ZZ Top right in their Texas blues sweet spot- I love the way Billy's voice sounds on this cut. There's nothing to not like about this tune. Thanks for making my morning once again!
You two are picking a great catalog of music to get into. This old ZZ Top, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, SRV. Love watching your reactions, please keep them coming.
This song is too cool. I saw them do it with six beautiful Ladies over 6 feet tall each wearing stockings strutting around the stage while they did this tune. One of them put her stocking over Billy's shoulder and he said...."HAVE MERCY"
This is a great album brotha's! I'm loving watchin you groovin to this trio... I know you like watching live performances so yo have to check out them live at crossroads, Jesus just left Chicago.....😊
For some reason, ZZ TOP brings out the DAWG in you two (laugh). Great reaction, as always. Thanks for the music guys. Everyone out there tell a friend to subscribe to the guys - we need them to grow.
One of my favorite ZZ tunes, and from my favorite ZZ album. Deguello's just great. If you like straight blues, you need to find the original Blue Jean Blues from Fandango, beautiful slow blues like only Billy can play and sing. There are all kinds of great deep cuts on the old ZZ Top albums, Just Got Back From Baby's, Apologies to Pearly, Bar B Q, Enjoy and Get It On. And songs that were hits or minor hits like Tush. Heard On the X, etc you haven't heard yet. Deep well.
This is we’re I totally dig ZZ Top. This just puts a smile on my face wile driving a back road of sitting on the porch having an adult beverage late at night. Thanks guys. Bb
Definitely! Nasty Dogs is one of my favorite Z Z songs to listen to and one of my favorite songs to play on guitar. (I jam at the end for like 5 minutes, it's such a great riff.) 😆
I'm very happy that you appreciate ZZ Top. I've been a fan for 50 years now. A favorite album of mine is Tejas. It has some amazing tunes on it. I know you will love it.
This entire album was a Banger ! Especially this song ! I played this album till there were no more grooves left in the vinyl ! "Esther be the one " another great song off this album !
Che is right to point out drummer Frank Beard. He was so underrated. Check out any German Rockpalast 1980 video. Not flashy, but rock steady and perfect technique.
I loved Ronnie Montrose, saw him 3 times, but not with Gamma. I did see Davey Pattinson sing with Robin Tower though. How great was music back in the day?
I saw them in '90 at the Cotton Bowl with Santana and Steve Miller.... Great show and they all sounded good, But ZZ Top sounded better live than any band I ever seen...! (It was crazy because it was the same weekend as some big collage football game, like Texas Tech vs Texas A&M or something. The streets were PACKED with people partying.)
@@2869may You just could not go wrong with ZZ Top, first time I saw them was in a theater, the next few times was in arenas and big outdoor shows, last time was back in a theater, Don't matter, they always deliver!
You guys need to do their Blue Jeans Blues from their Fandango album. This is another can’t miss album from 1973 I think. Some songs recorded live from The Warehouse in New Orleans where many famous groups played just before making the big time. It was literally an old cotton warehouse on the river that held 4 to 5 thousand. No seating just a very few pieces of carpet. No one ever sat that I can remember.
I got to see them from the second row a few years back. Their mic stands looked like catalytic converters/ exhaust mufflers. One of the best and funnest shows I've ever been to
When a group creates a lane for themselves you know it. The last of the “first six.” From “First Album” to this, these are where their original sound is found. There’s really nothing like their flavor back then. Billy had the chops. Try, Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings or Bluejean Blues, from Fandango. 🤘😎
This is what they sound like before their mainstream stuff. It's real and raw. "Blue jeans blues" is another one you should try. Saw them in a small club in downtown Austin back in 81 and it couldn't have been better.
I told you guys that this song was a banger, now here's another great song that matches this one, "2000 Blues ", please try to do this one next 🤟😍 you two make my days😘
I saw tons of great shows at the old Palace Theater in Waterbury, did not see ZZ Top there but saw them 7 or 8 times in many other venues, great show, every time. I saw Steppenwolf, BOC, Queen, Mott the Hoople, Lou Reed, Frank Marino, Johnny Winter, and many others there in a killer venue, great memories!
@@vicprovost2561 Great venue still. Saw every southern rock band there, Trower, Geils at least . After the re-do I saw Tedeschi-Trucks, Hendrix revue, Doobie Bros, Kansas, and Steve Winwood. Have fun.
