As the story goes... ZZ Top wrote this song and "Waitin' for the Bus" close together. When the engineer was splicing the songs together on tape for the final album he accidentally cut too much tape out and the songs segued right from Waitin' for the Bus into Jesus Just Left Chicago with no space between. It sounded so good they left it that way and it has become synonymous to have them played together.
They also did Jackson Browne “Stay” without “The Load Out” intro. If I’m not mistaken I think the same thing happened when they did Journey “Anytime” without “Feeling That Way”. I feel like this is really the fault of people requesting songs from them. I’m gonna make a commitment to try to bring that to people’s attention when they request songs, and have decided to start skipping songs that are forever married but get split up in the react. I think people requesting don’t remember it’s a 2 part song and just request the part they like, never stressing the other side of what really makes up the ONE song, being the TWO together. It’s just too frustrating for me, cause even if they love it, I just end up feeling like “yeah, well.. if you liked that, then..”
@@CANDOKNOWHOW Agreed. It's really frustrating because in addition to it being difficult to get them to react to a particular song, it's also their first time hearing it and you can never repeat a first time experience.
Muddy water turned to wine is a reference to the father of Chicago Blues known as Muddy Waters. Billy Gibbons visited Waters original house and picked up a piece of wood that was part of the house and made it into a guitar named Muddywood.
Very cool backstory. I wondered about the connection because the vocal style on this song is very evocative of Muddy Waters style; his enunciation plus the way he holds and finishes the notes that end phrases.
Yes you immediately need to play Waiting for the bus/ then Jesus!! These 2 songs are supposed to go together, played at same time! You won’t be disappointed!!! 😝
This was from Tres Hombres, the album that really put them on the map. ("La Grange" was also on that album.) A third great track is "Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers". I'd also love to see you react to "Sleeping Bag", "Rough Boy", "Legs", and "Got Me Under Pressure". I saw them in concert in 1986, and DAMN they put on a great show!! The stage was set up like the dashboard of their car!
@@chrisclanton4430 I think it was my second concert as well. The Cars (with opening act Wang Chung) were the first. I believe Honeymoon Suite opened up for ZZ Top.
You guys are making me feel young again (I am 72)!!! You are listening to all my favorite songs from my college days. If I could suggest a song, it would be Grand Funk Railroad's Heartbreaker live. Its amazing, like the two of you!
@@kenhayhurst374 Its nice to see a younger generation get exposed to music that really is not played on most classic rock stations. Those were some great bands.
Where's Waiting for the Bus? It was always the lead-in, both on the record and on the radio. Whoever wanted just this song is not a long-time ZZ Top fan. Great song in any event, now you need to hear the opener. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎶
Great song. However, it goes with Waitin' For The Bus. Those go together like We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions. But I guess you had no way of knowing that. Whoever requested it should have let you know.
ZZ Top had two musical periods. Pre 1980 MTV was very bluesy. MTV was more rock/pop. Even though I like the post 1980 stuff I only own and actively listen to pre 1980.
I'm with you. While the MTV/pop version of ZZ Top was fun in videos, their early blues days were just fantastic music. One of the best 3-piece blues bans!
Absolutely... they changed with the times.... the early stuff is so much better s far writing... but they were able to transform and stay on top and became legends.
LOL, I hear you I saw them and it was the only concert that I have ever been Front Row for and It felt like my head was stuffed in cotton batten for a week afterwards...lol
That's what they say, you don't listen to the Blues, you feel the Blues. And you definitely feel this song. Great reaction. Love your enthusiasm for great music.
Out of 100’s of concerts I went to through out the 70’s and 80’s the 1984 eliminator album laser light show at pink palace in Memphis probably best concert ever…
ZZ is steeped in the blues. Even before Dusty Hill's passing, Billy Gibbons ventured into producing some blues tunes and he's cut an album or two in the process! Blues is in the blood, the pedigree of ZZ Top...
