This is why us "old timers" have always said we liked ZZ before their MTV hits. From Fandango back to us is the real ZZ Top. Not taking anything away from their later "hits" but when you spent 10 years listening to their 1970 songs it just doesn't get better.. There's several good "old" songs people have recommended that I wholeheartedly agree with..
I couldn’t agree more. I always steer people to early ZZ. Dirty, bluesy ZZ is the best representation of their immense talent. Newer commercial ZZ made them a ton of money, but it’s not my preference.
I don't remember running away from people out to murder him..but he went to save some hoochee coochies on Bourbon St. and while at it help some wokies in frickin' California as well.. He just can't help loving everybody..
Just got paid...!!!! The first time I saw them was the Tres-Hombres tour. I could not hear Frank's drums. The mix was off. I was amazed by Billy & Dusty's guitar work.... Floored..... Damn good concert!!!!!!....... We were standing about three or four rows back. Darn what a show!!! One of my favorite ZZ stories is some razor company offered them one-million bucks to shave. Billy & Dusty told them we don't need your money.... The breads stayed there..
I've seen these guys twelve times from the late 70's up until Dusty passed away, one of my favorite rock bands ever. In the 80's when MTV first came out and actually played videos, these guys were massive, sold out concerts everywhere.
Billy opened for Jimi Hendricks in Europe before ZZTop. Billy had the stones to open his set with 2 Hendricks songs. Jimi loved it and when Johnny Carson asked Jimi who the 2nd best guitarist in the world was, he said Billy Gibbons.
'Jesus' is Christian radio stations such as 'The X' that Billy listened to as child growing up in Texas, a lot of the stations were broadcast from Chicago. 'Its where I learned my licks' These guys opened for Jimi Hendrix, Jimi named Billy as one of his favourite guitarists. They're Rock royalty.
My mom told me they used to listen to the X (XERF 1570-AM) at night in Fort Worth because the reception was better. Their signal was stronger than the other stations (100,000 Watts!), because the USA limits stations to 50,000 Watts and Mexico had no limit. It broadcast from Acuña, just across the Mexican border south of Del Rio, Texas. Wolfman Jack was a DJ and anyone could buy radio time, so you got all kinds of music, preachers, and crazy ads. She said they used to advertise “free autographed pictures of Jesus Christ for only $1”.
@@lathedauphinot6820 I saw them in El Paso in 1972. They opened for Uriah Heep and Savoy Brown. Those two British bands were fantastic but if ZZ Top had played the whole concert by themselves no one would have been pissed! My Dad bought an old AM/FM Ham radio receiver and kept it in the room I slept in, in his workshop. I would lie in bed at night and listen to XERF. So cool for a teenager to experience.
I saw Z Z Top 3 times in Austin 🇨🇱!😁💥 Their stage presence is electrifying and the choreography between them is incredible to see.🤩 They clown a lot and involve the audience in the music!💯 Just 3 good ol' boys from TEXAS rocking the world for 52 years!🐐 But videos are all we have now with the 3 of them.😥😩 RIP Dusty, we'll miss you.😭💔✌❤
10'17" Love you two ! These Bands are Legends si si . This is swinging drumming . The second track in particularly is amazing !! A Monster Groove ! Bass is incredible !
Bas ass electric blues. ZZ not only great music but the stage show featuring props like a dessert background with a giant live buzzard and spinning fuzzy guitars. Unreal!
I remember being a teenager here in Germany and glued to the old tube TV screen while they performed that show in Essen, Germany in around 1980. It was special nights called Rockpalast (Rockpalace) happening 2-3 times a year where German TV invited always like 3 groups to perform all night long. We enjoyed quite a few those days, among them the J.J. Geils Band, Paul Butterfield Blues Band (pure awesomeness), Johnny Winter and Band, Mother's Finest, Rory Gallagher, Alvin Lee and Ten Years Later (not "After" at the time), Jeff Healey and so many more. I had a monaural cassette tape recorder where I plugged in a plastic microphone to put it toward the TV speaker. There was no audio out on TV's those days. To me these nights had been heaven. Unfortunately today's music basically is trash. There are some metal groups of course. But the blues rock they had in the 70's and still in the 80's was just phenomenal.
