Name: Gibbons Jokes Around At Practice - "Kitchens" by Texasman
Duration: 50 s
Description: It was 1982 at ZZ Top practice, at Franks home studio, Linden Hudson was engineering at the mix console, recording jams as they searched for ideas. Billy sat by a live vocal mic and sometimes would act funny between jams. This was on a cassette tape that was in a shoe box that Linden had for more than 35 years.

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Transcription link: 
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/nahrein/media/podcasts/transcript-conversation-dhiaa-kareem-ali


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Duration: 26:47
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Zainab Mahdi
Guests: Dhiaa Kareem Ali
Producer: Zainab Mahdi

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Contributors
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John Van Reenen
Ashley Tellis

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Language of episode: English
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Producer: Christie Garrington

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Transcription link: 
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/nahrein/media/podcasts/transcript-conversation-fatimah-al-muqdadi


Date of episode recording: 2024-05-14T00:00:00Z
Duration: 43:30
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Zainab Mahdi
Guests: Fatimah Al-Muqdadi
Producer: Zainab Mahdi

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Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade | LSE US Centre Event

A shining city on a hill. America the beautiful. The United States has long been mythologised as the land of dreams and opportunity. And since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s it has been undisputedly the most powerful nation on earth. But is it a fading force? The idea of an America in decline has gained traction in recent years and has, of course, been capitalized on by President Trump. Is America’s ‘greatness’ under threat?

In this episode of LSE iQ, a collaboration with the LSE Phelan US Centre's podcast, The Ballpark, Sue Windebank and Chris Gilson speak to LSE’s Elizabeth Ingleson and John Van Reenen and Ashley Tellis from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Contributors
Elizabeth Ingleson
John Van Reenen
Ashley Tellis




Research

Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade by Elizabeth Ingleson

The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms by David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2020.

Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China by Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis




More Information


LSE Phelan United States Centre: https://www.lse.ac.uk/United-States

Listen to The Ballpark podcast: https://www.lse.ac.uk/united-states/the-ballpark/Podcasts; LSE Player, Spotify; Soundcloud

Related interviews on The Ballpark with guests on this episode

Dr Ashley Tellis - The Future of US-China Competition

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson - Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade

LSE Ballpark | Will the US remain the world’s superpower?

It was 1982 at ZZ Top practice, at Franks home studio, Linden Hudson was engineering at the mix console, recording jams as they searched for ideas. Billy sat by a live vocal mic and sometimes would act funny between jams. This was on a cassette tape that was in a shoe box that Linden had for more than 35 years.

Gibbons Jokes Around At Practice - "Kitchens"

Linden Hudson is a pro TV & Film sound man of 28 years experience. An extremely interesting fact about Linden is that he was a strategic part of the team that created & produced one of the most famous record albums in pop music history, the huge ZZ Top ELIMINATOR album. This album sold well beyond ten million copies in the US alone (ten times platinum and beyond). Half the songs on the ELIMINATOR album were hits (5 songs reaching the Billboard HOT 100). This is a rare level of success for a record album and was, by far, ZZ Top's most successful release (grammy nominated). The sad part of the story is: Linden Hudson was never given credit for his work & co-writing on this huge album nor did ZZ opt to pay him any royalties. 

 CLASSICBANDS DOT COM said: “According to former roadie David Blayney in his book SHARP DRESSED MEN: sound engineer Linden Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the ELIMINATOR album.”

Yes, as mentioned, Linden's story has a very fucked up twist. When the details of Linden's involvement in ELIMINATOR began to surface ZZ Top management freaked out and went to work to keep a lid on the story. ZZ Top management totally treated Linden like dirt. He was emotionally crushed because of these incredibly cold decisions which were set forth by Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top guitarist) and  management. Linden spent many years in a dark emotional state. In fact, he never got over it. After all these years Linden Hudson has become somewhat radicalized and has begun to convey his "very shitty" adventure to the public. The coming of the internet has given Linden a broadcasting medium, and a chance to tell it to interested ears, and he'll continue to actively tell it to the world in the whatever time he has left. Wouldn't you?

