The Big Interview Sneak Peek - Billy Gibbons, the ZZ Top front-man discusses his hit song "La Grange" with Dan Rather.
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@dallasharris89662 жыл бұрын
This guy has got to be the most humble , kind and coolest cats still around ! I have always been a fan, and now I really know why . Keep on rocking Billy Gibbons !!! 💯🇺🇸
@chrishagreen3988 Жыл бұрын
Met him twice 5yrs apart. He remembered me!! Really nice guy.
@dickJohnsonpeter Жыл бұрын
He has stuck to his "sauzage" theology.
@darrelljourdan3687 Жыл бұрын
I was a night manager at a 4 star hotel in Austin, back in the day. Billy was the first celebrity to stay at our hotel and he was a frequent guest.... often enough that we were on a first name basis. He is genuinely a nice man.... humble, down-to-earth, real guy. I recall one night where the group Heart was staying at our hotel and fans were all over the lobby trying to see them.. I'm sure he wouldn't know me from Adam today, but he left a lasting impression on me. Great guy.
@TuberOnTheLoose2 жыл бұрын
I saw ZZ Top three times back in the '70s. At one of their shows Billy Gibbons asked from the stage "what song is it you want to hear?" I yelled back "Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers," but every other living soul in the venue yelled "La Grange." I thought to myself "oh, yeah. That one's good too."
@cousineddie7898 Жыл бұрын
Billy's such a class act. Never angry, no profanity...can't beat that.
@wandajames143 Жыл бұрын
Mm but he sure know metaphors in songs! Tube snake Pearl necklaces
@revwillyg6450 Жыл бұрын
@@wandajames143old bands were better at saying it without saying it. Lol. Why my mom never confiscated my Kiss and AC/DC records I guess🤷♂️
@michaelcruz8312 Жыл бұрын
We all love Reverend Billy G, but no anger and profanity just means that ZZ have never really been put through the hardships of real life, because if that were the case, you would be able to tell. They have just been a well-oiled and reliable engine and road companion for decades.
@ahvavee3 жыл бұрын
Hearing the first notes of la grange at la grange just gave me goosebumps! ZZ Top is the best!
@IronStormtrooper3 жыл бұрын
same pal
@Stevo_Drums4 жыл бұрын
Billy F. Gibbons is just the coolest
@oychoppa Жыл бұрын
Billy and ZZ Top are Texas treasures never to be duplicated.
@patriot5526 Жыл бұрын
I had the opportunity to see ZZ Top along with Deep Purple, Alvin Lee, and others that I can’t recall, in Nuremberg Germany back in the early 80’s. At the time, Alvin Lee and Ten Years After were absolutely huge in Europe but ZZ Top blew them away.
@gfd2153 жыл бұрын
I met Billy Gibbons 2017 in the Europapark.He came to me and said:"A nice beard" .So my beard was happy about this compliment of this lucky man...we made fotos..
@ZootSuitCooter3 жыл бұрын
I was there, Fayette County Fair, what a night. I just live 20 miles from La Grange so that made it even cooler. RIP, Dusty, you will be deeply missed.
@Sleepy-xy8fq3 жыл бұрын
It was a good show, to bad there were issues with the volume that night. Leaving the grounds was also a bit of a challenge, but it was still a great time.
@ZootSuitCooter3 жыл бұрын
@@Sleepy-xy8fq Yeah, parking was sketchy with the busses, took us 2 hours to get back to the square. Interesting bit of trivia, there were more people at the concert than the entire population of Fayette County. LOL
@lmcdermott964 жыл бұрын
I met him last week and am embarrassed to say I didn’t recognize him at first just cause I didn’t wanna assume any older dude with a long beard was in ZZ Top and be wrong 😬 incredibly nice guy! One of the best and most egg on my face moments I’ve had in a while
@GreenGator944 жыл бұрын
Lol!
@djquinn11 Жыл бұрын
Uh huh. Sure.
@jerrydoubleday8619 Жыл бұрын
It was always a given If they were playing in my area I was at the show. I'm glad that I did! Some of the best shows and times in my young life! Thanx! To those three little ole boys from Texas! RIP Dusty Hill.
