The riff in La Grange

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  • OfficerJimmy
    Groupie
    • May 2005
    • 85
    #1

    The riff in La Grange

    I was listening to the blues channel on Sirius Radio and I came across a song called "Shake Your Hips" by Robert Randolph and his family band which had virtually the same riff. I was shocked because I didn't expect ZZ Top would steal one of their riffs.

    Later I also heard a song called "Bare Back Ride" by someone I can't remember that had a similar riff.

    Anyway, whats the story behind the main riff in this song?
    Tags: grange, riff
    • Matt White
      • Jun 2004
      • 20446
      #2
      Re: The riff in La Grange

      Originally posted by OfficerJimmy
      I was listening to the blues channel on Sirius Radio and I came across a song called "Shake Your Hips" by Robert Randolph and his family band which had virtually the same riff. I was shocked because I didn't expect ZZ Top would steal one of their riffs.

      Later I also heard a song called "Bare Back Ride" by someone I can't remember that had a similar riff.

      Anyway, whats the story behind the main riff in this song?
      ZZ TOP lifted it from John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chilen' "

      And a court agreed with the Hook

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        • Jérôme Frenchise
          ROTH ARMY SUPREME
          • Nov 2004
          • 7173
          #3
          Basically, John Lee Hooker surely was at the origin of that riff. He kind of played it on a few songs as soon as the 50s. Listen to "Boogie chillun", for example... Very close, isn't it?
          posted by Ellyllions Men say, "I'll never understand women." That's a very lonely place to be if you're a woman because we don't understand half of what we do either.
          posted by ALinChainz Katy, Pipe down, pump off, and fly back to your cave you old bat.

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            • Jérôme Frenchise
              ROTH ARMY SUPREME
              • Nov 2004
              • 7173
              #4
              Originally posted by Matt White
              ZZ TOP lifted it from John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chilen' "

              And a court agreed with the Hook
              Well... You took it off the hook faster by one fucking minute, Matt...
              posted by Ellyllions Men say, "I'll never understand women." That's a very lonely place to be if you're a woman because we don't understand half of what we do either.
              posted by ALinChainz Katy, Pipe down, pump off, and fly back to your cave you old bat.

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                • Matt White
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 20446
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Jérôme Frenchise
                  Basically, John Lee Hooker surely was at the origin of that riff. He kind of played it on a few songs as soon as the 50s. Listen to "Boogie chillun", for example... Very close, isn't it?
                  Exactly, exactly


                  And Hooker said it was a Riff his Step-Dad had showed him when he was a youngster.......

                  A very old, primal Delta Blues Riff.......

                  It's been used be many people over the years....like all blues Riffs

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                    • Matt White
                      • Jun 2004
                      • 20446
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Jérôme Frenchise
                      Well... You took it off the hook faster by one fucking minute, Matt...
                      Cheers Jerry!

                      Yup...big Hook fan

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                        • Hardrock69
                          DIAMOND STATUS
                          • Feb 2005
                          • 21833
                          #7
                          When that song came out on the radio, I thought Billy Gibbons was a black man.

                          So the day I was to see ZZ Top for the first time, I snuck into the venue and sat there and watched sound check.

                          I thought the three guys playing "It's Only Love" were roadies (there was no MTV, cable TV where I lived, or Internet in 1976) as I had never seen a photo of the band, and did not know Billy was white.

                          Imagine my surprise when after the set change, the lights went down, and out comes those three white guys in rhinestone Nudie suits and cowboy hats!

                          Man, they tore my face off.

                          That was the single event that caused me to buy my first electric guitar.

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                            • Matt White
                              • Jun 2004
                              • 20446
                              #8
                              I've got the ZZ TOP box set...

                              Their old stuff KICKS ASS

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                                • Loons The Great
                                  #9
                                  One night I was layin' down
                                  I heard my mama n papa talkin'
                                  I heard 'em say you gotta let that boy boogie woogie
                                  'Cuz it's in 'em and it's got to come out
                                  BOOGIE CHILLIN'

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                                    • Loons The Great
                                      #10
                                      Shake Your Hips is a Slim Harpo tune. Slim was minin' the John Lee Hooker boogie one time nah. I ain't lyin'. 'Sho 'Nuff nah.

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                                        • Loons The Great
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by Matt White...aka MW, one shot of MW an' nuthin' will trublya...
                                          Exactly, exactly


                                          And Hooker said it was a Riff his Step-Dad had showed him when he was a youngster.......

                                          A very old, primal Delta Blues Riff.......

                                          It's been used be many people over the years....like all blues Riffs
                                          Great post, MW. Onliest thing Ize would add is that you could even trace that ol', primal Delta Blues Riff back to Africa...

                                          Do you remember when we were in Africa??????

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                                            • tydhurst
                                              Commando
                                              • Mar 2004
                                              • 1062
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by Loons The Great
                                              Shake Your Hips is a Slim Harpo tune. Slim was minin' the John Lee Hooker boogie one time nah. I ain't lyin'. 'Sho 'Nuff nah.
                                              You sure talk funny!
                                              Don't need a gun to blow your mind!

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                                              Join my forum.

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                                                • Loons The Great
                                                  #13
                                                  alright alright nah yez yeahhhhhhhhh

                                                  Originally posted by tydywhiteyz
                                                  You sho' talk kickass!
                                                  Well...well...well...I'm a gwine-a put a couple of racetracks 'round yo eyes...an' menstrate yo nose nah yez yez yezzah...

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                                                    • Hardrock69
                                                      DIAMOND STATUS
                                                      • Feb 2005
                                                      • 21833
                                                      #14
                                                      Hey, Loons The Great sho' 'nuff talk like a REAL blooze-man!

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                                                        • Matt White
                                                          • Jun 2004
                                                          • 20446
                                                          #15
                                                          Yez yez yez...Loons be talkin' da trooth!!!

                                                          Youz wants ta be 'a hearin' dat old Pre-War blues? Check out da Hook...

                                                          Youz wants to hear dat African beat wit moves the feet? Checks out BO DIDDLEY.......



                                                          WHO DO YOU LARVE?!?

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