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TIL that on ZZ Top's best selling album "Eliminator" bassist Duty Hill and drummer Frank Beard received album credits but did not attend most of the recording sessions. The album consists almost entirely of Billy Gibbons accompanied by electronically synthesized bass and drums.

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