Velcro Fly

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.

Robert Christgau called the song a "highlight" on Afterburner. [1]

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, in the audiobook an actual sample of Velcro Fly is used to accompany the narration.

• Billy Gibbons - guitar, vocals
• Dusty Hill - keyboards
• Frank Beard - drums