Waaay back I worked for a guy who had an advertising company. Got to see every band that came to OKC. Front and center. We’d see bands never heard of that became huge. Almost always got to see them in the Civic Center downtown. So tight! They were with Ten Years After first time. THE DAYS
Seen them a dozen times including the last show in Louisville's Iroquois theater .. a great outdoor setting Dusty was jammin that night, but he mainly leaned on the speakers and amps.. you could tell he was not feeling good, but he did not let that slow him down.. Broke my heart when they announced he had passed
On the album 2 songs together Waiting for the bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago go together, type it in that way or it does not come up because it was originally supposed to be 2 separate songs that kinda continued a story but one after the other with noticable pause in between; however a screw up in final editing put them in one continuous song. Turned out to be a hit on the B side.
Jay & Amber, you two are a definite blessing!! Here are some more ZZ Top songs - Blue Jean Blues, Legs, Got Me Under Pressure & Tube Snake Boogie! Thank you for being real 💖💖💖
If you want some blues, you must hit Blue Jean Blues... my FAVORITE ZZ Top (That Little ole band from Texas) tune.. it's short.. but it hits all the right places... thanks to Reverend Willie G (Billy Gibbons)..
Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell is another great blues tune, it seems like they brought a little of the opening guitar lick back on Fool For Your Stockings.
Well you asked......ZZ Top played their first official gig at the Knights of Columbus Hall on US Hwy 90 in Beaumont Texas in February 1970. That KC Hall is about 8 miles from my house. The guy who booked them was local radio personality Al Caldwell(Something he will never let anyone forget). Caldwell is still here, still broadcasting and from the same radio station, KLVI.
Awesome reaction guys! Everything's ZZ Top does is great! That style of music that they do that is so iconic is called "Texas shuffle blues". That's why you like it and yes that's why it has a Texas sound. Now one of these days you guys have to do my favorite song by them and that's called "Blue Jean Blues" it's off of their Live Fandango album.
You hit the nail on the head about that old bar room thing. First time I saw them was before they were such a hit. They were playing in an old Texas bar near San Antonio, Texas.
Any one that is anybody knows that you have to play "Waitin' on the bus" with "Jesus just left Chicago"....it is one song and should be played as such. God Bless.
On my 1st (no parent) vacation in the summer of 1976, we drove thru Texas. Texas is BIG; we drove in and out of the range of local AM radio stations. I found this song. I fell in love! I've been a ZZ Top fan for 47 years and counting.
Muddy Waters is one of the greatest blues guitarists of all time. That’s a whole real genre you have barely scratched. Listen to Hoochie Coochie Man or Baby please don’t go. You’ll thank me later
As a TEXAN in the middle of TEXAS, I can say Z Z TOP are great ambassadors of The Lone Star State! Saw them live on 6 of their most famous tours! There’s a list of must listens for any great band. This is one of my favorites, has nothing to do with me 🤔 and is one of their most Rock and Roll songs. Very well known tune called Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers. Y’all might want to grab a cold one and CRANK IT UP for this one. Cheers from TEXAS! 🍻
The first 8-track tape i bought was ZZ Top Rio Grande Mud in 1973. Wore it out in my '66 Chevelle Malibu in south Texas. Francene and Just Got Paid Today over and over and over..... I devote 25 minutes of every day to check out the 3 RSR uploads! Thanks you two. Try ZZ Top "Blue Jean Blues" if you like the blusey sound of Billy, Dusty and Frank. I am blessed because of your channel!!!
Amber! Thank you for pointing out it was just a three-piece. But yeah both of you, it's just so awesome to see you drinking this in. I was discovering this all probably around 6th grade and forward. Another one of my favorite songs by then that's kind of in this vein although a lot more Up Tempo and a dance song, and it's wonderful because he is a great fun filter on his voice, is Tube Steak Boogie. Yeah they're totally like a bar band except that they coincidentally happened to be in one of the most rockingest bands that ever happened. :) oh also, I always plug for this, but their song I heard it on the x, off of their album fandango, it's one of the tightest most killer riffs and performances you will ever hear. It is so blistering. And it's actually autobiographical and tells about where they got some of their musical influences when they were very young in texas.
