Posted on 08/26/2015 9:54:56 PM PDT by DemforBush
Great little tune off of ZZ Top's second album (Rio Grande Mud). Original 1972 version.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
I play this song in my current band,although I do embellish. The solos a bit.
Love that tone! Pearly Gates!
Just Got Paid is my favorite ZZ Top jam.
“Although I do embellish the solo’s a bit”
That is cool. I can’t imagine chugging through a z z top solo note for note. I improvise as much as I can. Otherwise it is pretty boring for the audience.
Really? ZZTop's Billy Gibbons is an accomplished soloist. His melodic leads along with the rhythm section is what made them, not to mention his catchy riffs and the simple lyrics. I've listened to them as far back as Tres Hombres (1973)when they were still wearing cowboy hats. May be not the most technical accomplished band, but they have many catchy songs that are still on Jukeboxes.
Heard It On The X — Tres Diablos (Dimebag Darrell, Vinnie Paul, Rex Brown) RARE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKfxWa6E44I
Pantera - Dimebag & Vinnie - Heard It On The X - RARE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scthyE3vz3o
Huge ZZ top fan. Thanks for posting.
Great song. They definitely recycled that opening riff in Sharp Dressed Man. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. One of my all time favorite bands.
Looking forward to seeing them in Nashville next
week in Nashville.
Spring 1973, just as Tres Hombres was released, I had the pleasure of seeing the boys live for the tidy sum of $1.25.
The girls in that video didn’t want any members of ZZ Top anywhere near them. If I recall correctly they were Playmates of the year or something along those lines and thought that the band members were scruffy dirtbags.
Lol! As if THEY are decent and respectable. They are not much better than hookers, selling sex for money.
Love ZZ Top...the first 7 albums are pretty much all I listen too from them. Rio Grande Mud is great but my fave is Deguello...’Fool for your stockings’ is one of the best blues/rock tunes ever, IMHO. Thanks for posting.
Paula Abdul was one of the dancers on ‘Velcro Fly’ (in her earlier dancing days.)
Actually, the fellas are all decent folks.
Dusty Hill had a brother that was probably the finest slide guitarists and blues musicians I had ever heard.
I never knew anyone that was able to say “I saw him once”.
They call came back over and over again to hear him.
He didn’t play a whole lot though - just when he needed money.
“Rockey Hill” was his name - he died about 5 years ago, though.
I have been following Billy Gibbons a long time having grown up not far from Houston in the 60s where the Moving Sidewalks frequently played around. Hendrix had good things to say about Billy. Most rock guitarists improvise when they solo. I copy signature riffs but improvise extensively which is what the artists themselves do when they play live
I remember those days as well - and was in high school in the 60s.
Allens Landing, Love Street Light Circus, Texas Opry House, The Catacombs, all of that.
I listened to Country as a primary staple of my music, but ZZ Top (in the 70s), Johnny and Edgar Winter (also 70s), Gatemouth Brown, Rocky Hill and others always caught my attention.
Those were the days.
Ah johnny Winter. Underrated guitarist with his own unique style. Had the balls to insist he sit in with B B King when he was young. His chicago recording with kooper and bloomfield was awesome. Yes — those were good days in rock with a lot of original talent
I wasn't agreeing with the playmates that the band members of ZZ Top are less than respectable. I was just saying who are the playmates to look down on anyone's character, given what they do to make money.
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