Have seen ZZ Top performed many times in the states.. Got to meet Billy in 94 while in Denmark..They had been performing at Roskilde, and he was out checking out the shops.. one of the street performers was playing his guitar and doing some great blues riff... Billy asked if he could play a little.. the guy had no idea who Billy was... until Billy started playing.. then he put it together :P Billy played for about 15 minutes was a great jam session..
First saw them live in 1971 ...lost track of how many times I've seen them since. Now that they've gotten older (like myself) they don't do those really long sets like they used to,but they still kick ass !!!
Love you guys and your reactions!! I am getting ready to go see them August 14th. I have seen them 3 times in the past, always a great show, so fun. They used to do laser show with it, I wonder if they still do. I was 15 when I first saw them. It just so happens it was the 4th of July at a lake resort. and The Little River Band. They were there just to practice for a tour they were getting ready to begin. It was right on the beach, $5 and shhh all the beer you could drink. The taven had a polka band for the old folks. Over 100 Hells Angels showed up and rented all the cabins they could and pitched tents. I was with a friend staying in their family cabin on the lake. Suck a fun 4th of July week.
Great reaction - and so true about how talented they were/are. Interesting is that this was recorded in 1980, in what looks to be a fairly small club in Germany. By this time, ZZ Top had already toured huge arenas and stadiums in the US so were used to performing on a big stage, with props - see the Worldwide Texas Tour from '76 where they had a huge Texas-shaped stage and brough livestock along for each show - buffalo, steer, vulture, snakes. But it didn't matter what stage they were on, the talent shines through.
This is a recording of "Rockpalast" ("Rock Palace"), Germany's only rock TV show at that time. Usually it lasted the whole night through, with several bands on stage, and it was completely broadcasted live to nearly all countries of western Europe. It took place at "Grugahalle", which has a capacity of around 10.000 people, and it was sold out everytime. The managers always tried to combine already established bands with new bands. Rockpalast was the breakthrough in Europe for acts like ZZTop and Bryan Adams.
Theres so many more you you will love just as much. Heres a few of my favorites. LaGrange, Pearl Necklace, Tube Snake Boogie, Beer Drinkers and Hellraisers,
I don't think you understand how old these guys are in this video...,they started as a band in the 60s....if you can go back and listen to their old albums, you'll love them even more....
Greatness. I’ll suggest “Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers”, “Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings”, and “Just Got Paid”. Curt G probably already has them in the pipeline! I enjoy your channel. Thanks.
Happy Thanksgiving you two!!! I follow now and then but come back and always enjoy your enthusiasm and appreciation for talent no matter how the fuck old they are. ZZ kicks fucking ass!!! NO APOLOGIES!!!!!
Y'all sing a different genre, & love your style but I respect how y'all give props to bands outside your lane.. let me take y'all down a dirt road? Upchurch my neck of the woods. Just a southern country boy to a Yankee. Hope u react.
Ooops, I forgot the second song. This is more for the striptease at these parties. Close the the song of AC/DC - She got the jack. Nice to see that every time.. lol
This is why us "old timers" have always said we liked ZZ before their MTV hits. From Fandango back to us is the real ZZ Top. Not taking anything away from their later "hits" but when you spent 10 years listening to their 1970 songs it just doesn't get better.. There's several good "old" songs people have recommended that I wholeheartedly agree with..
Yep
With "Eliminator", the band discovered the drum machine, and updated its sound, achieving bigger success than ever. But the earlier stuff is the best.
I couldn’t agree more. I always steer people to early ZZ. Dirty, bluesy ZZ is the best representation of their immense talent. Newer commercial ZZ made them a ton of money, but it’s not my preference.
Jesus just left Chicago so he wouldn't get shot.
@VeryBarry, Not sure he'll find life a hell of a lot better down in New Orleans these days either.
I don't remember running away from people out to murder him..but he went to save some hoochee coochies on Bourbon St. and while at it help some wokies in frickin' California as well..
