The smart move on the band was to include an old classic ZZ Top track as the B-Side. It is a perfectly good way to screw-up a great song. It is really just a bunch of beeps and blips and drum beats mixed in to the song that we love to make it sound “dance” and doesn’t really make me want to run out to the dance floor. I read somewhere that described the genre of this mix as Tex-Mex Latin Dance and I am not sure that is how I would describe it as I don’t hear any real latin influence. At least you still have Gibbons guitar and his killer riffs and great vocals. The real song is in their but they extended parts, added so many dance beats, electronic drum sounds and synthesizers noises that it turns it in to a rather different track. The “Special Dance Mix” of “Legs” is a really long track at 7:48. To think, these guys were old as far as the MTV generation was concerned, but they somehow pulled off a miracle thanks to videos and brought a fun, good time rock & roll vibe to the audience and they ate it up. It was a dramatic change for the band that brought them a completely new audience. It is weird to think that this Texas Blues Rock Band would have a “Dance Mix” of a song, but in the 80’s, anything was possible. 12″ Maxi-Single that included the “Special Dance Mix” of the song “Legs” and the B-Side was the album version of the song “La Grange” from the album ‘Tres Hombres’ from 1983. My copy of the single is the standard U.S. I wonder how that went over the Hill and Beard. This was the first time that the band embrace synthesizers and electronic drum machines and if I’m not mistaken the bass and drums that were recorded for the song were actually replaced by the electronic equipment. “Legs” went Top 40 going all the way to #8 and saw the band incorporate electronic elements and new wave sounds in to their music. And really we have MTV to thank as ZZ Top fully embraced the video concept and they did a trilogy of videos with these powerful women driving around in the classic 1933 Ford Coupe and it was stunning, just like the women. This album, along with this song, put ZZ Top in to the stratosphere of success. The song is off the band’s multi-platinum, 1983 album “Eliminator”. I quickly snatched it up and here we are now doing a post. I love finding the non-album versions of the songs. I had to have it especially since it was not the album mix. Who doesn’t want a “special dance mix” of that song. There is also a three-note guitar riff heard throughout most of the album version of "Legs", and it is a minute longer than the single version.I was out at a record show in Charlotte and was digging through the crates when I came across a 12″ Maxi-Single of ZZ Top’s song “Legs”.
The single remix of "Legs" is much more synthesizer-driven than the album version (although a synthesizer can be heard throughout the latter, it is toned down). During the final tracking sessions, Terry Manning (final Eliminator tracking engineer) called Linden Hudson and asked how he did the synth effects for "Legs", although Terry could have easily pulled it off if he needed to. However, David Blayney (ZZ Top stage manager for 15 years) explains in his book Sharp Dressed Men that the pumping synthesizer effect in "Legs" was introduced in pre-production by Linden Hudson. Although all three members of ZZ Top are credited with playing on the track, only Gibbons was actually present engineer Terry Manning was responsible for all the musical parts save the lead guitar. The dance mix version of the song peaked at number thirteen on the dance charts. The song was released as a single in 1984 and reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. "Legs" is a song performed by the band ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator.
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