Being almost 50 yrs old I've got to really explore all the great 70s bands I heard as a kid, and IMO one thing is for certain, and that is that a hell of a lot of unbelievably great music came out between the years 1967-1980, and 2 these guy's are bad ass!
Actually 3 guys, most people forget about Frank Beard, the Drummer. If you like ZZ Top, try listening to these bands as well, Lynyrd Skynyrd, .38 Special, Molly Hatchet, just to name a few.
1975 im in the second grade North Carolina. My uncle picked me up one day in his 1969 Plymouth roadrunner. He cut this song on and my life literally changed from that moment. Up until then i heard nothing that i can remember but country music and gospel. Needless to say if i heard country music again it wasnt me playing it. 😮
I just heard of Dusty Hill’s passing, it only seemed appropriate to play this as loudly as I could in tribute to his memory. So long Dusty, it was a hell of a ride! 😎
i remember seeing these guys in their sequined suits and cowboy hats in 76.....we sat down beside some guy and his kids and proceeded to smoke up a storm.....ahhhhhh those were the days...once you were in the concert venue no one bothered you or gave a shit....it was a party....miss the 70,s...rock on
Loving this tune ALWAYS. My favorite Z Z Top tune. So awesome with head phones on. The ROCK..The STEREO. Grooving. Tapping my feet and bobbing my head...sliding back and forth rock...loving how I feel listening to this. I am ROCKING WITH YOU my friends.
Anyone remember KXRX in the late eighties? One time we were drivin down I5 and we were toasted and the radio started sayin "X" in all the speakers in the car like a ball bouncing around faster and faster until this song started. It was fuckin AWESOME.
Saw them for the first time back in the mid 70's. First time I can remember seeing a drummer wearing headphones. And he needed them, the crowd about 30,000 was absolutely out of their minds. If you've never gone, you just gotta catch 'em live!
Awesome edit! This is probably my favorite song by the band, and the ONLY thing wrong with it, was that it was too damn short! This fixes that little problem quite nicely!
A great song from the "Texas history" period of ZZ Top's song catalog. It tells the story about the "X" radio stations started by Dr. John Brinkley across the Mexican border as a medium to promote his, umm, "interesting" therapy for male impotence. Stringing multiple copies together demonstrates how the tempo speeds up over the course of the song.
it's cool. I could never get enough of this jam either. Used to play this in a band back in the late 80's. Took us a while to work out the timing of that long pause. Fun to play.
I was four years old in 1966, and when my mom and dad would travel from Houston to San Antone, the radio reception gave out less than halfway,which is at Flatonia,Texas.My mom was more liberal on her musical taste than the ol' man.He was strictly country back then.Anyway, ma' would dial in Xerp or Xerf.Don't recall exactly the correct lettering,but they did play a big variety of music, and had some bizarre commercials.The '60s&early '70s were good times until the first oil embargo of 1973.lt seems like the world changed for the worst after that.
One of my favorite things about their catalog of tunes are the references to places around Texas that meant something to them. La Grange, Balinese, Houston, etc. Also, blowtorch outlaw radio stations just across the Mexican border.
Definitely appreciate the beardless wonder..certainly the earlier albums. Before the generic 80s drum sound everyone and their pet turtle had. All bombast and no nuance. Balinese is killer but got zero airplay. Didn't matter. Skipped school to listen to Tres Hombres, Fandango and Rio Grande Mud and drink beer that didn't belong to me. Until I drank it. This stuff is classic
Watched an interview with Billy Gibbons recently. He told a story very similar to this during said interview. When Dan Rather asked him if what he said is the real story, Billy smiled & said, "Well, that's the version I'm telling today." He puts different slants on the origins of their name according to whatever mood strikes him.
