@@jcbulldog533 I love Rush but Neil Peart replaced John Rutsey in 1974. They went through several configurations before that too before arriving at the classic lineup of Geddy, Alex and Neil. My comment regarding ZZ is that it's been only the same three guys for 50 years. ✌😷
@@robertsaul234 Yeah,I kinda knew their was another drummer before Neil I believe in the documentary they said he had some health problem & died very young... Glad to hear you Love Rush,you have excellent taste in music. Us Rush Fans stick together!!! Lol
ZZTOP... same three guys recording and touring together since 1969... I particularly love their first 7 albums... Billy Gibbons is one the best and most respected rock guitarists in the world... and as a drummer I feel that Frank Beards drumming on those 7 albums is highly underrated... he was essential to their incredible groove!!
I went to one of their concerts in 1976 and could not believe how much awesome noise just 3 men could make. ZZ changed the face of music. They are legend.
Almost 50 yrs after this was recorded, and this is the BEST I've ever heard them play this blues classic. Best beards in the business and they still rock nasty!! 🔥🔥🔥
ScribeCash your reaction too ZZ Top, 'Lagrange', is priceless. Grand Pa going off, I was ROTF at that comment. But that's what you get when you listen to this little ole band from Texas. Billy Gibbons can play, no doubt about it, and that growling singing style just fits. Grand Pa, LOL !!! PEACE TO ALL!!!!!!!
I saw ZZ Top live at the JFK colusiem in Manchester NH 1974 live. I was 15 years old and snuck in for free with my buddy Duwy. They wore cowboy hats. Now at there age they keep the top covered so to keep down the shine.
This is what good Blues should be like; gritty, raunchy, and so raw it sounds elegant. This is the sort of blues jam session that you can usually hear in one of those sketchy, sleazy, honky-tonks in the Texas Panhandle, where things can get a bit dangerous, it's so hot in the club that everyone sweats; where they have to put up a chicken wire barrier between the band and the "patrons" (to catch the flying beer bottles) so the band can keep going with the great jam. I know, I've been there!
I watched this because I've watched this video a few times and I just had to see your reaction to this. Nothing fake about this, nothing commercial about this. It's just real people making real music and Stern getting a load off, cause its that damn good.
YES! More Rock ! Billy Gibbons hat??....Known as a nudu, or Bamileke beanie, it's been a staple of Gibbons' wardrobe for several years now -- ever since he gave his Stetson 10-gallon hat to the leader of the Bamileke tribe in Cameroon during a break while on tour with ZZ Top. Well, actually, it was more like a trade. Gibbons only handed over his cowboy hat after requesting one of the group's distinctive hats in return from the chief. "He came straight up to me and said, 'I like the hat,'" Gibbons told the London Telegraph, back in 2008. "I said, 'now, wait a minute.' I said, 'Chief, I'm from Texas. We do a little horse trading over these matters.'" Gibbons,, has been wearing a nudu hat ever since -
Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top was Jimi Hendrix's favorite blues guitarist. Billy got the funky sock hat from a homeless guy through a hat trade in more recent years. He almost always wears it when he performs these days. So that's the story on the hat. Bass guitarist, Dusty Hill recently passed away at 72.
Thanks for covering "La Grange". I live in Austin, about an hour and fifteen minutes from La Grange. And as one of the comments earlier stated he got that Nudu when he traded it for his 10 gallon hat while in Africa.
Sharp dressed man by zz top is great. Was even in tim Allen's first Santa movie I do believe. This song is on a bunch of stuff including armageddon with Bruce Willis
It's South Texas boogie. This came out when we where in high school. After Hendrix was ZZ Top. And Stevie Ray Vaughn also from Texas later on. Thanks to John Lee Hooker for the original boogie.
Nobody told you Scribe, because they wanted you to experience it for the first time in a way that was as close as possible as it was for those of us old enough to have been blown away similarly the first time we heard ZZ back in the day!! Stay well girl - and "Keep on Rockin'!!"
Frank isn't the original drummer, but he was the drummer for everything that made and kept them famous. Sometime in the early 1980s, after ZZ Top had been around 10 years and gotten rich and famous, Frank checked himself into rehab in the midst of a tour, causing people to speculate that the band would replace him. A reporter asked Billy and Dusty what their plans were without Frank, and Dusty said "I'm goin' fishin'."
