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B-side
  
"La Grange"

Format
  
7"

Length
  
3:02

Released
  
1981

Recorded
  
1981

Label
  
Warner Bros.

"Tube Snake Boogie" is a song by American rock band ZZ Top from their 1981 album El Loco. It was released as a single the same year and reached #4 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

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In the liner notes for the band's 1992 Greatest Hits album, it is explained that "'tube snake' is gnarly lingo for a surfboard. Either way, it's good clean fun."

The song was produced by Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning.

Cover versions

  • Serbian hard rock band Cactus Jack recorded a version on their live cover album DisCover in 2002.
  • Canadian blues guitarist Bill Durst recorded a version on his 2005 album, The Wharncliff Sessions.

    • Personnel

  • Billy Gibbons - guitar, lead vocals
  • Dusty Hill - bass, backing vocals
  • Frank Beard - drums, percussion

    • References

    Tube Snake Boogie Wikipedia
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