ZZ Top 1983 From The Tube Got me Under Pressure/Gimme all your Loving

This was THE tv appearance! Blew most of the UK away! It was like WTF?! Play it again!!

[@Wileylikethehawk]

The decision to go from regular blues to crazy futuristic robotic blues was a stroke of genius.

[@CrueLoaf]

it really was! I thought it was the future of all music when I first heard it!

[@thetimelapsesketchbook.9088]

As a teen of the 80's I grew up listening to Eliminator and Afterburner were like future rock and it sounded different and fantastic.

[@4578a]

they articulated that perfectly

[@mygunisinnocent8028]

It all happened when the band started injecting LSD.

[@ecpola]

@@mygunisinnocent8028 Say What!? I heard they simply wanted danceable music. Because, like this song says, "she likes cocaine".

[@jamesbarnett2483]

These guys were untouchable at this point. Billy’s guitar sound is RIGHTEOUS

[@wildbill2122]

a GIBSON EXPLORER Standard, DANG ! Guitars just don't get much better than that ! They just don't....Rev Willie's is probably heavily modded but IDK.... at this point, 1983 , maybe not !

[@R.Lennartz]

@@wildbill2122 Actually that's a Dean, the body is the explorer shape, but look at the headstock, they were custom built by Dean just for ZZ Top.

[@mattreichenberg309]

Both guitar and bass tones are 🔥

[@SJ-ty5rw]

He is probably using a Marshall JCM 800 , which came out maybe a year before this . With the gain cranked ...

[@FMDad-dm5qo]

Height of their powers

[@BoogyWoogyCreep]

The thickest sounding 3 piece, EVER. That guitar tone is insane! RIP Dusty, you are a legend bro.

[@thomasedmundrichards]

They weren’t that thick, well Frank was quite thick but the other two bearded ones were quite bright

[@michaelt3308]

Rush?

[@BoogyWoogyCreep]

@@michaelt3308 I love Rush but they got their tones from Moog pedals and Keyboard from Geddy Lee.

[@bedroomlevel]

Soo, I’m pretty sure you can hear 2 guitars at a few points, especially during the main verse of Gimme all your lovin’. Gotta be using a backing guitar track or a hidden guitarist.

[@Petibako]

@@bedroomlevel Yeah there's a backing track going on recorded by Gibbons, as far as i can hear it. Too bad.

[@jimbarrofficial]

RIP Dusty Hill - some guys can't be replaced. First Neil Peart, then Dusty.

Don't forget Eddie Van Halen!!!

[@DaveAnchovies]

@ so many dweebs copied eddie van halen, and that soft hagar crap they play...dont think anyone would notice. it was david lee roth who shouldnt have been replaced, rush can go see what rutseys up to and go back to the early days...nobody in this band ir replaceable. peart wasnt even the original drummer...just the better drummer. rush shouldnt make any more music, van halen shoulda hung it up before sammy ruined the legacy......the Who figured out how to replace moon and still make decent music. couldnt imagine moon messing up you better you bet...that was written for a more conventional drummer. have any of you heshers heard of new order? they successfully replaced the one of a kind ian curtis...

[@devinthierault]

@@DaveAnchovies The bass in my profile pic is a copy of Peter Hooks six string.

[@mikeboyd6532]

@@DaveAnchovies Rutsey's dead. Died 2008.

[@michaelprice7005]

@@DaveAnchovies Your constipation seems to have backed-up out the in hole.

[@mikequintanilla114]

Dang that tone is so bad ass. Hard to believe that sound is coming from 3 dudes.

[@MarioM..]

The definition of a Power Trio

[@meddlehedd1194]

backing track

[@Klaus80804]

3 dudes and a tape machine 🙂!

[@RoyHarperLighthouseGuy]

Prior to the death of Dusty Hill, ZZ Top was like a fine wine, they got BETTER with time. Three guys, 50+ years delighting enthusiastic fans around the world with great music is one helluva big deal!

[@ericb8888]

@@Klaus80804💯especially when the rhythm guitar keeps going through the solos ;)

[@johnpatterson4272]

In 1983 the album 'Eliminator' and ZZ Top in North America was killer shiznitz. It was EVERYWHERE. On TV, on AM and FM radio and on the turntables at every party you were at. A carefully marketed delivery of popular music that made fashion and attitudes of-the-day cool. Better times for all of us who remember.