Actually the band was going to call itself ZZ King, to honor B.B. King, but thought the name would just get lost in the possible confusion, so they went with ZZ Top, feeling B.B. King was at the Top of the Blues World. www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/01/where-the-band-name-zz-top-came-from/
@@ezrastewart7087 You've got it closer than anyone else on here! There's a GREAT documentary on Netflix about the band and Billy explains the origin in the same way. Happy Birthday BFG!! 🎂🎉🍺😎
3rd Verse same as the 1st! Henry the Eighth I am, I am.. Wait Fer, It!... How does THAT go again? Oh yeah! Lyrics I'm Henry the eighth I am Henry the eighth I am, I am I got married to the widow next door She's been married seven times before And every one was an Henry (Henry) She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam) I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry Henry the eighth I am Second verse same as the first I'm Henry the eighth I am Henry the eighth I am, I am I got married to the widow next door She's been married seven times before And every one was an Henry (Henry) She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam) I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry Henry the eighth I am I'm Henry the eighth I am Henry the eighth I am, I am I got married to the widow next door She's been married seven times before And every one was an Henry (Henry) She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam) I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry Henry the eighth I am H-E-N-are-why Henry (Henry) Henry (Henry) Henry the eighth I am, I am Henry the eighth I am yeah
The Doors mentioned the X station in The Wasp/Texas Radio and the Big Beat. I lived in LA and i heard a AM station called The Mighty 690 and they play rock, pop, etc.
The " X" was a border blaster radio station in Mexico. They would crank up the power to a million or more watts and broadcast world wide at night so the illegal brothers up here in the states could hear their own music.
Nope. 1 megawatt rilly fer rill. Regional grandaddies like KOMA, KOB, KTLA, etc. are 50,000W and perfectly legal. At night you could get the Xs in Toronto and La Paz.
Loving this tune ALWAYS. My favorite Z Z Top tune. So awesome with head phones on. The ROCK..The STEREO. Grooving. Tapping my feet and bobbing my head...sliding back and forth rock...loving how I feel listening to this. I am ROCKING WITH YOU my friends.
I don't always listen to ZZ Top, but when I do, I hear them on the X.
And SO Do my Neighbors! Thx Bros!
The original was ALWAYS too short. Nice work Nick! Thx SOO MANY times!
Being almost 50 yrs old I've got to really explore all the great 70s bands I heard as a kid, and IMO one thing is for certain, and that is that a hell of a lot of unbelievably great music came out between the years 1967-1980, and 2 these guy's are bad ass!
Actually 3 guys, most people forget about Frank Beard, the Drummer. If you like ZZ Top, try listening to these bands as well, Lynyrd Skynyrd, .38 Special, Molly Hatchet, just to name a few.
Old ZZ is theeeeeeeee best!!! This tune never got it's just due. Way underrated and one heckuva groove!!!
I remember SAVING UP Just so I could BUY that Six-Pack set of CD's! Thx!
Yeah DiGuelo was their last really smokin' album
This was the very first ZZTop I learned how to play on drums when I was three. Everytime I hear this song it just brings back memories
Country Jesus!
1975 im in the second grade North Carolina. My uncle picked me up one day in his 1969 Plymouth roadrunner. He cut this song on and my life literally changed from that moment. Up until then i heard nothing that i can remember but country music and gospel. Needless to say if i heard country music again it wasnt me playing it. 😮
HOOKED!
Met them in a waiting area at Love Field in Dallas in 1976. Got their autographs. Cool guys. Great band. Great songs.
Been listening to ZZ Top for 40 years now. Favorite band, great drivingmusic.
I just heard of Dusty Hill’s passing, it only seemed appropriate to play this as loudly as I could in tribute to his memory. So long Dusty, it was a hell of a ride! 😎
Thank you!
i remember seeing these guys in their sequined suits and cowboy hats in 76.....we sat down beside some guy and his kids and proceeded to smoke up a storm.....ahhhhhh those were the days...once you were in the concert venue no one bothered you or gave a shit....it was a party....miss the 70,s...rock on
I saw them at the Indianapolis motor speedway for $10 best show i have ever seen.....
Loving this tune ALWAYS. My favorite Z Z Top tune. So awesome with head phones on. The ROCK..The STEREO. Grooving. Tapping my feet and bobbing my head...sliding back and forth rock...loving how I feel listening to this. I am ROCKING WITH YOU my friends.
