crude oil. Cities like La Grange, Giddings, Round Top, and Brenhan, were overrun with oilmen. Hard-drinking roughnecks, welders, and truck drivers, far from home (with pockets full of cash), were living in any shelter they could find. The old townsfolk, would rent out rooms, sheds, trailers, and tents to the “oilfield trash”, as the townsfolk called them. Oil company “landman” were making millionaires out of small time ranchers. Diners and restaurants had two menus; one for “Roughnecks” and one for “Locals”. Oil drilling in the Austin Chalk was highly unpredictable, in the 1970’s (before horizontal drilling and fracking). Oilmen (all of them) were taking big risks; and not only with their cash, but also with their lives. Drilling rigs were crazy dangerous in the 1970’s. Money was flowing, everywhere. Lots of winners and losers. Lots of fist fights, when roughnecks weren’t being paid; because of oil business bankruptcies. Just as many roughnecks demanded fat paychecks, from desperate small oil companies; because other drillers were shorthanded and were poaching each other’s roughnecks. The Chicken Ranch was at “ground zero” for the flood of “rednecks with pay checks”, and ranchers with more money than brains. Not enough songs and stories, have been written, to capture the craziness of that boom, and the characters that emerged in La Grange !
Grr-range. First time I saw them I was in High School and they came on stage dressed in Stetson cowboy hats, rhine stone shirts, boots, belt and buckles which threw off the whole crowed because we were wondering how we ended up in a country & western concert. Then they started playing this song and just blew the whole crowd away. This song is about a house of ill repute ( The Chicken house) that was sort of famous or infamous when the fight to close it went all the way to the capital in Austin. There was a play and movie about it with Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds call the "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" The chicken house was shut down in 1973 the same year this song came out.
@@johnrobb8435I saw that on Broadway in 1980, when we visited New York. A business friend of my uncle invited us there. I was barely 17 back then. Thought it was a little weird choice, but OK, but as german I did not get much of the intricacies of any lewd remarks anyhow. Was a fascinating city - we also were on the WTC. Is a strange feeling that this no longer exists...
It was the 1900's... 1970's to be precise... I met these guys in 1980 and spent about 4 days with them. My best friend's dad's best friends. Went shooting, fishing and camping. About 5 days and 4 nights. I was 9. They played around the campfire every night. I had NO clue who they were!
The riff was in a beer commercial. Heard it on the X or Tush are both great. My absolute favorite is Waiting for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago. They must be played together.
John Lee Hooker and dozens of older, foundational blues players sounded like this. The voice in this one is an affectation that they put on for their most authentic Delta blues songs.
This album came out when I was in high school. I was rebuilding a Volkswagen engine at a friend's house, and he put this album on. We didn't have time to go in and change the album, and the turntable was on auto-repeat, so one side played over and over again for hours while we worked. Good times.
My pot dealer buddy back in the 70s always had Tejas on the turntable playing when I'd stop by. The same side, for several months. I finally flipped it over for him and we listened to that side for a couple of months 😆
The riff is ‘Boogie Chillun’ and the vocal style including the ‘How, How, How is from ‘Boom Boom’, both by John Lee Hooker. This is sung by guitarist Billy Gibbons who also sang ‘Sharp Dressed Man’. Thus was recorded in Memphis and he did the bizarre voice with the sound engineer while the record producer was out gathering food. The producer hated it but they insisted it very left in.
I first liked ZZ TOP when the ELIMINATOR album came out with all their hit singles like 'Sharp Dressed Man', 'Gimme all your lovin' and 'LEGS'. I then heard THIS song, and my love for them went to another level and I started delving into their older tracks and discovered how truly amazing they are as musicians. Both the guitar work, and the drumming, is just incredible, on a consistent basis. To me, they are simply legendary! Thanks for reviewing their songs here! Keep smiling👍
The Biggest Little Band in Texas! That was how the band was referred to in the 70's and this was their sound (more blues based) until the 80's when 2 things magically happened. They weren't afraid of a little modern technology that changed their guitar sound and the explosion of MTV which gained them a ton of new fans. Older sound songs Tush, Pearl Necklace, Heard it on the X, Jesus Just Left Chicago. Newer sound, Legs, Gimme All Your Lovin, Velcro Fly, TV Dinners, Rough Boy, Got Me Under Pressure!
