Watching videos for Eliminator songs on MTV at the time, ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill concurred with Gibbons' grave assessment ...

ZZ Top reportedly held secret recording sessions without old-school manager/producer Bill Ham so the group could give Afterburner a more modern sound. "I wouldn't say that we defied Bill," the late ...

For its glorious first four minutes and two seconds, ZZ Top‘s Afterburner achieves the impossible: flying higher than its big brother Eliminator. For another three and a half, the Texas trio at least ...