Back in the 80's when they had that Columbia 12 albums for a penny deal...I had never of ZZ Top but I bought the album because in my brain I was thinking...."any band that has a skull, bullets and smoke on the cover HAS to be good. I was sooo right!!!!
This has, LONG-been (slightly "arguably": -i.e.: I could, NEVER. ACTUALLY, choose "just one!"-) my favorite cut off of DEGUELLO. One of THE MOST underrated ZZ Top cuts in HISTORY! One thing that "Fool For Your Stockings" does, quite perfectly, is: demonstrate that LONG, venerable standard of: Billy Gibbons being THE, ABSOLUTE, GOD (I used to, just, say: "LORD," but ...that started to seem "too little," in fact!) of GUITAR TONE! Yes. 100% fact! On EVERY album: Billy adjusts his tone and it is PERFECT for WHATEVER the band is recording at THAT time! He, even, alters things (more slightly) from song-to-song (or, even, WITHIN songs -rarely, but: in THIS one: it is quite apparent!!)-) ! --Listen to the way that the first solo section has a "sharper" (more top-end brightness) tone and, then, the 2nd time he goes into it, he has altered the tone to be a bit more "waffly," 'spread-out," "dulled." It is noticeably softer! ...NOT on the double-stops (I wouldn't, really, call that a "riff" ...it is more of a guitar line, but ...becasue of the misunderstanding and general personal alteration and generalized function (often: DYSfunction!🤦) of such terms, in DISCUSSING music and guitar-playing ...I can't make the case that using the term "riff" is, entirely, or wholly 'wrong,' per se ...just: *I*, myself, would, likely, NOT use it. )....actu ally, I guess it affects the tone, so, the double-stops change tone after that, as well (but I meant to draw attention to the melody-line, single notes. ...ANYway!....) ..... -WHETHER this may, even, have been some kind of error ?? (maybe he meant to change the tone for the solo from the beginning of it🤷🤷), or it was intentionally designed that way (he was going to play similar-sounding phrases and wanted to alter the tone to give it a little "push," in the latter part, by altering the tonality and feel, slightly! -- EITHER way: it is, both: PERFECT AND BRILLIANT! Delicious! Yes: Write it down. Tattoo it on your arm (or elsewhere!): BILLY GIBBONS IS THE, MOTHERFUCKING, KING OF GUITAR TONE, PERIOD. 🤘🤘 🔥 --But: back to reiterating items about my initial point: Billy Gibbons is not just a tasty, technically proficient player (who, seemingly: "masquerades" that with his affinity for: rhythm, tonal texture, an ability to use melodic skill, 'teasing' and nuance in a seemingly "simplistic" manner (but: actually, be very nuanced and complex with it!😛😛), but he uses textural (i.e.: "feel") elements in his sound design and composition. And he is, still, able to wring out the most soulful and directly emotional Texas Blues style runs, licks and riffs -in combination with some rather "neo-psychedelic," but always: "groove-oriented" or, at least: rhythmically-expressive/rhythmically-informed playing and choices. Gibbons is a 100% bad-ass. ...then, again: EVERYONE in this band IS!! Dusty Hill is a slyly deft bassist and Frank Beard is a player callable of: rock-solid groove, shifting, swing-y, yet hip-shakingly delicious grooves and timekeeping, as well as great nuance and complexity as well as: simplicity-without-boredom and directness and "lock-in" rhythm parts and syncopated flourishes, etc. ....Deguello is, also: a masterpiece of an album. End-to-end delectable perfection. 🔥🤘🤘 [I used to get a lot of stares, some days, cruising around some neighborhoods, blasting: Deguello and P.E.'s Fear Of A Black Planet back-to-back, for hours-on-end; with my bud! (Imagine 2 long-haired, white, rocker dudes (no beards😜), in some nondescript, van (WITH windows! NOT some "may be captives inside" p.o.s.!!) ...Mostly in suburban N.J. or N.Y. -Well: in the early '90s, it, apparently, certainly, appeared so, to plenty🤷🤷😛-]. Deguello, also, was, something of a "comeback" album for ZZ (Their prior outing: Tejas was something of 'a slip" for them. Not a very strong album (and, subsequently: also not very successful). they took almost 3 years to let Deguello loose.), After a nearly 3 year hiatus* ("two plus," as far as when they started recording.), from the public eye, ⚡during which they grew the beards which, then, became iconic. [Frank shaved his off. Billy and Dusty (obviously) kept theirs!].