This was in the early days when they were a badass blues/southern rock band. Sharp dressed man was after they became a boring pop band. They were great. Good reaction.
You must check out "Waitin' For The Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago" on the same album. Two different songs but they meant to be listened to back to back. So good! Enjoying your channel. Thanks!
The only movie I can think of where La Grange was used was in the bar fight scene in Jackie Chan's " Shanghai Noon." I'm sure there are others, but that's the one I remember.
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom.Boom Was the inspiration for this track and deserves a reaction. Billy Gibbons & Company historians of black blues and founded a blues museaum and Society. Of course they're from Houston.
ZZ Top has always been 3 guys. As someone else said, the third member is the drummer. The Tres Hombres album is from their pre-MTV era. "Sharp Dressed Man" however, is from the MTV era. They've got lots of great tunes from both eras. I saw them at the Abilene Civic Center in 1974, great show! Another song you might want to check out is "Tush".
This is my dads favorite band and something I heard very often growing up. I’ve been able to see them multiple times live and they are just the dope at dudes. Billy is legendary guitarists favorite guitarist. Sad we lost Dusty, but he left us with some of the greatest jams ever made.
'The Chicken Ranch', outside LaGrange, Texas, was an "illegal" brothel tgat was famous. A movie called 'The Best Little Whorehouse' in Texas' is about the place. Movie starred Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton.
I’ve seen them probably 20 times since the 70’s and they are still touring with Lynyrd Skynyrd. Last time was in Lubbock Texas with Skynyrd about 10 years ago. Fantastic show!
I'm with you, Phil - that voice took me by surprise the first time I heard it, too. I don't know how to describe it either... although "congested" comes to mind...
One of my favorite songs to get a speeding ticket with. JUST COOOL. If it's 100 degrees in the shade, and you're just getting off of work, crank this thang up.
Imagine hearing this blast out over the radio for the first time. Even in times of so much creativity and experimentation in music, this sounded like nothing we had heard -- so fresh and raw. I saw them shortly after this came out and was blown away by the wall of sound coming from 3 people.
I have been to the studio where ZZ Top recorded their first several albums. It was almost a religious experience knowing that songs like La Grange, Jesus Just Left Chicago, and Hot Blue and Righteous were bouncing off of those walls. The studio is in Tyler, Texas, about 200 miles north of Houston.
Texas Blues at their finest. As we say down here, It don't get much better!! Great reaction guys. As we say here in Texas; y'all be safe. Hope you had a wonderful holiday.
When I seen them in San Diego ZZ Top with opening acts:Blue Öyster Cult and Johnny & Edgar Winter! It was by far the loudest, rockingest, party I've ever been to! Wanted to share something back. I really enjoy getting to watch people discover new music. And look forward to seeing you guys in my notifications.
Just an awesome band, I maybe a little Bias, As I am from Houston,Tx. and grew up on ZZ Top. And I love there music and Back in the beginning and still to this day, This one of my favorite ZZ Top tunes.
Ther are always 3 peple inn ther videos. They are 3 members and 2 of them are singing. They are an old band. Born Joe Michael Hill in Dallas, he, Gibbons and Beard formed ZZ Top in Houston in 1969, naming themselves in part after blues singer Z.Z. Hill and influenced by the British power trio Cream. Their debut release, “ZZ Top's First Album,” came out in 1970.
Sharp Dressed Man was from the 80s, when several 70s bands (Heart, Yes, Aerosmith, ZZ) went with more of a pop/rock sound. This album, Tres Hombres, came out in '73, and is pure Texas blues/rock. The whole album kicks ass. I much prefer it to their 80s stuff, although don't dislike that, just like their 70s stuff a lot more.
Fun irony for you : Of the 3 guys in the band, the guitarist and bassist have those long iconic beards... but the drummer does not, his name is Frank BEARD.
