Pearl Necklace, Cheap Sunglasses, Tube Snake Boogie, Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers and Blue Jeans Blues will get you well started down this decades long rabbit hole. RIP Dusty
@@shack8110 Love Stages. I remember on the Afterburner tour when they played Stages, the entire stage transformed from the Ford dashboard to the space shuttle cockpit. Great show. But they need to do Sleeping Bag first so Stages video will make more sense.
As a native Houstonian, I can proudly say that ZZ Top can do nothing wrong!! They have an extensive catalog of music spanning decades and have remained true to their Texan blues roots. Some folks may dog them for becoming more commercial in the 80s MTV era but that just shows how versatile and fun they are. It just added another dimension to their sound. They're right to claim that they're bad. They're nationwide! RIP Dusty Hill
I don't know if I misunderstood your comment. They didn't get world-renowned recognition until 13 years after their first album. Their first album was in 1971.
This song always pulls up a memory of the time I was in Cleveland on a business trip. Somehow I hooked up with 4 flight attendants from the Carnival Cruise lines. We were rolling down to downtown Cleveland, and I was driving and this song came on, and when the lyric, "I had a fine fox in front, there was 3 more in the back" I had the biggest smile on my face.
I saw them a half dozen times over the years. always a great show. last time was with Elton John of all people. The first time I saw them was in Tennessee and Billy had an Abe Lincoln suit on with the big hat and all, guitar slung way down low they had an actual buzzard on a tree stump, snakes, a jack ass and other props on the stage. Last time was all lasers and dancing girls and a huge recycler set built. Always ,always a great show.
Great pic from ZZ Top. I saw them about 10 years ago with Tom Petty & The heartbreakrs. What a double bill that was! Gotta get some more earlier tunes from them like "Cheap Sunglasses" ,"Jesus Just Left Chicago" & "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers". Thanks.😎
I bought this album a very long time ago. ZZ TOP KICKS SOME SERIOUS HARD ASS ! I love these cool as hell guy’s, been out to em for a very long time and damn proud of it. 👿😎 There is no other band like ZZ Top !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼.🔥. 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼
New York Rim was the style on men's hats in the early 1900's when men wore hats. It was a song written for a blues musician Billy was friends with: "This song was inspired by Texas blues musician named Joey Long, who was good friends with the band. As Billy Gibbons tells it, Long didn't have a driver's license, but he always had new Cadillac that his beautiful wife Barbarella used to drive him to gigs."
As I said in the Who reaction, you have made my night tonight. I have been trying to get people to react to this song for the longest time. I was pretty sure you would like it. I had the good fortune to see them perform live in 1979, I can still picture it listening to certain songs like this one. The other night I had to drive to town, a bigger town, that is about a thirty to forty five minute drive. This song came on during the trip. I was cruising and singing along like I nobody's business.
Been your fan for like 2 years or so, and just gotta say that I LOVE the way Amber rocks out and can't hold still to a groove,... and then she sneaks a look at Jay, makes a smirk at his jam, and carries on with jigging it! ❤💯💥 Trust you and the kiddo's are well!! Edwin.
My first ZZ Top concert was back in 83, the year I graduated highschool. I'd been a huge fan of theirs for many years before. Still my favorite band of ALL TIME!
So here in Tulsa, KMOD radio sponsored the eliminator concert in like 1984. It sold out so quickly, KMOD radio was able to get a second show. Back then radio stations had more influence. Was a great show at the Tulsa Civic Center.
The first song I learned by ZZ. When I put on the headphones, I can hear and feel Billy's peso attacking the strings of Pearly Gates. One of their newer songs I grooved on is "I Gotsta Get Paid" which Billy took from a local I think Houston rapper's tune a few years back. Great groove and the cars in the video, smooth. *Rest*In*Power* DUSTY HILL
I get the feeling that when it came time to do the guitar solos in the studio, Billy Gibbons said, “Just roll the tape - let me do a little sumthin’” After they loved it, he said “I’ll do another one if ya want - I’ll do a thousand, but they’ll all be great.”
Have always loved ZZ. I would have to say however, I'm a bigger fan of everything PRE Afterburner album. Still got every album they put out and there is always something great on every album. But nothing beats the 70s and early 80s ZZ. This is one of those GREAT songs in their catalog! Billy should be talked about as one of the greatest blues players of his day. Underrated isn't a strong enough word.
Completely agree, I liked the early stuff that was more bluesy and less poppy. A cassette with Deguello on one side and El Loco on the other was one of my favorite cruising tapes back in the day.