I lost it at "Santa Claus is coming to town." So, the song's about a brothel in Texas called the Chicken Ranch, if you want some context for those lyrics. As for ZZ Top, they're a great Houston-based blues-rock outfit that really wears their influences on their sleeves. John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, guys like that. Another awesome song by them is "Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago," which flow together as one song and usually got played together on the radio.
It’s funny because I’ve been listening to ZZ Top my whole life because my mom always listened to them and I of course love them! They are great blues rockers, but now whenever I see the lead singer I always think of the show bones because he occasionally played the father of one the characters and he was awesome!
Yes! ZZ Top is beast, love your reaction. These guys are iconic for their sound and guitarist Billy Gibbons and bassist Dusty Hill's beards. Btw the drummer is the only one who has traditionally never worn a beard, his name is Frank Beard. Shout out to 409!
Hey, girl! Jimi Hendrix personally chose to give away two rings to two guitarists. One of them was ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons. The other was Tommy Bolin. Check out his opus called, "Post Toastee". It will be a ride!! Tell 'em Jimi sent ya!
The song was first recorded by accident when Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard were taking a break in the studio and they were just messing around with the riffs... that's what you missed by starting it one minute in on this video. Howard asked how did they come up with this song " La Grange " so Billy filled Howard in on how the song came to be. By the way the A in Grange in long ... like when you say the letter " A " ... now try it ... "La Grange" ... which is an actual very small town in Texas. I enjoy your reactions... and you're right... you are CrAzY! 👍👍😎 🤪🤪
I forgot to mention... if you want to know MORE about " That Little Ole Band from Texas/Z Z TOP... get on Netflix and watch the Documentary called... "That Little Ole Band from Texas- Z Z Top" ... it's worth checking out! Later Gator ... 👍👍😎
Young lady, you got me grinnin like a possum eating yellowjackets! Oh that hat. Yea that's ole Biily Gibbons, the SMOOTHEST old man out there. Don't nobody lay down the butter like Billy does. "Spread it on down, Pearly" And holy crap, Frank Beard, the drummer, plays a shuffle like no one else. Check out "Waiting For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago" and "Tush"
One of the best compositions that ZZ Top performed was Brown Sugar, in 1971. The lyrics and singing are good. You really get that Texas hometown feeling. But, the guitar work is great. You may want to react to it.
Got to see these guys in 99 (ish). I've seen many shows, but theirs was one of the best. They're better live than they are recorded. Something of a lost art these days.
ZZ Top, what more can you say! RIP Dusty, you touched my soul. I've seen several live performances (on RUclips) and notice Frank always has his eyes closed, doesn't look well, anyone know if there are any issues, I hope not. I'm a drummer and can play with my eyes closed but it's something usually not done during performance.
my uncle pulled into the chicken ranch [the place they talkin about in this song] parking lot with all us kids in the back seat, my mom and aunt too, they were so mad. i think it was a buffet restraunt at the time. i think we ate somewehere else across the street.
Yess, yesss, oldies, but GOODIES! Down home blues and rock, they've lived so very many lifetimes, and they just keep getting better with each one!!!, please do check out their repertoire of southern genius, La Grange came out when I was in junior high, when I was finally old enough in mid 1980's to go to their show (by the by these old dudes put on a show, let me tell you, brilliant), and by then they had even more hits, and albums under their belt, check out "Waiting on the Bus+ Jesus Just Left Chicago, its a combo plate of Rythm and Blues, quite the guitar riff on the latter, it'l hook you, then Cheap Sunglasses (at the show most everybody whipped out their sunglasses when they started that song, Sharp Dressed Man, Legs, I swear the guitar is insane, and the video is classic ZZ, they are showmen to be sure. Enjoy, your in for a ride,..Peace ✌
ZZ Top are a band that once they start you can never get enough of. RIP Dusty Hill you maybe gone but never forgotten
Never get tired of listening to the little Ole band from texas pass the pipe and turn it up
XXXACTLY
Yeah boy.
What? Are you on the Weed? Fuckin Weedhead!
Let me ask you one question can white boys not rock and do the blues because we all say and we love to save music
These guys have been doing this for 50 years
And 50 is almost the age of the song. 😉
No other band has done it with their original members.
@@robertsaul234 Yes, another amazing Band sure has!!! The amazingly Talented "RUSH" let's not forget
@@jcbulldog533 I love Rush but Neil Peart replaced John Rutsey in 1974. They went through several configurations before that too before arriving at the classic lineup of Geddy, Alex and Neil. My comment regarding ZZ is that it's been only the same three guys for 50 years. ✌😷
@@robertsaul234 Yeah,I kinda knew their was another drummer before Neil I believe in the documentary they said he had some health problem & died very young... Glad to hear you Love Rush,you have excellent taste in music. Us Rush Fans stick together!!! Lol
Another killer song. My Dad's favorite band when I was a kid. Since he's died, this band is very special to me.