I think my dad played this when I was about six or so. I didn't really. get into them until Eliminator but knew a lot of their songs. This one still is my favorite. Billy Gibbons was the shit. I read that at one time Jimi Hendrix said that Billy was the best guitarist on the planet at that time while he was in the band Moving Sidewalks. That's crazy. Still one of my favorite bands ever.
Billy Gibbons on lead vocals. You cannot go wrong with a ZZ Top song. Loved that shuffle gallop on the drums by Frank Beard. A classic guitar riff and they have a lot of them.
Jimi Hendrix was asked once who was his favorite guitar player, his answer....Billy Gibbons! Of course, we call him "Billy "F" Gibbons" now..lol Billy "Fuckin'" Gibbons
When I was a teenager in a small town in the Hill Country of Texas, in the '60's, the Chicken House in La Grange was legendary. I'm sure someone has mentioned that there was a movie about it starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. Thanks for reacting to La Grange!
Creators of the Texas Blues. That’s the sound you hear from ZZ Top and SRV. Y’all have to go down this amazing rabbit hole! First, learn the band and members first through a documentary…Sill blow your mind!
What a great song. A very brief span of vocals and then the remainder of the song a vehicle for Billy Gibbons' blazing guitar skills. Old timey Texas blues! A+ ~~ I've enjoyed seeing ZZ Top play this song in shows on hot summer nights in Tupelo, Mississippi, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
That album, Tres Hombres, is a genuine classic. No telling how many copies I've worn out in my lifetime. This is earlier ZZ Top, before Sharp Dressed Man. I prefer this era of their career but I love all their music. One of my favorite bands.
Nest song you need to hit from them is Tush. That was sung by their late bassist, Dusty Hill. He died back in 2021. The three members, Billy Gibbons on guitar and Frank Beard on drums were together for more than 50 years.
“Heard it on the X” is a great song by them. It’s about the late night radio stations in Mexico back in the day that were much more powerful than the stations in the USA were allowed to be. They blasted blues music and could be heard all over Texas. Cheers from West Texas!🇺🇸🇨🇱🤘🏻😎
Legendary tune and band! My brother lives in a town called LaGrange, though not Texas!Back in the day great music did not have to be filled with nonsense vocals that filled every second of a song. They used to let the music breathe!
I think it was in 1972 in okc at the Myriad. The first concert I ever went to.....it was Ten Years After and ZZ Top opened for them.... Great Concert..... two of the best guitarist around...awesome
That's Billy Gibbons, guitarist. La Grange is a town here in Texas (yes I live here) it was infamous for having an existing brothel operating until the 70s! Everyone in the area knew it and nobody cared until it got too famous, then it was shutdown! All the members in ZZ Top are Texas guys! Me and my wife? We're originally from Chicago and now are totally happy being and living here! Wouldn't want to be anywhere else then where we are! Great band, I've been following them since their first album given to me by a buddy from Texas whom I was in the military with in the late 60s early 70s.
Billy Gibbons does most of the guitar work. Dusty Hill (RIP) did the bass and some guitar work. Frank Beard did drums and, ironically, is the only one who doesn’t have a beard. Next on your list should be Waiting On The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago. It’s kind of a matched pair, so you have to listen to both. Much love ❤️ and hope you had a very Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 😊
Fun fact from a documentary that featured interviews with the band members. There was a point in time where the band took a hiatus and didn't speak with each other during that time because they were busy with their personal lives. Prior to the hiatus both Billy and Dusty were either clean shaven or had short beards. Without realizing or communicating with each other the both grew their beards long during the hiatus. Neither knew the other had let it grow out until they resumed working together as a band. That became their signature look.
I like all ZZ Top but I do prefer this earlier era. And yeah, I can't remember if Frank the drummer sang or not, but both Billy and Dusty were very strong singers and in fact one of my favorite absolute bangers by them which was a hit and it's off one of their earlier albums as well, Fandango, is called Heard It On The X. It's somewhat autobiographical about their early musical influences listening to pirate radio as kids in Texas, and what is so great about it is you get them trading lines on lead vocals and the whole thing just rocks so damn hard. To me it's one of the greatest riffs in Southern Rock. m.th-cam.com/video/zvgGNaTH7ds/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUYenogdG9wIGhlYXJkIGl0IG9uIHRoZSB4
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Same three guys, same three chords, for 50+ years. Best three piece band in Texas. RIP Dusty.
