Tush (song)

"Tush" was the only single from ZZ Top's fourth album Fandango!. It reached number 20 on the pop chart.

The song is a twelve-bar blues in the key of G. The recording was produced by Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning. The title is a double entendre, referring both to slang for buttocks (with the connotation of "a piece of ass"), and slang for "luxurious" or "lavish", according to a 1985 interview with Dusty Hill in Spin Magazine.

It is also one of the ZZ Top songs on Fandango! sung by bassist Dusty Hill, the others being "Jailhouse Rock", "Balinese", and "Heard It on the X" (on which he and guitarist Billy Gibbons trade off vocals).

The song was named the 67^th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.^[1]

Charts

Other versions

• Iron Maiden have played it on some gigs off their The Beast on the Road, World Piece and World Slavery Tours in 1982, 1983 and 1984-85 (although it can only be found on bootlegs). They have played also an acoustic version, from which is existing a video, which is filmed in the studio while the band was playing. This video appeared on the bonus DVD from their 2006 album A Matter of Life and Death.
• Nazareth performed a version of the song on the band's 1981 tour for their live album Snaz.
• Kenny Chesney released a country version of the song in 2002 for the album Sharp Dressed Men: A Tribute to ZZ Top.
• Whitesnake performed a version of the song on their 1987/1988 tour with altered lyrics entitled "Tits".
• Serbian hard rock band Cactus Jack recorded a version on their 2002 live cover album DisCover.
• Joan Jett performed a version on her 1990 album "The Hit List".
• Girlschool performed the song live and included a recording on "Race with the Devil" in 1986.
• Tygers of Pan Tang released and performed the song as cover in many albums, such Live at Wacken in 2001.
• The Motörhead song No Class has a similar guitar riff.^[2]

Usage in culture

• The song was used in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman.
• The song was used by Robert Prince (albeit modified) in the 1992 PC game Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
• The song was used in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused.
• The song was used in the 2000 film The Perfect Storm (film).
• The song was used in the 2007 film Ghost Rider.
• The song was used in the 2007 film The Bucket List.
• The song was used in the episode "Calderone's Return (Part I)/The Hit List" of Miami Vice.

Personnel

• Billy Gibbons - guitar
• Dusty Hill - bass, vocals
• Frank Beard - drums

References

1. ^ "spreadit.org music". http://music.spreadit.org/vh1-top-100-hard-rock-songs/. Retrieved February 5, 2009. 
2. ^ Peter Buckley, ed (2003). The rough guide to rock. Rough Guides. p. 699. ISBN 9781843531050. http://books.google.com/books?id=haEfq-nKqjgC&pg=PR7-IA645.