Billy Gibbons is a bad ass guitarist. Hendricks said he was one of his favorite. Their early stuff was their best stuff.

The drummer battled heroine addiction along with alcohol and everything else. They are an amazing band. Great song.

Every guy loves brown sugar! Love the subject and music! These boys have a devilish flavor to them! Love these guys and brown sugar!!!!!!!😎

He had the greatest guitar tone, bar none.

He absolutely was talking about "that brown sugar".It was kinda shocking for the time,but then people pulled their heads out their butts and realized love is love

Brown Sugar is whatever the listener wants it to be ...... and that is the beauty of this song :)

You know what he is talking about! ZZ hit it with this! Brings a smile to my heart! It’s not drugs baby!!!!

The saying among popular popular musicians in that era was that if you don't do heroin you can't be the best and so everyone said I want to be the best and so brown sugar was the only way to go. There I gave you your answer. Keep playing reactions honey, we love you

ZZ Top, "Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell"

No one does it better India! Keep doing what you do!

I just love your reactions to old school rock. They really had talent.

We all knew what "Brown Sugar" meant from the minute we read the words.

Love those old time ZZ Top blues...give Fool For Your Stockings and My Head's In Mississippi a try for more.

I like that she is willing to listen to it. I like her.

When he starts saying something's gonna change your life, I always feel like he's talking about that guitar. So cool.

A ZZ Top documentary released earlier this year had Beard talking about his drug addictions, particularly heroin. My older sister partied with the band in Houston in the 70's. There were a LOT of drugs involved. SO very glad they're clean now.

Can you feel the waters flowing honey? 👍😁

Waitin For the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago must listen!

yes, the drummer Frank Beard (the guy without one, ironically) had a severe heroine addiction. They were one of the biggest touring bands of the early 70's. Frank Beard checked into a rehab & 3 or four years later they release Eliminator with thier long beards.

Much love for your message about accepting but rising above our weaknesses. And OMG this is one of my favourite rock tracks of all time, so glad you reacted to this gem. The ENTIRE ALBUM is fire front to back, you should just chill with it in real life and enjoy it for yourself. it's called "ZZ Top's First Album" and it is 10/10

I haven't really started the video. I don't care if you love or hate it -- I don't know yet if you do or don't. I give you full credit for doing this amazing song

Love the 80's ZZ Top, but the early stuff is still really good too. I always like listening to Old Man from the first album, shows the kind of empathy they had right from the start and undoubtedly its a reason some of their songs are so good.

A friend of mine bought their first album, when it first came out.

If you liked this, try reacting to "Black Coffee" by Humble Pie 1973

Beer, whiskey and thunderbird are ZZ Top's preferred drugs

Thanks for listening to the original and not the ‘80s six-pack remix of this song. One of their best.

La Grange, Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers, both killer songs.

Old ZZtop is best ZZtop... Try out Heard it on the X, Francene, or Mexican Blackbird or Old Man, or Dust my Broom..And yeah he's talkin about a brown girl..

Well, alright Miss "Brown Sugar"... You dug up one from one of my favorite bands that I might never have heard before... and it JAMS! : )

Early Raw ZZ TOP. That's them at their best. They talkin about beautiful black women.

Been waitin' on somebody to react to this. Nice!

Jimmi Hendrix once said Billy Gibbons was the greatest ever! WOW!

TEXAS BOBBYLEE HERE, Thank you for checking out ZZTOP, I was a young boy when this came out 13 probably, It’s what you think it might be sweetie, I just joined you , I like your channel, 🇺🇸⚓️😎

Congratulations for finding this. Only ZZ can pull this off!!!!!! 🙃

“Brown sugar” is a sweet, sweet black woman

Been so longs sense, I heard the old stuff, old ZZ every time is the first hearing it.

Believe it or not the young, clean shaven guy with the guitar is Billy Gibbons and he also sings this song. He most certainly didn’t sound it but he was about 20 years old when they did this.

Heard it A hundred times. Had to stop for the little band from texas. Anything mixed with blues is my kick.

bad ass song more people need to know this one

Been aware of this song for many years. Never listened to it until tonight(this reaction). I always figured it would be a silly, Stones cover. I was wrong! Hmmm baby, Lakeita.

Billy is still Rockin!

He was singing about brown girls, you know us dark skin girls are the sweetest!

Hey India. I was just a poor white boy growing up in the 1970s, in Chicago. I first heard this song in 1979, when I was 12 years old. Well, I knew that he was talking about black women, and I listened to him. Later on, I got me some brown sugar. I was the first man in the history of my family to have a child with a black woman. India, you never know where music will take you.

When he is singing about brown sugar he's singing about heroin ,he said so in an old guitar magazine from about 25 years ago

Everybody seems to love to say that there early stuff was the best. And everybody is entitled to their opinion and personnel taste. However as a hardcore ZZ Top aficionado fan, I say there entire catalog is great with one classic album after another and that includes their stuff from the 80s, 90s and beyond.

The first time top had a good gig was to open for Hendrix. They didn't have any songs!!! So they played foxy lady and Cross town traffic. Jimmy said I like you guys you got balls.

One of my favorite ZZ songs is Master of Sparks. I don't know if it's a great song, but it has a great backstory. First listen to the song, then read about it, then listen again.

You get it, girl !! Can we say that brown sugar changed him/them.? Yes. Both physically and musically/ mentally. Just look at before and after pictures!

Need to check out Sure got cold after the Rain fell, by ZZ TOP!!!

Baby girl gimme some of that BROWN SUGAR !! And it does change ure life FOR THE BETTER

Ah, yes, early ZZ Top...back when they were young, raw and hungry.