@RoadCaptainEntertain Жыл бұрын
On September 1, 1974, Texas rock band ZZ Top headlined a music festival at the University of Texas' Memorial Stadium in Austin. I was there and remember sitting in the Texas sun in that stadium and it was hot as hell....we left and walked west thru the UT campus to some burger joint on Guadalupe Street for cold sodas then went back for the rest of the concert. That was forty nine years ago.
@ErikLehnhoff Жыл бұрын
ZZ Top’s 1st Annual Barn Dance and BBQ. 80k in attendance. Bad Company(Jimmy Page played on encore) Joe Cocker Santana ZZ Top
@allanerickson5053 Жыл бұрын
I was there... and yes it was HOT as hot can get (drove up from Del Rio). Not enough water for that massive crowd. I was also there at "that shack outside LaGrange" back in 1971 - drove from Bergstrom AFB. And yes, there were a lot of nice girls there. I didn't see any chickens tho'
@DannyBrooks14 жыл бұрын
Billy Gibbons- the reason I started playing guitar. Love this guy! I hope to meet him someday.😊
@lucan3693 жыл бұрын
Never over plays and tone for days
@georgehuerta19904 жыл бұрын
I’m a born and raise Texas boy and I seen this band probably when I was 12 years old and have been a fan ever cents. I hope they go back Lagrange and play again I will definitely make my way there
@dougms9790 Жыл бұрын
We saw them at Fiddlers Green in Denver, yeah that many years ago and La grange is STILL the coolest song in the world.
@termsofusepolice Жыл бұрын
Wow... For all these years I always thought this song was a wholesome, old-fashioned tribute to the farmer's movement the Grange. Always imagined a bunch of old guys going to the Grange to have a beer and talk about crop prices. 😀
@vinyllpreviews9462 Жыл бұрын
I guess you didn't know what he was talking about.
@Old-dog-jams Жыл бұрын
It was called the chicken ranch. Dolly Parton made a movie about it. The best little whore house in Texas.
@mikentx57 Жыл бұрын
Glad ZZ Top was able to help you and others learn about some of our rich culture here in Tejas.
@neilreid2298 Жыл бұрын
Saw them live twice. Never saw a better show. Absolutely incredible- the music, lighting, sets, the band. COW Palace in the 80's.
@missymouse97546 ай бұрын
Say what you want, this Texan still has his polite speaking voice, his manners and his accent. The training growing up in the South lasts a lifetime. Great to see, Billy
@lucasmamidon3 жыл бұрын
I was working in La Grange at the time and it was insane.... They had to shuttle people to the fair
@1allspub4 жыл бұрын
BFG just might be the coolest cat since Elvis. :)
@eyellgeteven9928 Жыл бұрын
Sorry, but in my book he even out-cools Elvis.
@1allspub Жыл бұрын
@@eyellgeteven9928 😯
@ahthisisgood Жыл бұрын
What a gentle soul. Could listen to his stories for hours.
@williamweiss61282 жыл бұрын
Billy, genuine human. Original cool dude.
@1populist Жыл бұрын
I met Billy at the grocery store in suburban Minneapolis and he was the nicest most normal guy I could ever hope to meet.
@theressamurphy29963 жыл бұрын
He went to Lagrange, Tx to play "Lagrange"...how 😎😎😎😎
@fw1421 Жыл бұрын
I’ve been a fan of ZZ Top since the early 70’s and LaGrange is still one of my favorites. Billy is definitely one of the coolest guys out there. Hell I loved him appearing on the TV show “Bones”,and such a cool character too! Angela’s father was the guy that always kept Hodgson guessing.
@misplacedcajun23253 жыл бұрын
There is a LaGrange about 50 miles south of me (not in Texas). My brother moved there once and anytime that anyone we knew mentioned him being in LaGrange, we all sung about that shack outside LaGrange. True story.
@Mademoiselle_Co_ Жыл бұрын
I love this, he's beautiful! God bless Billy Gibbons & ZZ Top.
@samfrito3 жыл бұрын
Billy should have made Dan Rather do shots of whiskey before every question instead of just at the end.
