

"Legs" contains electric guitar and vocals from Gibbons, but the bass guitar of Dusty Hill and drums of Frank Beard were replaced in the final mix by engineer Terry Manning who played keyboard bass and drum machine to achieve the style sought by Gibbons. SONG: LEGS ARTIST: ZZ TOP ALBUM: ELIMIMATOR TAB BY: DON CZARSKI EMAIL: GUITARZAN7HOTMAIL.COM LEGS ZZ TOP INTRO: E E E E E E D5 D5 E E E E E E NOTE: E E E E This is how this lick is played E -0-0-0-0- B -/5-5-5-5- G -/4-4-4-4-4\\2-0h1- D -2- A - E - VERSE: E She's got legs, she knows how to use them Cm She never. Legs Lyrics by ZZ Top from the Top 100 80s album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more: Shes got legs, she knows how to use them. Pre-production engineer Linden Hudson established the song's pulsing synthesizer line during rehearsals. Like other songs on Eliminator, the musical style of "Legs" shows the band's new interest in electronic music elements, driven by singer-guitarist Billy Gibbons who was pushing to incorporate new wave and synth-pop styles.

The video was placed into heavy rotation on MTV, which helped to lift the single high on the charts. "Legs" was the third installment of a trilogy of similarly themed videos shot by Tim Newman for Eliminator, and it won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Group. Frank Beard's home studio, Quail ValleyĪ video was made for "Legs", depicting a timid young female store clerk who is given confidence by a trio of sexy women, with the band mysteriously appearing and disappearing.This list features all the radio staples from "Tush" to "Gimme Some Lovin'" and plenty of heralded deep cuts like "Precious" and "Grace." Got a ZZ Top earworm we've forgotten? Simply click the "Rerank List" button and you can put the songs in whatever order you like.Quick facts: "Legs", Single by ZZ Top, from the album Elim. They even managed to survive the sterile synth production of the '80s by contrasting it against the grit in Gibbons' guitar work. Throughout that decade Gibbons and his chugging rhythm section of bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard would crank out one dusty nugget of bluesy rock after another, always topped by one of Gibbons' searing guitar solos. The song was released as a single in 1984 and reached number eight on the. Texas native and guitar firebrand Gibbons would spend the rest of the '70s proving why he'd caught Hendrix's eye with his three piece tex mex influenced power trio ZZ Top. Dusty is one of the original founding members of ZZ Top - serving as their lead bass player and secondary lead vocalist since they launched the rock band in 1969. Legs is a song performed by the band ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator. 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'. In one of the last interviews Jimi Hendrix did before his untimely death, he was asked if there were any new guitar players he admired. Eliminator is the eighth studio album by American rock band ZZ Top.It was released on March 23, 1983, by Warner Bros. Its still an excellent ZZ Top album, one of their best, yet it sounds like a mechanized. Years later, the sound of the times winds up sounding a bit stiff.

Singles Sharp Dressed Man, Gimme All Your Lovin’, and Legs were inescapable and remain classic rock radio staples to this. She leaves her glasses behind and the cook runs after her to the shoe store where she works. The songs alone would have made Eliminator one of ZZ Tops three greatest albums, but their embrace of synths and sequencers made it a blockbuster hit, since it was the sound of the times. But it was 1983’s Eliminator that turned ZZ Top into MTV superstars. List of the top ZZ Top songs, as voted on by fans like you. ZZ Top - Legs (Official Music Video) Legs features a salesgirl who enters a burger joint and suffers harassment by everyone there but a handsome and friendly young cook who is bullied by his co-workers as well.