ZZ top, the whole entire Tres Hombres album is great. Master of Sparks my favorite cut on it but I am glad you enjoyed the little band from Texas. Great stuff.
I saw ZZ Top in concert more times than any other group. Hope you keep reacting to more of their songs! Also hope you react to some of Muddy Waters blues!
Maybe already mentioned; Jesus Just Left Chicago is the sequitur instantly transitioned out of the lead song Waiting on a Bus from their breakthrough Tres Hombres LP in the early 70s. The correlating lyrical subject matter seamlessly paints an image of Jesus on a Greyhound headed through the Delta.
They were quite popular in the 70s on FM radio, but Eliminator changed all that when it came out in the early 80s, that album clicked with the public and that is when they soared into super-stardom. Bought the cassette and listened to it to its death.
Early ZZ before they really hit it big. And like others have said, you need a do over by listening to Waitin for the Bus and Jesus a just Left Chicago back to back. They feed each other. Recommended this one like 9 months ago. Glad you are finally getting to it.
The first concert I went to at the age of 16. The summer of 74 at the Tulsa Fairgrounds. ZZ Top Fandango Tour. The Tulsa paper on Sunday morning said there where complaints about the noise ten miles away.
I saw ZZ Top, in concert, with 38 Special opening for them. It was absolutely one of the best concerts I ever went to. Peace and positive blessings to everyone.
They certainly played a lot of rough and tumble bars early in their career, but my older brother always liked to talk about seeing them at the "teen center" around our little hometown in southeast Texas...An all ages show around 1970...
This is a song that is the second part of a two flow song it starts with waiting for the bus and rolls into this song , it really is sacrilegious to play them apart
Since no one has mentioned. They were "discovered" by the man over your right shoulder. Jimi saw them play in a few bars in Texas before his big European tour. Invited them to open for him. The rest is history. Jimi was good friends with all the bandmates, particularly Billy.
Saw them last night and Wene they hit this/wating on the bus it was electric you could tell that out of all the hits(and they played every single one of them) this was the one they had the most fun with still
ZZ Top has such a unique sound. Billy Gibbons was often overlooked for his guitar abilities and sound. I read somewhere that he was one of Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitar players. My uncle lived across the street from Dusty Hill in the late 70's and he has some stories about him that are pretty priceless. You still see Billy frequenting some blues clubs in Houston. Huge influence in my life musically. Awesome that y'all dig them.
I love how Actor Billie Bob Thornton described what going to a zz top concert in the 80's was like. He said" It was alot like meeting Bugs bunny. Just crazy happening all around you visually with all the animals, and the Hard thumping Texas Blues rock-a-whatever that sweet stuff they play is all inside your head.
Great song. ..thanks……Blues….Great singer and blues guitarist Robert Cray..Right Next Door, Bad Influence, Smoking Gun, Nothin’ but a woman, I guess I showed her and many more..one of the best!!
Did you know Jimmy Hendrix cited Billy Gibbons as the best guitarist of all time? The two were close friends. From what I understand, ZZ Top got its start when it was invited to play at a rock and roll concert in Hawaii, and they went dressed in their fully Texan outfits, which got them booed, but they won the audience over when they started playing.
This much blues is called STANK. When you listen and feel it, you can't help but get the Stank Face. J, you're rocking the Stank Face at 4:44! Peace and Love RobSquad!
ZZ Top is my favorite band of all time! I've seen them in concert several times, the first was the Eliminator tour back in 84. Greatest little band in Texas! Dusty Hill RIP! God bless Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard!
This came out in 1973 then AC/DC used the same blues riff for “Ride On” off the Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap album in 1978. Two different songs but extremely similar vibes.
Yes . Absolutely have to play waitin on the bus with this one. They are meant to e played together , it’s like 2 songs in one. Gotta do em both together. Ones not the same without the other.