[@shanehancock9346]

I remember man🤪

[@shanehancock9346]

66 years old & will always. Remember ZZ TOP sad news about DUSTY he will be dearl missed.

[@johnpatterson4272]

@@shanehancock9346 Dusty was in-earnest what made ZZ Top 'heavy sounding' on AM and FM radio back in '83. For those of us true rock and rollers, when the 'Eliminator' album became a hit, I for one still believed rock music was not lost and could still be 'popular'.

[@michaelprice7005]

In 83 these guys ruled the rock scene throughout the free world.

[@_fabio1978]

True.

[@WhatsCookingTime]

I remember when this thing dropped I was like 13 and I was blown away by it I had the album like right away my paper route money. Amazing then the videos man talking about crazy

[@WhatsCookingTime]

@@YTiswoke not in 1983. Van Halen had its day in the sun no doubt in the jump album was huge but 83 is easy top was all over the place remember they had had a couple of hits back years ago different sound they burst onto the scene with the music the videos they were everywhere.

[@billklacks9908]

dad died in 02 never got to see youtube. zz top was one of his favorite bands. hed flip out ou can just watch all this shit for free i think. love you dad.

[@cherylbouvier9626]

Sorry to hear that. I am sure is listening from above and enjoying every minute of it.

[@L24U84]

Daddy's birthday today may he rest in 🕊️✌️ loved alotta ZZ TOP Happy Heavenly Birthday 🎂 Daddy

[@Wakeywhodat]

When I was 22 I had a helper that was 43 and he was an absolute rock music encyclopedia. He passed about 25 years ago and I often wondered how he would react if he could visit and see what we have today. I play these videos on an iPad, with or without headphones, or a giant TV that upconverts to 4K and a 7.2 surround sound.. I stream just about anything ever recorded with my phone and earbuds with perfect clarity. We need to realize how good we have it. Thumbs up to you and your dad. Rock on!

[@truthdefender54]

This is what a fully synchronized and oiled machine sounds like! They could probably do this in their sleep and sound better than lots of bands today.

[@discosecret6363]

truthdefender54 watch their performance on the Tonight Show from '86 before making such bold claims.

[@johncartelli]

listen to doc sevrenson playing that horn out of key and time i'd bet thats what through billy off

[@Pedrojorgedemarco]

Falou tudo, velhão!

[@salstonightsbiggestloser]

@@discosecret6363 I think the Tonight Show band screwed it too though to be fair.

[@adriantomlin2902]

Oh! Hell yeah!!! No one today ain't even remotely close to these badasses??!!

[@yankee1112]

If humanity had to put up one band to play to save the earth from aliens, I’d be damn comfortable with Billy, Dusty, and Frank up there 👍

[@lucasmccoy5330]

Fucking A!

[@seththomas9105]

@@lucasmccoy5330 Slim Whitman would have to be sittin' in.

[@leeryall1533]

Word

[@mikaelangelosgarage]

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!

[@Roy_1]

@@mikaelangelosgarage I was looking for this.

[@robhardin1939]

That little ole band from Texas, no one else can do it like ZZTop

[@CrueLoaf]

RIP Dusty! I cant believe it.

[@SAPEDLIFEWITHADOG]

RIP ZZ Top ...they're done

[@sublucky74]

@@SAPEDLIFEWITHADOG they’re actually still going with Elwood Francis their guitar tech on Dusty’s wishes.

[@mdudley52]

Dusty's high vocal harmonies are gold.

[@michelelaraia7358]

Agree.Puttin'/portraiting yourself with a DOUBLE bass,eh?✌️💓🌞🤜💯🤛🖐️🇮🇹😘

[@camlendrim7609]

Dusty had one hell of a voice ! He seems more involved here than in later years. They sure were SMOKIN’ this night. Great full sound. 💯

[@vernreed1969]

I think they lowered the pitch for Gimme all you loving over the years. I don't think Dusty sings so high in some of the later recordings. He does have a great voice and it makes an interesting contrast to Billy's.

