Legs. Cuz I like Legs

Sharp Dressed Man – killier tone, rhythm and feel

The complete song “Bluejean Blues”! That song starts, and I have to stop and listen.

La Grange solo… pinch harmonics and all….. Rev Gibbons yeah…..

The solo in TUSH is my favourite… I like the combination of the groove of this song and Billy’s slide solo. Well, it was the first solo I’ve ever heard from Billy and thats the stuff you always keep in mind.

All the guitar fills in Sharp Dressed Man because it’s the first ZZ top song I learned note-for-note and I had so much fun listening, re-listening  and working out the fingerings I think he used. Though Tush is actually my favorite to listen to because IT’S SO BITCHIN!

“Tush” solo-controlled insanity!!!

Blue Jean Blues. Not the typical ZZ Top solo. Just pure clean blues.

he is a great guitarist………so it really doesn’t matter what solo you picked

My favorite Billy Gibbons solos are definitely the two solos in ‘My Head’s in Mississippi’. First off, that song has one of the baddest, nastiest, kick-ass riffs ever. Secondly, the solos kicks that up a notch with all that compression and electric-blues goodness…Love it!

While I love all of his solos, one that still makes me crack a smile is the solo on “Burn The Witch” from Queens Of The Stone Age… gnarly solo, beard-hair harmonic and all!

CHEAP SUNGLASES, LA GRANGE, BLUE JEAN BLUES, SHARP DRESSED MAN !!!!!

Sharp Dressed Man
 

Gotta love ‘TUSH’.  Great feel and great left hand vibrato.  Classic.

Rough Boy!! Because it is a song that always re-inspires me to play guitar any time that I feel bored with it!! Always a favorite!

Sharp dressed man Unmistakable ZZ Top patented sound .NO ONE DOES IT LIKE REV BILLY.Hendrix favorite guitarist.What more can you say HE IS A LIVING LEGEND!!!!!

La Grange, such an unforgettable solo. Billy Gibbons is a legend whose music and influence will live on forever.

la grange, my favorite

It is hard to choose just one but all those harmonics in Lagrange really make me dig what Billy G is doing.

guess same as a lot, but Sharp Dressed Man why because that bad boy is in your head if it does not make you want to play guitar nothing will

la Grange. lets take a moment and reflect… THE MAN IS A FUCKING GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tush  what great riffs

Definitely would have to say Cheap Sunglasses. 

Gotta love la Grange. Billy is the only guitarist I know who can make his guitar squeel like a pig! Love it!

“Just Got Paid”—lowdown and howlin….

TUSH SOLO IS KICK AZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ !!!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS !!

Tush for sure, because i used to play it in a cover band i was in in college

Heard it on the X   -  -  -  just because it’s a bitchin guitar song. Always makes me feel like pickin up my guitar and playin along !!

Cheap Sunglasses! Because it’s in a song called Cheap Sunglasses!

Cheap Sunglasses has this amazing A chord riff

Blackfly intro. Nasty!

“I Thank You.” Great feeling in the lead riff.

Cheap Sunglasses..bam!

Rough Boy I like the solo Billy lays down.  Very mellow.

Rough Boy.  At a time when everyone thought more was better, he showed everyone once again that you can say more with less.  And the tune’s got a groove wide enough to drive a truck through.

LaGrange. Come on, a song about a whorehouse…that’s just Rock-nRoll!!

‘Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell’.  It has such intensity and passion over a great chord progession!

just got paid. just gotta love it.

I like the outro solo in “Tush”.  Great slide work and pnch harmonics.

I’m going with Cheap Sunglasses, because it fits the song perfectly, dropping right into that laid-back groove and embellishing it enough to keep it interesting without being ostentatious.  Classy.

La Grange, there is a special, melodic quality to this free-wheeling solo. 

legs cause its got some BA riffs in it

JUST GOT PAID.  its got that soul and the hot blues.  plus you can’t go wrong with a slide solo

Just Got Back From Baby’s because he sets the mood from the getgo before the song even begins with his encouragement to “Douse that light.”  Then he begins the song (and first solo) with an awesome little three note grabber that just pulls me right into the song.  I bought that album when it came out and have never gotten past it.  Way before the beards and the distortion, Billy had hardcore tone and blues chops to spare.

brown sugar. made the most sense ever

billy rocks, alway`s has, alway`s will, that good old southern rock, just brings me home, my fav is tube steak boogie

Those harmonics on La Grange just get me in the back of my teeth!