Best 3 piece band ever!
Best three piece band - period.
@@singluna888Wynd your neck in,, ever heard of RUSH 🤟🏴
@@peterarmstrong6928 Yup heard of them...still not ZZ top.
Their drummer is Frank Beard who came up as a jazz drummer. He is an amazing drummer. Strangely he is the only one without a beard.
Yet, there are still three Beards in the band. =D
Dusty stopped growing his now.
and in my opinion very underrated!!
@@Tijuanabill Funny!
Isn't this the first album after Billy and Dusty grew theirs though? If I recall correctly, they went into a full hermit mode for a while after the "Texas World Tour" or whatever it was called and never shaved again.
The riff and the vocal style are homages to bluesman Johnny Lee Hooker
Spot on.
Boogie Chillin', John Lee Hooker
Canned Heat did a homage in the 60's with their Refried Boogie
@@StefanPina They also collaborated with Hooker.
i know, Canned Heat - Hooker 'N Heat
The vocalist for Sharp Dressed Man and La Grange is guitarist/vocalist Billy Gibbons. The three members on the album cover are Billy Gibbons (guitar/vocals), Dusty Hill (bass/vocals), and the only member without a bread: Frank Beard (drums).
This song is about the brothel in La Grange (The Chicken Ranch) that the Best Little Whorehouse is Texas is based on. It existed for Generations for Texas boys and men between Houston, San Antonio and Austin and points around. Everyone knew about. It needed great song to memorialize it.
La Grange is the county seat of Fayette County, Texas. In the 1970’s, there was an oil boom, in Fayette, Lee, Washington, and Bastrop Counties. That oil boom was called the Austin Chalk play; named after the geologic formation that was yielding the crude oil.
Cities like La Grange, Giddings, Round Top, and Brenhan, were overrun with oilmen. Hard-drinking roughnecks, welders, and truck drivers, far from home (with pockets full of cash), were living in any shelter they could find. The old townsfolk, would rent out rooms, sheds, trailers, and tents to the “oilfield trash”, as the townsfolk called them. Oil company “landman” were making millionaires out of small time ranchers. Diners and restaurants had two menus; one for “Roughnecks” and one for “Locals”.
Oil drilling in the Austin Chalk was highly unpredictable, in the 1970’s (before horizontal drilling and fracking). Oilmen (all of them) were taking big risks; and not only with their cash, but also with their lives. Drilling rigs were crazy dangerous in the 1970’s.
Money was flowing, everywhere. Lots of winners and losers. Lots of fist fights, when roughnecks weren’t being paid; because of oil business bankruptcies. Just as many roughnecks demanded fat paychecks, from desperate small oil companies; because other drillers were shorthanded and were poaching each other’s roughnecks.
The Chicken Ranch was at “ground zero” for the flood of “rednecks with pay checks”, and ranchers with more money than brains.
Not enough songs and stories, have been written, to capture the craziness of that boom, and the characters that emerged in La Grange !
I will describe his voice for you....Iconic!
Rusty gravel in an old sock.
Pomposity of a mountain top level .
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The embodiment of Texas Blues
One of the most iconic songs in music, with one of the most instantly identifiable guitar riffs. Best driving music ever.
Grr-range. First time I saw them I was in High School and they came on stage dressed in Stetson cowboy hats, rhine stone shirts, boots, belt and buckles which threw off the whole crowed because we were wondering how we ended up in a country & western concert. Then they started playing this song and just blew the whole crowd away.
This song is about a house of ill repute ( The Chicken house) that was sort of famous or infamous when the fight to close it went all the way to the capital in Austin. There was a play and movie about it with Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds call the "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" The chicken house was shut down in 1973 the same year this song came out.
The house of ill repute was actually called the Chicken Ranch…
"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" was actually a Broadway play before it was made into a movie.