Spent over a week in Texas in my truck. Dallas, Laredo, Houston. Dallas up to Wichita and back. Just went from Dallas up to Muskogee and Joplin. Perfect driving music, especially in those places. Red River, like you said.
My mom had a beastly '71 Coupe de Ville when I was 16 (1980). I was cruising down the boulevard one night when this song came on the radio and I had it cranked, windows down and just digging the groove. A '75 Pontiac pulled up next to me at a light and the four brothers inside were digging the jam. The fellow sitting on the front passenger seat looked over at me and said "The partay next to us be digging the blues." I felt validated.
If you like this bluesy ZZ Top I highly recommend Waitin for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago. You need to listen to them together.
Too late. They already didn't do that.
Yes! They go together.
Definitely waiting for the bus/ Jesus just left Chicago soo good 🤘
THIS!!
OR blue jean blues
Pearl Necklace, Cheap Sunglasses, Tube Snake Boogie, Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers and Blue Jeans Blues will get you well started down this decades long rabbit hole. RIP Dusty
A New York brim is not a Yankee cap it is a fedora
One of my favorite songs of theirs along with cheap sunglasses, la grange, sharp dressed man, Mexican blackbird
careful with Mexican Blackbird. some people take it wrong and think it's racist.
Cheap Sunglasses is a great one.
@@Jen-in-Texas I like the flow of the song and the lyrics
Add "TV Dinners" to that list.
@@rarelycares8416 I forgot about that one
ZZ Top was our cruising music!🚗
“Pearl Necklace” 💦 A ZZ Top Classic!
Stevie Ray Vaughan opening for ZZ Top in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas Texas 🤔
🤘🤠 Helluva Concert ...🍻✌️❤️
I saw them in San Bernardino's Swing Auditorium with opening act KISS! That was circa '73.
Fantastic! We saw them when Deguello first came out with 38 Special opening! So cool!
Yes I agree legs would be a very good one for your next ZZ Top reaction!
People they did Legs already it was their second one.
YES ALREADY DONE - AND AT LEAST REQUEST ZZ TOP'S BEST SONGS, STAGES AND UNDER PRESSURE.
@@shack8110 Love Stages. I remember on the Afterburner tour when they played Stages, the entire stage transformed from the Ford dashboard to the space shuttle cockpit. Great show. But they need to do Sleeping Bag first so Stages video will make more sense.
As a native Houstonian, I can proudly say that ZZ Top can do nothing wrong!! They have an extensive catalog of music spanning decades and have remained true to their Texan blues roots. Some folks may dog them for becoming more commercial in the 80s MTV era but that just shows how versatile and fun they are. It just added another dimension to their sound. They're right to claim that they're bad. They're nationwide! RIP Dusty Hill
Their Elvis cover of "Viva Las Vegas" on this album is worth a spin!
Absolute GOLD!!!
Viva Las Vegas featuring Dusty Hill on lead vocals
This band came out and took the whole world by storm.
Nasty tunes !
🤠😎❤️
I don't know if I misunderstood your comment. They didn't get world-renowned recognition until 13 years after their first album. Their first album was in 1971.
@@HanginLeoFrank ZZ was well-known in Europe in the 1970s.
Driven while blind is another great song. Saw them many times back in the day and was never disappointed.
'Driving' while blind. One of my favorite too
@@stevenbaggett6549 Actually, it's "Arrested For Driving While Blind".
Another great record Tejas
grew up on this.. love Classic ZZ Top
Billy Gibbons (lead singer) also is featured on Nickleback “rock star”. He is so cool!
and please react to Nickelback some day!
He also had a reoccurring role on the TV show Bones.
Love La Grange by ZZ
Jay & Amber, you'll love their "Legs" and "Tube Snake Boogie" !!!
edit - saw them June 1986.
Tube steak boogie! Gotta see them react to that!
Pearl Necklace 😊
Tube Snake Boogie is my absolutely favorite song by them! That should be their next ZZ Top reaction for sure! Needs to be the album version.
I saw them Sept 86 in Nurnberg Germany
@aaradia I've got a girl who lives on the hill. She won't do it but her sister will. Do the boogie! Do the tube snake boogie! Great song!
Dang man, I miss my childhood/teenage years. Best music ever, and it was ALL talent, no auto tune.
Beer drinkers and hell raisers! 🍻🔥
Ive seen them live 4 times..."Cheap Sunglasses" still makes me smile.