@valerieellison2483 Жыл бұрын
When my husband and I took a trip to Texas, I told him we had to go to LaGrange.
@norachamberlain51874 жыл бұрын
Billy is awesome.
@kyleetie56087 ай бұрын
Wow! What a reception! ⭐️
@tomahawktom75953 жыл бұрын
I was there that night in Lagrange and it was awesome
@jimswordsnchords17593 жыл бұрын
Great story from a great musician.
@StratBurst923 жыл бұрын
Always been my favorite.
@arthurmurfitt76983 жыл бұрын
Billy Gibbons the ever pleasant diplomat...
@Johngonefishin2 жыл бұрын
Exactly, I met him 20 years ago and he has great people skills, I asked him lots of questions and he would wax on and not really answer much, but when he was done you felt really good about what he had just told you......
@lessevdoolbretsim3 жыл бұрын
I met Billy at Molly's La Casita in Memphis in about 1984 on Madison Ave. Right next door to Ardent studio.
@Vincent-fo7xp Жыл бұрын
The pinched harmonics on that goddamn solo are legendary..
@Tdub09113 жыл бұрын
Surprised it was only 35,000.
@CorePathway Жыл бұрын
So I’m in the army, FT Riley, circa 1986. My company is in monthly formation one Friday morning. The guy who just got off overnite duty went to his barracks room and fucking CRANKED La Grange. His window just so happened to be open. A-haw haw. Top lost his shit and screamed at someone to tell him to turn it off. La Grange always takes be back to that moment.
@bigpapi26584 жыл бұрын
Holy crap!!! He has EYES!!!
@PlanktoniusRex4 жыл бұрын
🙄🙄🙄
@GreenGator944 жыл бұрын
I actually first saw his eyes in person back in the 90's. I had never noticed anyone's EYES before, but his were absolutely gorgeous.
@hwanhee68963 жыл бұрын
😃
@Rocknranchman Жыл бұрын
ZZ Top is a part of Texas and always will be! RIP Dusty Hill 🙏
@Walter-dj3ip Жыл бұрын
Thank you Rev😎👍
@johnbehneman1546 Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I LOVE MY ROCK AND ROLL AND HOT ROD FAMILY!!!! SO MUCH FUN!!! I LOVE MY TEXAS FAMILY AS WELL. GREAT VIDEO AND THANKS FOR SHARING!!!
@paulpatton50934 жыл бұрын
Wish I’d have made that show, bet it was Epic !
@AmericanFlyOnTheWall Жыл бұрын
1970s. 1980s. La Grange, TX. Society Hill, SC. The Shack. The Trucker’s Motel. Any of you guys been to both?
@GreenGator944 жыл бұрын
Is there ANYWHERE you can see the entire show? Dan Rather has lots of great interviews but I don't get the channel and miss them. Being as ZZ is my favorite band, I'd really like to see all of it.
@sideswiped6874 Жыл бұрын
Billy; he's cool and smooth.
@maureencora1 Жыл бұрын
Great Song, Feel the Music.
@mckcpaul1 Жыл бұрын
The man has been cooking for 50 years now, just a guitar, base and drums, amazing what real music sounds like, nowadays, they can't make music without autotune, lip syncing and pre recorded sound from different instruments, let's no forget putting vinyl on a turntable and running it backwards, that takes a lot of talent, lmao!
@simoneric8183 Жыл бұрын
Yes it's after having listened to Billy that I dropped multiple chained pedal effects and just kept my guitar and my amp.
@jonginder5494 Жыл бұрын
This was the first rock n roll song that made me uncontrollably move.
@AuditingTexas Жыл бұрын
I don't live far from La Grange, I went and saw them when they came to La Grange.
@daniart81823 жыл бұрын
great interview! Billy Gibbons and Dan Rather
@williamrichardson23443 жыл бұрын
ok if you went and did this for LaGrange come to Galveston Tx and play Down at the Balinese for us we love you guys here and we will miss Dusty God rest his soul ...but he said it his self the show must go on ...R.I.P.Dusty ...the Balinese Room is no longer there on the seawall ...but the memories are still here ...