It is so good to see younger people appreciate the instrumentation and musicianship of these older bands.
ZZTOP... same three guys recording and touring together since 1969... I particularly love their first 7 albums... Billy Gibbons is one the best and most respected rock guitarists in the world... and as a drummer I feel that Frank Beards drumming on those 7 albums is highly underrated... he was essential to their incredible groove!!
This is what you call your basic, against the wall TEXAS Rock & Roll, darlin'. And it's a pleasure to watch somebody enjoy it as much as you do. :-D
I went to one of their concerts in 1976 and could not believe how much awesome noise just 3 men could make. ZZ changed the face of music. They are legend.
Almost 50 yrs after this was recorded, and this is the BEST I've ever heard them play this blues classic. Best beards in the business and they still rock nasty!! 🔥🔥🔥
Stevie Ray Vaughn, Pride and Joy.... another Texas legend.
want to here something funny. the drummers last name is Beard, and he is the only 1 in the band that doesn,t have 1 lol, great reaction
That definitely made me chuckle
Three Beards from Texas
joe bennett at first I thought that was Fred on the drums! 🤣
"Santa Clause is coming to town" ROFLMAO. Perfect reaction.
Old, but great. Like AC/DC these old dudes have so no respect for boundaries. They are everywhere and loved all over the world.
Still one of the most talented bunches of musicians on earth
This was an amazing performance!!
Seen them twice , really great performers !
They have got the " Cool " facture squared .
The "sloppy drunk" bit stuck into the song is a quote from the Jimmy Rogers song "Sloppy Drunk" recorded in 1954.
I like when you sing "Ring My Bell" 😍🥰
grandpa's got a crocheted beanie called a nudu. loved him singing too.
His age matters? I'd say Billy's sheer ass-kickingness is the ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
ScribeCash your reaction too ZZ Top, 'Lagrange', is priceless. Grand Pa going off, I was ROTF at that comment. But that's what you get when you listen to this little ole band from Texas. Billy Gibbons can play, no doubt about it, and that growling singing style just fits. Grand Pa, LOL !!!
PEACE TO ALL!!!!!!!
Your big clap scared the shit out of me. Got earbuds in and on full volume. Thought it was the neighbour behind me.
Nice vid!
That little 'ol band from Texas. Great rabbit hole to dive into. These 3 guys have been delivering the funky blues for 50 years.
Lots of fun listening to music with you Sweety.
I saw ZZ Top live at the JFK colusiem in Manchester NH 1974 live. I was 15 years old and snuck in for free with my buddy Duwy. They wore cowboy hats. Now at there age they keep the top covered so to keep down the shine.
This is what good Blues should be like; gritty, raunchy, and so raw it sounds elegant. This is the sort of blues jam session that you can usually hear in one of those sketchy, sleazy, honky-tonks in the Texas Panhandle, where things can get a bit dangerous, it's so hot in the club that everyone sweats; where they have to put up a chicken wire barrier between the band and the "patrons" (to catch the flying beer bottles) so the band can keep going with the great jam. I know, I've been there!
SAW THEM in the "70's" , Those are shower caps their wearing! 🤣😁🐐🎸🔥
Hey it’s TEXAS! WE HAVE ROCK & ROLL SANTA CLAUSE! We special. ✌️🌲🌮🍺
So enjoyed watching your reaction. This is how music should make you feel.
If you like ZZ, you should look up Waiting For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago.
This was a great live performance By POPs (santa clause) Thes boys play every year at The LA County Fair in Aug-Sept
I watched this because I've watched this video a few times and I just had to see your reaction to this. Nothing fake about this, nothing commercial about this. It's just real people making real music and Stern getting a load off, cause its that damn good.
2 hrs east from La Grange. Been jammin’ this since 1977.
I can't believe I never saw this rendition before but that was pretty cool.
Legend has it that Billy Gibbons was the guitarist that Hendrix most feared.
ScribeCash, this is one of the greatest reactions I've ever seen!! You are FLY!
YES! More Rock ! Billy Gibbons hat??....Known as a nudu, or Bamileke beanie, it's been a staple of Gibbons' wardrobe for several years now -- ever since he gave his Stetson 10-gallon hat to the leader of the Bamileke tribe in Cameroon during a break while on tour with ZZ Top.