My favorite album is their first 9...I've got all those on vinyl and on a cd set
“ I want to thank you” is a cool jam
Saw them live at the Miami Hollywood Sportatorium back in 81. They were really something in their prime. My ears rang for days afterwards.
'Stages' from the 80's era ZZ Top is a great listen.
My favorite ZZ Top song!!!
Beer drinkers and Hell raisers, Tush, Cheap sunglasses, the bluesy Precious and Grace are all great songs. ZZ Top, good old Tejas rock.
I went to their concert in the 90s. It was a very good show. Very talented.
Me too, in 90 at the Cotton Bowl, with Santana and Steve Miller.... Great show...!
ZZ Top sounded almost studio quality.
"Tube Snake Boogie" is a must.
Billy is criminally underrated - guitar/riffs and vocal wise. R.I.P. Dusty - pop says hi!
Underrated? Since when?
This song represents the ZZ Top persona.
This was on rock radio ALL the time when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s. Can't go wrong with ZZ Top!
This song always pulls up a memory of the time I was in Cleveland on a business trip. Somehow I hooked up with 4 flight attendants from the Carnival Cruise lines. We were rolling down to downtown Cleveland, and I was driving and this song came on, and when the lyric, "I had a fine fox in front, there was 3 more in the back" I had the biggest smile on my face.
RIP Dusty!
I saw them a half dozen times over the years. always a great show. last time was with Elton John of all people. The first time I saw them was in Tennessee and Billy had an Abe Lincoln suit on with the big hat and all, guitar slung way down low they had an actual buzzard on a tree stump, snakes, a jack ass and other props on the stage. Last time was all lasers and dancing girls and a huge recycler set built. Always ,always a great show.
To me, a “New York brim” is like a fedora. A fancy Indiana Jones hat. Not a Yankees ball cap.
It’s the usual hat he wears
Great pic from ZZ Top. I saw them about 10 years ago with Tom Petty & The heartbreakrs. What a double bill that was! Gotta get some more earlier tunes from them like "Cheap Sunglasses" ,"Jesus Just Left Chicago" & "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers". Thanks.😎
"Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers" and "Under Pressure" will really get you fired up...
The end of this song is the most epic jam ever
I bought this album a very long time ago. ZZ TOP KICKS SOME SERIOUS HARD ASS !
I love these cool as hell guy’s, been out to em for a very long time and damn proud of it. 👿😎
There is no other band like ZZ Top !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🤘🏼💀🤘🏼.🔥. 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼
I love Rough Boy by ZZ Top
First song of the First Album -Somebody Else has been Shakin’ your Tree. Great introduction to that Lil Ol Band from Texas!!!🤠🎼🎶🎼
I love when that little old band from Texas kicks it into 5th gear in the breakdown. Damn we miss you here in Kemah, Dusty. You're a legend.
New York Rim was the style on men's hats in the early 1900's when men wore hats. It was a song written for a blues musician Billy was friends with:
"This song was inspired by Texas blues musician named Joey Long, who was good friends with the band. As Billy Gibbons tells it, Long didn't have a driver's license, but he always had new Cadillac that his beautiful wife Barbarella used to drive him to gigs."
Gotta Listen to "Heads in Mississippi" Rocks!
I was stumblin thru the parking lot of an invisible 7-11
... what was I doin out there?
ZZ Top crushes it every time!
Gun Love and Pearl Necklace are songs you should check out!
One of their coolest songs!
I saw them live with my two brothers who unfortunately passed away, in Toronto Canada. It was an amazing show and that was back in the 80s.
I saw them at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1990!
My fave ZZ Top song. Thank you!
As I said in the Who reaction, you have made my night tonight. I have been trying to get people to react to this song for the longest time. I was pretty sure you would like it. I had the good fortune to see them perform live in 1979, I can still picture it listening to certain songs like this one. The other night I had to drive to town, a bigger town, that is about a thirty to forty five minute drive. This song came on during the trip. I was cruising and singing along like I nobody's business.
Cheep sunglasses is a must hear classic
Been your fan for like 2 years or so, and just gotta say that I LOVE the way Amber rocks out and can't hold still to a groove,... and then she sneaks a look at Jay, makes a smirk at his jam, and carries on with jigging it! ❤💯💥 Trust you and the kiddo's are well!! Edwin.
A fantastic song😊😊😊😊
TUSH!! And Rough Boy!! AWESOME ZZ Top songs!!😃
That ending was 🔥!!!
Quite possibly the greatest opening lyric in rock.
From the great "Deguello" album (1980), the whole album is all killer, no filler! Top to bottom some fun and funky blues/rock!
