The song was in an IMAX movie about NASCAR in 2003.The song is in many Wrangler Jeans commercials with athletes including Brett Favre, and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
When Gibbons and Hill hosted an episode of WWE Raw in 2009, they played this song with Santino Marella (who was substituting for the absent Frank Beard).The beginning of song was played by Billy Gibbons in an episode of Bones named "Stargazer in a Puddle".ZZ Top's version is heard in a 2011 TV commercial for Can-Am motorcycles.This song is also featured in the NASCAR The Game: 2011 soundtrack.An instrumental of the song is featured in the South Park episode Poor and Stupid (S14E08) in 2010, as Eric Cartman wreaks havoc in a NASCAR Race.In 2009, it was heard in a television commercial for Samsung widescreen TVs.
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Professional wrestler David Von Erich and his brother Kerry used this as their theme song in World Class Championship Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling.A modified version of the song appears in the 2004 remake of Walking Tall. It has been used in many movies, including: Shanghai Noon, Striptease, Armageddon, Man of the House, The Dukes of Hazzard, Dogtown and Z-Boys, and the trailers for Planet 51, The Rundown, and Home on the Range.The song was licensed for use as the title track in the 1992 pinball machine The Getaway: High Speed II.
The long version incorporates lyrics from "Bar-B-Q" and the line "I'd rather be sloppy drunk than anything I know." It's elongated form is referred to (and listed on setlists) as "La Grange/Sloppy Drunk Jam." The jam has been performed over 700 times. When performed live the song is often stretched out to almost 10 minutes. "La Grange" has been performed at almost every ZZ Top concert since it's release. A failedlawsuit by the copyright holder of Boogie Chillen' resulted in the court ruling that the rhythm was in the public domain. The initial groove of the song is based on a traditional boogie blues rhythm used by John Lee Hooker in his "Boogie Chillen'" and Slim Harpo's "Shake Your Hips". The song was produced by Bill Ham and mixed by Terry Manning. īilly Gibbons played the lead on a 1955 Fender Stratocaster with a stop tailpiece through a Marshall Super Lead 100 amp with Celestion greenback speakers. 74 on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone called the song "a standard for guitarists to show off their chops". In March 2005, Q magazine placed "La Grange" at 92nd of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
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