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@@johnrobb8435I saw that on Broadway in 1980, when we visited New York. A business friend of my uncle invited us there. I was barely 17 back then.
Thought it was a little weird choice, but OK, but as german I did not get much of the intricacies of any lewd remarks anyhow.
Was a fascinating city - we also were on the WTC. Is a strange feeling that this no longer exists...
It was the 1900's... 1970's to be precise... I met these guys in 1980 and spent about 4 days with them. My best friend's dad's best friends. Went shooting, fishing and camping. About 5 days and 4 nights. I was 9. They played around the campfire every night. I had NO clue who they were!
Now THERE is an awesome memory!
ZZ Top is a true power trio. Live, they are as powerful as pretty much any band I saw. The Reverend Billy Gibbons has many sounds to his voice.
That’s Billy Gibbons on guitar and vocals. Anybody that toured and hung out with Jimi Hendrix back in the day, you know is gonna be badass!!
The riff was in a beer commercial. Heard it on the X or Tush are both great. My absolute favorite is Waiting for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago. They must be played together.
I always liked"Legs". The strip clubs always played it, so I've been told 🙃😇
ZZ TOP "Blue Jean Blues"...Nuff Said. 🔥
My favorite ZZ Top song.
John Lee Hooker and dozens of older, foundational blues players sounded like this. The voice in this one is an affectation that they put on for their most authentic Delta blues songs.
This album came out when I was in high school. I was rebuilding a Volkswagen engine at a friend's house, and he put this album on. We didn't have time to go in and change the album, and the turntable was on auto-repeat, so one side played over and over again for hours while we worked. Good times.
My pot dealer buddy back in the 70s always had Tejas on the turntable playing when I'd stop by. The same side, for several months. I finally flipped it over for him and we listened to that side for a couple of months 😆
" I'm Bad I'm Nation Wide " ZZ TOP
The riff is ‘Boogie Chillun’ and the vocal style including the ‘How, How, How is from ‘Boom Boom’, both by John Lee Hooker. This is sung by guitarist Billy Gibbons who also sang ‘Sharp Dressed Man’. Thus was recorded in Memphis and he did the bizarre voice with the sound engineer while the record producer was out gathering food. The producer hated it but they insisted it very left in.
one guitar, one bass, one drummer. thats it. fkng texas magic.
👊🏻🫡😎🤘🏻
3 guys 1 drummer 1 bass guitar 1 guitar doing lead and rhythm. Badass definitely.
This tune got A LOT of play on the jukebox when I was a teenager. I think we wore that 45 record out! I still love ZZ's unique sound. 👍
My first concert. Best three-man band ever. Peace, Love!!
Earlier ZZ Top stuff is a lot more blues/rock than later stuff, where they got a lot more "poppier".
Billy himself described his voice as a rusty zipper… Love these guys… Formed in Houston, Texas.
Heaven, Hell or Houston
I first liked ZZ TOP when the ELIMINATOR album came out with all their hit singles like 'Sharp Dressed Man', 'Gimme all your lovin' and 'LEGS'. I then heard THIS song, and my love for them went to another level and I started delving into their older tracks and discovered how truly amazing they are as musicians. Both the guitar work, and the drumming, is just incredible, on a consistent basis. To me, they are simply legendary! Thanks for reviewing their songs here! Keep smiling👍
I am 68 years old still rocking strong because I came up in the 70s with this great classic guitar rock and roll
Same here at 70& counting! Rock till you die😅
I’ve always loved the groove and vocals of this song. Every time this comes on the radio my wife has to say how she doesn’t like this song. 😂
I would've filed for divorce the first time she said it, lol
My wife says turn it up! 😊❤
hahahaha great wife@@TrianglesAndCircles
Play her some John Lee Hooker.
ZZ makes a lot of sound for three musicians.