A friend of mine went to court ordered rehab and Frank Beard was there as well. Houston Texas

Thank you India one of the greatest zz blues songs .. love lt India♥️ No one in the band was ever addicted that I know of.🤔

The best song they ever recorded was ITS ONLY LOVE.... you gotta react to this gem of a song, PLEASE!!!!!

this is the good zz top ty

Brown Sugar ain't nothing but that BUH..BAMMM! You know what I'm talkin' bout.

Since none of the band were never known to use Heroin I'm pretty sure they're talking about that good good brown sugar

I agree try Black Coffee from Humble Pie. Now thats some real sugar he is talking about live.

That song was sick.

Brown sugar, sweet!

Extraordinary music/sound/voice....troubling lyrics...

Love ZZT! Funky bluezy little 3 man band from Texas, THREE GUYS!!! Lots of great music from them. PEACE!!!!

Real Texas ZZ Top right here. These fellas are legends.

ZZ Top used to cross the border and go to Mexican brothels, also you need to check out the song "Mexican Blackbird" and if I remember correctly Heroin was called "White Horse" and /or "Smack" sometimes just "Horse".

Billy Gibbons was diagnosed with cancer MANY years after this . Living in Texas many years and have met all 3 of these guys and they are all kewl AF .

Thank you!😁 That's a great old Z Z Top song!👍 Their first 3 albums were blues/rock!💯♥️ You might like "Shakin' Your Tree"🔥 off their first album.🤔🤗 One of my absolute favorites!🤭😉 Their volume of work💥 is almost as big as Texas 🇨🇱! Enjoy your discovery of that "little ol' band from Texas"!😂 The same three guys playing together since 1969, ♥️ don't t see that very often these days!😲✌️

I been A zz top fan since the 70s and i never heard about them being connected with drugs 💉 but you never know , this was early zz top

I saw Brown Sugar and assumed it was the Rolling Stones song, lol.

Everybody needs some brown sugar once in awhile.

Ha. You can get addicted to both types of "brown sugar" if you think about it. :)

HENDRIX used to tease Billy Gibbons about gettin' some "Brown Sugar" loving. This is a result of that

Take a listen to 'Black Coffee" by Humble Pie from 1973. The group The Blackberries provides great vocals in the song.

Another 3 member band that rocked

Honey during this time period heavy drugs touched Way more in Music Industry than not. Vietnam Era. But so many Servived the Monster and here to Rock Out Today. That's way so many them old cat's still hard at it. 💘 Love

Been trying to get a 'reactionary' to do this one. I lived where they lived in the time. It was Latinas, and mexican brown. Both very nice.

I read a few comments on drugs or women be the meaning of this sweet song. What matters is how you feel about it and what its saying to you. I've seen them live here in Houston TX. Loved the records from when I was young. Enjoy the rabbit hole

I love that Brown Sugar too!!!

it was written by the Stones... Mick Jagger He was talking about Ikette Lennear.. one of his many girlfriends

Great reaction beautiful lady

Back in the day, we all thought the song was about a white dude falling in love with a black girl. We only had the Rolling Stones Brown Sugar to go by-which was about inter-racial relationships in the 1960s. I honestly never thought about it as being about drugs before. But I can see how that could come to mind today. I guess we weren’t very sophisticated back then, LOL! A culturally forbidden love was much closer to our mind-set than a drug we thought of as a poison used by big city folks. Now that I’m older, I can see the drug reference as being another possibility, though. But if you don’t mind, I’m going to keep thinking it’s a “love conquers all” song instead of one about drugs. I like the thought of love being to change someone’s life. I’ve always thought that romance is a powerful force that changes people for the better.

When I heard this in the 1970s, in my youth, I concluded that they were talking about a black woman. It stuck in my mind, and in my adult life, I had to get some brown sugar. So, I went and procreated with a black woman. They were correct, It did change my life.

Blue Jean Blues - ZZ Top. Heroin is also known as Brown Sugar

This is the time period that I like ZZ best...before the “computerized “ sound; although, I like that too. Tush, LaGrange, I Heard it on The X, Francine, Mexican Blackbird, Dust My Broom and Manic Mechanic to name a few.

I love this song! Great reaction. Consider reacting to "Just Got Back from Baby's " and " Sheik".

Wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man in those old photos it's crazy to see the one Z without a beard.

Yeah. This is Heroine.

Hey folks, this song has a deep double entendre...ZZ is the king of that sh*t. I'll leave it to y'all to decide which brown sugar is more addictive ;)))

Mexico in just down the road hon!🇺🇸😎😎

Brown Sugar? If you want to try Life-affirming Brown Sugar then Indiaa is always there for you ❤

Having lived through this era - it was heavily influenced by Psychedelia and mind altering influences lol

Mexican Brown Heroin......although the Stones did a song called Brown Sugar with completely different words and it was about brown women........on a different subject the only member of the band without a beard was the drummer....ironically his last name was Beard.

It's about the chocolate ladies! :)

2 songs they did but are at opposite poles. " Jesus just left Chicago," the album track, if you can find it not tethered to " Waiting for the Bus." And " Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers."

I agree with amer6387. This is ZZ Topp's Texas Blues. This is off their first album. On the same album is Neighbor Neighbor. You should try that song. I think you would like!

love to see your face when Elvis sings 'in the ghetto'

Yes, he’s singing about addiction…

ZZ Top.....Thank You...….you're jaw will drop , then you'll get that lil' guilty smile on your face. I'm sure of it lol !!!

Até que enfim !!

You know you showed a picture with them and Jimi Hendrix all of them from Texas and you know Jimmy was all about that brown sugar