Tube Snake Boogie

"Tube Snake Boogie"
File:Tube Snake Boogie.jpg
Single by ZZ Top
from the album El Loco
B-side	"La Grange"
Released	1981
Format	7"
Recorded	1981
Genre	Hard rock, blues rock, surf rock
Length	3:02
Label	Warner Bros.
Writer(s)	Billy Gibbons Dusty Hill Frank Beard
Producer(s)	Bill Ham
ZZ Top singles chronology
"Pearl Necklace" (1981) "Tube Snake Boogie" (1981) "Gimme All Your Lovin'" (1983)

"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.

In the liner notes for the band's 1992 Greatest Hits album, it is explained that "'tube snake' is gnarly lingo for a surf board. 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.

Charts

Chart (1981)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles	3
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	4

Personnel

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