Many journalists have stated that the songwriting was one of the strong points of the ELIMINATOR album. But, another thing that helped with the album's huge (and sudden) success was the heavy injection of synthesizers and techno-pop techniques on ELIMINATOR. This is undisputed. So, we offer up more revelations: It was actually Linden Hudson who introduced the synthesizers into the ZZ Top sound in the early 80's. It's one hundred percent true. These facts were finally stated by none other than ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons to well known journalist Joe Bosso of MUSICRADAR DOT COM in a 2013 interview. In this interview ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons cautiously began to break 30 years of silence about Linden Hudson's work in the early 80's, Billy Gibbons said: “This was a really interesting turning point. We had befriended somebody who would become an influential associate, a guy named Linden Hudson. He was a gifted songwriter and had production skills that were leading the pack at times. He brought some elements to the forefront that helped reshape what ZZ Top were doing, starting in the studio and eventually to the live stage. Linden had no fear and was eager to experiment in ways that would frighten most bands. But we followed suit, and the synthesizers started to show up on record.” (End Quote) 

As mentioned earlier, It has been well discussed, and well known by rock journalists, that the injection of synthesizers and techno is what instantly made ZZ Top superstars. But, for 30 years Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top guitarist) made up ridiculous stories about how the synthesizers and technology came into the ZZ Top sound, denying Linden his due credits.

TVTROPES DOT ORG said: “for all intents and purposes, Eliminator is a Billy Gibbons solo album with contributions by pre-production engineer Linden Hudson, who contributed drum machine programming and keyboard sequencing, and was alleged to have co-written most of the material". (end quote)

Yes, the huge majority of all the drums on the ELIMINATOR album were generated by a computer (instead of real drums) and the bass was a synthesizer (instead of real bass guitar). This was their first record album to be constructed in that manner. The result was an album which sold ten to twenty times more copies than previous records had sold, remaining on the charts for years. Why? Because computer drums were cleaner, not sloppy, easier to dance to, and computer bass was pure and easy to mesh with the digital drums. This is just fact. That is exactly why it happened that way.

Billy Gibbons once made a ridiculous statement (total bullshit) to ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE about the ELIMINATOR album, in which he said: "We still sometimes wonder what exactly did transpire to make those sessions dramatically different, I suppose it might have been a return to playing together as a band in the studio as we did onstage." (end quote). ++ (Can you say "cover up"?) Of course the pop world is beginning to realize, a little at a time, that such statements are not true and are in fact ridiculous, since many folks now understand that Frank and Dusty were just barely involved (and we mean barely) in the making (and writing) of that incredibly famous record. Billy has fought and fought for many years to cover up these facts, likely fearing a "Milli Vanilli" flavored backlash. Oh well, it is what it is, truth is truth, you cannot change truth, it will eventually knock at your door. 

The synthesized bass and synthesized drum aspect of the "Eliminator" album is easily proven forensically (it really is), but there's no need for that because it's been "given up" and "admitted to", in recent years, on several internet postings by the final sound tracking engineer for the "Eliminator" project (the accomplished Mr Terry Manning). The facts are definitely out of the bag. So give it up. 

Why did Billy Gibbons wait decades to begin to tell the public anything at all about Linden's important contributions to the bands' recordings and music? And, why did Linden never receive co-writer credits for "Eliminator"? 

Quote: FROM THE BOOK: "SHARP DRESSED MEN - ZZ TOP", DAVID BLAYNEY said: "I find it hard to believe that the boys intentionally set out to do a number on Linden, but sometimes you tend to forget where you came from. It's very easy to get both greedy and self-serving in show bidness". (end quote)

What ever happened, it was so deeply wrong. Put yourself in Linden's shoes. How would you feel if this had happened to you? Does anyone know of a similar level of pain for someone who has been fucked in the music business? Maybe so, but none come to mind. The fact that the album was titled ELIMINATOR is ironic, because it was Linden Hudson who got ELIMINATED.

The cover up still exists in a major way to this day. Billy Gibbons is slowly beginning to mention Linden in interviews (30 years later) but will not reference Linden to the hugely successful "Eliminator" album, no doubt fearing legal retribution. When you can afford lawyers, just do what they say. Right Billy? 

