SO TOUGH!| FIRST TIME HEARING ZZ Top - I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide

[@robertcrawford1791]

If you like this bluesy ZZ Top I highly recommend Waitin for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago. You need to listen to them together.

[@charlielightfoot7006]

Too late. They already didn't do that.

[@brianhardy612]

Yes! They go together.

[@LMMeliteVGS]

Definitely waiting for the bus/ Jesus just left Chicago soo good 🤘

[@michaellamb9596]

THIS!!

[@lightin2]

OR blue jean blues

[@TonyM1961]

Pearl Necklace, Cheap Sunglasses, Tube Snake Boogie, Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers and Blue Jeans Blues will get you well started down this decades long rabbit hole. RIP Dusty

[@kylespence9060]

One of my favorite songs of theirs along with cheap sunglasses, la grange, sharp dressed man, Mexican blackbird

[@Hobodeluxe007]

careful with Mexican Blackbird. some people take it wrong and think it's racist.

[@Jen-in-Texas]

Cheap Sunglasses is a great one.

[@kylespence9060]

@@Jen-in-Texas I like the flow of the song and the lyrics

[@rarelycares8416]

Add "TV Dinners" to that list.

[@kylespence9060]

@@rarelycares8416 I forgot about that one

[@kennydunlap817]

A New York brim is not a Yankee cap it is a fedora

[@patriciamonsivaiz3305]

As a native Houstonian, I can proudly say that ZZ Top can do nothing wrong!! They have an extensive catalog of music spanning decades and have remained true to their Texan blues roots. Some folks may dog them for becoming more commercial in the 80s MTV era but that just shows how versatile and fun they are. It just added another dimension to their sound. They're right to claim that they're bad. They're nationwide! RIP Dusty Hill

[@kennydunlap817]

Yes I agree legs would be a very good one for your next ZZ Top reaction!

[@elizabethfranco1284]

People they did Legs already it was their second one.

[@shack8110]

YES ALREADY DONE - AND AT LEAST REQUEST ZZ TOP'S BEST SONGS, STAGES AND UNDER PRESSURE.

[@donjackson5522]

@@shack8110 Love Stages. I remember on the Afterburner tour when they played Stages, the entire stage transformed from the Ford dashboard to the space shuttle cockpit. Great show. But they need to do Sleeping Bag first so Stages video will make more sense.

[@mikecasper4203]

This band came out and took the whole world by storm.

[@maryellenazack4466]

Nasty tunes ! 🤠😎❤️

[@HanginLeoFrank]

I don't know if I misunderstood your comment. They didn't get world-renowned recognition until 13 years after their first album. Their first album was in 1971.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@HanginLeoFrank ZZ was well-known in Europe in the 1970s.

[@msj2677]

ZZ Top was our cruising music!🚗

[@surlechapeau]

Jay & Amber, you'll love their "Legs" and "Tube Snake Boogie" !!! edit - saw them June 1986.

[@Guildofarcanelore]

Tube steak boogie! Gotta see them react to that!

[@michaelmcgillivray1624]

Pearl Necklace 😊

[@aaradia]

Tube Snake Boogie is my absolutely favorite song by them! That should be their next ZZ Top reaction for sure! Needs to be the album version.

[@GambitXFactor]

I saw them Sept 86 in Nurnberg Germany

[@richardcurtis5281]

​@aaradia I've got a girl who lives on the hill. She won't do it but her sister will. Do the boogie! Do the tube snake boogie! Great song!

[@stevelaconte8802]

Driven while blind is another great song. Saw them many times back in the day and was never disappointed.

[@stevenbaggett6549]

'Driving' while blind. One of my favorite too

[@thejudge3715]

@@stevenbaggett6549 Actually, it's "Arrested For Driving While Blind".

[@mikemerck5701]

Another great record Tejas

[@APaganPerspective]

grew up on this.. love Classic ZZ Top

[@johnboydTx]

Stevie Ray Vaughan opening for ZZ Top in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas Texas 🤔 🤘🤠 Helluva Concert ...🍻✌️❤️

[@charlielightfoot7006]

I saw them in San Bernardino's Swing Auditorium with opening act KISS! That was circa '73.

[@unclefuggly7149]

Fantastic! We saw them when Deguello first came out with 38 Special opening! So cool!

[@deanegger2396]

Beer drinkers and Hell raisers, Tush, Cheap sunglasses, the bluesy Precious and Grace are all great songs. ZZ Top, good old Tejas rock.

[@Meyzen76]

“Pearl Necklace” 💦 A ZZ Top Classic!

[@fionnmaccumhaill3257]

Their Elvis cover of "Viva Las Vegas" on this album is worth a spin!

[@christopherayers4416]

Absolute GOLD!!!