[@michelelaraia7358]

@@vernreed1969 contrast

[@vernreed1969]

@@michelelaraia7358 thanks. fixed

[@barswaygo]

Guys in 2024 with beards down to their chest wish they were as cool as these guys in 1984

[@georgeloveless4176]

These guys were badass. I miss the 80's so much...😢

[@NoNotMe0000]

ZZ Top was even more badasz in the 70's. "Fandango" album is pure gold!

[@charlespolenzani2219]

As a kid I got a tour of the Dean Guitars factory by the man himself Dean Zelinsky. He was telling me about all the custom guitars he did for artists and said "I just sent out 2 guitars covered in fur for ZZ Top." and then proceeded to show me these very guitars which were about to be shipped out to the boys. I have been looking for a video of them playing them ever since! VIDEO FOUND! I actually got to play Billy's, although I didn't really know how to at the time. That visit started my journey with the guitar! Dean sent me home with an explorer on loan to see if I liked it and the rest is history. My one regret is I am left handed and I listened to Dean when he told me "Nobody want's a left-handed guitarist! Learn how to play righty!"

[@CrueLoaf]

I don't think Ive ever seen ZZ better than this here!!

[@hazor777]

Not complaining, but I think their performance energy was better just a couple years earlier (1980 etc..) - but I will say after decades of listening to Eliminator and thinking there was a lot of studio “magic” on the album , that this LIVE performance shows there really is a tangible core sound there , not far from the studio perfection of the album.

[@phillipkalaveras1725]

I'm 63 years old I was 13 years old when I purchased my first ZZ Top Album... 15 years old when I met my Sweetheart. She died June 13

[@Moodymongul]

Man, that phat tone ..this must be when they were running multiple overdrive pedals in their effects chain. That Classic Machine ZZ Top sound :)

[@erpece]

Actually, they have a backing track on some parts to get a fuller sound. 2nd guitar, synth and 1 or 2 additional backing vocs on Gimme all your lovin'. That being said, the main mix is what they play/sing live and there is no trickery during solos. I have seen them live a few times and they seem to have done this since the 80's. No harm in doing it the way they did - the live musicianship is still the main thing.

[@Moodymongul]

​@@erpece I remember (back in the early 90's) a magazine ran an article showing the rig set-up they used. Not sure if it was a 'live' rig or the Studio rig. But it had 2 overdrives in one circuit. The magazine claimed Billy stated using 2 overdrives was to give 'that' thick tone. However, the mag could have been making it up I guess :) I can't remember the overdrive pedal name, it might have been tubescreamer but I don't know for sure.

[@Gonboo]

@@Moodymongul blues driver gets that fat, slightly fuzzy sound. So it was probably a tubescreamer or sd -1 with the blues driver.

[@SHAKEYMEISTER]

The pedals where Expandora Fuzz's 👍

[@davidmorse3190]

All missions to outer space shall be required to have ZZ Top blasting out of the speakers. So ordered.

[@mpannett1]

This single appearance on British television created lift off for world wide fame. Remember seeing it live at 7pm on TV after coming home from lectures at university and watching open mouthed with my friends listening to that sound!! All the buzz the following day, the Tube was the premier UK showcase for music. Presented by Jools Holland and Paula Yates a for runner for today's Later with Jools Holland show.

[@markshaw2009]

They already were famous just the UK slow.

[@mpannett1]

That's true, they had put in years of touring but we're still struggling to make it big throughout the States. Making an impression using the uk gave them that extra kick for world dominance!! A real authentic band!

[@chrisubias7135]

Great. I used to go from Rhein Main AB to Lakenheath AB and Fairfield AB in the 80s. I enjoyed my time there.

[@bobcarey7235]

Billy's tone is incredible

[@christhevancura9113]

I saw them at Nassau Coleseum right before I moved to Texas in 1981 was a great welcome for me. I remember the concert shirts said: "That Lil ole shit kickin band is bringin Texas to the people " Hell yea !!

[@walley2637]

they always looked old, yet their music never gets old!

[@dkparadise2777]

Got Me Under Pressure here has to be the best live version of this song. Adding synth distortion to the guitars created a huge, industrial wall of sound.

[@XX-wz5ik]

Absolutely!! Spot on with the sound here! Amazing! They were bad ass how they went in this direction at that time!

[@danscott3880]

Midi synth...iron maiden used it on somewhere in time in 1986...