Can't play "Jesus Just Left Chicago" without "Waitin' for the Bus." They go together.
Sounds wrong without it.
These kids don't know any better!
I'm hip
I'm disappointed in that! They go together!
Yes, both songs go together.
As the story goes... ZZ Top wrote this song and "Waitin' for the Bus" close together. When the engineer was splicing the songs together on tape for the final album he accidentally cut too much tape out and the songs segued right from Waitin' for the Bus into Jesus Just Left Chicago with no space between. It sounded so good they left it that way and it has become synonymous to have them played together.
It's like saying " You have to play TIME & The Great Gig In The Sky " by Pink Floyd. They both go together .
I'd heard that, but SO long ago that I completely forgot about it. Thanks for that. Happy accidents are a wonderful thing, aren't they?
@@guitarman8462 And Load Out/Stay and Eruption/You Really Got Me
And Don't Want You No More/Not My Cross to Bear off of the first Allman Brothers album
@@rickwelch8464 yup
Wish you would have done the whole "Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago" mix. Still, a great bluesy jam. Cheers....
This is essential it must be done together
Agree!
Yep, just like Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid".
They also did Jackson Browne “Stay” without “The Load Out” intro. If I’m not mistaken I think the same thing happened when they did Journey “Anytime” without “Feeling That Way”.
I feel like this is really the fault of people requesting songs from them. I’m gonna make a commitment to try to bring that to people’s attention when they request songs, and have decided to start skipping songs that are forever married but get split up in the react. I think people requesting don’t remember it’s a 2 part song and just request the part they like, never stressing the other side of what really makes up the ONE song, being the TWO together.
It’s just too frustrating for me, cause even if they love it, I just end up feeling like “yeah, well.. if you liked that, then..”
@@CANDOKNOWHOW Agreed. It's really frustrating because in addition to it being difficult to get them to react to a particular song, it's also their first time hearing it and you can never repeat a first time experience.
Muddy water turned to wine is a reference to the father of Chicago Blues known as Muddy Waters. Billy Gibbons visited Waters original house and picked up a piece of wood that was part of the house and made it into a guitar named Muddywood.
Very cool backstory. I wondered about the connection because the vocal style on this song is very evocative of Muddy Waters style; his enunciation plus the way he holds and finishes the notes that end phrases.
@@dantallman5345: "No B, O Child, Y-eee"
Yep but Muddy Waters was from Mississippi
I think that is the reference "jump through Mississippi, Muddy water turned to wine".
that's where the water turned to wine@@shanerobinson3455
Yes you immediately need to play Waiting for the bus/ then Jesus!! These 2 songs are supposed to go together, played at same time! You won’t be disappointed!!! 😝
Love this song!! This band!! RIP Dusty.
This was from Tres Hombres, the album that really put them on the map. ("La Grange" was also on that album.) A third great track is "Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers". I'd also love to see you react to "Sleeping Bag", "Rough Boy", "Legs", and "Got Me Under Pressure". I saw them in concert in 1986, and DAMN they put on a great show!! The stage was set up like the dashboard of their car!
My Heads in Mississippi!!!
Yes yes yes to beer drinkers and hell raisers
I'm pretty sure I saw that same tour. The Eliminator tour. It was the 2nd concert that I went to, Tom Petty was the 1st.
Great album! I saw them in '79 in the Astrodome with the Rolling Stones, one of the best shows I've ever seen.
@@chrisclanton4430 I think it was my second concert as well. The Cars (with opening act Wang Chung) were the first. I believe Honeymoon Suite opened up for ZZ Top.
You guys are making me feel young again (I am 72)!!! You are listening to all my favorite songs from my college days. If I could suggest a song, it would be Grand Funk Railroad's Heartbreaker live. Its amazing, like the two of you!
Mike, I said the same thing a couple of months ago. I'm only a couple of years behind you, so these were my high school sounds.
