Tube Snake Boogie - ZZ Top (Cover)

Let me start off by stating that the blues in it's various forms is NOT a genre I'm terribly familiar with and one I'm very uncomfortable playing. What blues I've listened to has been incidental and whatever was on the radio by chance, including this song. What I'm playing here doesn't fall naturally under my fingers and I have new respect for Gibbons. Were I jamming to this as a backing track, I'm sure I'd have played my worn out faux-blues licks and mostly in 12th position. I tell you, I learned La Villa Strangiato a few weeks back and this one was harder for me.

What I did here is learn Gibbon's licks and played them pretty close to the album for the intro and middle solos. They sound so good and I wanted to try to get a feel for what he's doing by learning them exact. For the outro solos I then took some of the licks I learned and tried to put a bit of my own spin on it.

I'm sure I'm playing this stiff as a board and I now see I got a little lazy with some of the fast slides on the G string but it still was a great education on Texas blues in general and Billy Gibbons specifically.

Tube Snake Boogie - ZZ Top

 

Thanks. If my blues skills are poor then my recording/mixing skills are pathetic. Fair points and I'd love to work on that one day should I have more time. For the time being though I'm generally putting stuff out there that's slightly better than recording with my phone's mic. For that I apologize for the less than stellar quality.

 

Thanks B! To be honest I've been erroneously calling it Tube "steak" as well. I'm guessing it's probably still about sex.

 

Thanks Tery. Way too kind. I'm happy to have gotten through it but I'm light years away from really understanding this genre. Right now I'm thinking too much through it all. Too much head, too little swing.

 

Thanks Ron. I’d love to open up on a proper amp if I could just get everyone to leave the house for an hour or two.

Ha! Yeah they laid it out there pretty clearly. Thankks Monte.

Thank you my friend.

Thanks Buddha.

Wow! Thanks Mike. It was definitely harder than I anticipated and I nearly quit it a few times. I’ve seen you play this type of stuff and you seem to have this in your DNA. I spent too many treats chugging metal power chords.

Maby thanks Mr. Rose

Thanks! I use 9-42 gauge on pretty much everything these days.

 

Lol...yeah I know that speech well. Virtually everything I’ve played over the past year was either unplugged or with headphones.

 

Cheers AA!