Little trivia: Frank Beard (drummer) is the only member clean shaven!
Probably my favorite ZZ Top song (and I've covered it, along with others).
ZZ Top " Balinese"
ZZ Top is such a great band, favorite has to be Waitin for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago
this is my favorite ZZTop song. That bass-line is it.
One of my favorite tunes from a great record Deguello
Love this, their best for me!
My first ZZ Top concert was back in 83, the year I graduated highschool. I'd been a huge fan of theirs for many years before. Still my favorite band of ALL TIME!
Check out "Ten Dollar Man" off their Tejas album.
Tejas is the classic album hardly anyone talks about.
this is my favorite ZZ Top tune. Rock on Rob Squad
The bass really thumps in sweet way here. RIP Dusty Hill
70’s Top is the best place to stay for a while!
Great bluesy rock!👍👍
Awesome song choice, "Sharp Dressed Man" is also excellent
I heard this a few years ago in concert . Dusty's 2nd to last concert. It was so good
So here in Tulsa, KMOD radio sponsored the eliminator concert in like 1984. It sold out so quickly, KMOD radio was able to get a second show. Back then radio stations had more influence. Was a great show at the Tulsa Civic Center.
Great reaction, this is one of my favorite ZZ Top songs.
I used to sing this song at karaoke.
Love that song, was wondering why hardly anyone reacting to it, love the killer bass riffs, well done guys!
My Head’s in Mississippi! Great song!
The first song I learned by ZZ. When I put on the headphones, I can hear and feel Billy's peso attacking the strings of Pearly Gates.
One of their newer songs I grooved on is "I Gotsta Get Paid" which Billy took from a local I think Houston rapper's tune a few years back. Great groove and the cars in the video, smooth.
*Rest*In*Power* DUSTY HILL
Beer Drinkers and Hellraisers…..nuff said 🔥👍🤘🏻
The album this is from is called Deguello. More bluesy than most of their records.
This was right before they started using synthesizers.
Bout damn time!! Love this song.
Can’t stop rocking and my head is in Mississippi is a must from ZZ
You STILL need to do "TV Dinners". C'mon guys!!!
ZZ Top were the link between old blues music and modern Rock.
I get the feeling that when it came time to do the guitar solos in the studio, Billy Gibbons said, “Just roll the tape - let me do a little sumthin’”
After they loved it, he said “I’ll do another one if ya want - I’ll do a thousand, but they’ll all be great.”
"Ten Foot Pole" and " Enjoy and get it on" are two great tunes. You cant go wrong with ZZ Top anyway!
You just gotta smile every time you hear them!
Have always loved ZZ. I would have to say however, I'm a bigger fan of everything PRE Afterburner album. Still got every album they put out and there is always something great on every album. But nothing beats the 70s and early 80s ZZ. This is one of those GREAT songs in their catalog! Billy should be talked about as one of the greatest blues players of his day. Underrated isn't a strong enough word.
Completely agree, I liked the early stuff that was more bluesy and less poppy. A cassette with Deguello on one side and El Loco on the other was one of my favorite cruising tapes back in the day.
I know the stuff on Afterburner is a departure for them, but I really like the record.
Love ZZ soooo good!!
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Love it of course. That guitar riff sounds like Lightnin' Hopkins.
Yes! Thank you for this!
Don’t forget early ZZT like “ Francine” and “ Just Got Paid.”
Tv dinners and under pressure are must listens also.
I saw them in concert last month - they friggin rocked it!
2 great people!! Rest in peace Dusty.
ZZ TOP is on my playlist.
The Eliminator is a 1932-1933 Ford 3 window coupe.
Spent over a week in Texas in my truck. Dallas, Laredo, Houston. Dallas up to Wichita and back. Just went from Dallas up to Muskogee and Joplin. Perfect driving music, especially in those places. Red River, like you said.
Saw them on this tour. Awesome!
Stages and Rough Boys are great 80s jams!
So good in concert!
My mom had a beastly '71 Coupe de Ville when I was 16 (1980). I was cruising down the boulevard one night when this song came on the radio and I had it cranked, windows down and just digging the groove. A '75 Pontiac pulled up next to me at a light and the four brothers inside were digging the jam. The fellow sitting on the front passenger seat looked over at me and said "The partay next to us be digging the blues." I felt validated.
I saw them in concert and was blowed away!! ZZ has always been one of my favorites. Pure Texas Blues at its finest!!
My all time favorite ZZ Top song! So much swagger and attitude, and good old fashioned Texas blues rock 🤘