Absolutely great performance
I think they did it already, a year or so ago.
@@juniorjohnson9509 Thanks, I know they did "Inside Looking Out" but I will have to see if they did Heartbreaker.
@@kenhayhurst374 Its nice to see a younger generation get exposed to music that really is not played on most classic rock stations. Those were some great bands.
Where's Waiting for the Bus? It was always the lead-in, both on the record and on the radio. Whoever wanted just this song is not a long-time ZZ Top fan. Great song in any event, now you need to hear the opener. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎶
I dig the later stuff from ZZ Top, but nothing beats their early catalog -- love that blues-rock!
They’re 1st LP is my fav 🙂
You should probably know they always played Waitin' For the Bus first as a slash/ before this song
Great song. However, it goes with Waitin' For The Bus. Those go together like We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions. But I guess you had no way of knowing that. Whoever requested it should have let you know.
Exactly. This is a TWO PART SONG. Just like The LOAD OUT comes before STAY! 👍🤨
I agree that somebody misled them, maybe deliberately?
What JOHN FOSTER said......
Original comment needs to be up voted like a mofo.
The requester must be clueless.
ZZ Top had two musical periods. Pre 1980 MTV was very bluesy. MTV was more rock/pop. Even though I like the post 1980 stuff I only own and actively listen to pre 1980.
I'm with you. While the MTV/pop version of ZZ Top was fun in videos, their early blues days were just fantastic music. One of the best 3-piece blues bans!
70’s ZZ TOP the best 🤘🤘🤘
Absolutely... they changed with the times.... the early stuff is so much better s far writing... but they were able to transform and stay on top and became legends.
Same, I definitely prefer the first 2 albums.
One of the early classics of this great band! ZZTop rules
yes should have done the song before this one called waitin for the bus... one of their funkiest songs
OMG!!! Love this band!!! Lost some hearing from them in ‘76!! Awesome!🤘🔥
LOL, I hear you I saw them and it was the only concert that I have ever been Front Row for and It felt like my head was stuffed in cotton batten for a week afterwards...lol
@@dougieyou had to stuff pieces of bandana in our ears!!🤘🔥
I might could hear better if not for all the concerts. . .
That's what they say, you don't listen to the Blues, you feel the Blues. And you definitely feel this song. Great reaction. Love your enthusiasm for great music.
Out of 100’s of concerts I went to through out the 70’s and 80’s the 1984 eliminator album laser light show at pink palace in Memphis probably best concert ever…
ZZ is steeped in the blues.
Even before Dusty Hill's passing, Billy Gibbons ventured into producing some blues tunes and he's cut an album or two in the process!
Blues is in the blood, the pedigree of ZZ Top...
Waaay back I worked for a guy who had an advertising company. Got to see every band that came to OKC. Front and center. We’d see bands never heard of that became huge. Almost always got to see them in the Civic Center downtown. So tight! They were with Ten Years After first time. THE DAYS
Have Mercy been waiting on the bus all day. Goes with it youlall love your guys videos makes me 😃 smile
ALL of their older stuff is really bluesy. Fantastic
Just Got Paid is a GREAT ZZ TOP JAM!!!
Peace from PA ✌
Love ZZ Top. One of the funnest concerts I attended. So fun went a second time just a week later.
Seen them a dozen times including the last show in Louisville's Iroquois theater .. a great outdoor setting Dusty was jammin that night, but he mainly leaned on the speakers and amps.. you could tell he was not feeling good, but he did not let that slow him down.. Broke my heart when they announced he had passed
Y'all forgot Waiting For The Bus. It goes hand in hand with this tune.
A MUST HEAR Classic,, ZZ TOP "Blue Jean Blues"...TRUST ME!!
On the album 2 songs together Waiting for the bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago go together, type it in that way or it does not come up because it was originally supposed to be 2 separate songs that kinda continued a story but one after the other with noticable pause in between; however a screw up in final editing put them in one continuous song. Turned out to be a hit on the B side.