[@devinthierault]

@@danscott3880 I'm pretty sure it's a synth pedal like the EHX microsynth or an octave divider.

[@highdb1]

@@danscott3880 as did Judas Priest.

[@friedricengravy6646]

On the bass too! (on this track)

[@hogsnatchgibbons8956]

Billy's guitar sound is awesome!

[@nathanielvargas3863]

It’s very “authentic”

[@shitfer]

Sounds downright rude.

[@guileweaver1574]

R-A-U-N-C-H-Y

[@tednugentlives]

Tone. Grit. Real.

[@kimbarling4213]

Have Merci!!!!

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

This is great that it was saved. The amount of phenomenal performances by a multitude of bands either erased, taped over or tossed in the garbage back in the day is a travesty.

[@4578a]

That Guitar thing he does after "Got me under pressure!" is amazing

[@gaelbgalbar9307]

Rhââ I'm crying like a little kid when I hear such a sound... These guys knew what they did when they played their blues...

[@ozzyozcorn]

You know dusty is looking down smiling knowing we're Jamming to this shit 35 years strong

[@richs8754]

A very distinct sound. RIP Dusty Hill (May 19, 1949 - July 28, 2021).

[@SAPEDLIFEWITHADOG]

RIP ZZ Top...the show is over

[@garysullivan3144]

45 years later i cannot stay still listening to this

[@grumman38]

Raw but perfect!

[@bigtsshackfestival9563]

This band , at this time , could of taken on anybody!! Man what a bad ass groove !!!!

[@tago69mago]

Remember being blown away when I watched this live on tv in the 80's. That guitar tone! What a tight band. RIP Dusty. Thanks for everything. We won't forget you!

[@justincarroll9846]

Not as good as Donnington Monsters of rock 1985 and also headlined it.ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.

[@codybanks1942]

Let's also not forget the great beats of Frank Beard, it just seemed like this dude added that little spice to Dusty Hills Bass that really cemented this band as one of the top 10 greatest American bands

[@mrjon75]

Oh for sure. A great drummer is the most important thing.

[@seecwonrotboys7355]

One of my favorite drummers ...

[@themigwel6185]

Frank is like a metronome.

[@juliestevens0426]

but he always says he only knows 3 beats

[@ganderstein3426]

You've got a perceptive ear, young man.

[@Dorngrunder]

Coolest band ever. So glad that they came to Sweden before dusty passed away, it was epic

[@garycarter8703]

First time I ever saw ZZ Top was this. I can remember the effect it had. I thought "Wow! Now THAT is a rock band"

[@PerfectMask1]

Same here I think, Eliminator is still one of my fave albums ever.

[@olewetdog6254]

It definitely made me want to play the guitar. This was the MTV era and they just killed it with this album. It was definitely bad ass.

[@keithgreener1272]

Amazing performance. RIP Dusty. So much more than “just a bass player”. Billy’s guitar tone though 😮

[@MrQuaggle]

I cannot imagine how loud this room was. And I bet it was fucking awesome.

[@Grungebob_Squaredance]

Let’s not forget how great those early Dean guitars were. Quality and craftsmanship far beyond what Gibson and Fender were offering at the time.

[@troypattillo8316]

This song always makes me drive entirely too fast. Thanks for always being there Dust. RIP

[@OldSethOnetooth]

I had never really thought about them when thinking about 'power trios', my bad. That was superb, Dustys overdriven bass tone. At that point no one sounded or looked like that and they completely deserved Eliminator to be a global hit given the amount of hard graft done by them in the years leading up to it. Still have my original tape of Eliminator, picked up the vinyl a few years ago.

[@zacharyphillips9159]

This must have blown peoples minds in 1983. It blows me away in 2021.

[@wkb8326]

I remember it well. I left a bar one night and the friend I was with fired up a big fat joint and put on his new ZZ top cassette he purchased that day. He said to me "wait until you hear this !!" We sit there in his car and listened to every song. I was very impressed and blown away.

[@user-ou7ni6su6h]

We were used to amazing music back then.

[@mattolsen9060]

Dustys voice sounds like a cloud singing me a lullaby at a rock concert

[@erinnmccrankypants5192]

Probably the coolest band in America! And they still got it today

[@stevehebert5844]

There's nothing like good old-fashioned blues inspired rock n roll !!!

