![]() ![]() THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE, MARCH 2018: "Eliminator" had a tremendous impact on us and the people who listen to us," says ZZ Top’s bass player. How much did the band experiment with electronic instruments prior to that album? ZZ Top got what amounted to a new bandsman (Linden) for the album, unknown to the world at large and at first even to Dusty and Frank."ĬNET DOT COM: (question posed to ZZ Top): Sound engineer Linden Hudson was described as a high-tech music teacher on your highly successful "Eliminator" album. What had gone on before evolutionary this change was revolutionary. TEXAS MONTHLY MAGAZINE (Dec 1996, By Joe Nick Patoski): "Linden Hudson floated the notion that the ideal dance music had 124 beats per minute then he and Gibbons conceived, wrote, and recorded what amounted to a rough draft of an album before the band had set foot inside Ardent Studios."įROM THE BOOK: SHARP DRESSED MEN - ZZ TOP (By David Blayney) : "Probably the most dramatic development in ZZ Top recording approaches came about as Eliminator was constructed. But we followed suit, and the synthesizers started to show up on record.” (once again, there was no apology from ZZ Top or Billy Gibbons after this revelation). Linden had no fear and was eager to experiment in ways that would frighten most bands. He brought some elements to the forefront that helped reshape what ZZ Top were doing, starting in the studio and eventually to the live stage. He was a gifted songwriter and had production skills that were leading the pack at times. We had befriended somebody who would become an influential associate, a guy named Linden Hudson. MUSICRADAR DOT COM (2013 interview with ZZ Top's guitarist Billy Gibbons broke 30 years of silence about Linden Hudson introducing synthesizers into ZZ Top's sound.) Gibbons said: “This was a really interesting turning point. LICKLIBRARY DOT COM (2013 Billy Gibbons interview) ZZ TOP'S BILLY GIBBONS FINALLY ADMITTED: “the Eliminator sessions in 1983 were guided largely by another one of our associates, Linden Hudson, a gifted engineer, during the development of those compositions.” (end quote) (Gibbons admits this after 30 years, but offers Linden no apology or reparations for lack of credit/royalties) Read Linden's story of the making of the super-famous ZZ Top ELIMINATOR album at: this Wikipedia link and find Linden's name throughout the article & read the album songwriter credits about halfway down at: en./wiki/Eliminator_%28album%29 Hear the original ZZ Top ELIMINATOR writing/rehearsal tapes made by Linden Hudson and Billy Gibbons at: youtu.be/2QZ8WUTaS18 No one should treat the co-writer of their most successful album like this. Linden launched a limited lawsuit, brought about using his limited resources which brought limited results and took years. Also, the band did not opt to pay Linden, they worked to keep all the money and they treated Linden like dirt. The band and management worked ruthlessly to take FULL credit for the hugely successful album which Linden had spent a good deal of time working on. It would have helped Linden's career as well. (ZZ Top never opted to give Linden credit, which would have been THE decent thing to do. She's posed for Penthouse and Playboy too.ĬLASSICBANDS DOT COM said: “According to former roadie David Blayney in his book SHARP DRESSED MEN: sound engineer Linden Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the ZZ Top ELIMINATOR album.” (end quote) Liz Ashley was once on the cover of Hustler Magazine. There's no use in hiding perfectly good nipples. This is a freeze frame taken from video shot by Linden Hudson (amateur photographer). A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was scheduled to say in Dallas what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster and what Clinton originally planned to say after his grand jury testimony but swapped for a much fiercer speech.NAUGHTY NIPPLE-PEEK BRA - FAMOUS SEXY MODEL Zanuck, General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking on em Bush v. Bush, this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the 'Rump Parliament,' Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD : strong The definitive compendium of classic and modern oratory expanded 8213 with a new preface on what makes a speech 'great.' strong An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, em Lend Me Your Ears em contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. ![]()
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