Catalog Number: 0-205249

Record Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-), Sleeve Grading: Excellent (EX)

Condition Details:

Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). 12" Single. Cover looks great; a few creases near edges; light-scuffing and surface impressions (front/back). Inner-sleeve is generic white. Spine is easy-to-read with mild-wear. Minor shelf-wear along side-edges; some wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

• Velcro Fly (Extended Mix)
• Velcro Fly (Dub Version)
• Woke Up With Wood (LP Version)

About The Record:

Velcro Fly is the fourth single off ZZ Top's 1985 album Afterburner. The song peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, and No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986. The music video for Velcro Fly directed by Daniel Kleinman features Egyptian hieroglyphics (possibly a reference to other songs from the album such as Sleeping Bag) and female dancers, a common theme in almost every ZZ Top music video. The video also has dance moves choreographed by pop singer Paula Abdul. The video was released on the DVD Greatest Hits: The Video Collection, along with other videos from the band's albums Eliminator and Recycler. The song appears in Stephen King's novel, The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, where in the series's post-apocalyptic alternate reality of Mid-World, the song's looped percussion intro, played via a large PA system in the decaying city of Lud, is referred to as "the God Drums". In the book, Eddie Dean asserts that the song was never released as a single in his world.