Jay & Amber, you two are a definite blessing!! Here are some more ZZ Top songs - Blue Jean Blues, Legs, Got Me Under Pressure & Tube Snake Boogie! Thank you for being real 💖💖💖
If you want some blues, you must hit Blue Jean Blues... my FAVORITE ZZ Top (That Little ole band from Texas) tune.. it's short.. but it hits all the right places... thanks to Reverend Willie G (Billy Gibbons)..
Stank Face Maximus.
Been listening to it for nearly 50 years!! 💪💪💪
Spot on girl...100% correct. One of the best "white " blues songs ever done . Period. Peace &Love :)
Fool For Your Stockings and Just Got Back From Baby's are also great bluesy deep cuts.
Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell is another great blues tune, it seems like they brought a little of the opening guitar lick back on Fool For Your Stockings.
I could tell that they was mine.... From the oil and the gasoline...
Blue jean blues and just got back from baby’s, for some iconic bluesy ZZ. YOUVE GOT TO!!! (Please?)
Well you asked......ZZ Top played their first official gig at the Knights of Columbus Hall on US Hwy 90 in Beaumont Texas in February 1970. That KC Hall is about 8 miles from my house.
The guy who booked them was local radio personality Al Caldwell(Something he will never let anyone forget). Caldwell is still here, still broadcasting and from the same radio station, KLVI.
So good. Sat outside on a warm day with an iced coffee and a legal J. ZZ Top and Rob Squad just made my day. Cheers. ✌️
"beer drinkers and he'll raisers" is my favorite zz top song. y'all should definitely check it out
Another bluesy one is "Fool For Your Stockings". A great rocker is "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" both fron 'Deguello'
Thanks!
Late 70s we use to cruise around In my 69 camaro with big block v8 fat tires! With this cranked up head banging great times 🤘
Just caught the band this past Sunday night (8/7) in Simpsonville, SC. It was a great show.
I was listening to this in high school in the 80's.....saw them live a dozen times
Awesome reaction guys! Everything's ZZ Top does is great! That style of music that they do that is so iconic is called "Texas shuffle blues". That's why you like it and yes that's why it has a Texas sound. Now one of these days you guys have to do my favorite song by them and that's called "Blue Jean Blues" it's off of their Live Fandango album.
"You can tell that they was mine, from the oil and the gasoline...."
Classic. Often played together with "Waiting For The Bus", the song before it.
Early ZZ Top is always great , but it’s medley with Waitin for the bus but still it’s better than nothing another great pick thanks🎙✌️😎👍southside OG
You hit the nail on the head about that old bar room thing. First time I saw them was before they were such a hit. They were playing in an old Texas bar near San Antonio, Texas.
Any one that is anybody knows that you have to play "Waitin' on the bus" with "Jesus just left Chicago"....it is one song and should be played as such. God Bless.
I saw them in concert on the Eliminator tour. They played all the classics. Amazing show.
J & Amber, you'll love their "Legs", "Cheap Sunglasses" and"Tube Snake Boogie" !!
“Legs” video is one of my favorite videos of all time. Captures the decade of the 80’s
On my 1st (no parent) vacation in the summer of 1976, we drove thru Texas. Texas is BIG; we drove in and out of the range of local AM radio stations. I found this song. I fell in love!
I've been a ZZ Top fan for 47 years and counting.
So much to experience with ZZ Top. Start anywhere, go anywhere, enjoy the ride. So much music from just 3 guys!!!
Muddy Waters is one of the greatest blues guitarists of all time. That’s a whole real genre you have barely scratched. Listen to Hoochie Coochie Man or Baby please don’t go. You’ll thank me later
I agree, Muddy is one of the greatest!!
Once in a crossword puzzle I saw the clue, "bluesy waters". I had to think a bit but finally got it! hehehe!
Or What's The Matter With The Mill for a more up-tempo number.
Yes!
Muddy Waters, BB King and so many more bluses guitarist were the origin of the genre.