⚡ ...They were, still, about 3-5 years away from their "new wave-ish" "reboot," with Eliminator (which led them into "the MTV-era" ...and garnered them a brand new audience (due to their innovative approach to/use of video-which many other bands (RIGHTLY, I.M.O.!) were eschewing or not using effectively, anyway!), but Deguello brought them: a resurgence in their, established, fan-base. A greater interest from some new listeners.and a reiteration of the respect they had earned & garnered, from the press and music industry, over the previous decade(-"or-so"). It "cemented" them. --Additionally [more "attached" "side-info."]: While a number of people assume that I grew-up with some, at least, "vague" (-well: MAYbe "vague!" Yes) understanding/comprehension of: Spanish (or, at least: "Spanglish"); because of where I grew-up. I, in fact, did not. ...SO, I wasn't, even, certain that "Deguello" was an, actual, WORD! ...but over the years, I, finally, did look it up and discover that: Deguello, in fact, means: "beheading," en español. ...So you KNOW that ZZ were "serious" with this one! 😛😛👊 (although, because of ZZ's nature: although the word, itself is, inherently, threatening ...it MUST be perceived that: there IS some kind of humour (how EVER "odd" or "black"!) attached, in ZZ's use of it). ...But it was also, likely, something a message to their label: "...You don't let us do what we need to, we'll come for your heads; mfs!" ...Also: a message to any fans who knew what it meant: "This album will rock your balls." 😛😁🤘🤘 *Just "f.y.i.": For a majority of the '70s (certainly after, say shrug '73-or-so ??) it was almost standard for a band to release an album every 6 months. That's right! 2 a year! [see, for example: KISS' career, prior to '81 or '83 (I can't recall, exactly!)!)]! At minimum: an annual LP! MINIMUM! ...any longer than that and you would be considered to be "slacking" or "cheating your fans" ...Labels had it standardized. 2 albums/year. ...in special cases: one. ...They didn't state getting "spaced-out" past: annually (one-a-year), until the later '80s or '90s.🤷 (People often bring-up: Def Leppard, but THAT was an ANOMALY!: Pyromania hit in: 1983 (and broke them, HUGE!). Yes. Hysteria didn't appear on shelves until 1987. However!: The REASON being (among a few other things!): drummer Rick Allen's New Year's Eve car crash, in 1984; resulting in him losing his left arm (It was, first, reattached, after the accident, but had to be amputated due to infection.), -He was inspired to get out of the hospital in only a month(-ish), although most physicians were telling him: "5-6 months, minimum." It took him a year to, fully, "recover," but he had met the guy who would design & help build the specialized electronic kit for him, in hospital and started trying to play, again, within only a few weeks of his accident. ...I have never seen a time-line of when he, first sat at a kit and played anything successfully, after the crash, but: bu 1986, her was, back; playing live gigs with his mates in Leppard (Who had ZERO doubts about waiting for him and supported his return to the band, wholeheartedly and always. -Unlike what a LOT of groups might have done/decided!). A pretty amazing story, all-in-all. (But, also: the insouciance of youth and the carelessness, practically, encouraged in rock stars.).]) ...Anyhow: yeah: 3 years was a "long period" to go between albums, in the '70s, so: the period between Tejas and Deguello was considered "a major hiatus" for ZZ Top (At the time - although it may not appear that way, from a viewpoint from ...more recent times/"now." Got it? 👍)
If you guys want to hear a beautiful guitar solo check out yo mama by Frank Zappa The solo is played on the guitar Jimmy Hendrix set on fire when he was on stage
I was fortunate to get to see them in 1990, 2016 and sadly two weeks after Dusty died in 2021. 😢 Even better: My aunt was at a dive bar in Dallas back in the 80's and Dusty Hill sat down next to her at the bar and they drank and shot the shit for three hours. I'm not jealous.
Deguello was, in my opinion, the last great album by these guys. Their 80's output was fun-time product with a few good songs here and there, but lacking in the bluesy, soulful spark that marked their output up to this point. I still have my vinyl copy of this to lean back on, scratches and all...
ZZ Top right before they stopped being "The Little Ol' Band from Texas" and became a much more pop-sounding blues/rock band, with synthesizers and fur guitars and back beats. Deguelo is an underrated album and this is a deeper ZZ Track but the OG fans know it well. Good choice, and glad you liked it! Also on this record are Cheap Sunglasses, I'm Bad I'm Nationwide, and a terrific cover of Sam & Dave's "I Thank You."
