Sometimes the guys would hear awesome blues music on a radio station in the south, being broadcasted from Chicago. The signal was so strong, it would be heard on a certain day all the way down south, all the way to New Orleans.
It was so magical and heavenly and spiritual to them, that such awesome blues music was being broadcasted from so far away, they compared it to Jesus reaching them.
Even though the lyrics contain California, through the forests and the pines, I'm pretty certain the signal wouldn't go that far. That section might have just been for extending the song.
One of my favorite ZZ Top songs, and definitely my favorite album. The snare drum sound and general recording/engineering of this album is some legendary audio.
@samhopkins - sure, the signal would go that far! When I was a kid in Arizona, we listened to the big 1520, KOMA Oklahoma city, as well as Mexican radio from Juarez. FM can't do that, but AM radio skips off the ionosphere, you can pick it up halfway around the globe!
@samhopkins - sure, the signal would go that far! When I was a kid in Arizona, we listened to the big 1520, KOMA Oklahoma city, as well as Mexican radio from Juarez. FM can't do that, but AM radio skips off the ionosphere, you can pick it up halfway around the globe!
Sometimes the guys would hear awesome blues music on a radio station in the south, being broadcasted from Chicago. The signal was so strong, it would be heard on a certain day all the way down south, all the way to New Orleans.
It was so magical and heavenly and spiritual to them, that such awesome blues music was being broadcasted from so far away, they compared it to Jesus reaching them.
Even though the lyrics contain California, through the forests and the pines, I'm pretty certain the signal wouldn't go that far. That section might have just been for extending the song.
One of my favorite ZZ Top songs, and definitely my favorite album. The snare drum sound and general recording/engineering of this album is some legendary audio.
@samhopkins - sure, the signal would go that far! When I was a kid in Arizona, we listened to the big 1520, KOMA Oklahoma city, as well as Mexican radio from Juarez. FM can't do that, but AM radio skips off the ionosphere, you can pick it up halfway around the globe!
@samhopkins - sure, the signal would go that far! When I was a kid in Arizona, we listened to the big 1520, KOMA Oklahoma city, as well as Mexican radio from Juarez. FM can't do that, but AM radio skips off the ionosphere, you can pick it up halfway around the globe!