The Biggest Little Band in Texas! That was how the band was referred to in the 70's and this was their sound (more blues based) until the 80's when 2 things magically happened. They weren't afraid of a little modern technology that changed their guitar sound and the explosion of MTV which gained them a ton of new fans. Older sound songs Tush, Pearl Necklace, Heard it on the X, Jesus Just Left Chicago. Newer sound, Legs, Gimme All Your Lovin, Velcro Fly, TV Dinners, Rough Boy, Got Me Under Pressure!
Awesome - that’s how you describe it. His voice is very deep naturally and he’s just using it in that way - with a little added emphasis
This was in the early days when they were a badass blues/southern rock band.
Sharp dressed man was after they became a boring pop band.
They were great.
Good reaction.
got that right
You must check out "Waitin' For The Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago" on the same album. Two different songs but they meant to be listened to back to back. So good! Enjoying your channel. Thanks!
My grandfather grew up in the town right next to LaGrange. At that time the "business" mentioned in this song was literally the only business in town.
The only movie I can think of where La Grange was used was in the bar fight scene in Jackie Chan's " Shanghai Noon." I'm sure there are others, but that's the one I remember.
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom.Boom
Was the inspiration for this track and deserves a reaction.
Billy Gibbons & Company historians of black blues and founded a blues museaum and Society.
Of course they're from Houston.
ZZ Top has always been 3 guys. As someone else said, the third member is the drummer. The Tres Hombres album is from their pre-MTV era. "Sharp Dressed Man" however, is from the MTV era. They've got lots of great tunes from both eras. I saw them at the Abilene Civic Center in 1974, great show! Another song you might want to check out is "Tush".
This is my dads favorite band and something I heard very often growing up. I’ve been able to see them multiple times live and they are just the dope at dudes. Billy is legendary guitarists favorite guitarist. Sad we lost Dusty, but he left us with some of the greatest jams ever made.
i’ve been listening to zz top since i was 3 yrs old, i absolutely love them
I was in a band and we played this song nearly every gig. It’s fun to play
WOOOHOOOO!!! ZZ TOP!!! ENJOY!!! I tend to enjoy ALL their songs - but: I'm particularly fond of their older tunes (like this one)!!!
'The Chicken Ranch', outside LaGrange, Texas, was an "illegal" brothel tgat was famous. A movie called 'The Best Little Whorehouse' in Texas' is about the place. Movie starred Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton.
They formed the band in Houston Texas.
This is the first song i learned to play on acoustic guitar back in the 70's =) Great Song Great Reaction !
I’ve seen them probably 20 times since the 70’s and they are still touring with Lynyrd Skynyrd. Last time was in Lubbock Texas with Skynyrd about 10 years ago. Fantastic show!
Great 3 piece legendary band ..great sound..yes southern accent..great reaction guys
I'm with you, Phil - that voice took me by surprise the first time I heard it, too. I don't know how to describe it either... although "congested" comes to mind...
He was in his early twenties singing this song. Crazy hard.
ZZ Top
Blues Boogie Rock
They have an amazing catalog of songs to react to
I'm bad I'm nationwide is a fire ZZtop song❤Much love from Canada❤🇨🇦
One of my favorite songs to get a speeding ticket with. JUST COOOL. If it's 100 degrees in the shade, and you're just getting off of work, crank this thang up.
Under pressure live from Texas is an excellent video for appreciating ZZ Top.
Imagine hearing this blast out over the radio for the first time. Even in times of so much creativity and experimentation in music, this sounded like nothing we had heard -- so fresh and raw. I saw them shortly after this came out and was blown away by the wall of sound coming from 3 people.
I do remember. It was awesome.
"Gimme All Your Lovin'" and "Tubesteak Boogie" would be good next.
I have been to the studio where ZZ Top recorded their first several albums. It was almost a religious experience knowing that songs like La Grange, Jesus Just Left Chicago, and Hot Blue and Righteous were bouncing off of those walls. The studio is in Tyler, Texas, about 200 miles north of Houston.
I went to TJC. Our R/TV/F class went to that studio. I appreciate it now more than I did then!!
Texas Blues at their finest. As we say down here, It don't get much better!!
Great reaction guys.
As we say here in Texas; y'all be safe. Hope you had a wonderful holiday.
