ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
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Artist: ZZ TopBrand: ZZ TOP
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-02-28
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Waitin' for the Bus
- Jesus Just Left Chicago
- Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
- Master of Sparks
- Hot, Blue and Righteous
- Move Me on Down the Line
- Precious and Grace
- Grange
- Sheik
- Have You Heard?
- Waitin' for the Bus [Live][*]
- Jesus Just Left Chicago [Live][*]
- Grange [Live][*]
Music reviews of Tres Hombres
Music Review: Five star record, three star remaster
Rating: 5 Stars
Definitely Top's best record, for my money, Tres Hombres has been restored to its original vinyl mix, but compressed like every other modern production. Why can't they just leave the dynamic range as it was on the classic first pressings of rock's greats? Are they afraid our ears can't take a little subtlety any more? This is better than the six-pack version, but it still ain't the real deal.
I got lucky and just found an original first pressing of this last week in a 99 cent bin (there are indeed many advantages to living in Tejas!), fold-out cover and all; that picture of the gloppy nachos is special. I was reminded of how truly great a band Top was back in the day. Billy's tone is so sweet; there's a guy who knows what gits to match with what amps. The vinyl sounds so much richer than this remix, scratches and all. And it was 1/6th of the price. I still say cds are a ripoff.
Some of their best tunes are here: Bus/Chicago and La Grange are about as good as they ever got. Gibbons' pinch harmonics on Grange started a whole new school and inspired Eddie a ton, as he's said (add the whammy and there's your early VH sound, if you've ever heard the boots from Halen's high school gigs). Beard and Hill are locked-in, laying down their fat groove as always, a huge key to why ZZ have always been so legendary: they can all play their nuts off.
There are no bad tunes here, only classics and good rockers. Precious and Grace sure sounds like a tribute to speedballs; Billy's habits have always been kept kind of quiet, but he wrote about them all the time. Why you think he's been rail thin for 40 years anyhow? But as that and La Grange and Beer Drinkers testify, these guys were never churchgoers. They were hardcore party dogs and this album has been the soundtrack to millions of hardcore parties over the past 36 years, count on that.
Play this back to back with Eliminator and, as good as that record is, you'll see that this is some of the best chicken-fried truly southern rock ever put on wax.
And if you can, find the used vinyl to hear what these songs are really supposed to sound like.
Description of Tres Hombres
ZZ Top, Tres Hombres. One of the world's greatest rock 'n' roll bands ever to strut the 50 States, these sharp-dressed Texas titans--Billy F. Gibbons, Frank Beard, and Dusty Hill--are a righteously hell rain' power trio boasting a 30-plus year hit-making legacy, both in the studio and at concert arenas. With their revved up blues 'n' boogie, ZZ Top always make the most of their Texas birthright with with a distinctive sound that shakes up rock, blues, soul, garage-funk, Americana, and more. Nowhere is their force of nature musicianship better displayed than on these two album classics, revved up with red-hot bonus rarities. "You know what I'm talkin' about...an how how how how."General CDs
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