03.21.11
Sissifying ZZ Top for the plutocracy
Well, I hear it’s fine if you got the time, and the ten to get yourself in. A hmm-hmm.
Three-wheeled touring motorcycle ad, set to ZZ Top’s La Grange, a song about whores in a shack in Texas. Taken from Tres Hombres, one of the ultimate blue collar classic rock albums, songs entirely devoted to the underclass — Master of Sparks (being thrown off the back of a pickuup tack in a ball made out of bailing wire and rebar), Beerdrinkers and Hellraisers (having your “can of dinner” — cheap beer as the evening’s repast) and Precious & Grace (picking up two dangerous-looking prostitutes who might have just gotten out of prison, on a lonely back road).
Of course, it’s a two-way street. ZZ Top consented for the money.
And what did they consent to — ad music for an expensive motorized conveyance aimed at the plutocracy, those people who can wear five hundred dollars or more worth of custom leather. And who are afraid of wiping out with all their stuff in the baggage pods when they ride.
Ludicrous. Not exactly the stuff of rattlesnakes in cages onstage and young guys passed out and stacked up in the lavatories at the Philly Spectrum.