Well, actually, it was more like a trade. Gibbons only handed over his cowboy hat after requesting one of the group's distinctive hats in return from the chief.
"He came straight up to me and said, 'I like the hat,'" Gibbons told the London Telegraph, back in 2008. "I said, 'now, wait a minute.' I said, 'Chief, I'm from Texas. We do a little horse trading over these matters.'"
Gibbons,, has been wearing a nudu hat ever since -
Glad someone else knows what it is
There it is! The "409 Multi-Surface Cleaner" ! :)
I got to see ZZ Top play La Grange, in La Grange...it was amazing!!
Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top was Jimi Hendrix's favorite blues guitarist. Billy got the funky sock hat from a homeless guy through a hat trade in more recent years. He almost always wears it when he performs these days. So that's the story on the hat. Bass guitarist, Dusty Hill recently passed away at 72.
Thanks for covering "La Grange". I live in Austin, about an hour and fifteen minutes from La Grange. And as one of the comments earlier stated he got that Nudu when he traded it for his 10 gallon hat while in Africa.
At 19,Billy Gibbons & his original opened for Jimi Hendrix on one of Hendrix last tours!
Hi, love watching you being........cool. and feel the music :love.
That slap back delay on his guitar is everything. 🔥🔥🔥
Sharp dressed man by zz top is great. Was even in tim Allen's first Santa movie I do believe. This song is on a bunch of stuff including armageddon with Bruce Willis
... BIG CLASSIC ... BIG SOUND ... BIG RESPECT ....
It's South Texas boogie. This came out when we where in high school. After Hendrix was ZZ Top. And Stevie Ray Vaughn also from Texas later on. Thanks to John Lee Hooker for the original boogie.
Loved it. At least half of this was a added in jam.
You are so much fun to watch. So smart and so cute!
Nobody told you Scribe, because they wanted you to experience it for the first time in a way that was as close as possible as it was for those of us old enough to have been blown away similarly the first time we heard ZZ back in the day!! Stay well girl - and "Keep on Rockin'!!"
Hahaha. " Santa Claus is coming to town " doesn't get better than that
You know it’s on when those drums kick in
Love your reactions.
Frank isn't the original drummer, but he was the drummer for everything that made and kept them famous. Sometime in the early 1980s, after ZZ Top had been around 10 years and gotten rich and famous, Frank checked himself into rehab in the midst of a tour, causing people to speculate that the band would replace him. A reporter asked Billy and Dusty what their plans were without Frank, and Dusty said "I'm goin' fishin'."
The epitome of cool.Been together 50 years this year.Still killing it.
Try beer drinkers and hell raisers!🍺 🔥🤘👈✌️
I lost it at "Santa Claus is coming to town."
So, the song's about a brothel in Texas called the Chicken Ranch, if you want some context for those lyrics.
As for ZZ Top, they're a great Houston-based blues-rock outfit that really wears their influences on their sleeves. John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, guys like that. Another awesome song by them is "Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago," which flow together as one song and usually got played together on the radio.
It’s funny because I’ve been listening to ZZ Top my whole life because my mom always listened to them and I of course love them! They are great blues rockers, but now whenever I see the lead singer I always think of the show bones because he occasionally played the father of one the characters and he was awesome!
Custom knit caps, ooh, that would be a good zztop song title!
amen to zz and to you
Yes! ZZ Top is beast, love your reaction. These guys are iconic for their sound and guitarist Billy Gibbons and bassist Dusty Hill's beards. Btw the drummer is the only one who has traditionally never worn a beard, his name is Frank Beard. Shout out to 409!
Hey, girl! Jimi Hendrix personally chose to give away two rings to two guitarists. One of them was ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons. The other was Tommy Bolin. Check out his opus called, "Post Toastee". It will be a ride!! Tell 'em Jimi sent ya!
Three great ones to listen to are Sharp Dressed Man, Give me all your lovin', and Tube Snake Boggie. Thank you and Rock on girl.
The song was first recorded by accident when Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard were taking a break in the studio and they were just messing around with the riffs... that's what you missed by starting it one minute in on this video. Howard asked how did they come up with this song " La Grange " so Billy filled Howard in on how the song came to be. By the way the A in Grange in long ... like when you say the letter " A " ... now try it ... "La Grange" ... which is an actual very small town in Texas. I enjoy your reactions... and you're right... you are CrAzY! 👍👍😎 🤪🤪
Billy Gibbons is still jamming, he is so nice. We love Texas rocking blues.