[@rnvrnv354]

I be taken aback! This apears to be the most vibrant bootleg ZZ TOP video that I have ever seen/heard!

[@caseylayton4898]

Not bootleg lol was for TV in the UK

[@Axeman428]

I got a chance to see them four times I was never disappointed. Beer drinkers and hell raisers.

[@Guitarhero1000]

RIP Dusty. I'm 40, I was barely 2 when this was filmed. My God what a legacy!

[@adamicus]

that guitar tone is truly awesome, DURDEEEE :)

[@alanoffer]

Adam Walker that's how guitars used to sound before pedals got in the way ,that is just an overdriven amp no BS getting in the way

[@graemepetty1864]

Totally wrong. BG uses 6 ( SIX) of the same overdrive pedal all set slightly different to get his signature tone and drive sound. Bloody good though. And he uses 7 gauge strings which is unheard of !!!

[@tonycruse3648]

Plus there is a sequencer in use hence the headphones on the drummer. But a killer sound!!

[@PerfectMask1]

Yep, Billy's guitar tone is one of the best ever.

[@MisterSwagify]

@@graemepetty1864 Yeah, I kinda hate when people suggest it's just guitar into amp. People do that with Angus Young as well, and it just is not true. A lot of Angus' signature sound from '78 through the 80s very much came from the Schaffer Vega Diversity System's preamp, which has 30dB of clean boost plus a ton of compression. Angus actually used it extensively in the studio as well as live, having used it on Powerage, Highway To Hell, Back In Black, For Those About To Rock, Flick Of The Switch, Fly On The Wall, Blow Up Your Video, likely The Razors Edge, and he used the Schaffer Replica on Rock Or Bust. People also say he plays on the clean channel and just cranks the amp, which is also false. He generally never took his master volume to max, and would nearly always use a fair bit of gain, while Malcolm tended to play cleaner. People seem to assume a lot of stupid shit about bands they know very little about, I find.

[@gtg1959ful]

I’ve been hooked since my first live ZZ TOP show in 1975...can’t stop listening since. Thanks Billy, Dusty and Frank for all the work!

[@rickowenkennedy]

ZZ Top at The Top of their game. Wow!!!

[@amrakarmaMisophoniac]

I grew up a metal head, but ZZ Top is my favorite band. Miss you Dusty.

[@user-wh6sp6st8s]

ZZ Top is so f***ing cool man. Makes me wish i were born in a time when we were both in our prime at the same time.

[@tonycruse3648]

I've never seen ZZ this fired up before or since!! Great stuff.

[@johnreagan4162]

Billy and Dusty's synchronized moves were just the greatest damn thing. Possibly the strongest power trio ever.

[@Phangmaster]

I think the guitar and bass tone sounds so great here because the recording of the show has distorted them both further than they actually were. Analogue distortion. Sounds insane.

[@ericmackenzie123]

What a guitar sound!!

[@norriemckinley2850]

This is TV GOLD and needs to be preserved! I remember watching this when I was a bairn. Bring back The Tube

[@robfreer-f8q]

Anything they ever did was absolutely excellent ! They still are .

[@svartmetall]

R.I.P., Dusty, and thanks for all the great music.

[@thebluesrockers]

I was 15 years old. My mom came home drunk around 10:30 and passed out, in her room. I took her car keys, started the car and "Sharp Dressed Man" was just starting on the radio. I sped off jamming on ZZ - Top. I trurned the corner and punched it. I spun around on the ice and snow before crashing into a tree. I bent the fender and the hood. I was so scared. I drove home and acted like nothing happen. The next day, my asked "What happen to my car?" I said "I don't know, you drove it home." hahaha She never brought it up again. I later bought "Eliminator" and have thought about that incident every time I hear this tune. hahaha

[@DavidHartley-ou8vj]

ZZ Top at the peak of their career. When they won at the 1st annual MTV video awards in 1984, they performed with the Ford coupe on stage, and tons of women got out of it and danced!

[@ianmcsherry5254]

RIP Dusty. Remember watching this live, when I was a teenager.

[@Po1itica11yNcorrect]

Their sound is much larger than what you'd expect from a 3-man band. Legends!! RIP Dusty.