He just can't help loving everybody..
bruh
Just got paid...!!!! The first time I saw them was the Tres-Hombres tour. I could not hear Frank's drums. The mix was off. I was amazed by Billy & Dusty's guitar work.... Floored..... Damn good concert!!!!!!....... We were standing about three or four rows back. Darn what a show!!!
One of my favorite ZZ stories is some razor company offered them one-million bucks to shave. Billy & Dusty told them we don't need your money.... The breads stayed there..
Your decision to watch both was the correct one.
I seen this tour it was my second concert I was 13yrs old great days
Oh Yeah! Taking care of business is His Name! Take me with you JESUS!
I've seen these guys twelve times from the late 70's up until Dusty passed away, one of my favorite rock bands ever. In the 80's when MTV first came out and actually played videos, these guys were massive, sold out concerts everywhere.
Billy opened for Jimi Hendricks in Europe before ZZTop. Billy had the stones to open his set with 2 Hendricks songs. Jimi loved it and when Johnny Carson asked Jimi who the 2nd best guitarist in the world was, he said Billy Gibbons.
Moving Sidewalks was the band name
No more pain, peace to you Dusty!
ZZ were the smoovest cats there ever were.
Good video. Thanks for your work. ZZ Top have been rocking the Texas blues for 50 years now. Their live shows are really impressive and fun and loud.
That Lil Ol Band from Texas ❤
Good old Texas rocking blues!
You guys are giving me life. Woe!!!!
70s ZZ Top is top tier.
THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THEM TOGETHER SPERATING THEM WOULD HAVE BEEN BLASPHY
Yep , super fun in concert, too many great songs to even list!! Love them
To really appreciate the sonic nature of this you gave to do the studio recording..not that this is bad at all
'Jesus' is Christian radio stations such as 'The X' that Billy listened to as child growing up in Texas, a lot of the stations were broadcast from Chicago. 'Its where I learned my licks'
These guys opened for Jimi Hendrix, Jimi named Billy as one of his favourite guitarists. They're Rock royalty.
My mom told me they used to listen to the X (XERF 1570-AM) at night in Fort Worth because the reception was better. Their signal was stronger than the other stations (100,000 Watts!), because the USA limits stations to 50,000 Watts and Mexico had no limit. It broadcast from Acuña, just across the Mexican border south of Del Rio, Texas. Wolfman Jack was a DJ and anyone could buy radio time, so you got all kinds of music, preachers, and crazy ads. She said they used to advertise “free autographed pictures of Jesus Christ for only $1”.
@@lathedauphinot6820 Thanks. I stand corrected. I always thought Billy was referring to Christian stations from Chicago.
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I saw them in El Paso in 1972. They opened for Uriah Heep and Savoy Brown. Those two British bands were fantastic but if ZZ Top had played the whole concert by themselves no one would have been pissed!
My Dad bought an old AM/FM Ham radio receiver and kept it in the room I slept in, in his workshop. I would lie in bed at night and listen to XERF. So cool for a teenager to experience.
My homeboys! Been bringing Texas Blues Rock to the world for over 50 years!❤😊
I saw Z Z Top 3 times in Austin 🇨🇱!😁💥 Their stage presence is electrifying and the choreography between them is incredible to see.🤩 They clown a lot and involve the audience in the music!💯 Just 3 good ol' boys from TEXAS rocking the world for 52 years!🐐 But videos are all we have now with the 3 of them.😥😩 RIP Dusty, we'll miss you.😭💔✌❤
Sheik is the absolute funkiest ZZ Top song ever.
10'17" Love you two ! These Bands are Legends si si . This is swinging drumming . The second track in particularly is amazing !! A Monster Groove ! Bass is incredible !
52 years together as a 3 Piece Band. LEGEND.
Rockpalast is a German TV show that has hosted 100's of different artists in concert. Sort of like Austin City Limits.
I saw ZZ Top about 10 years ago in Kansas City. Great show!
Bas ass electric blues. ZZ not only great music but the stage show featuring props like a dessert background with a giant live buzzard and spinning fuzzy guitars. Unreal!