[@karlsmith2570]

Viva Las Vegas featuring Dusty Hill on lead vocals

[@GBuds_RVremodel]

Ive seen them live 4 times..."Cheap Sunglasses" still makes me smile. My favorite album is their first 9...I've got all those on vinyl and on a cd set

[@robertlassiter907]

Saw them live at the Miami Hollywood Sportatorium back in 81. They were really something in their prime. My ears rang for days afterwards.

[@CinShiba]

Dang man, I miss my childhood/teenage years. Best music ever, and it was ALL talent, no auto tune.

[@motrock2]

This was on rock radio ALL the time when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s. Can't go wrong with ZZ Top!

[@alissageorge5679]

I went to their concert in the 90s. It was a very good show. Very talented.

[@2869may]

Me too, in 90 at the Cotton Bowl, with Santana and Steve Miller.... Great show...! ZZ Top sounded almost studio quality.

[@Hobodeluxe007]

I saw them a half dozen times over the years. always a great show. last time was with Elton John of all people. The first time I saw them was in Tennessee and Billy had an Abe Lincoln suit on with the big hat and all, guitar slung way down low they had an actual buzzard on a tree stump, snakes, a jack ass and other props on the stage. Last time was all lasers and dancing girls and a huge recycler set built. Always ,always a great show.

[@quinnlafleur6533]

Billy Gibbons (lead singer) also is featured on Nickleback “rock star”. He is so cool!

[@cjpew]

and please react to Nickelback some day!

[@raymondohlsen5054]

He also had a reoccurring role on the TV show Bones.

[@eddievantrollen3459]

My favorite ZZ Top song!!!

[@Shan-5544]

I bought this album a very long time ago. ZZ TOP KICKS SOME SERIOUS HARD ASS ! I love these cool as hell guy’s, been out to em for a very long time and damn proud of it. 👿😎 There is no other band like ZZ Top !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼.🔥. 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼

[@TheCoverless]

Been your fan for like 2 years or so, and just gotta say that I LOVE the way Amber rocks out and can't hold still to a groove,... and then she sneaks a look at Jay, makes a smirk at his jam, and carries on with jigging it! ❤💯💥 Trust you and the kiddo's are well!! Edwin.

[@DonP_is_lostagain]

This song always pulls up a memory of the time I was in Cleveland on a business trip. Somehow I hooked up with 4 flight attendants from the Carnival Cruise lines. We were rolling down to downtown Cleveland, and I was driving and this song came on, and when the lyric, "I had a fine fox in front, there was 3 more in the back" I had the biggest smile on my face.

[@paulcrehan4710]

“ I want to thank you” is a cool jam

[@richardkint6531]

Great pic from ZZ Top. I saw them about 10 years ago with Tom Petty & The heartbreakrs. What a double bill that was! Gotta get some more earlier tunes from them like "Cheap Sunglasses" ,"Jesus Just Left Chicago" & "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers". Thanks.😎

[@AI_Surfer]

'Stages' from the 80's era ZZ Top is a great listen.

[@cosmiccowboy7764]

First song of the First Album -Somebody Else has been Shakin’ your Tree. Great introduction to that Lil Ol Band from Texas!!!🤠🎼🎶🎼

[@jameskirschling7887]

As I said in the Who reaction, you have made my night tonight. I have been trying to get people to react to this song for the longest time. I was pretty sure you would like it. I had the good fortune to see them perform live in 1979, I can still picture it listening to certain songs like this one. The other night I had to drive to town, a bigger town, that is about a thirty to forty five minute drive. This song came on during the trip. I was cruising and singing along like I nobody's business.

[@wompa70]

To me, a “New York brim” is like a fedora. A fancy Indiana Jones hat. Not a Yankees ball cap.

[@donrichter3523]

It’s the usual hat he wears

[@ronstoner1823]

My first ZZ Top concert was back in 83, the year I graduated highschool. I'd been a huge fan of theirs for many years before. Still my favorite band of ALL TIME!

[@jerrygentry2348]

New York Rim was the style on men's hats in the early 1900's when men wore hats. It was a song written for a blues musician Billy was friends with: "This song was inspired by Texas blues musician named Joey Long, who was good friends with the band. As Billy Gibbons tells it, Long didn't have a driver's license, but he always had new Cadillac that his beautiful wife Barbarella used to drive him to gigs."

[@mattjohnson7725]

Can’t stop rocking and my head is in Mississippi is a must from ZZ

[@myownchannel247]

Beer drinkers and hell raisers! 🍻🔥

[@kdm71291]

One of their coolest songs!

[@grendelz]

this is my favorite ZZTop song. That bass-line is it.

[@garyhackett6393]

Quite possibly the greatest opening lyric in rock.