As a TEXAN in the middle of TEXAS, I can say Z Z TOP are great ambassadors of The Lone Star State! Saw them live on 6 of their most famous tours! There’s a list of must listens for any great band. This is one of my favorites, has nothing to do with me 🤔 and is one of their most Rock and Roll songs. Very well known tune called Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers. Y’all might want to grab a cold one and CRANK IT UP for this one. Cheers from TEXAS! 🍻
Rocken Southern Blues, you just can't get enough of Z Z Top. Thank you
Saw ZZ with Gorge Thurgood back in the 80s Amazing concert!
The first time i heard them..i thought there was more band members..not just 3..amazing..
Country, Jesus, Hillbilly, Blues. That Texas blues boogie! After la grange this was the next thing all us 70s kids heard. So awesome!!!
We heard it on the "X" too !
The first 8-track tape i bought was ZZ Top Rio Grande Mud in 1973. Wore it out in my '66 Chevelle Malibu in south Texas. Francene and Just Got Paid Today over and over and over..... I devote 25 minutes of every day to check out the 3 RSR uploads! Thanks you two. Try ZZ Top "Blue Jean Blues" if you like the blusey sound of Billy, Dusty and Frank. I am blessed because of your channel!!!
The inspiration behind the song. Years ago Texans could catch some Delta Blues on the radio, every once in awhile……AM Radio back in the day…….😊
I'm old and have lived in Mississippi all my life. Here muddy water turns to "shine" 😄👍
Must Revisit! Waiting on a Bus/Jesus Left Chicago.
This is so incomplete without Waiting on a Bus.
ZZ TOP song "Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers" a great song to do.
Of the 3 gems you reacted to today, this is the one Iooked forward to the most.
Amber! Thank you for pointing out it was just a three-piece. But yeah both of you, it's just so awesome to see you drinking this in. I was discovering this all probably around 6th grade and forward. Another one of my favorite songs by then that's kind of in this vein although a lot more Up Tempo and a dance song, and it's wonderful because he is a great fun filter on his voice, is Tube Steak Boogie. Yeah they're totally like a bar band except that they coincidentally happened to be in one of the most rockingest bands that ever happened. :) oh also, I always plug for this, but their song I heard it on the x, off of their album fandango, it's one of the tightest most killer riffs and performances you will ever hear. It is so blistering. And it's actually autobiographical and tells about where they got some of their musical influences when they were very young in texas.
ZZ top, the whole entire Tres Hombres album is great. Master of Sparks my favorite cut on it but I am glad you enjoyed the little band from Texas. Great stuff.
I've covered this song in so many bands over the years. It's a fantastic song and soooo much fun to play,
I saw ZZ Top in concert more times than any other group. Hope you keep reacting to more of their songs! Also hope you react to some of Muddy Waters blues!
For me it has such a 60's vibe which is probably where they got a lot of their inspiration.
My favorite song by ZZ TOP!! Saw them live, great!!!
Maybe already mentioned; Jesus Just Left Chicago is the sequitur instantly transitioned out of the lead song Waiting on a Bus from their breakthrough Tres Hombres LP in the early 70s. The correlating lyrical subject matter seamlessly paints an image of Jesus on a Greyhound headed through the Delta.
They were quite popular in the 70s on FM radio, but Eliminator changed all that when it came out in the early 80s, that album clicked with the public and that is when they soared into super-stardom. Bought the cassette and listened to it to its death.
Just saw ZZ Top in Portsmouth Virginia last Tuesday night. They were great. Ole Reverend Willie G was in fine form as always.
Early ZZ before they really hit it big. And like others have said, you need a do over by listening to Waitin for the Bus and Jesus a just Left Chicago back to back. They feed each other. Recommended this one like 9 months ago. Glad you are finally getting to it.
The first concert I went to at the age of 16. The summer of 74 at the Tulsa Fairgrounds. ZZ Top Fandango Tour. The Tulsa paper on Sunday morning said there where complaints about the noise ten miles away.