[@haywoodyoudome]

There's definitely a second guitar in the mix Frank's wearing the headset so he can hear the click track. Doesn't take away from how awesome they sound.

[@johnathancross7465]

R.I.P Dusty Hill you will be dearly missed. One of the baddest bass players and singers in rock. Ladies and Gents the fantastic ZZ TOP!!!!!!!!

[@motomanxxxmotomanxxx]

I went to a house party in highschool. We didn't have cable or satellite tv at my house. As I walked through the front door and then past the living room , the tv was tuned in to MTV. I had never seen MTVbefore so I paused to check it out. And guess what was playing - Gimme all your lovin'. Man, I was floored. I had never heard of ZZ Top. That video made such an impression on me as I always loved 33 Ford 3 window coupes.

[@robertblackwell5575]

Ha . I live in So.In.. Same we didn't MTV here till like 84' Scorpions first band I saw on MTV.. I was like damn I ❤MTV.. Great time to be 20 yrs old..

[@chr15tree]

I'm here in 2024. This was 41 years ago. 41 years before this, Glenn Miller was a big thing.

[@CrueLoaf]

time is an odd thing ehh?

[@norms3913]

The most perfect dual lead singing song there is

[@jimsibley8639]

Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers gives it a good run for it's money, though.

[@willardwayne3]

It doesn't matter what guitar Billy plays he's always got that tone! That tone.....

[@milannikolic1929]

He was one of the best musicians with one of the best bands ever! ZZ TOP WAS MY MOTHER'S (she passed in 2006 at age 73) FAVORITE BAND. The Band has been my favorite over 50 yrs My condolences are warmly extended to family members

[@DavidHartley-ou8vj]

This is good as it gets. No auto tune, voice and instrument replication, no digital simulation technology(AI), lip singing, or acting. Eliminator in 1983 was recorded in Memphis TN and sold according to today's music platforms over 50 million copies .

[@CrueLoaf]

@@DavidHartley-ou8vj they did use a sequencer live, hence the headphones on Frank. But I’m not complaining. 👍🏻

[@kennyd5360]

I was 16 in 1983 and a hard core punk, I watched this on telly, blow me away, went out and bought the album [might have nicked it sorry billy] still got it thankyou and good night.

[@mandywalker1802]

This was the first time I’d seen or heard ZZ Top. I went out the next day and bought all their albums. Been a fan ever since

[@catman127]

I actually remember watching this when it was first broadcasted . Still good now

[@jonathanhudak2059]

I remember seeing them on MTV around this time 83' (I was 12) and seeing Billy and Dusty with the white fuzzy spiining guitars and my brother and I were like Whoaaa!!! I fondly remember listening to Eliminator and Afterburner on cassette repeatedly! The good ole days! Finally saw them on the Antenna tour summer 1994 on the Antenna album tour. Still a fan, kick ass band!

[@987fido]

This is by far the most awesomest video on youtube right now!

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

Bought both albums back in the day Eliminator 1983 Afterburner 1985 Played both albums on cassette to death ;)

[@ericb8142]

Will always remember my first time hearing ZZ Top... 1983/84? I was 9yo sitting at the back of my parents ' old Citroën DS, about to go for a trip I caught this tune out of the car radio, the tune I felt was so different from what I had heard until then and from what we were used to listen to in France at the time. It might have been Legs, might have been Gimme All your Lovin, really not sure... anyway that was so catchy, so good, so much . And at the same time the experience was really frustrating cause I had caught the song right in the middle of it, so too short plus I could not make out the name of that great band... The tune stayed in my head for a while then vanished... but the memory was so vivid... I was really anxious to listen to that band and tune again but it took few more years until I could hear a resembling tune, heard Tube Snake Boogie and thought, boy that voice, that cool attitude, that's it! Since then of course ZZ Top is a part of me!

[@pogonomyrmexrugosus6240]

I just saw these guys 2 weeks ago in Phoenix with Elwood Francis on bass. They still kicked ass. RIP Dusty.

[@dancingirl11]

I can watch these guys for hours! Great musicianship, great style, very cool!

[@chrisubias7135]

These guys were unique. They developed personas and a$$ kicking Rock/Blues music. Hometown homeboys.