The solo in Just Got Paid because it is one of the best songs they have ever written. It’s not one of those famous hits you will find on the greatest hits CDs that most people own.
I love the tempo change into it and the smooth transition back to the original groove. People like Joe Bonamassa do a good cover but no one will ever match The Rev on this pay day of a song.

Haha see what I did there?

that mojo slide is sweet, billy could you sighn that for me, and that dunlop shot glass, classic, you boy`s rock, friday night giveaway……………hell yeah..

cheap sunglasses the first zz top I ever listened to and brings back great memories.

Sharp Dressed Man – seen him play it and he tares it up!

Got Me Under Pressure,, it just cooks

My Head’s in MississippiClassic Mr. Gibbons! Thanks for all the great Music, and Happy Birthday, Billy!!!!

La Grange for obvious reasons. Plus that was my Smoke on the Water song growing up. I just couldn’t ever get enough of that song and still love it to this day.

A Fool For Your Stockings: tone tone tone

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ANYTHING BILLY IS ALRIGHT FOR ME…HOW ABOUT SOME PRESSURE YA GOT ME UNDER! 

My personal favorite BFG solo was in “TV Dinners”.  It was just oozing with cool. 

The solo in “Cheap Sunglasses” is another favorite. 

La grange Cuz Its the first zz top song i ever listened to

Heard it on the X. It’s short sweet and to the point!

For me, it’s got to be live. “Double Down Live”, anything from that set. Though La Grange will always hold the torch for Best Solo Ever. The harmonic build up is an aural orgasm into Rock N’ Rock bliss. Feeling that live for the first time, was when I was born as a musician. 

Sharp Dressed Man, the solo features slide on a tele and then switched to an lp

Just Got Paid Today–love the slide!

Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers. The way the notes attacked it hits your ears like a lit cigarette. When I hear that solo in my mind I am brought to a kick ass bar with a lot of kick ass stuff going down!

The Reverend has thousands of guitar solos which can stand on their own as sheer greatness.  For the simple fact that it was the first ZZ Top song that really grabbed me and never let go i’m going to have to go with each of the solos in La Grange but particularly the entire pinched harmonic section.  It takes some seriously huge cojones to play an entire solo using only pinched harmonics.  Take note Mr Wylde, take note.

Legs! It was the first Zz top video I ever saw when I was but a youngster and it gave me a boner!

Sharp Dressed Man is probably my favorite solo, but Tush is still one of my favorite songs.

sharp dressed man solo, just so tasty!

the Solo in La grange because it has groove and feel

la grange definately…just awesome solo all around

Sharp Dressed Man. There’s just something about the groove in that song.

“Pearl Necklace”, no question! Fuzzy greasy BBQ goodness abounds!

I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide. The solo in the middle of the song. Love this song I just dig that dirty blues grit it just grabs ya by the balls & makes you sayI’m Bad, I’m Nationwide. Billy Gibbons is a true blues master & he’s also a master of tone,If your a guitar player like myself you truly appreciate his musical genius & stand in awe of him.It was tough to pick just one ZZ TOP song for the contest but no matter which song you pickyou can’t lose with ZZ TOP!!!  But all the same I hope I win…. ;0)

Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers

Sharp Dressed Man – When I ‘d first heard it I thought, WTF is this?  Nothing like it on the radio back then.

The entire “Jesus just Left Chicago” song! Man, that is awesome blues right there!

sharped dressed man. classic!

If you’re going to make me pick a favorite, it’ll have to be “Cheap Sunglasses”. You can’t beat his tone in that song.

Sharp dressed man…you catch yourself humming the chorus long after the song is over

winning this would be an amazing christmas gift for a newly unemployed guitarist.. Just Got Paid has always spoken to me on fridays. this was a solo I was never able to master. maybe it’s because I only have a metal slide and not a porcelain slide. 

The solo from “Jesus Just Left Chicago” from their Rockplast concert. Awesome tone. Enough said.

The melody in “Got Me Under Pressure” has always stood out to me!

Just can’t beat the slide solo in “Tush”!  It’s a fast rocker and he manages to make it really swing…

La Grange

Sharp Dressed Man! 

