ZZ TOP - El Diablo - 1980 *re-upload 

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what studio version do you mean by that though? there's like at least 2 clearly distinguishable, but i believe to be 3 different cuts of album versions i found out throughout the years. i like the one where the real crazy bassdrum bounce on the last bridge riff is super pronounced and the outro is stretched out way longer, it's a bit dryer on the guitar parts too, you can hear every little ghost snare in the drumming part on that end part, it's by far the superior version to me, that drum part on the end of that version is very dear to me and i need it for my fix. (that version is also on the chrome smoke & bbq collector) but i found later versions (released before that collector though) have more pronounced chorus, and a reverb/slapback effect on top of it that's nearly undetectable in the other version, sounds a bit wetter and less tight in the rhythm department as a result of it, and the effects drown out the drum parts a lot more. the ghost snares are almost completely drowned out, i suspect they may have had several producers have a go at the same already laid down tracks it at some point. 3rd one is like the 2nd one, but a tamer in the high ends, convinced it's just a remaster of that 2nd version, and nothing else, but as it's more gated and tamed, it dampens the fat layer of effects a bit too, it's unfortunately usually the one you find first, fuck anything but the dry version.

@@dutchdykefinger You are talking about the Sixpack remixes. They are universally reviled. The drums on First Album/Rio Grande Mud/Tres Hombres/Fandango (studio half)/Tejas were replaced with a triggered, reverbed drum machine. These versions were the standard on CD for many years until the Chrome, Smoke & BBQ set came out and later the 10CD set.

Yes

Thier texans whats not to beleive!!!

Agree! The solo sound makes so much more sense in this raw setting. On the album it just sounds eerie and hollow.

Plays a solid shuffle

@@part1801 It’s easier to hear on the studio version, but he plays a shit ton of ghost notes on the snare, and doing basically the same thing on the high hat at the same time.

Dave Lombardo from slayer could

I'm a session drummer for 30 years.. He's one of best.. He never makes a wrong move

I’m a drummer myself. Frank is who made me what to play drums in the first place. Not to brag or anything, but I can play it exactly like Frank

Keep playing. You have a great start listening to ZZ Top.

@@PlanktoniusRex thanks man

Bro I found this song around the same time and I'm a lil younger than you plus I just went to go see them a few days ago😂

Guitar baby !!!🤗

This tune live version is very good The best

Back in 81 I would go to a small watering hole in the memorial side of Houston after work and occasionally Dusty Hill would be there with his black Labrador “Jasmine” . What a great down to earth man .

Billy started out as the Moving Sidewalks before the name evolved into ZZ Top

Dats Rite ! Dats Rite !

I grew up with Billy and I see alot of know it all's in here . Lol

@@INDLIS he got the name Zztop from zz hill . He decided he was going to be on top of the hill. And the moving sidewalks were not dusty hill and Frank beard either I grew up with Billy Gibbons there's certainly alot of know it all's on here lol nothing evolved

Uh, Hendrix did.

You will hear it a lot in Tejas. Dimebag to SRV..

Joe Satch said he was one of the most prolific musicians ever. What is the track off surfing with the alien " ice 9 " I think. Long live Rev Willie G

I can't quit listening to this and some of the other old ones like Nasty dogs and funky kings. I'm a drummer but I get off on a great guitar sound and that is as good as it gets

Dude every 80's era aspiring blues rock player I knew wanted to learn from Willy G. U bet that...

Hell yeah dude

linda ronstedt

Probably one of the best known and revered 59 Les Pauls in existence.

+adriansmith76 Brown Sugar if u haven't already heard

Thank you Billy, I really enjoyed doing it! :)

Times and sounds were changing and there was more money to be made by getting in on the MTV/commercial train.

They don’t have that raw sound anymore since eliminator and MTV.Sawthem in 1973 now that was kick ass garage band style

I grew up with Rockpalast in those years, the intro tune that they used was a coversong played by the J Geilsband. What a wonderful time, only handmade music, hips hops and rapcrap didn't excist, DJ's were people who played records on the radio. Where did it go wrong??

He even shakes the amps!

Les Paul, a good overdrive, a good chorus with the low-speed modulation (or a mild flanger) and plug it all in in a good, beefy amp like a Marshall or Mesa Boogie, the rest is up to your fingers.

He also uses a Mexican peso for a guitar pick.

Im not sure, but I think its a chorus pedal.

It's an MXR Flanger. It was Billy's use of the MXR Flanger that inspired Eddie Van Halen to use one.

nkmcfrln Van Halen borrowed heavily from the ZZ top groove early on.

@@nkmcfrln the album version of this sounds SO clean and SO huge. I love those clean notes during the solos. Would love to know the studio trickery involved in getting those amazing sounds..you also hear similar tones on the chorus of Manic Mechanic.

g funk I think what I read about Billy using an MXR Flanger and Eddie Van Halen being inspired to use one because of Billy was totally wrong. I’m not certain about the flanger Billy used and I think Eddie’s choice of an MXR Flanger had to do with liking the Phase 90 he had purchased and nothing more.