It was actually standard tuning cranked up three steps, which remained quite playable thanks to the guitar’s short scale. “The lead track was played on a custom-made, half-sized, real short-scaled guitar tuned to G. “If you listen closely, you can hear close-miked mandolin-sounding rhythm accompaniment,” he told Guitar World.
Long, who died in 1995, wasn’t as rich or famous as he’s made out to be in the song, but he was one of the most acclaimed blues guitarists in Texas and a mentor to Gibbons, who cites Long’s playing on the Barbara Lynn track “We Got A Good Thing Going” as a formative influence.īilly Gibbons played what he described as “a multi-stringed mandolin-like instrument from Parral, Mexico” that Joey Long gave him on this track. The song is confabulated so Long is enjoying the company of a few lovely ladies during this ride, all wearing nylons, spike-heeled shoes and smoking Lucky Strikes – he was living large! As Billy Gibbons tells it, Long didn’t have a driver’s license, but he always had new Cadillac that his beautiful wife Barbarella used to drive him to gigs. The tablature provided is our visitors interpretation of this song but remain a property of their respective authors, artists and labels.
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Please note that you need to have the Guitar Pro software before you can start using these. This song was inspired by Texas blues musician named Joey Long, who was good friends with the band. On this page you will find the Guitar Pro tab for the song Im Bad Im Nationwide by ZZ Top, which has been downloaded 3,200 times. They sporting short dresses, wearing spike-heel shoes They smoking Lucky Strikes and. I had a fine fox in front, I had three more in the back. Easing down the highway in a new Cadillac. We laughing and Im joking and we feeling alright. I’ve heard Bruce Springsteen cover this song. We going downtown in the middle of the night. Never been a huge fan but they had a huge sound for a trio. The songs tail end alternates between three distinct effects created by two pedals: an Echoplex doubler and a Maestro octave box alternating every third bar between having the octave up and the octave down.' More songs from ZZ Top. They are a tight band and I was given a ticket to one of their shows in the early 80s and they were a lot of fun to watch. This song was released in 1979 and didn’t chart but it remains one of my favorites of them. Billy Gibbons is a great guitar player and Jimi Hendrix was a fan of his. ZZ Top are readying a new album titled RAW that was recorded in connection with the band’s wildly popular and critically lauded 2019 Netflix documentary That Little Ol’ Band From Texas. Well I was rollin down the road in some cold blue steel / I had a blues man. Their music before that album is a little rawer and edgier. Aprende a tocar el cifrado de Im Bad, Im Nationwide (ZZ Top) en Cifra Club. I liked their stuff but when they made the Eliminator album in 1983 they seemed to remake it over and over again from then on.
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