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"Tube Snake Boogie" is a song from American rock band ZZ Top's 1981 album El Loco. It was released as a single the same year and reached No. 4 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. [ 1 ]
ZZ Top's First Album is the debut studio album by American rock band ZZ Top, produced by Bill Ham and released in January 1971 by London Records.Establishing ZZ Top's attitude and humor, the album incorporates styles such as blues, boogie, hard rock, and Southern rock influences.
The song is a twelve-bar blues in the key of G in standard tuning. Bassist Dusty Hill has said the song was written at a sound check in about ten minutes. The recording was produced by Bill Ham and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning.
The Boston Globe wrote: "Instead of sticking to inventive boogie chops, producer Bill Ham has refined the material until only 'It's So Hard' with Billy Gibbon's scratchy guitar rises above the Ham's laundering process." [9] The Globe and Mail opined that "the rhythm section of Dusty Hill and Frank Beard is doubtless the most pervasive around." [10]
From Lexington, Kentucky, [1] he started playing guitars at age 13 or 14 after listening to "Telstar" by The Tornados. [2] His grandfather got him his first guitar. [2] He started working in guitar tech through Joe Perry. [2]
Most of the songs come from albums released during 1979–1990, from Degüello through Recycler.Exceptions include remixes of "Tush" and "La Grange", and the non-album tracks "Viva Las Vegas" and "Gun Love".
Fandango! is the fourth album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in 1975.The album's first side consists of selections from live shows, with the second side being new studio recordings.
Afterburner is the ninth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in 1985.Although critics' response to the album was lukewarm, Afterburner was a commercial success, eventually going platinum five times and launching one hit single: "Sleeping Bag" which peaked at number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, equaling the peak of their ...