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LOL.
Every time I hear "Tush" I think "that's my favorite ZZ Top tune".
Then I hear "La Grange" and I think "that's my favorite ZZ Top tune".
 
It's an impossible puzzle to solve.

For me the “guitar driven” criteria for ZZ Top is most solidly met with this one. But like you said

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On 7/10/2022 at 5:44 PM, burntorangebongos said:

This is the only instrumental banned from the radio. It is the way marker of where Rock & Roll went so it counts as THE guitar driven sound. Without this, you get none of the above.

 

by today's standards that sounds like it was recorded by a high school garage band. still a good song, though.

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On 7/11/2022 at 9:36 AM, hullabelew said:

I'll let Roger Fisher steer a guitar driven song. 

 

I'm mean he ripped of "Achilles Last Stand", but I'll allow it. 

And before she packed on the pounds, Ann was the hotter sister..

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5 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

by today's standards that sounds like it was recorded by a high school garage band. still a good song, though.

By today's standards, a computer would be playing the guitar parts. 

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2 hours ago, Deej said:

I'm mean he ripped of "Achilles Last Stand", but I'll allow it. 

Well, that's a bit of a stretch.  The Zep part you're referencing is the bass line, and beyond that, Heart released "Barracuda" merely one year after "Achilles Last Stand".  Could there have been some influence?  Sure.  Did Heart write a far better song?  Yep.

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10 hours ago, Deej said:

I'm mean he ripped of "Achilles Last Stand", but I'll allow it. 

And before she packed on the pounds, Ann was the hotter sister..

Nancy Wilson says they stole the riff from Nazareth when they covered some Joni Mitchell song called "This Flight Tonight".  

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On 7/9/2022 at 6:07 PM, jimmyjazz said:

Holy shit, the obscure Little River Band reference!  Always loved that band.  I'm not sure I've ever heard that tune.  Very CSN.

That was from their first album in the mid 70s.  I always loved this song from that record.  Not guitar driven but cool vocal harmonies.   My first high school band I was in used to play this song.  

 

 

 

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LOL.
Every time I hear "Tush" I think "that's my favorite ZZ Top tune".
Then I hear "La Grange" and I think "that's my favorite ZZ Top tune".
 
It's an impossible puzzle to solve.

Then I hear "Just Got Paid" and I think that's my favorite ZZ Top tune.


And then my neighbors get to hear some ZZ Top
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On 7/20/2022 at 2:37 PM, Buzzrock said:


Sounds too much like The Rover

Not even close. A couple of notes on one small section but the melody isn't even close to the same. By that rationale every rock song from the 80s on sounds like a rock song from the 50s to 70s. And almost every one of those sounds like a blues song that came before it. 

Besides, The Rover is a mediocre at best Zeppelin song. Satch's is a guitar masterpiece of wah and legato. 

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On 7/21/2022 at 11:16 AM, HouTex said:

Unless I missed it, I can't believe this guy hasn't been mentioned.  Foxy Lady is another one.

Yer damn skrait, brutha.

”Two riders were approaching,

And the wiiind began to howwwllll”

Immortal song, man, guitar, production.

World without end, Amen.
 

 

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