Texas still ROCKS-Out-LOUD! Thx Nick!
Anyone remember KXRX in the late eighties? One time we were drivin down I5 and we were toasted and the radio started sayin "X" in all the speakers in the car like a ball bouncing around faster and faster until this song started. It was fuckin AWESOME.
Saw them for the first time back in the mid 70's. First time I can remember seeing a drummer wearing headphones. And he needed them, the crowd about 30,000 was absolutely out of their minds.
If you've never gone, you just gotta catch 'em live!
The best ZZ Top song ever!
There’s only one thing better than Heard it on the X.... A Heard it on the X montage! ✌️😎
Those boys can play - love the clothes!
texas tuxedos
Awesome edit! This is probably my favorite song by the band, and the ONLY thing wrong with it, was that it was too damn short! This fixes that little problem quite nicely!
Sorry I've not been keeping up with comments. Appreciate that y'all like this!
GREAT BAND! They have so many phenomenal songs. FUN BAND ALSO.
A great song from the "Texas history" period of ZZ Top's song catalog. It tells the story about the "X" radio stations started by Dr. John Brinkley across the Mexican border as a medium to promote his, umm, "interesting" therapy for male impotence. Stringing multiple copies together demonstrates how the tempo speeds up over the course of the song.
Great share Nick Erlanger.
I grew up listening to XROK 80 AM radio it was the radio station that broke the rules.
Finally!.. We get to hear The Song in it's Entirety!
all your hearing is the original short version; same music, same vocal tracks played 3 straight times..............
Right, as I explained, I just want to make it longer. It's just the original song with a bit of cutting and pasting.
it's cool. I could never get enough of this jam either. Used to play this in a band back in the late 80's. Took us a while to work out the timing of that long pause. Fun to play.
Nice edit! This song was always too short
I was four years old in 1966, and when my mom and dad would travel from Houston to San Antone, the radio reception gave out less than halfway,which is at Flatonia,Texas.My mom was more liberal on her musical taste than the ol' man.He was strictly country back then.Anyway, ma' would dial in Xerp or Xerf.Don't recall exactly the correct lettering,but they did play a big variety of music, and had some bizarre commercials.The '60s&early '70s were good times until the first oil embargo of 1973.lt seems like the world changed for the worst after that.
Outlaw radio, 500,000 watt giant, just south of the border. You can hear it all the way to Canada.
This song rocks
Damn it!!! It just doesn't get any better than thus !!!!
We need The X today!
It's in Farmville,Va.More or less
One of my favorite things about their catalog of tunes are the references to places around Texas that meant something to them. La Grange, Balinese, Houston, etc. Also, blowtorch outlaw radio stations just across the Mexican border.
RIP 💛🇺🇸🎸DUSTY HILL
LOVE THIS SONG,SO FUN!
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+Mylena Viana pretty name PPP
it really does need to be about 10 minutes longer..well done sir
Really, just fantastic!!!
TEXAS JAMS! 😋
RIP, Dusty
Happy Birthday Dust
give it up for Frank Beard
Definitely appreciate the beardless wonder..certainly the earlier
albums. Before the generic 80s drum sound everyone and their pet turtle had. All bombast and no nuance. Balinese is killer but got zero airplay. Didn't matter. Skipped school to listen to
Tres Hombres, Fandango and Rio Grande Mud and drink beer that didn't belong to me. Until I drank it. This stuff is classic
This is just too bitchin' Nick. Way to be...I could listen to "The X" and your other ZZ Top extended play marvels all night!
They became Nation Wide. Awesome 3 Piece Band.
I was at this concert. The Warehouse N.O. La. Fandango recorded live that nt
Forever.
Yes sir the played the bad ass rock
Reverend Billy is a bad man on the guitar!
Jimi Hendrix said Billy was the greatest guitarist on the planet. They toured with him when they still called themselves The Moving Sidewalks.