Party on the patio,,,,,,,,,Nice string bending.

beer drinkers and hell raisers kicks ass and takes no prisoners!

“just got paid” the slide solo. Made me start to learn and want to play slide guitar just like BG!

Waiting for the bus , it’s just awesome!

are you guys crazy? choose one zz top song is like choosing one girl from about 4 billions walking all around! 
sharp dressed man for me. this song and solo can bring me back to life every morning.

TUSH! Plan ole addictive riffin’

Cruel question………love em all but one of my fave BG moments is the short but ever so sweet seconds of “Backdoor Love Affair” on Fandango. Yeah!!!

Just Got Paid – Has it all. Incredible riff combined with Billy’s slide work that’s smooth as glass. Tone for miles that one!

Sharp Dressed Man.  It’s just so damn fun to play live…..

“Sharp Dressed Man” got tone with a soul, it makes me go alive.

What an awesome prize! Without a doubt, the slide solo in “Sharped Dressed Man”. The first time I heard that song on the radio I remember pulling the car over so I could listen and not miss the announcer tell me who it was. I went straight to the local ” Tower Records” store and bought the album. still have it.

all zz top songs, they each promote the growth of my facial hair.

Tush has some tasty licks, and the slide work is amazing. It takes the 12 bar solo and makes it really flow with the bounce of the song and keeps the energy up. It makes me want to get better at slide guitar!

Sharp Dressed Man – and how could you even ask why???

Bluejean Blues…..Perfect mood music!!!.i was driving through the Petrified Forest in AZ at 3 o’clock in the morning back in June of 84….just let the windows down, set the speed at 50 mph and just cranked it!!! 

For sure, Legs solo, so creative and intense…amazing!

“Jesus Just Left Chicago” The lead break is traditional sounding blues with that ZZ top twist

“Breakaway”. That song just oozes BFG!

Sharp dressed man – nice clean solo and really good blues feeling

“My head’s in Mississippi” – Simple solos, but I love them for the great sustain, amazing harmonics, groove, sharp but fat tone, and for the Spirit. I am not American, but I think, that ZZ Top for USA – is like a star-spangled banner. One of the true-american symbols. And I love this kind of America.

La Grange, It’s the bee’s knees and makes anyone cream their jeans

La Grange, Killer tone and  amazing attitude! Love it!

La Grange,the sweet sounds that only Billy can conjurer up from his soul ! that boy can play !
Happy Birthday Big Guy !

I love the Solo from “just got back from babies”.
Was my first ZZ Top Record and I can still remember being blown away by this whole album because the groove and the sound is still perfect to my ears.

So if yo are interested in Blues you HAVE to buy  ”the first album”!

All the best from Berlin – Germany!

Rough boy. Beautiful song and very beautiful solo

I have many favorites but the one that sticks out is from the album “Tejas” (1976). “Arrested For Driving While Blind” has, along with the entire album, a ‘dreamy’ guitar tone quality. Like a ‘tremelo’ effect. This cut has a real JAZZY quality, but with that Texas bluesy influence throughout. I saw ZZ Top on this (Tejas) tour. They were accompanied on stage by an assortment of ‘live’ native Texas wildlife and livestock….Longhorned steer, American Bison, Diamondback rattlesnake, golden eagle, armadillo, etc. I Remember it like it was last week. 

Sharp dressed man, it’s infectious!

La Grange, because it was the first solo I ‘tried’ to learn on guitar

My favourite has to the the solo in Just Got Paid, it’s got a that fat, screaming, overdriven slide part over a rock-steady bass line, it’s not Billy’s most technical solo but I love it all the same!

That has got to be ‘Pearl Necklace’ form El Loco (1981). “She was gettin’ bombed and I was gettin’ blown away.” Epic solo. I hope Billy didn’t give Pearly Gates a Pearl Necklace.

It’s gotta be his guest solo on Burn the Witch by Queens of the Stoneage – in the studio making of it shows you that the harmonic at the end is from accidentally catching the tip of his beard on the string – 100% authentic Billy! 

Tush,
But all his blues licks are  wonderful!!

Love the first solo in Punk Ass Boyfriend – The Rev extends the scale forever, tone is unexpected – and I still can’t figure it out

Man this is hard. So many memorable songs but if I had to choose one song for this here contest it would have to be “fool for your stockings”. Definitive Billy tone at its finest.