 Some people really don't understand the level of success that went down with "Eliminator". So, here is a quick rundown: The "Eliminator" album, ALONE, sold HALF OF ALL the records that ZZ Top sold in their entire career (out of their career total of 15 albums). Think about that. The hugely popular ZZ Top "Eliminator" album received several DIAMOND record trophies (in the US and in Canada). Each diamond trophy represents 10 times the sales of platinum, it's massive. And, the album reached multi-platinum in many countries around the world, a feat they had never achieved. Nor did ANY of their follow-up albums achieve this level of success (not even close). Linden sat at home in silence and watched the album stay on the charts for YEARS. Whenever one of those songs played on the radio Linden would quickly change the station. It was just fucked up. "Eliminator" was nominated for a grammy. Linden Hudson was not invited to the festivities or mentioned.

Quote: by David Blayney (ZZ Top stage manager for 15 years), in his book SHARP DRESSED MEN: "Linden Hudson in a fair world should have had his name all over ELIMINATOR and gotten the just compensation he deserved. Instead he got ostracized.” (end quote)

Quote: From the book: “ZZ TOP – BAD AND WORLDWIDE” (Rolling Stone Press, Written by Deborah Frost): "But with the release of their ninth album, Eliminator, in 1983, these hairy, unlikely rock heroes had become a pop phenomenon. This had something to do with the discoveries of a young preproduction engineer (Linden Hudson) whose contributions, like those of many associated with the band over the years, were never acknowledged." (end quote)

Quote: FROM THE BOOK: “SHARP DRESSED MEN — ZZ TOP” BY DAVID BLAYNEY: “The integral position Linden occupied in the process of building “Eliminator” was demonstrated eloquently in the case of the song “Under Pressure”. Billy and Linden, the studio wizards, did the whole song all in one afternoon without either the bass player or drummer even knowing it had been written and recorded on a demo tape. Linden synthesized the bass and drums and helped write the lyrics; Billy did the guitars and vocals.” (end quote)

Rolling Stone Magazine listed the "Eliminator" album as one of the top 500 albums in history. With regard to this pop phenomenon Linden has been discussed in four books by well known writers, plus he's been written about in Rolling Stone magazine and many other magazine/newspaper articles. Besides strong involvement in the entire "Eliminator" album, Linden wrote one hundred per cent of one of the songs on that album (the song THUG) and he OWNED the copyright. That's right, he outright owned the copyright to "Thug". Sadly, he had to sue for the royalties of "Thug", one of one his own copyrighted songs, and much of his proceeds from the eventual settlement went to lawyers. Welcome to the dark side of the music world, the VERY dark side.

Sadly, all this leaves one of the "little people" (Linden) to fend for himself should he want due credits ON ANYTHING. Never mind all the lost royalties over the years which could have helped sustain such a "shat upon" human being (Linden) and which could have helped him through some of the low points in his life. Yes, of course, we know Linden's just a little person, in the shadows, an unpaid ghost, not a rock star, no big deal, got it, sorry for the bother. Of course this situation illustrates the way in which so many ego-centric rock stars think with regard to the "little" humans around them, and the public has witnessed this mode of "star" thinking all too many times in the media. Please read more specific information about Linden's "not so much fun" music adventure at: lindenhudson.com/fa .

Quote: David Blayney (ZZ Top stage manager for 15 years) said in his book SHARP DRESSED MEN: (page 227): "The song LEGS, Linden Hudson introduced the pumping synthesizer effect."
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Linden is in Wikipedia (search each page for "Linden"):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZ_Top 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminator_(album) 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legs_(song)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got_Me_Under_Pressure
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Dressed_Man
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_plagiarism
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Quote: From The Book: "Sharp Dressed Men - ZZ Top" By David Blayney: "After his quantitative revelations, Linden informally but instantly became ZZ Top's rehearsal hall theoretician, producer, and engineer." (end quote)

Quote: From The Book: “ZZ TOP — BAD AND WORLDWIDE” (Rolling Stone Press, written by Deborah Frost): “Eventually they decided to use the song (“Thug” by Linden Hudson) on “Eliminator”. They (ZZ Top) and Bill Ham (ZZ’s manager) refused to discuss the question of royalties or album points with him (Linden). They didn’t deny he wrote the song”. (end quote)

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT SHIT?

We pose a question: "Hey Billy, yes you Mr Gibbons, how have you felt about this Linden Hudson matter throughout the years? Just curious."

Gibbons Jokes Around At Practice - "Kitchens"

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