So, I got one of those boxes, and that’s one of the things we used to disguise guitars and voices. And you gotta see this show because his voice sounds awesome!’ So I called up Phil Donahue’s office and said, ‘What did you use to distort that voice?’ And the guy said, ‘Well, I don’t want to reveal it.’ So I finally begged, begged, begged and he told me what it was. So they had him blacked out and you could only see his shadow, and they had his voice all changed. He shared, “Billy called me up and said, ‘Oh, I’ve just been watching The Phil Donahue Show, and they had a guy there who didn’t want to reveal who he was. Studio engineer Terry Manning then revealed that they found inspiration from The Phil Donahue Show.
It still had a lot of that but … we were willing to go down different roads and find new music.” In their documentary film titled ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas which was out on DVD last February 28, the band explained how they knew what to do with the song.įrank Beard said, “We were changed. And it was basically a product of studio experimentation. “Manic Mechanic” was quite different from their other material. People get manic dealing with mechanics, too.” A lot of mechanics get a little manic behind it. We had a few beers, and I said, ‘Why don’t you take a look at my car.’ He reached up under my dashboard, and he ripped out a handful of wires and he said, ‘First of all, you don’t need this.’ I don’t know anything about cars, but I figured they wouldn’t be in there if they weren’t necessary. A long time ago, I had this old Triumph car, and it kept messing up real bad, and I asked him over to the house. Speaking about the inspiration for the title and lyrics, Dusty Hill told SPIN magazine in 1985: “We have a good friend who’s a mechanic, and he’s just wild. Usually to make the car a little hotter or faster for a race, after it. Clean the plugs, set the dwell and timing, adjust the carb. Ratchet from Da Burgh A coon tune is a tune up without new parts. That exhaust system is hot, and that beard is like a bale of hay.” But I love those crazy automobiles.” Hes saying he won the bet because he put the 'coon tune' on his car. The head honcho saw me with a wrench, going under a car, and said, “God, get out of there.
I do very little mechanic work, but I was at a speed shop in Pomona, California.
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