[@RicoCosta317]

My fave ZZ Top song. Thank you!

[@maddieme69]

Love La Grange by ZZ

[@TobyDoak-us8pi]

From the great "Deguello" album (1980), the whole album is all killer, no filler! Top to bottom some fun and funky blues/rock!

[@77tml]

This song represents the ZZ Top persona.

[@brooklynnicole9236]

The bass really thumps in sweet way here. RIP Dusty Hill

[@scottangel6462]

I saw them in concert and was blowed away!! ZZ has always been one of my favorites. Pure Texas Blues at its finest!!

[@Gordy63]

My all time favorite ZZ Top song! So much swagger and attitude, and good old fashioned Texas blues rock 🤘

[@Kitch-hu7tm]

"Tube Snake Boogie" is a must.

[@djl9919]

this is my favorite ZZ Top tune. Rock on Rob Squad

[@russwalker3119]

great band, I have seen them in concert 4 times from the 70's to the 90's, never unsatisfied, so good

[@Prone2Thrill]

Billy is criminally underrated - guitar/riffs and vocal wise. R.I.P. Dusty - pop says hi!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Underrated? Since when?

[@timothygarrett2785]

I saw them live with my two brothers who unfortunately passed away, in Toronto Canada. It was an amazing show and that was back in the 80s.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

I saw them at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1990!

[@RandyPeterson]

You can't play Rock & Roll on a Les Paul! Billy Gibbons: Hold my beer.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

That feedback note at 5:35 is just NAZZTY.

[@guidosarducci]

"Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers" and "Under Pressure" will really get you fired up...

[@chrino21]

I get the feeling that when it came time to do the guitar solos in the studio, Billy Gibbons said, “Just roll the tape - let me do a little sumthin’” After they loved it, he said “I’ll do another one if ya want - I’ll do a thousand, but they’ll all be great.”

[@zacharygentle6548]

The end of this song is the most epic jam ever

[@TracyfromNC]

A fantastic song😊😊😊😊

[@jennyjenny4501]

ZZ Top crushes it every time! Gun Love and Pearl Necklace are songs you should check out!

[@frankmarx8997]

Great reaction, this is one of my favorite ZZ Top songs.

[@zzdaveo]

So here in Tulsa, KMOD radio sponsored the eliminator concert in like 1984. It sold out so quickly, KMOD radio was able to get a second show. Back then radio stations had more influence. Was a great show at the Tulsa Civic Center.

[@mikemiller3069]

Probably my favorite ZZ Top song (and I've covered it, along with others).

[@cheekymonkey444]

Little trivia: Frank Beard (drummer) is the only member clean shaven!

[@leomagitz2321]

That ending was 🔥!!!

[@Cthulusburrito]

ZZ Top is such a great band, favorite has to be Waitin for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago

[@trainer23389]

Yes! Thank you for this!

[@GregVball]

I saw them in concert last month - they friggin rocked it!

[@magnificentfailure2390]

My mom had a beastly '71 Coupe de Ville when I was 16 (1980). I was cruising down the boulevard one night when this song came on the radio and I had it cranked, windows down and just digging the groove. A '75 Pontiac pulled up next to me at a light and the four brothers inside were digging the jam. The fellow sitting on the front passenger seat looked over at me and said "The partay next to us be digging the blues." I felt validated.

[@MikeEnglund-ih1zh]

The album this is from is called Deguello. More bluesy than most of their records.

[@marko6320]

This was right before they started using synthesizers.

[@77skipsskippernic]

Bout damn time!! Love this song.

[@dandankovic3827]

Cheep sunglasses is a must hear classic

[@MrScottsearles]

RIP Dusty!

[@beernmetal6964]

They've been around long enough to have Jimi Hendrix tell Billy he has the best guitar tone he ever heard. It's crazy it took until the 80s for their heyday. I remember somewhere around the late 80s someone spray painted "Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers" in big letters on the South Houston water tower. Likely a sensible reminder to everyone that they had earlier albums than Eliminator.

[@rosssmith4748]

My first listen to ZZ Top was in 1972 with an 8-track tape called Rio Grande Mud. The song "Francine" had been playing on the AM radio in my '66 malibu and I had to have it. Wore that tape out. Go listen to some older ZZ Top.

[@nataliespiker4656]

I heard this a few years ago in concert . Dusty's 2nd to last concert. It was so good

[@RichjojoCehura]

Im 63..grew up in LA. And have seen a ton of bands. I went to a zz top concert..I have never seen 14 thousand people dancing during this concert. It was amazing and sooooo much fun. 😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@christopherwinkler4451]

Billy Gibbons is rarely mentioned in conversations about great rock guitarists, but he should be. He's terrific, a master of blues based rock guitar and pick harmonics.

