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Tres Hombres |  | Artist: ZZ Top
Label: Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 3082
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 78966
UPC: 081227896621
EAN: 0081227896621
ASIN: B000CCD0HQ
Release Date: February 27, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 | | • | La Grange | | • | Sheik | | • | Have You Heard? | | • | Waitin' For The Bus (Live Version Previously Unissued) | | • | Jesus Just Left Chicago (Live Version Previously Unissued) | | • | La Grange (Live Version Previously Unissued) |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 11
hot hot hot June 7, 2006
Fungus of Terror (Huddersfield)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I absolutely agree with the review below, this is the essential ZZ Top album, yet it was always only available on CD with absolutely dreadful '80s mastering. This version sounds fantastic - back to the gorgeous natural warmth of the vinyl version. Buy it now and destroy your other CD copy.
br /But those live bonus tracks, they are terrible. Very cruddy. Why oh why do remastered CDs always seem to have to include a bunch of terrible live bonus tracks that no-one wants and which, as the reviewer below says, just leave a nasty taste at the end of a classic album. I was going to knock off a star for this but just couldn't bring myself to, Tres Hombres is too good for 4 stars!
br /Now, please remaster the other early albums which received the same '80s hatchet job..
Tres Hobres, Cinco Estrellas June 8, 2007
P. Bell
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
A great place to start the remastered series of ZZ Top albums. The first time ZZ Tops albums came out on cd someone hammered the life out of them by adding really dodgy effects to the drum sound. Not so this time. The albums sound like they were recorded last week and have surpassed the original vinyl. The rhythm section are in stunning, nay telepathic, form on this outing.
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br /The extra tracks are a mixed blessing. I reckon they ought to have been put onto an album of their own along with the live tracks from Fandango. They were recorded, if memory serves correctly, in the Capital Theatre, Passiac, New Jersey 1980. I have heard a couple of different bootlegs of this show and these do not sound as good on bootleg as they do here.
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br /Overall a must buy album for lovers of good rockin' music.
scorchio December 3, 2006
freewheeling frankie (north London, England)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This 1973 classic was where ZZ Top hit the big time, at least in the USA and especially in their native Texas. Unquestionably their finest album so far, they only really equalled it with Eliminator a decade later. Suffice to say that it contains two of their very greatest tracks in the scorching boogie of La Grange and the awesome blues-rock of Jesus Just Left Chicago, plus several more excellent tunes that beat anything on most of their later albums, including the gospel-fired Have You Heard, quality rockers Beer Drinkers Hell Raisers and Move Me On Down The Line and the opening Waiting For The Bus. Even the filler is pretty good and you unfortunately can't say that about most ZZ Top albums. The whole album is full of some of the best blues-rock guitar-playing you'll ever hear, from the widely underrated Billy Gibbons, and the rhythm section of Dusty Hill and Frank Beard is by turns rocking, funky or just rock solid - shame so many people can't see past the beards.
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br /Now as detailed in some of the other reviews, this remaster has restored (and improved upon) the original sound of the 1973 lp, without the horrible artificial reverb added to the drums on previous cd editions. It sounds great.
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br /Then on top of that, you get previously unissued live versions of three of the songs on the album: Waiting For The Bus, Jesus Just Left Chicago and La Grange. The first two of these, if anything, improve on the studio versions, with a lowdown Waiting For The Bus seguing into a superbly grungy take on Jesus Just Left Chicago, while La Grange rocks convincingly despite being a little on the loose side in places. While the recordings are not absolutely state of the art, given the unfortunate dearth of officially available live recordings of ZZ Top and the high quality of the performances here, carping about the (actually pretty decent) recording quality seems pointless - we want more of this stuff, not less, but what we've got here will do very nicely for the moment. But it's a shame they couldn't find any contemporary live recordings - these appear to be from around 1979-80, although you won't find that out from the CD booklet which gives no details at all of their provenance.
The mighty ZZ Top at their best! March 13, 2006
Mr. Andrew Johnson (Manchester, UK)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the album where ZZ Top peaked. Billy Gibbons#x27;s dirty guitar sounds blends perfectly with Dusty Hill#x27;s bass and Frank Beard#x27;s drums. Never has the blues sounded so fresh. Pity they stole a bit too shamelssly from John Lee Hooker#x27;s Boogie Chillin#x27; on La Grange. This remastered and expanded version sounds great. Don#x27;t worry - it#x27;s not got the horrible 80#x27;s drum sound that ruined the remix of this album back for the 6-pack box set. It sounds exactly as it should do. They could have left the bonus track off though - the sound on these is a bit muddy and after such a good album, it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. Ignore the bonus tracks and enjoy!
Top of the Blues November 6, 2007
J. M. Salinas (London, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is really interesting. If your only previous knowledge of this band is their Greatest Hits compilation or the mega selling 1980s electronic drum extravanganza Eliminator, you are in for a shock.
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br /Because what you get here is none of the more commercial radio friendly rock sound you'd come to expect if you have only listened to three singles from the aformentioned Eliminator or the Greatest Hits.
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br /Tres Hombres is as blues as it gets. Stripped down to its very core with just one guitar, bass and drums, starting with the left/right combination of Waiting for the Bus and Jesus Just Left Chicago and ending with Have you Heard?. Only La Grange is a more sped up head down no nonsense boogie. Even though it is one of their most recognisable hits, it actually sounds a bit out of place in the record, almost like a frill thrown in a the last hour.
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br /The remastered production is fantastic and you can really tell the difference relative to the previous editions. The extra live versions, well, they add a bit of value for your money but they are nothing to lose your head over.
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br /Definitely a must have for any blues lover, but maybe a surprise if you are only familiar with their 1980s output.
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