I remember being a teenager here in Germany and glued to the old tube TV screen while they performed that show in Essen, Germany in around 1980. It was special nights called Rockpalast (Rockpalace) happening 2-3 times a year where German TV invited always like 3 groups to perform all night long.
We enjoyed quite a few those days, among them the J.J. Geils Band, Paul Butterfield Blues Band (pure awesomeness), Johnny Winter and Band, Mother's Finest, Rory Gallagher, Alvin Lee and Ten Years Later (not "After" at the time), Jeff Healey and so many more. I had a monaural cassette tape recorder where I plugged in a plastic microphone to put it toward the TV speaker. There was no audio out on TV's those days. To me these nights had been heaven. Unfortunately today's music basically is trash. There are some metal groups of course. But the blues rock they had in the 70's and still in the 80's was just phenomenal.
Imagine what it was like to live that live with 5 beers in your body and everything full of colored lights ... What a time that was
One of the greatest songs ever written
Billy Gibbons has a new solo album that rocks called Hardware
Have seen ZZ Top performed many times in the states.. Got to meet Billy in 94 while in Denmark..They had been performing at Roskilde, and he was out checking out the shops.. one of the street performers was playing his guitar and doing some great blues riff... Billy asked if he could play a little.. the guy had no idea who Billy was... until Billy started playing.. then he put it together :P Billy played for about 15 minutes was a great jam session..
Usually here for the Jinjer reactions 😁👍👍 but I had to stop by when I saw you were doing one of my old fave ZZTop jams 🙂
This gets played all the time on the radio. Good one to pop the top on a beer at a dive bar on a Tuesday night when it's just you and the bartender.
First saw them live in 1971 ...lost track of how many times I've seen them since. Now that they've gotten older (like myself) they don't do those really long sets like they used to,but they still kick ass !!!
This was the loudest show I ever saw, and my ears are still ringing 30 years later
The legendary ROCKPALAST Concert over here in Essen/Germany......
Little ol' band from Texas! Hell yeah!
Seeing y'all react to songs I loved as a kid is great!
ZZ top started out as a blues singer and put that twist in his Rock and roll absolutely one of my favorites I even have his Beard 😅🤣😂 😎💯✌️
My favorite!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Love that lil ole band from texas!! Billy Gibbons is a 🎸 👑
These guys are still the original line up never changed and Frank beard the drummer is the only one without a beard 😂 !!!!! 69 !!!!!!!!
Always a hit at all the biker parties. I love this song!
2 more of my favorite ZZT songs. You gotta go with it back to back YO!!
Love you guys and your reactions!! I am getting ready to go see them August 14th. I have seen them 3 times in the past, always a great show, so fun. They used to do laser show with it, I wonder if they still do. I was 15 when I first saw them. It just so happens it was the 4th of July at a lake resort. and The Little River Band. They were there just to practice for a tour they were getting ready to begin. It was right on the beach, $5 and shhh all the beer you could drink. The taven had a polka band for the old folks. Over 100 Hells Angels showed up and rented all the cabins they could and pitched tents. I was with a friend staying in their family cabin on the lake. Suck a fun 4th of July week.
With great beard comes great responsibility.
Great set of songs! Saw them on this tour. So good!
Now that's why us Texans are so goddamn loud.
We lost our hearing listening to ZZ Top all our lives.
These guys have so much swagger!
These guys rock for real!
Great reaction - and so true about how talented they were/are. Interesting is that this was recorded in 1980, in what looks to be a fairly small club in Germany. By this time, ZZ Top had already toured huge arenas and stadiums in the US so were used to performing on a big stage, with props - see the Worldwide Texas Tour from '76 where they had a huge Texas-shaped stage and brough livestock along for each show - buffalo, steer, vulture, snakes. But it didn't matter what stage they were on, the talent shines through.
This is a recording of "Rockpalast" ("Rock Palace"), Germany's only rock TV show at that time. Usually it lasted the whole night through, with several bands on stage, and it was completely broadcasted live to nearly all countries of western Europe. It took place at "Grugahalle", which has a capacity of around 10.000 people, and it was sold out everytime. The managers always tried to combine already established bands with new bands. Rockpalast was the breakthrough in Europe for acts like ZZTop and Bryan Adams.