[@leroywolf5819]

Back door love affair, the ultimate Zztop song, I seen ZZtop more times then i should have. 1983 when 38 special opened up them we was 6 ft away from the stage ( Butte Montana civic center) I lost my hearing for 3 days all I could hear was buzzing.

[@switchfoot8702]

Love that song, was wondering why hardly anyone reacting to it, love the killer bass riffs, well done guys!

[@williamyates694]

Have always loved ZZ. I would have to say however, I'm a bigger fan of everything PRE Afterburner album. Still got every album they put out and there is always something great on every album. But nothing beats the 70s and early 80s ZZ. This is one of those GREAT songs in their catalog! Billy should be talked about as one of the greatest blues players of his day. Underrated isn't a strong enough word.

[@ThurstonDrunk]

Completely agree, I liked the early stuff that was more bluesy and less poppy. A cassette with Deguello on one side and El Loco on the other was one of my favorite cruising tapes back in the day.

[@chrisoakley5830]

I know the stuff on Afterburner is a departure for them, but I really like the record.

[@tomcurtis8431]

Saw them at The Tennessee State Fair in Nashville when I was stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky back in the summer of 1974 with Lynyrd Skynyrd playing before ZZ Top. Killer concert. It was the lone time I saw ZZ Top but I saw Skynyrd two more times prior to their tragic plane crash.

[@kateg7298]

I love when that little old band from Texas kicks it into 5th gear in the breakdown. Damn we miss you here in Kemah, Dusty. You're a legend.

[@allenlocke1935]

This is just one of their many best 🔥

[@ChuckRagland]

TUSH!! And Rough Boy!! AWESOME ZZ Top songs!!😃

[@Molasar54]

I saw them live in KC in 1972, It was their first tour and no one knew who they were. They were the opening act and blew people away. Middle band was Rammatam who had a female guitarist and the headliner was Humble Pie. They did their Rockin the Fillmore set. They were something to see. Good old days.

[@jjr007]

Love this, their best for me!

[@piedmontish]

You just gotta smile every time you hear them!

[@Bowhunters6go8xz6x]

Awesome song choice, "Sharp Dressed Man" is also excellent

[@chrisoakley5830]

ZZ Top were the link between old blues music and modern Rock.

[@geob3963]

Songs with great drums Beck - Chemtrsils Flaming Lips - Are You a Hypnotist ZZTop - It’s Only Love Beat Farmers - Make It Last Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin’ Beats Fear Factory - Fog Day Sunrise Cars - Gimmie’ Some Slack Rage Against the Machine - Down On the Street Soundgarden - Fresh Tendrils Jane’s Addiction - Stop

[@donalddixoninlou]

You STILL need to do "TV Dinners". C'mon guys!!!

[@billyselman6371]

First time I seen ZZ Top, they played in my high school auditorium March 1970 in a suburb of Houston, Texas. They just formed the group 3 or 4 months earlier. It cost us $3 to attend the concert. Seen them several times since then. At that time they only had a minor regional hit, “Salt Lick.”

[@mikemerck5701]

One of my favorite tunes from a great record Deguello

[@texadan314]

Love it of course. That guitar riff sounds like Lightnin' Hopkins.

[@kallsop2]

Another great that takes me back to high-school in 1979. This was a must have album then. Great reaction, thanks from a fellow Sooner.

[@stuntmankrocmcginty4896]

Spent over a week in Texas in my truck. Dallas, Laredo, Houston. Dallas up to Wichita and back. Just went from Dallas up to Muskogee and Joplin. Perfect driving music, especially in those places. Red River, like you said.

[@markbenedict1295]

Check out "Ten Dollar Man" off their Tejas album.

[@GatorScribe726]

Tejas is the classic album hardly anyone talks about.

[@jhood758]

We saw ZZ TOP New Years Eve several years ago at the Tarrant County Convention Center in Ft. Worth Texas. Billy Gibbons played Auld Lang Syne on his electric guitar. Kind of a Jimi Hendrix... experience. They were great but only played about 45 minutes.

[@TurkeyVol]

Been waiting for this one!

[@MrEriczamorez]

Zz Top is something else! Highly recommend Sleeping Bag, Thug, Legs, Sharp Dressed Man...all of them are 🔥.

[@NeverGiddy]

Pre-commercial ZZ Top is always the best choice, that's any and all music they recorded before, "Eliminator".

[@ronnieleverette2376]

I have another blues artist that I believe Jay will love. Little Milton is his name and the song in particular is (Walking the back streets and Crying). Little Milton is in the mold of B B and Albert King. Another song by Johnnie Taylor you may like is Everything's Out in the Open. Another Little Milton song is The Blues Is Alright. Some other blues artist you may like is Mel Waiters and Ronnie Lovejoy.