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Linden's sexy music videos at: http://lindenhudson.com/mu
Linden wrote a famous ZZ Top song: http://lindenhudson.com/fa
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Linden Hudson once wrote a song on the ZZ Top "Eliminator" album. This album went on to be one of the biggest albums of all time, in fact it's sales are listed as "diamond" which is much bigger than "platinum". The song Linden wrote for the album was titled "Thug" (he had a copyright). Then Linden spent 5 years suing ZZ Top for his money. This was a tough time in Linden's life as he had a newborn son and was having trouble paying the bills. Why do some stars treat people like this? Are they afraid there'll be one less Mercedes in the driveway? Linden is listed in Wikipedia under "ZZ TOP", yes it's true. There have been several books that have written about this too (see book quotes below).
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EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK "SHARP DRESSED MEN - ZZ TOP" (BY DAVID BLAYNEY, ZZ TOP'S STAGE MANAGER OF 15 YEARS): "sound engineer Linden Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the album (Eliminator) as a live-in high-tech music teacher to Beard and Gibbons."
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Quote by Linden Hudson: "A few years ago it was hard for me to tell my story of being taken advantage of. But now, we have the internet, and the internet never forgets. My new motto is: tell my story to a thousand people today, tell two thousand people tomorrow, tell a million people next year, never ever stop telling the story".
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MORE EXCERPTS:

FROM THE BOOK: "TRES HOMBRES -- THE STORY OF ZZ TOP" BY DAVID SINCLAIR (WRITER, LONDON TIMES): "Linden Hudson, the engineer/producer who lived at Beard's house (ZZ Top's drummer) had drawn their attention to the possibilities of the new recording technology and specifically to the charms of the straight drumming pattern, as used on a programmed drum machine. On "Eliminator" ZZ Top unveiled a simple new musical combination that cracked open a vast worldwide market".

FROM THE BOOK: "SHARP DRESSED MEN -- ZZ TOP" BY DAVID BLAYNEY: "Linden remained at Frank's (ZZ Top drummer) place as ZZ's live-in engineer throughout the whole period of "Eliminator" rehearsals, and was like one of the family. He figured that the "El Loco" sessions had been a test more than anything else, and anticipated receiving credit when "Eliminator" was produced. For a virtually unknown producer/engineer, working with a major band like ZZ Top could be a big break. As he worked at the controls day after day, watching the album (Eliminator) take shape, his hopes for a big step forward in his production career undoubtedly soared. "Eliminator" marked the first time that ZZ Top was able to rehearse an entire album with the recording studio gadgetry that Billy so loved. With Linden Hudson around all the time, it also was the first time the band could write, rehearse, and record with someone who knew the men and the machines. ZZ Top was free to go musically crazy, but also musically crazy like a fox. Linden made that possible too".

FROM THE BOOK: "SHARP DRESSED MEN -- ZZ TOP" BY DAVID BLAYNEY: "Linden found himself in the position of being Billy's (Billy Gibbons, ZZ TOP guitarist) closest collaborator on "Eliminator". In fact, he wound up spending more time on the album than anybody except Billy. While the two of them spent day after day in the studio, they were mostly alone with the equipment and the ideas."

FROM THE BOOK: "SHARP DRESSED MEN -- ZZ TOP" BY DAVID BLAYNEY (ZZ TOP'S FORMER STAGE AND PRODUCTION MANAGER, 15 YEARS WITH THE BAND)(HYPERION BOOKS): "Eliminator" went on to become a multi-platinum album, just as Linden had predicted when he and Billy were setting up the 124-beat tempos and arranging all the material. Rolling Stone eventually picked the album as number 39 out of the top 100 of the 80s. Linden Hudson in a fair world should have had his name all over "Eliminator" and gotten the just compensation he deserved. Instead he got ostracized.

THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE: Feb 1984
Houston songwriter and producer Linden Hudson has joined Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) as a songwriter affiliate. The former University Of Houston student had his song "Thug" recorded by ZZ Top on their recent "Eliminator" album.

FROM THE BOOK: "ZZ TOP -- BAD AND WORLDWIDE" (ROLLING STONE PRESS, and WRITTEN BY DEBORAH FROST, WRITER FOR ROLLING STONE): "Eventually they decided to use the song ("Thug" by Linden Hudson) on "Eliminator". They (ZZ Top) and Bill Ham (ZZ's manager) refused to discuss the question of royalties or album points with him (Linden). They didn't deny he wrote the song".

FROM THE BOOK: "SHARP DRESSED MEN -- ZZ TOP" BY DAVID BLAYNEY (ZZ TOP'S FORMER STAGE MANAGER): "The integral position Linden occupied in the process of building "Eliminator" was demonstrated eloquently in the case of the song "Under Pressure". Billy and Linden, the studio wizards, did the whole song all in one afternoon without either the bass player or drummer even knowing it had been written and recorded on a demo tape."
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Have a nice day Billy.