This album did not get anywhere near the credit it deserved !! This is one of those albums you set that needle down on track 1 and leave it alone ! I was a teenager when this album came out , I used to sit in my room and play this album for hours ! Ester be the one = another great song off this album !
I hope your wife doesn't see this vid and hear your comments today, otherwise you'll have to sleep in the living room tonight. Anyway, ZZ-Top makes very good blues-(rock), I love it. Best wishes @all from hamburg (germany)
I don't know about that. She might dig wearing some real stocking & a garter belt. There ain't a man alive who wouldn't love to see his woman in stockings & a garter belt.
I'm glad those mainstream songs brought people enjoyment and gained ZZTop some new fans and a good living. I prefer the earlier stuff, but I like the "pop" stuff too. Plus their videos on MTV were much better than suffering through the ubiquitous crap like the Culture Club, Wham and Madonna.
That's a good one. You can't go wrong with that little ol band from Texas. I always liked the song from that album called Lowdown in the Street. It wasn't a big hit but it should've been.
Tellin' u guys...wanna go to church? Try their "Hot, Blue, and Righteous" or "Have You Heard?" You'll think you're back in church listenin' to the gospel getting preached!
I'm a fool for ZZ Top. BTW, the Deguello is the Death Song that General Santa Ana played before he and the Mexican Army made their final assault on the defenders of The Alamo.
ZZ Top right in their Texas blues sweet spot- I love the way Billy's voice sounds on this cut. There's nothing to not like about this tune. Thanks for making my morning once again!
Manic Mechanic is awesome too.
Manic Mechanic is to die for! Probably my favorite ZZ.
Oh hell yeah !!
Great ZZ Top deep track... one of my fav's by the band.
You two are picking a great catalog of music to get into. This old ZZ Top, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, SRV. Love watching your reactions, please keep them coming.
Blue Jean Blues fronm the Fandango CD will tear your face off.
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Finally someone reacts to my favorite ZZ Top song! Thanks!
Y'all tapped into some badass stuff gentlemen.
I always loved this song.
Amazing 3 guys can create such beautiful music.
This song is too cool. I saw them do it with six beautiful Ladies over 6 feet tall each wearing stockings strutting around the stage while they did this tune. One of them put her stocking over Billy's shoulder and he said...."HAVE MERCY"
This is a great album brotha's! I'm loving watchin you groovin to this trio... I know you like watching live performances so yo have to check out them live at crossroads, Jesus just left Chicago.....😊
In your ZZ Top musical journey, check out 'My heads in Mississippi'. Classic Billy Gibbons guitar and brash lyrics, I believe you'll enjoy it.
For some reason, ZZ TOP brings out the DAWG in you two (laugh). Great reaction, as always. Thanks
for the music guys. Everyone out there tell a friend to subscribe to the guys - we need them to grow.
I think this is one of the best 12 Bar Blues songs written in the last 50 years.
Facts.
I gotta wake up and tune in to more of the old school ZZ more often. Thanks you 2 crazies.
One of my favorite ZZ tunes, and from my favorite ZZ album. Deguello's just great. If you like straight blues, you need to find the original Blue Jean Blues from Fandango, beautiful slow blues like only Billy can play and sing. There are all kinds of great deep cuts on the old ZZ Top albums, Just Got Back From Baby's, Apologies to Pearly, Bar B Q, Enjoy and Get It On. And songs that were hits or minor hits like Tush. Heard On the X, etc you haven't heard yet. Deep well.
❤ seems like y'all are hooked too
One of my all-time favorite tunes by them!
Leave it to ZZ to fashion a timeless blues groove to the delights of women's hosiery.
Love the early ZZ...was so lucky to see them live on this tour. Good times!
So excited. In my top 5 ZZ tunes. Nothin but the blues!!!
Check out their tune My Heads In Mississippi 🔥✌️
"BLUE JEAN BLUES"....!
I'm glad you're enjoying this album, it certainly had me taking notes as a young man.