When I seen them in San Diego ZZ Top with opening acts:Blue Öyster Cult and
Johnny & Edgar Winter! It was by far the loudest, rockingest, party I've ever been to! Wanted to share something back. I really enjoy getting to
watch people discover new music. And look forward to seeing you guys in my notifications.
Just an awesome band, I maybe a little Bias, As I am from Houston,Tx. and grew up on ZZ Top. And I love there music and Back in the beginning and still to this day, This one of my favorite ZZ Top tunes.
I've been playing guitar since 1965. This is one of my favorite solos. Fun to play
Ther are always 3 peple inn ther videos.
They are 3 members and 2 of them are singing.
They are an old band.
Born Joe Michael Hill in Dallas, he, Gibbons and Beard formed ZZ Top in Houston in 1969, naming themselves in part after blues singer Z.Z. Hill and influenced by the British power trio Cream. Their debut release, “ZZ Top's First Album,” came out in 1970.
My favorite song from this group!
Don’t forget “Just got paid today” another short banger.
Got me a pocket full of change.
They started in my home town Houston.
If you are looking for more in this vain…”My Head’s In Mississippi”
Really good! My favorite!👍
It's one guitar and one bass and one drummer. That Lil ol band from Texas 🎉
Visiting Texas years ago, driving down the highway, and La Grange comes on the radio just as I am passing the La Grange EXIT! 😄
Sharp Dressed Man was from the 80s, when several 70s bands (Heart, Yes, Aerosmith, ZZ) went with more of a pop/rock sound. This album, Tres Hombres, came out in '73, and is pure Texas blues/rock. The whole album kicks ass. I much prefer it to their 80s stuff, although don't dislike that, just like their 70s stuff a lot more.
Fun irony for you : Of the 3 guys in the band, the guitarist and bassist have those long iconic beards... but the drummer does not, his name is Frank BEARD.
His voice definitely isn't twangy. Best three piece rock band in my lifetime. 🇨🇱🎸🎵🇺🇲
I think my dad played this when I was about six or so. I didn't really. get into them until Eliminator but knew a lot of their songs. This one still is my favorite. Billy Gibbons was the shit. I read that at one time Jimi Hendrix said that Billy was the best guitarist on the planet at that time while he was in the band Moving Sidewalks. That's crazy. Still one of my favorite bands ever.
This one's always been my #1 ZZ Top song.♥
Billy Gibbons on lead vocals. You cannot go wrong with a ZZ Top song. Loved that shuffle gallop on the drums by Frank Beard. A classic guitar riff and they have a lot of them.
One of the biggest songs of 70s rock radio 👍💯🔥
The only ZZ I take seriously is 70s ZZ.
These guys were killers.
Tejas is favorite ZZ album.
ZZ Top is just too cool! 😎 Unique sound!! Both in looks and in sound! 🔥🔥🔥
Great reactions!!👍👍
"That lil' 'ol Blues band from Texas !" R.I.P., Dusty ...............
Billy Gibbons, Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitar player, 3 hombres refers to the members of a band, they're a 3 piece band
Please, please, please do a review of ZZ's "Waitin' For the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago" trust me, its a fan fave for sure!
Pre "Gimme all your lovin'" is where it's at.
Since everyone is talking about ZZ Top, I’m gonna plug a 1971 album called Hooker ‘N Heat that John Lee Hooker made with Canned Heat. Double Vintage!
Phil and Sam, happy holidays
Jimi Hendrix was asked once who was his favorite guitar player, his answer....Billy Gibbons!
Of course, we call him "Billy "F" Gibbons" now..lol
Billy "Fuckin'" Gibbons
When I was a teenager in a small town in the Hill Country of Texas, in the '60's, the Chicken House in La Grange was legendary. I'm sure someone has mentioned that there was a movie about it starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. Thanks for reacting to La Grange!
"Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" was the movie.
Creators of the Texas Blues. That’s the sound you hear from ZZ Top and SRV.
Y’all have to go down this amazing rabbit hole! First, learn the band and members first through a documentary…Sill blow your mind!