@dennymk64544 жыл бұрын
main la grange riff is real close to a J L Hooker riff. the "how, how, how" lyric is Hooker too
@rickkoleyahoocom4 жыл бұрын
John Lee Hooker is "real close" on lots of good music.
@leemaples18064 жыл бұрын
watch canned heat at woodstock. one song they do is that main riff.
@TheVatonaught3 жыл бұрын
Glad someone else knows this ! I was hypnotized by the riff back in the 1950;s...
@BlueLou9743 жыл бұрын
Réal close...
@scottgoodman89933 жыл бұрын
You will note that rock and roll is maximum R+B, pedal to the metal, blues fancified, as it were.
@WaywardTexan5 жыл бұрын
..."I hear it's TIGHT most every night"....
@andreasglumm3 жыл бұрын
I think Iwas 12 years old when the radio DJ played the new 45rpm-single from a band from Texas, zz top, a song called La grange or, how he said in french, very dark and ungemütlich,"La Grange'", he didnt really know..
@joelewishenry7886 Жыл бұрын
Legend.
@mrpentium3 жыл бұрын
I heard that after the notoriety of the song, they had to shut the "house" down. People were not happy bout that
@BamBam_PDX Жыл бұрын
Billy Gibbons shaved my friend’s beard after a soundcheck at a show.
@shahenohanjanyan3545 Жыл бұрын
I like this interview (not the fragment bat like while Big Interview) so much
@revwillyg6450 Жыл бұрын
Such a cool guy. A class act
@jbusta8548 Жыл бұрын
Class!
@Johngonefishin2 жыл бұрын
Ah-how-how-how ............... Billy got that from John Lee Hooker
@Challender3 жыл бұрын
G We Thank you!
@jonnyrox1163 жыл бұрын
Surprised he didn't mention the most infamous establishment in La Grange, none other than the Chicken Ranch!
@MaverickOrtaeo13 жыл бұрын
That's technically what he was talking about without actually mentioning it
@jonnyrox1163 жыл бұрын
@Stephen Beck-von-Peccoz I didn't hear either of them mention it specifically
@goatuscrow4135 Жыл бұрын
It’s cool that ZZ has a top singer.
@tvs34973 жыл бұрын
Well, damn, I thought he was talking about La Grange, Georgia.
@bikersoncall3 жыл бұрын
ha ha... so cool, you're going to love the end of this clip.. 😎😎😂😅😀
@donaldlococo954 Жыл бұрын
Every time I drove from Houston to Austin, I had to stop in La Grange at the MacDonalds to pee. Never bought a thing.
@jonathanholbrook6300 Жыл бұрын
Best song by ZZ- Girl in a tshirt
@danlamay7035 Жыл бұрын
There's boys being boys, then there's Texas Boys.🍻
@m444ss Жыл бұрын
musical genius
@tomlehr861 Жыл бұрын
Very intelligent,we do lagrange in our band
@Torpedomtb Жыл бұрын
LaGrange also exist in North Carolina
@Cancun7713 ай бұрын
He strangely reminds me of my late Godmother. Her cooking was about as good as his guitar playing.
@aarfeld Жыл бұрын
What, Billy, no mention of Slim Harpo's "Shake Your Hips"? That's what the riff is really based upon.
@aarfeld Жыл бұрын
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@aarfeld Жыл бұрын
^ Check it out.
@Dirtboxhor3 жыл бұрын
There’s also a LaGrange Kentucky. Not much there but a prison.
@ACDZ123 Жыл бұрын
I'm a born and bred Australian tru blu...but I identify as a Texan yee haw 🇦🇺🇺🇲
@Carstensenson Жыл бұрын
someone please tell me about Billys hat..
@glenchapman3899 Жыл бұрын
Its called a Nadu - Billy was gifted it after swapping his old trade mark Stenson with a tribal leader in Cameroon
@ogopogo13523 жыл бұрын
RIP
@brucemorton77873 жыл бұрын
RIP Dusty
@Ariesmount Жыл бұрын
Great song. Great guy. Great band. It’s a shame nothing was mentioned about how much was stolen from the Rolling Stones’ Shake Your Hips, released just a few years earlier.