One of my favorite
This is we’re I totally dig ZZ Top. This just puts a smile on my face wile driving a back road of sitting on the porch having an adult beverage late at night. Thanks guys. Bb
Another great song!! ❤
You guys should check out Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings from the Fandango album! Keep those reactions coming 🎶
Absolutely. One of there best short but pure nasty fire
Definitely! Nasty Dogs is one of my favorite Z Z songs to listen to and one of my favorite songs to play on guitar. (I jam at the end for like 5 minutes, it's such a great riff.) 😆
YOU GOTTA LOVE THIS
Those guys are just wicked cool! :)
I'm very happy that you appreciate ZZ Top. I've been a fan for 50 years now. A favorite album of mine is Tejas. It has some amazing tunes on it. I know you will love it.
Our band used to do this one. Great tune to open with.
They are always cool. 🙃👍
This whole album is da bomb. I remember walking a mile in a blizzard to buy this album in 1981.
ZZ Top " Blue Jean Blue "👖
IMO Their best album!
Fella's.... you're gonna love this video.... ZZ Top - Rough Boy (Official Music Video)
Not sure if y'all have done it yet...but BLUE JEAN BLUES is a must,and GOIN' DOWN TO MEXICO won't disappoint ❤
My #1 all time favorite zz top song. I was a dj at a topless bar 1984, st.. Pete florida. One of the dancers performed to this song.. so hot!
Thats what Im talkin about Thanx Guys
beer drinkers and hellraisers live awesome yes cool band
This entire album was a Banger ! Especially this song ! I played this album till there were no more grooves left in the vinyl ! "Esther be the one " another great song off this album !
ZZ Top "Blue Jean Blues"...Nuff Said.
Manic Mechanic
yeah that's zz for you, one hit after another. Try checking out 'Blue Jean Blues' next, promise you'll be glad you did. 😉
The album title is badass too. It means no surrender offered or accepted, fight to the death…slash throats decapitation !
Che is right to point out drummer Frank Beard. He was so underrated. Check out any German Rockpalast 1980 video. Not flashy, but rock steady and perfect technique.
I first saw them on this tour in '79 I think the ticket was $10. Ronnie Montrose and Gamma warmed them up....killer show.
I loved Ronnie Montrose, saw him 3 times, but not with Gamma. I did see Davey Pattinson sing with Robin Tower though. How great was music back in the day?
I saw them in '90 at the Cotton Bowl with Santana and Steve Miller.... Great show and they all sounded good,
But ZZ Top sounded better live than any band I ever seen...!
(It was crazy because it was the same weekend as some big collage football game, like Texas Tech vs Texas A&M or something.
The streets were PACKED with people partying.)
@@2869may You just could not go wrong with ZZ Top, first time I saw them was in a theater, the next few times was in arenas and big outdoor shows, last time was back in a theater, Don't matter, they always deliver!
@@vicprovost2561 For sure..!
You guys need to do their Blue Jeans Blues from their Fandango album. This is another can’t miss album from 1973 I think. Some songs recorded live from The Warehouse in New Orleans where many famous groups played just before making the big time. It was literally an old cotton warehouse on the river that held 4 to 5 thousand. No seating just a very few pieces of carpet. No one ever sat that I can remember.
I got to see them from the second row a few years back. Their mic stands looked like catalytic converters/ exhaust mufflers. One of the best and funnest shows I've ever been to
When a group creates a lane for themselves you know it. The last of the “first six.” From “First Album” to this, these are where their original sound is found. There’s really nothing like their flavor back then. Billy had the chops. Try, Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings or Bluejean Blues, from Fandango. 🤘😎
This is what they sound like before their mainstream stuff. It's real and raw. "Blue jeans blues" is another one you should try. Saw them in a small club in downtown Austin back in 81 and it couldn't have been better.
This use to be on my gettin busy playlist.
Whole album is fire
I told you guys that this song was a banger, now here's another great song that matches this one, "2000 Blues ", please try to do this one next 🤟😍 you two make my days😘
Billy, the consummate blues player. Little bit of BB in those licks.
The first 30 seconds and you are positive of one thing... The blues are about to pour all over you all the way down to your toes...
"El Diablo" is a deep cut, sweet groove from the Tejas album and I think you gentleman would really groove to it.
Degeullo is by far my favorite ZZ Top Album....Try "Manic Mechanic" next...
YOU WANT TO RACE?
If you insist...at that price I can't resist!
That's right...
First time I saw them was 1977 at the Palace theater in Waterbury Ct. Tickets cost $7.50 for a general admission show. Rock on.