Yes it does..TEXAS since I was a teenager ZZtop.
I saw ZZ Top, in concert, with 38 Special opening for them. It was absolutely one of the best concerts I ever went to. Peace and positive blessings to everyone.
Tres Hombres was the killer album that everyone got to know the Z in the early 70's then in the 80's they changed there style to a more mainstream
They certainly played a lot of rough and tumble bars early in their career, but my older brother always liked to talk about seeing them at the "teen center" around our little hometown in southeast Texas...An all ages show around 1970...
This is a song that is the second part of a two flow song it starts with waiting for the bus and rolls into this song , it really is sacrilegious to play them apart
A great Z Z Top song. Ya'll are knocking it out of the park. Keep[ it up..
Texas boys. Came through Mississippi. We made them feel welcome. More shine than wine 😄👍
the bass the pass makes not only mf feet to keep beat but it makes my heart and breathing become one with that bass
“Waiting For The Bus” is the intro track for this song.
This may be my favorite ZZT song. I know I love to play it,
Since no one has mentioned. They were "discovered" by the man over your right shoulder. Jimi saw them play in a few bars in Texas before his big European tour. Invited them to open for him. The rest is history. Jimi was good friends with all the bandmates, particularly Billy.
You should of played “Waiting For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago” for that funk/soul vibe transition.
Saw them last night and Wene they hit this/wating on the bus it was electric you could tell that out of all the hits(and they played every single one of them) this was the one they had the most fun with still
OMG they are such a great Band
ZZ Top has such a unique sound. Billy Gibbons was often overlooked for his guitar abilities and sound. I read somewhere that he was one of Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitar players. My uncle lived across the street from Dusty Hill in the late 70's and he has some stories about him that are pretty priceless. You still see Billy frequenting some blues clubs in Houston. Huge influence in my life musically. Awesome that y'all dig them.
I love how Actor Billie Bob Thornton described what going to a zz top concert in the 80's was like. He said" It was alot like meeting Bugs bunny. Just crazy happening all around you visually with all the animals, and the Hard thumping Texas Blues rock-a-whatever that sweet stuff they play is all inside your head.
From one of my favorit albums of all time.
Excellent choice. So laid back! Not sure if you caught that, but Muddy Waters is a famous Delta Blues O.G.
Muddy Waters turned to wine
This is my favorite ZZ song. I love to jam along with my guitar to this.
You can almost feel Texas in their music.
Great song. ..thanks……Blues….Great singer and blues guitarist Robert Cray..Right Next Door, Bad Influence, Smoking Gun, Nothin’ but a woman, I guess I showed her and many more..one of the best!!
Did you know Jimmy Hendrix cited Billy Gibbons as the best guitarist of all time? The two were close friends. From what I understand, ZZ Top got its start when it was invited to play at a rock and roll concert in Hawaii, and they went dressed in their fully Texan outfits, which got them booed, but they won the audience over when they started playing.
This much blues is called STANK. When you listen and feel it, you can't help but get the Stank Face. J, you're rocking the Stank Face at 4:44! Peace and Love RobSquad!
ZZ Top is my favorite band of all time! I've seen them in concert several times, the first was the Eliminator tour back in 84. Greatest little band in Texas! Dusty Hill RIP! God bless Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard!
They were on radio or juke box in every biker bar across country!!!
I'm pretty sure that somebody is already told you that this is actually the part two of a two-part song part one is waiting on the bus
ZZ top was always something special. thanks
This came out in 1973 then AC/DC used the same blues riff for “Ride On” off the Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap album in 1978. Two different songs but extremely similar vibes.
Yep .... Waitin for the Bus and Jesus just left Chicago run together.....
“Blue Jean Blues” is another good bluesy ZZ Top Song
Yes . Absolutely have to play waitin on the bus with this one. They are meant to e played together , it’s like 2 songs in one. Gotta do em both together. Ones not the same without the other.