POLL: VH - Take Your Whiskey Home vs. ZZ Top - Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers?

[Texas King]

Which "alcoholic" rock tune do you prefer between these two?

 

 

[_hi_water._]

ZZ Top is great, but Van Halen rules 

[BastillePark]

Someone should do a "Cocaine" version between Clapton and Jackson Browne. 

[zepphead]

Way back in the deep and distant past, when I was in my youth,  myself and three chums had a band going.

We did a cover of Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers (at that time ZZ Top were not big at all in the UK).

So it gets my vote.

[laughedatbytime]

23 minutes ago, zepphead said:

Way back in the deep and distant past, when I was in my youth,  myself and three chums had a band going.

We did a cover of Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers (at that time ZZ Top were not big at all in the UK).

So it gets my vote.

Was one of your chums Eddie Van Halen?  Because then I might have to change my vote.

[Alex’s Amazing Arpeggios]

I’ve voted for VH because VH are in general my joint all time 2nd Fav band of all time 

plus TYWH is one of my fav tracks off

W&C1st 

[malm_51]

VH

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

I love both tracks, but VH edges out a win here. Eddie's rhythm playing on TYWH  is stellar.

[custom55]

I pity the fool that goes up against The Mighty Van Halen.

 

 

Edited July 25, 2023 by custom55

[custom55]

 

[Rick N. Backer]

9 hours ago, BastillePark said:

Someone should do a "Cocaine" version between Clapton and Jackson Browne. 

Actually Clapton vs. Sabbath’s Snowblind might be an interesting contest.

[goose]

9 hours ago, BastillePark said:

Someone should do a "Cocaine" version between Clapton and Jackson Browne. 

JB, ftw

[goose]

Believe it or not, there is a YouTube video of VH covering this ZZTop tune.  That should be option 3 for a vote

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DUXtEUgs89qQ&ved=2ahUKEwjgocHFyquAAxUBhu4BHYg9Ae8QuAJ6BAgTEAE&usg=AOvVaw1sr-1-oM4rdOx7dkrVRrKU

Edited July 26, 2023 by goose

[invisible airwave]

5 hours ago, custom55 said:

I pity the fool that goes up against The Mighty Van Halen.

 

 

They're headed for a whole lot of trouble.

 

1 hour ago, Rick N. Backer said:

Actually Clapton vs. Sabbath’s Snowblind might be an interesting contest.

Feel Good Hit of the Summer by QOTSA:  "Am I a j-j-j-j-j-joke to you?"

[zepphead]

11 hours ago, laughedatbytime said:

Was one of your chums Eddie Van Halen?  Because then I might have to change my vote.

Sadly, even EVH couldn't make us sound good! 

[Texas King]

I'd say that Van Halen's "Bottoms Up" (their another "alcoholic" tune) is quite influenced by ZZ Top.

 

 

[Mithrandir]

ZZ all the way.  But the VH tune is very good.

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

17 hours ago, custom55 said:

I pity the fool that goes up against The Mighty Van Halen.

 

11 hours ago, invisible airwave said:

They're headed for a whole lot of trouble.

 

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

19 hours ago, goose said:

Believe it or not, there is a YouTube video of VH covering this ZZTop tune.  That should be option 3 for a vote

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DUXtEUgs89qQ&ved=2ahUKEwjgocHFyquAAxUBhu4BHYg9Ae8QuAJ6BAgTEAE&usg=AOvVaw1sr-1-oM4rdOx7dkrVRrKU

 

I forgot all about this, haven't seen it in years, great call! It's a song that fits right into VH's wheelhouse, though I like the slower tempo of ZZ's version.

 

Billy Gibbons did the right hand fretting notes on the neck thing in this solo, which was back in 1973 -- five years before VH1 came out. Hearing Eddie doing that solo and putting his own tapping style into it sounds like a proper follow-up.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

15 hours ago, Rick N. Backer said:

Actually Clapton vs. Sabbath’s Snowblind might be an interesting contest.

…I’ll take Styx’s first…