The opening riff to “Just Got Paid” is all kinds of heavy as hell and groovy as a riff can get!  There are fewer riffs out there that are badder than this one!  My favorite version of the song is from 2008′s “Live in Texas”- the slide solo leading into the opening riff is creme de la creme of thick slide guitar tastiness, and before you know it, he’s chunking away at that opening riff, cranking up the mojo like only the Rev can.  My four-year-old son and I both love the song and he starts dancing and singing every time he hears it start!  We’re starting a multi-generation cycle of addiction to tasty slabs of thicker than barbeque sauce Texas guitar goodness!  Finger lickin delicious!

Tush, that high feedback slide thing he does at the end there…it’s so expressive a sound.

I Need You Tonight from Eliminator because its just plain awesome!!

the solo to beer drinkers and hell raisers . it is truly tone , taste , and tenacity. The first time i heard it i stopped everything i was doing and was lost . Billy truly is one of the greatest players ever.

Live from H town,

The live version of Thunderbird , sweet and sassy, Happy Birthday Mr. Gibbon !!!!! Ready for the NEW WAX !!!!!!!!!

Jesus Just Left Chicago

Blue Jean Blues! Damn, that solo makes me shiver and rock throught the whole song. It makes me feel like an almost hippie bird flying away on a cool wind that blows against my face soft. That solo, that whole music is the proof that he can play whatever he wants to. Billy Gibbons is a great guitar player. One of the best that there is and you cant see many like him now.

Every song he has ever done! The man is the MAN when it comes too tone and style!

I’m gonna have to go with Cheap Sunglasses.  They’re all terrific, but I played that one in a cover band for a while and always had a blast with it.

La Grange, because i can’t play it as perfect as can, although i tried for several years now And, of course, because its a hell of a solo

My favorite is still the solo during the fade out of La Grange.
I still whip out my air guitar and join in everytime, damn now its playin’ in my head again.
Da-DahDum Da-Da-Da-DahDum dubbadah dubbadah dubbadah
Da-DahDum Da-Da-Da-DahDum … just love the way he makes it squeel!

My all time fav. solo is in ZZ Top’s Brown Sugar!  It’s on their first album
/ZZ Top’s First Album  1971/

GOD BLESS YOU BILLY!!!

Sharp Dressed Man all the way! You know its got to be any live versions of this solo because as soon as he finishes this solo live the crowd go mental!

I’m going to have to go with Tush…just a great song from start to finish!  And the in your face guitar riff coupled with the raunchy slide guitar solo!  Billy, you make it sound soooooo easy!!

easily the outro to ‘la grange’…the audacity of absolutely flogging a pinch harmonic…thorogood would hold a note all night long ‘cuz he was bombed…billy? because race car!

Jesus Just Left Chicago – the reason – Billy Gibbons knows how to play just enough without it being too much.  And his tone is fresh!

Blue Jean Blues, the phrasing and dynamics send chills down my spine every time I hear it.

Too many great ones, but easily my favorite is La Grange!

Billy has so many to choose from that pickin just one is impossible, but if i have to say ZZ Top’s La Grange is to me is Texas Blues in all its glory, especially played live.

very cool indeed 

Blue Jean Blues. True mastery of the instrument. No-one but the Reverend Billy G can shoehorn so much tone into a clean signal

” LA GRANGE ” would be da bad to da bone boogie number for me , with a John Lee Hooker pinched intro to the Henry V. Canned Heat style blastercaster drive . A pump’n ’32  chopped & channeled red flamed coupe divide’n a desert Veg-ass highway to hell . Out of my way … I’ve got serious sonic pings in my engine to deliver .

But look’n for some ”TUSH ” ain’t a bad thang either !!!

Jesus Just Left Chicago. Nothing like a moderate Blues lead!!!

Pearl Necklace  Like to watch the ladies dance to this one!

la grange!

WHO WON???? How do we find out? aaaaaahhhhhh the suspense is to much!!!! oh my previous response was “Just Got Paid”

WHO WON???? How do we find out? aaaaaahhhhhh the suspense is to much!!!! oh my previous response was “Just Got Paid”

look at me I’m commenting to myself.. I think I’m going insane.. hahaha woooo!!!