I saw tons of great shows at the old Palace Theater in Waterbury, did not see ZZ Top there but saw them 7 or 8 times in many other venues, great show, every time. I saw Steppenwolf, BOC, Queen, Mott the Hoople, Lou Reed, Frank Marino, Johnny Winter, and many others there in a killer venue, great memories!
@@vicprovost2561 Great venue still. Saw every southern rock band there, Trower, Geils at least . After the re-do I saw Tedeschi-Trucks, Hendrix revue, Doobie Bros, Kansas, and Steve Winwood. Have fun.
@@mikemet1744 You can't help but have fun with the bands we saw!
blue jean blues zztop version...and theres a smoking jeff healey version as well...eric clapton.."hard times" his version of ray charles classic
Does everyone know we are listening to the genius of the Reverend Willie G?
My fav track of theirs in the their Best Album .
Back in the 80's when they had that Columbia 12 albums for a penny deal...I had never of ZZ Top but I bought the album because in my brain I was thinking...."any band that has a skull, bullets and smoke on the cover HAS to be good. I was sooo right!!!!
That album was fire
"Tan Stockings", that made me laugh hard, I haven't seen them in many years..I get the subtext too.
I tell you…one that has a groove from their ‘80s era is TV Dinners…Some people don’t like it, but It gets in a pocket…
This has, LONG-been (slightly "arguably": -i.e.: I could, NEVER. ACTUALLY, choose "just one!"-) my favorite cut off of DEGUELLO.
One of THE MOST underrated ZZ Top cuts in HISTORY!
One thing that "Fool For Your Stockings" does, quite perfectly, is: demonstrate that LONG, venerable standard of: Billy Gibbons being THE, ABSOLUTE, GOD (I used to, just, say: "LORD," but ...that started to seem "too little," in fact!) of GUITAR TONE!
Yes. 100% fact!
On EVERY album: Billy adjusts his tone and it is PERFECT for WHATEVER the band is recording at THAT time!
He, even, alters things (more slightly) from song-to-song (or, even, WITHIN songs -rarely, but: in THIS one: it is quite apparent!!)-) !
--Listen to the way that the first solo section has a "sharper" (more top-end brightness) tone and, then, the 2nd time he goes into it, he has altered the tone to be a bit more "waffly," 'spread-out," "dulled." It is noticeably softer!
...NOT on the double-stops (I wouldn't, really, call that a "riff" ...it is more of a guitar line, but ...becasue of the misunderstanding and general personal alteration and generalized function (often: DYSfunction!🤦) of such terms, in DISCUSSING music and guitar-playing ...I can't make the case that using the term "riff" is, entirely, or wholly 'wrong,' per se ...just: *I*, myself, would, likely, NOT use it. )....actu ally, I guess it affects the tone, so, the double-stops change tone after that, as well (but I meant to draw attention to the melody-line, single notes. ...ANYway!....) .....
-WHETHER this may, even, have been some kind of error ?? (maybe he meant to change the tone for the solo from the beginning of it🤷🤷), or it was intentionally designed that way (he was going to play similar-sounding phrases and wanted to alter the tone to give it a little "push," in the latter part, by altering the tonality and feel, slightly! -- EITHER way: it is, both: PERFECT AND BRILLIANT!
Delicious!
Yes: Write it down. Tattoo it on your arm (or elsewhere!): BILLY GIBBONS IS THE, MOTHERFUCKING, KING OF GUITAR TONE, PERIOD. 🤘🤘 🔥
--But: back to reiterating items about my initial point: Billy Gibbons is not just a tasty, technically proficient player (who, seemingly: "masquerades" that with his affinity for: rhythm, tonal texture, an ability to use melodic skill, 'teasing' and nuance in a seemingly "simplistic" manner (but: actually, be very nuanced and complex with it!😛😛), but
he uses textural (i.e.: "feel") elements in his sound design and composition. And he is, still, able to wring out the most soulful and directly emotional Texas Blues style runs, licks and riffs -in combination with some rather "neo-psychedelic," but always: "groove-oriented" or, at least: rhythmically-expressive/rhythmically-informed playing and choices.
Gibbons is a 100% bad-ass.
...then, again: EVERYONE in this band IS!!
Dusty Hill is a slyly deft bassist and Frank Beard is a player callable of: rock-solid groove, shifting, swing-y, yet hip-shakingly delicious grooves and timekeeping, as well as great nuance and complexity as well as: simplicity-without-boredom and directness and "lock-in" rhythm parts and syncopated flourishes, etc.