@Bikewithlove Жыл бұрын
Nope - it’s an old blues style riff called ‘hill country blues,’ which has its roots in African music - long before the earliest American blues artists. Music styles aren’t taboo to copy. It’s like the waltz - Rush didn’t ‘steal’ from Strauss when they wrote La Villa Strangiato - they just played a waltz. Same here - ZZ Top played a basic, garden-variety hill country blues riff, just like the Stones did - and many others. It’s called ‘style.’
@Ariesmount Жыл бұрын
@@Bikewithlove You obviously haven’t heard the Stones song which I refer to. Theft.
@Bikewithlove Жыл бұрын
@@Ariesmount - Oh - I thought for a second you weren’t an idiot.
@billjordan3639 Жыл бұрын
Slim Harpo
@Queso_YT73 ай бұрын
❤
@funnyharleyman3 жыл бұрын
Lordy, I'd love to sit and chat and do a shot of tequila with this guy!
@mr.smithgnrsmith7808 Жыл бұрын
Have gotten extremely stoned several times with Mr.Gibbons….my pops is buddies with his guitar tech and when they come around Maryland we always eat crabs and smoke some weed…Billy is even cooler in person
@renafielding9452 жыл бұрын
La Grange was next county over from Brenham. The Chicken Ranch.
@steelers6titles Жыл бұрын
And the tin to get yourself there.
@garricksands844 Жыл бұрын
But where did the Riff come from? Let's not talk about that.
@metrichotrods1763 Жыл бұрын
...that Texas town
@rhutch32775 жыл бұрын
Rumor has it that drummer Frank Beard did NOT play drums on the track "La Grange". Anyone have any thoughts?
@johnmonroe73785 жыл бұрын
Rick's Music Videos There's a fella on here from Memphis, who said "Rube" was " not studio reliable". I was stunned, because Frank Beard is a world class percussionist of the highest order. He may work at Ardent.
@mattwood28725 жыл бұрын
Interesting. I've seen and heard it live many times and it never swung like it did on record
@carywest92564 жыл бұрын
That is about in the same vein as saying Crockett surrendered to the Mexicans at the Alamo!!! I am from Harris county,Texas also like Rev. Billy F.Gibbons. Dusty is born and raised in Dallas,Texas. Frank was born in Frankston,Texas.That is in Anderson country-East Texas, but raised in Irving.
@masterofdrones72874 жыл бұрын
I would jump in here and suggest that you are confusing "La Grange" with "Eliminator'-era ZZ. Neither Frank nor Dusty play a single note on the Eliminator album. It is ALL Drum machines and sampled synth Basses. It was a Billy Gibbons solo record that the Warner insisted was the new ZZ product. Frank almost left when he was told that it was the new album. But then the $$$$ would have proved VERY persuasive. ZZ never sounded the same when they started using clicks and samples. Frank Beard was/is an AWESOME and underrated Drummer. Unique Grooves. And who could forget when Billy removed the original drums from the 70s records and replaced them with samples? They were all you could buy on CD for 10+ years.
@rhutch32774 жыл бұрын
@@masterofdrones7287 I assure you I am not confusing "La Grange" from the Tres Hombres Lp with ANYTHING from Eliminator. I have read about this in several different places. Whether or not it is true is quite another thing. Which is why I posed the question.
@paulsmodels Жыл бұрын
Great song for sure but going to those concerts are crazy. I'd rather hear the music and the song than thousands of sreaming people in the audience.
@Bolt_theG35 Жыл бұрын
RIP Dusty Hill
@maxpuppy963 жыл бұрын
Billy is a Diva of rock and roll
@eyellgeteven9928 Жыл бұрын
Billy is NOT a "diva".
@tomcooper6108 Жыл бұрын
LA Grange was lifted directly from Canned Heat's 'Refried Boogie' released in '68, which was lifted from John Lee Hooker's 'Boogie Chillin' which was released in '48. Nothing original about La Grange.
@buttneked39633 жыл бұрын
Hey kids, the Cat in the shami cap is Cool. Play guitar like this guy and you’re automatically cool. All the girls love the cool dude.