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"Sharp Dressed Man" is a song by American rock band ZZ Top, released on their 1983 album Eliminator. The song was produced by band manager Bill Ham , and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning . Pre-production recording engineer Linden Hudson was very involved in the early stages of this song's production.
Warner hired filmmaker Tim Newman, [33] who also created videos for "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs". [34] The videos depicted America as "a land of rock and roll, cars and girls", [4] with three female models driving the Eliminator car. [34] The "Legs" video featured the debut of ZZ Top's spinning guitars, covered in white sheepskin. [35]
The song was produced by band manager Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning.David Blayney (ZZ Top's stage manager of 15 years), in his book Sharp Dressed Men, described how the song was pre-produced: Billy Gibbons and Linden Hudson (Houston engineer and songwriter) wrote the whole song and created a recorded demo all in one afternoon without either bassist Dusty Hill or drummer ...
On July 21, 2023, ZZ Top began a tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour, in West Palm Beach, which concluded on September 17 in Camden. [citation needed] A second leg of the tour began in March 2024 in Savannah, Georgia, and is due to end on September 22 in Ridgefield, Washington. [59]
Live from Texas is a live DVD/Blu-ray by ZZ Top.It was recorded on November 1, 2007, at the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie, Texas, and released on June 24, 2008, by Eagle Rock Records.
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Lonestar released a version of the song in 2002 for the album Sharp Dressed Men: A Tribute to ZZ Top. In 2011, American band Filter covered the song for the tribute album ZZ Top: A Tribute from Friends. [10]
The Man from their album Woodstock, adding a polka backing track and additional vocals. In 2022, the soundtrack album to the film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story included Yankovic performing the " Clarinet Polka " and a polka rendition of the Ramones ' " Beat on the Brat ".