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Aug 23, 2021 · ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons announces new solo album The Big Bad Blues. The 10 Best ZZ Top Songs, by Billy Gibbons' protege Lance Lopez. 20 of the Greatest Rock'n'Roll Movies Ever Made. After close on a year’s recording and then fine-tuning, Eliminator (a term for winning a drag race), was released on March 23, 1983.
Eliminator is the eighth studio album by American rock band ZZ Top. It was released on March 23, 1983, by Warner Bros. Records, and rose high on the charts in many countries. Four hit singles were released—"Gimme All Your Lovin'" which reached the American Top 40, "Sharp Dressed Man", "TV Dinners" and their most successful single, "Legs".
- 1982
- Bill Ham
- March 23, 1983
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Mar 23, 2016 · ZZ Top released 'Eliminator' on March 23, 1983. ... ZZ Top’s previous album, El Loco, barely broke gold and the Top 20; Eliminator went Top 10 and has sold more than 10 million copies.
- Michael Gallucci
Jun 1, 2023 · “By the time El Loco came along, Billy was a postdoctoral student of synthesizers, vocal harmonizers, and numerous other gadgets,” wrote ZZ Top’s road manager David Blayney in his book about the band, Sharp Dressed Men. “So the results on the album and (thanks to sound augmentation) onstage made ZZ Top sound more like an orchestra than ...
Mar 23, 2023 · While it hit the US Top 20 and went gold, El Loco sold less than half the copies than its predecessor, Degüello, had moved. For Gibbons, the feeling his band were getting stuck in a rut was compounded when ZZ Top toured Europe in support of El Loco. Visiting a nightclub on the continent, the singer/guitarist watched a large throng of young ...
- Alan York
El Loco. El Loco is the seventh studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in 1981. It foreshadowed the band's extensive usage of synthesizers on Eliminator, Afterburner, and to a lesser extent, Recycler, by way of employing a synthesizer on a couple tracks, played by an uncredited Linden Hudson. [2]
Apr 13, 2023 · Though this change wasn’t completely down to DEPECHE MODE. Co-writer and producer Linden Hudson would introduce Gibbons to drum machines in his home studio during the El Loco recording process. Curiosity piqued, Eliminator slowly came to life to the beat of a click track. This wouldn’t be the only change however.