I watched billy on an interview with dan rather. I believe it was a gift he recieved while visiting Africa.
“Love You’re Take Away!”
“I’d Be Sloppy Drunck”
I forgot to mention... if you want to know MORE about " That Little Ole Band from Texas/Z Z TOP... get on Netflix and watch the Documentary called... "That Little Ole Band from Texas- Z Z Top" ... it's worth checking out!
Later Gator ... 👍👍😎
Good Rockin for a couple of Texas boys ! Get er done.....Day iz OG's
"Yall didnt tell me Santa claus was comin to town"😂😂😂
You got soul sweetheart I think I'm falling in 💗
Young lady, you got me grinnin like a possum eating yellowjackets!
Oh that hat. Yea that's ole Biily Gibbons, the SMOOTHEST old man out there. Don't nobody lay down the butter like Billy does. "Spread it on down, Pearly"
And holy crap, Frank Beard, the drummer, plays a shuffle like no one else.
Check out "Waiting For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago" and "Tush"
Every hometown needs a band. My hometown has ZZ Top. My adopted hometown has Heart. I'd say I'm doing alright.
The song is about the bordello known as the Chicken Ranch. Dolly Pardon & Burt Reynolds did a movie about it. R.I.P D...
Y'all did not tell me Santa Claus was coming to town
Finally a good zz top reaction. Try "Brown Sugar" studio version if you want to here their soul for real.
"'Scuse me, we're just gonna have a little ol' Southern blues rock jam session here, hope you don't mind..."
Those 3 guys can make a lot of noise. 👍👍👍
All 3 members have been together for 52 years
They made great music videos in the beginning of the MTV era. Always great live shows too.
Not bad for a guy who turned 70 in 2020!!!!!
They are from my hometown Houston, Texas.
One of the best compositions that ZZ Top performed was Brown Sugar, in 1971.
The lyrics and singing are good.
You really get that Texas hometown feeling.
But, the guitar work is great.
You may want to react to it.
Got to see these guys in 99 (ish). I've seen many shows, but theirs was one of the best. They're better live than they are recorded. Something of a lost art these days.
ZZ Top, what more can you say! RIP Dusty, you touched my soul. I've seen several live performances (on RUclips) and notice Frank always has his eyes closed, doesn't look well, anyone know if there are any issues, I hope not. I'm a drummer and can play with my eyes closed but it's something usually not done during performance.
Legends!!!
Back in the day Grandpa Gibbons jammed with Jimi Hendrix and Jimi dug his guitar playing. Jimi even gave him one of his own guitars.
Billy Gibbons and the boys doin some Texas blue eyed soul 😎🎸
my uncle pulled into the chicken ranch [the place they talkin about in this song] parking lot with all us kids in the back seat, my mom and aunt too, they were so mad. i think it was a buffet restraunt at the time. i think we ate somewehere else across the street.
Yess, yesss, oldies, but GOODIES! Down home blues and rock, they've lived so very many lifetimes, and they just keep getting better with each one!!!, please do check out their repertoire of southern genius, La Grange came out when I was in junior high, when I was finally old enough in mid 1980's to go to their show (by the by these old dudes put on a show, let me tell you, brilliant), and by then they had even more hits, and albums under their belt, check out "Waiting on the Bus+ Jesus Just Left Chicago, its a combo plate of Rythm and Blues, quite the guitar riff on the latter, it'l hook you, then Cheap Sunglasses (at the show most everybody whipped out their sunglasses when they started that song, Sharp Dressed Man, Legs, I swear the guitar is insane, and the video is classic ZZ, they are showmen to be sure. Enjoy, your in for a ride,..Peace ✌
Billy Gibbons guitarist is referred to by his contemporaries as the "professor" referring to his ability on and knowledge of guitars
You look like you understand and appreciate the sub-riffs and tune-ism's the boys are throwing in - it goes over a lot of peoples heads........
a drummer so awesome they had to encase him glass!
My favorite band the bad ass boys from Texas
You’re my type of people 🤘🏼
Yeah Joe, u beat me 2 it about Frank Beard drumming !!!!! LMAO !!!!!
Waiting for the bus / Jesus Left Chicago
love it
Their song Cheap Sunglasses is awesome
You should react to all of the Live musical performances from the Howard Stern show. Legendary.
Traditionally, Billy Gibbons uses a Mexican peso coin that has been machined into the shape of a standard guitar pick.