Released July 26, 1973 Label London Records Producer(s) Bill Ham | Length 3:33 Writer(s) Billy Gibbons | |
Recorded Brian Studios &
Ardent Studios
Memphis, Tennessee | ||
"Master of Sparks" is a song by American rock band ZZ Top from their 1973 album Tres Hombres.
The song tells the apparently true story (according to an interview in Sounds magazine, in June 1976, with guitarist Billy Gibbons) of several "rednecks" who weld together a spherical steel cage (inside of which is a VW-Bug seat fitted with a seatbelt), place the cage into the bed of their truck and at night, after reaching a speed of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h), on Highway 6 near Houston (also known as Jack Rabbit Road), propel the cage from the back with the hapless narrator taking a ride inside. If he lives, the passenger is granted the title "Master of Sparks". Gibbons holds that title.
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