Know how the boys came up with ZZ Top? Too Z Top. Early teenage aspirations to go to the top. They did that and how...Best 3 piece fun band ever...
Watched an interview with Billy Gibbons recently. He told a story very similar to this during said interview. When Dan Rather asked him if what he said is the real story, Billy smiled & said, "Well, that's the version I'm telling today." He puts different slants on the origins of their name according to whatever mood strikes him.
Actually the band was going to call itself ZZ King, to honor B.B. King, but thought the name would just get lost in the possible confusion, so they went with ZZ Top, feeling B.B. King was at the Top of the Blues World. www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/01/where-the-band-name-zz-top-came-from/
Actually they came up with the name from Zigzag rolling top papers.
@@ezrastewart7087
You've got it closer than anyone else on here! There's a GREAT documentary on Netflix about the band and Billy explains the origin in the same way.
Happy Birthday BFG!! 🎂🎉🍺😎
I heard it, I heard it, I heard it on the x
Awesome work Nick!
Country Jesus, Amen!
So Good.
I heard it ON the X!
H3LLZ YEA!
Anyway y'all! Everyway y'all!!
Am I wrong? It's a loop. A loop. Yes it's great song. But it's a loop.
All are good
Only in Texas! A guy named BEARD, and he had NO Beard? WHAA? LOL
Where/When did you Hear It? On the X!??
haha that's awesome, thanks for doing that
the X radio out of Mexico, before USA regulated nite radio. ?
Getcha sum
Yaaaaaa Maaaaaaang !!!!!!!!!!!
Party ON the Patio! x2? He hints the idea. ???
YEA! 🤣
Cali-Texas always ends up in Austin?
goodstuff
In the pic at 01:31, ole Frank could pass for Bill Paxtons identical twin, lol.
Superb edit! The label should release this jammin' extended play! By the way, I did hear it on the "X" ... www.Xpatradio.mx !
classic
3rd Verse same as the 1st! Henry the Eighth I am, I am.. Wait Fer, It!...
How does THAT go again? Oh yeah! Lyrics
I'm Henry the eighth I am
Henry the eighth I am, I am
I got married to the widow next door
She's been married seven times before
And every one was an Henry (Henry)
She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam)
I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry
Henry the eighth I am
Second verse same as the first
I'm Henry the eighth I am
Henry the eighth I am, I am
I got married to the widow next door
She's been married seven times before
And every one was an Henry (Henry)
She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam)
I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry
Henry the eighth I am
I'm Henry the eighth I am
Henry the eighth I am, I am
I got married to the widow next door
She's been married seven times before
And every one was an Henry (Henry)
She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam)
I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry
Henry the eighth I am
H-E-N-are-why
Henry (Henry) Henry (Henry)
Henry the eighth I am, I am
Henry the eighth I am yeah
Nick Erlanger does it again!
This is like triple x
it's JAM because jelly don't shake like that
The Doors mentioned the X station in The Wasp/Texas Radio and the Big Beat. I lived in LA and i heard a AM station called The Mighty 690 and they play rock, pop, etc.
The " X" was a border blaster radio station in Mexico. They would crank up the power to a million or more watts and broadcast world wide at night so the illegal brothers up here in the states could hear their own music.
A million though??
I'd heard 50,000.
Nope. 1 megawatt rilly fer rill. Regional grandaddies like KOMA, KOB, KTLA, etc. are 50,000W and perfectly legal. At night you could get the Xs in Toronto and La Paz.
Remember The Alamo! ..and ZZ Top! (can we get TX funds for THAT?) I heard it on The X! ;-)
I've heard claims that the signal sometimes reached Idaho and possibly just North of that area in Canada, can you Imagine? lol
3 people didn't hear it.
3 x as good
2 people still have to be dix ffs
Ah well.
Runs too slow!
Loving this tune ALWAYS. My favorite Z Z Top tune. So awesome with head phones on. The ROCK..The STEREO. Grooving. Tapping my feet and bobbing my head...sliding back and forth rock...loving how I feel listening to this. I am ROCKING WITH YOU my friends.