....Deguello is, also: a masterpiece of an album.
End-to-end delectable perfection. 🔥🤘🤘
[I used to get a lot of stares, some days, cruising around some neighborhoods, blasting: Deguello and P.E.'s Fear Of A Black Planet back-to-back, for hours-on-end; with my bud! (Imagine 2 long-haired, white, rocker dudes (no beards😜), in some nondescript, van (WITH windows! NOT some "may be captives inside" p.o.s.!!) ...Mostly in suburban N.J. or N.Y. -Well: in the early '90s, it, apparently, certainly, appeared so, to plenty🤷🤷😛-].
Deguello, also, was, something of a "comeback" album for ZZ
(Their prior outing: Tejas was something of 'a slip" for them. Not a very strong album (and, subsequently: also not very successful).
they took almost 3 years to let Deguello loose.),
After a nearly 3 year hiatus* ("two plus," as far as when they started recording.), from the public eye, ⚡during which they grew the beards which, then, became iconic. [Frank shaved his off. Billy and Dusty (obviously) kept theirs!].⚡
...They were, still, about 3-5 years away from their "new wave-ish" "reboot," with Eliminator (which led them into "the MTV-era" ...and garnered them a brand new audience (due to their innovative approach to/use of video-which many other bands (RIGHTLY, I.M.O.!) were eschewing or not using effectively, anyway!),
but Deguello brought them: a resurgence in their, established, fan-base. A greater interest from some new listeners.and a reiteration of the respect they had earned & garnered, from the press and music industry, over the previous decade(-"or-so").
It "cemented" them.
--Additionally [more "attached" "side-info."]: While a number of people assume that I grew-up with some, at least, "vague" (-well: MAYbe "vague!" Yes) understanding/comprehension of: Spanish (or, at least: "Spanglish"); because of where I grew-up.
I, in fact, did not.
...SO, I wasn't, even, certain that "Deguello" was an, actual, WORD!
...but over the years, I, finally, did look it up and discover that: Deguello, in fact, means: "beheading," en español. ...So you KNOW that ZZ were "serious" with this one! 😛😛👊
(although, because of ZZ's nature: although the word, itself is, inherently, threatening ...it MUST be perceived that: there IS some kind of humour (how EVER "odd" or "black"!) attached, in ZZ's use of it).
...But it was also, likely, something a message to their label: "...You don't let us do what we need to, we'll come for your heads; mfs!"
...Also: a message to any fans who knew what it meant: "This album will rock your balls."
😛😁🤘🤘
*Just "f.y.i.": For a majority of the '70s (certainly after, say shrug '73-or-so ??) it was almost standard for a band to release an album every 6 months. That's right! 2 a year! [see, for example: KISS' career, prior to '81 or '83 (I can't recall, exactly!)!)]!
At minimum: an annual LP! MINIMUM! ...any longer than that and you would be considered to be "slacking" or "cheating your fans" ...Labels had it standardized. 2 albums/year. ...in special cases: one.
...They didn't state getting "spaced-out" past: annually (one-a-year), until the later '80s or '90s.🤷
(People often bring-up: Def Leppard, but THAT was an ANOMALY!:
Pyromania hit in: 1983 (and broke them, HUGE!). Yes. Hysteria didn't appear on shelves until 1987.
However!: The REASON being (among a few other things!): drummer Rick Allen's New Year's Eve car crash, in 1984; resulting in him losing his left arm (It was, first, reattached, after the accident, but had to be amputated due to infection.), -He was inspired to get out of the hospital in only a month(-ish), although most physicians were telling him: "5-6 months, minimum."
It took him a year to, fully, "recover," but he had met the guy who would design & help build the specialized electronic kit for him, in hospital and started trying to play, again, within only a few weeks of his accident. ...I have never seen a time-line of when he, first sat at a kit and played anything successfully, after the crash, but: bu 1986, her was, back; playing live gigs with his mates in Leppard (Who had ZERO doubts about waiting for him and supported his return to the band, wholeheartedly and always. -Unlike what a LOT of groups might have done/decided!).
A pretty amazing story, all-in-all. (But, also: the insouciance of youth and the carelessness, practically, encouraged in rock stars.).])