[@PBmurray71]

I was a teen when this was going out live. I miss programs like the tube.

[@johndoe-gp1fx]

I was 9 when I got eliminator. Still got it today. R.i.p dusty. X

[@CrueLoaf]

4:02...those drums!!! That guitar tone! What an intro!!! Turn it up!

[@craigthescott5074]

In 1983 I was cruising the streets of Phoenix in my tuxedo black 1964 Corvette coup with a ZZ top key chain hanging on my cigarette lighter. It’s still there and I’m racing the car as a pro touring race car today. RIP Dusty thx Frank and Billy for all the great memories.

[@devinthierault]

See Britain, we were a sound investment in the end. :)

[@PhreddCrintt]

Saw them do this album at Milton Keynes Bowl in '83. Awesome.

[@danstringer7610]

My favorite band! RIP Dusty…I will miss you.

[@dsw8103]

My favorite too

[@Max_Drunk]

Coolest in the 80's! R.I.P Dusty!!!!!!! We will f....... miss you! Best voice in ZZ!!!!

[@joeylopezthaskinns100]

That Guitar Tone Though.

[@stevesalt2921]

+ThatoneDude Dam straight! Sounds like thunder.

[@alanoffer]

+risingone I'm old beat up and grumpy and that just made the hair on the back of my neck stand up ,,,thank god

[@guym2222]

Didn't he use a quarter as a pick? Must have made this sound - or helped!

[@tonycruse3648]

guym2222 That was Brian May wasn't it? I do know Billy uses very light gauge strings. I've seen him play half a solo without using his right hand.

[@mitchfleming274]

At first he used a quarter but the serrations would wear out the strings. He used ones with the serrations buffed off. He finally settled on a Peso though.

[@tutsdel118]

Saw them the night before this at Newcastle City Hall. What a night

[@bartdisseldorp9496]

The Dust forever! Hail Dusty, we are all missing you like Hell, your enthusiasm for the music will never be forgotten, RIP

[@ianthomas4568]

I saw them at Hammersmith odeon this year, just before they went massive in 84!

[@tedwilson5713]

I’ve seen the Top so many times. Always the best show. They love their crowd!

[@troyroger7242]

I seen them four times in the 80s always tight music and sounding great. Long live ZZ TOP

[@jesserothbeind950]

ZZ TOP layin' it down big time!!! Classic!!

[@justs-28445]

Back when this first hit the radio,,i thought wow what a COOL SOUND,,i was in highschool,,, and everyone was like wow listen to these guys,,, then the videos hit MTV and have mercy i was witnessing the coolest band that I'd ever seen,,, i become HOOKED and have stayed hooked,,, the eliminator and afterburner albums are the greatest,, recycler is in third place,,, that's when i was finally financially able to go see them! Boy talking about BOOMING LOUD,,WHEW MY EARS RUNG FOR SIX DAYS,,,, AND THAT WAS SUCH A BAD ASS EXPERIENCE,, THAT MOVING SIDEWALK ( TREADMILL) BLEW MY MIND!!❤❤ I'VE BEEN ZZ EVER SINCE!!

[@robbyclark6915]

I remember when Eliminator came out. I was a 14 year old kid (or there abouts) it was the SHIT! What’s crazy is these were some of the most unlikely guys to make such a massive impact (or so I thought) in the music scene at that time? I had been a ZZ Top fan since childhood and this album was so unique compared to their previous stuff. Still my favorite ZZ Top album! I wore it out! I cannot emphasize enough just how freaking HUGE these guys were at that time! They were the single biggest Rock Band in the World with this album!

[@k.lindsey3529]

Remember exactly where I was when I first heard this album in 1983. Me an my buddies got so excited we wound up smoking too much pot and got severely stoned

[@MikeAnderson-uj3oo]

I was also 14 when this came out and it blew my mind. My mom had me listening to ZZ at around 10 years old. Maybe younger. So I knew their early blues music and my all time favorite album Tres Hombres, but Eliminator was something special for me. The videos on TV really had me hooked by that point. I've been lucky enough to see them 13 times in concert. That will be it for me. I can't go without seeing Dusty. RIP brother. You brought me a lot of joy over the years.

[@stephenclarke4675]

Saw them one day after this was televised, Stoke on Trent uk.