Artist: ZZ Top Video: From DailyMotion with 45-second commercial, booo. Hard to find this video online.
The only appearance in the countdown for the classic beards. I always dug these groovy cats. To me ZZ Top was edgy, mysterious and somewhat forbidden. Like cigarettes or PCP.
ZZ Top has been around since the late ‘60s, and they even released a critically acclaimed album this year. But it was during the mid ‘80s that they experienced their greatest commercial successes. “Eliminator” produced more recognizable hits, but “Afterburner” actually sold more records.
“Sleeping Bag” is a groovy rocker with an irresistible baseline. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, equaling the performance of the group’s other top 10 hit, “Legs”. Most of the lyrics are incomprehensible, but there's no mistake about “slip inside my sleeping bag”. Great line.
The video is a menagerie of all kinds of fun stuff. Monster trucks, sexy ladies, car chases, an exploding pyramid, a bag of cash. A young innocent couple being chased by ne’er-do-wells, as the ZZ Top guys play heroes by making helpful objects appear out of thin air, including said sleeping bag. The classic red Eliminator (a 1933 Ford coupe) is also prominent.
The video concludes with the promise “To Be Continued…”. However, I was not able to learn whether or not this convoluted story was actually continued. “Stages”, the following video from the “Afterburner” album, did not revisit this ridiculously entertaining sequence of events.
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