What a great song. A very brief span of vocals and then the remainder of the song a vehicle for Billy Gibbons' blazing guitar skills. Old timey Texas blues! A+ ~~ I've enjoyed seeing ZZ Top play this song in shows on hot summer nights in Tupelo, Mississippi, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
That album, Tres Hombres, is a genuine classic. No telling how many copies I've worn out in my lifetime. This is earlier ZZ Top, before Sharp Dressed Man. I prefer this era of their career but I love all their music. One of my favorite bands.
La Grange is a small city in Texas near Houston. Have family there.
you know for old people like me it's great to know all those bands and songs
67 and I'm lovin' it!
Nest song you need to hit from them is Tush. That was sung by their late bassist, Dusty Hill. He died back in 2021. The three members, Billy Gibbons on guitar and Frank Beard on drums were together for more than 50 years.
This song kicks ass
Lagrange is the Texas town. The Chicken Ranch was the brothel. Best Little Whorehouse in Texas was musical and movie.
Also, Jesus just left Chicago/ Cheap Sunglasses too!
Had the good fortune of seeing them live in 77’ , at a small venue in Portland OR. One of my first 8 tracks from Columbia records 🤣
“Heard it on the X” is a great song by them. It’s about the late night radio stations in Mexico back in the day that were much more powerful than the stations in the USA were allowed to be. They blasted blues music and could be heard all over Texas.
Cheers from West Texas!🇺🇸🇨🇱🤘🏻😎
The song they have " THANK YOU " is also great. Although ZZ TOP has many great songs.
Thank You is a blues cover. How about I'm Bad I'm Nationwide.
@@jgsrhythm100 regardless , they still did a great cover of " Thank You "
@@guitarman8462 Agreed. Love the whole album. I have spent time with Billy Gibbons in Houston. Most down to earth cat you could meet.
Legendary tune and band! My brother lives in a town called LaGrange, though not Texas!Back in the day great music did not have to be filled with nonsense vocals that filled every second of a song. They used to let the music breathe!
I think it was in 1972 in okc at the Myriad. The first concert I ever went to.....it was Ten Years After and ZZ Top opened for them.... Great Concert..... two of the best guitarist around...awesome
Great band back in the day we called them the texas trio. They are from Houston Texas. Formed in 1969
That's Billy Gibbons, guitarist. La Grange is a town here in Texas (yes I live here) it was infamous for having an existing brothel operating until the 70s! Everyone in the area knew it and nobody cared until it got too famous, then it was shutdown! All the members in ZZ Top are Texas guys! Me and my wife? We're originally from Chicago and now are totally happy being and living here! Wouldn't want to be anywhere else then where we are! Great band, I've been following them since their first album given to me by a buddy from Texas whom I was in the military with in the late 60s early 70s.
Lived in Chicago as well, left that SHITHOLE years ago...
Billy Gibbons does most of the guitar work. Dusty Hill (RIP) did the bass and some guitar work. Frank Beard did drums and, ironically, is the only one who doesn’t have a beard.
Next on your list should be Waiting On The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago. It’s kind of a matched pair, so you have to listen to both. Much love ❤️ and hope you had a very Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 😊
Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers off of this album Tres Hombres is another great rocker by ZZ Top
Fun fact from a documentary that featured interviews with the band members. There was a point in time where the band took a hiatus and didn't speak with each other during that time because they were busy with their personal lives. Prior to the hiatus both Billy and Dusty were either clean shaven or had short beards. Without realizing or communicating with each other the both grew their beards long during the hiatus. Neither knew the other had let it grow out until they resumed working together as a band. That became their signature look.
I like all ZZ Top but I do prefer this earlier era. And yeah, I can't remember if Frank the drummer sang or not, but both Billy and Dusty were very strong singers and in fact one of my favorite absolute bangers by them which was a hit and it's off one of their earlier albums as well, Fandango, is called Heard It On The X.
It's somewhat autobiographical about their early musical influences listening to pirate radio as kids in Texas, and what is so great about it is you get them trading lines on lead vocals and the whole thing just rocks so damn hard. To me it's one of the greatest riffs in Southern Rock.
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