“Waitin' For The Bus” by ZZ Top

"Waitin' for the Bus" is how ZZ Top kick off Tres Hombres, their third album, from 1973, and it never stops to catch its breath: it runs straight into "Jesus Just Left Chicago", and for years radio spun the pair as one. Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill wrote it between them, with Gibbons on guitar and lead vocal, Hill on bass and backing vocals and Frank Beard on drums. Bill Ham produced, with Terry Manning and Robin Hood Brians engineering.

In a 1985 interview Hill called it a working man's song. He told of taking the bus from Houston to Austin again after a long time off it, and of how much he loves to people-watch in bus and train stations; the real gamble, as he saw it, is who you end up sitting next to.

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