...Anyhow: yeah: 3 years was a "long period" to go between albums, in the '70s, so: the period between Tejas and Deguello was considered "a major hiatus" for ZZ Top (At the time - although it may not appear that way, from a viewpoint from ...more recent times/"now."
Got it? 👍)
I know these guys made a lot of money on the Eliminator album, but for me? They peaked with Deguello
If you guys want to hear a beautiful guitar solo check out yo mama by Frank Zappa The solo is played on the guitar Jimmy Hendrix set on fire when he was on stage
I was fortunate to get to see them in 1990, 2016 and sadly two weeks after Dusty died in 2021. 😢
Even better: My aunt was at a dive bar in Dallas back in the 80's and Dusty Hill sat down next to her at the bar and they drank and shot the shit for three hours. I'm not jealous.
Btw! No, we don't wear suntan stocking s anymore. 😆
Was listening to this album today
Might be my favorite groove by them
In my opinion, this is ZZs best album. Everything before that it is great also, and most everything after deguello is 80s Comercial junk.
Have mercy
Wow you guys can’t miss. This one of best modern blues jams ever. Like from rokoplast is pure fire.
Give the Eliminator album a listen from the early 80’s. Lots of good ones on that one.
Deguello was, in my opinion, the last great album by these guys. Their 80's output was fun-time product with a few good songs here and there, but lacking in the bluesy, soulful spark that marked their output up to this point. I still have my vinyl copy of this to lean back on, scratches and all...
Great reaction bro as always! 🤘
Harry is right, Boston - Foreplay/Longtime will blow your mind.
Also waiting for your reactions to “Blue Jeans Blues”, “El Diablo”, “Sharp Dressed Man”….
Btw this whole album is 🔥
Damned straight! 🤘🤘
ZZ Top right before they stopped being "The Little Ol' Band from Texas" and became a much more pop-sounding blues/rock band, with synthesizers and fur guitars and back beats. Deguelo is an underrated album and this is a deeper ZZ Track but the OG fans know it well. Good choice, and glad you liked it! Also on this record are Cheap Sunglasses, I'm Bad I'm Nationwide, and a terrific cover of Sam & Dave's "I Thank You."
This album did not get anywhere near the credit it deserved !! This is one of those albums you set that needle down on track 1 and leave it alone ! I was a teenager when this album came out , I used to sit in my room and play this album for hours ! Ester be the one = another great song off this album !
Deguello is an awesome album...
I hope your wife doesn't see this vid and hear your comments today, otherwise you'll have to sleep in the living room tonight. Anyway, ZZ-Top makes very good blues-(rock), I love it. Best wishes @all from hamburg (germany)
I don't know about that. She might dig wearing some real stocking & a garter belt. There ain't a man alive who wouldn't love to see his woman in stockings & a garter belt.
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Hot, Blue, and Righteous is bad ass too. Mannnn I hated when they sold out and went pop. They were never the same IMO.
I'm glad those mainstream songs brought people enjoyment and gained ZZTop some new fans and a good living. I prefer the earlier stuff, but I like the "pop" stuff too. Plus their videos on MTV were much better than suffering through the ubiquitous crap like the Culture Club, Wham and Madonna.
That's a good one. You can't go wrong with that little ol band from Texas.
I always liked the song from that album called Lowdown in the Street. It wasn't a big hit but it should've been.
Lowdown in the Street ends up as a Party on the Patio!
Give a listen to them doing Blue Jean Blues if you haven't already.
Would be great if you guys would comment on "Lowdown in the Streets" from this album.
Was raised on FANDANGO.
nasty dogs and funky kings
Deguello is the tune Santana played at the Alamo. No Quarter.
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...But how could one be so thoughtless to try
And handle less than two?...
Tellin' u guys...wanna go to church? Try their "Hot, Blue, and Righteous" or "Have You Heard?"
You'll think you're back in church listenin' to the gospel getting preached!
I'm a fool for ZZ Top. BTW, the Deguello is the Death Song that General Santa Ana played before he and the Mexican Army made their final assault on the defenders of The Alamo.
Nuther good reaction fellas.. "i thank you" is another good zztop tune..not sure what album it was on maybe tres hombres👍👍
I Thank You was on Deguello, as well.
The Reverend Billy F. Gibbons on geetar
Deguello is their best album for me
Sounds like gritty Steely Dan.
You can tell Billy was influenced by a black family housekeeper who took him to black blues clubs when he was young.