Jesus is a loving and worshipful tribute to Muddy Waters,replete with waterfall guitar licks and rife with Muddy's trademark vocal style.
Theres so many more you you will love just as much. Heres a few of my favorites. LaGrange, Pearl Necklace, Tube Snake Boogie, Beer Drinkers and Hellraisers,
Billy, Dusty n Frank are one of the greatest trios ever 🤘😎
I lived in San Leon, Texas and did alot of work for Dusty Hill bass player awesome band
Thank u for this reaction. Classics
Finally! A channel with the good taste to react to Top’s best song!
The lil ol band from Texas…Giants!
I don't think you understand how old these guys are in this video...,they started as a band in the 60s....if you can go back and listen to their old albums, you'll love them even more....
Greatness. I’ll suggest “Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers”, “Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings”, and “Just Got Paid”. Curt G probably already has them in the pipeline! I enjoy your channel. Thanks.
Nasty dogs and funky kings is such an underrated song
@@tylerjohnson9887 Yes, it is. It should be played LOUD, so the bass thumps you in the chest. I love the long fade-out; I love everything about it.
@@lathedauphinot6820 el diablo is also another gem from zz
Happy Thanksgiving you two!!! I follow now and then but come back and always enjoy your enthusiasm and appreciation for talent no matter how the fuck old they are. ZZ kicks fucking ass!!! NO APOLOGIES!!!!!
And Frank Beard, the human metronome.
There is no space between the two songs. You just needed to let it play.
Late to the party here but I think I remember hearing that Paula Abdul helped them with choreography for their shows.
One more request for "In The Fire" by the Neal Morse Band from Morsefest 2015.
Saw them back in 73
U musicians. And appreciate. Your view
This was a mistake running them together editing on the album but they decided to leave it and became a thing to play them together.
Y'all sing a different genre, & love your style but I respect how y'all give props to
bands outside your lane.. let me take y'all down a dirt road? Upchurch my neck of the woods. Just a southern country boy to a Yankee. Hope u react.
What's funny is that the only one without a beard has the last name Beard!!!
The saying "Never judge a book by its cover" was penned specifically for ZZ Top.
Oh my God I,ve been slapped! lol
I'd love to see what you two think of Blue Jean Blues.
ZZ TOP "BLUE JEAN BLUES" & "MEXICAN BLACKBIRD"
Fool for your Stockings same show 🔥🔥🔥
Jailhouse Rock by ZZ Top
whats crazy is the sound is so friggin full...... and its just 3 dudes
Curt is correct. Excellent decision.
RIP Dusty
Listen to the album. On dem fones
Well, you managed to screw that up.
Ooops, I forgot the second song. This is more for the striptease at these parties. Close the the song of AC/DC - She got the jack.
Nice to see that every time.. lol
I always thought those two bands would have been an awesome double bill. Texas blues rock and Australian blues rock
It's a lost art.
Try ‘pearl necklace’ by ZZ…fast beat and great song
RIP Dusty Hill
Dusty hill the bass player recently passed away
You like these moves? Wait until they do them with spinning furry guitars.
Good Stuff 👍🏽
Have you thought of reacting to early Rammstein? Laichzeit at Bizarre Festifal 1996 would be a good start.
You are not supposed to cut the song in half
Hey, look at is, Slaughter to Prevail Baba Yaga pls
RIP Dusty Hill....
Please react to HammerFall - Heeding The Call Live 2003 or Riders of the Storm
You guys need to do a reaction to motionless and white thoughts and prayers new video
I go on vaca and miss this? All the chigger bites I have suffered is my punishment... Lets catch up, shall we?
ZZ Top is one of my favorite duo of all time.
I broke up with a guy cause he told me he didn't like ZZTop. A self respecting Texas girl can't put up with that sh!t.
Invitation to Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, that is this.
I can appreciate a girl who knows what she likes lol
Can you react to Saltatio Mortis - My Mother told me?
Do a reaction to VAN CANTO - Faith Focus Finish (Official Video)
Jesus was smart.was the first to bail.the rest are following him.some more than others.