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Track Listings
| 1. Waitin' For The Bus (Remastered Album Version) |
| 2. Jesus Just Left Chicago (Remastered Album Version) |
| 3. Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers |
| 4. Master Of Sparks |
| 5. "Hot, Blue And Righteous" |
| 6. Move Me On Down The Line |
| 7. Precious And Grace |
| 8. La Grange |
| 9. Sheik |
| 10. Have You Heard ? |
| 11. Waitin' For The Bus |
| 12. Jesus Just Left Chicago |
| 13. La Grange |
Product Description
1973 breakthrough album newly remastered with 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
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!
Now, please remaster the other early albums which received the same '80s hatchet job..
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!
Now, please remaster the other early albums which received the same '80s hatchet job..
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
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.
Overall a must buy album for lovers of good rockin' music.
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.
Overall a must buy album for lovers of good rockin' music.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Philip Kane
Format:Audio CD
This is one of the finest albums I own, I have it on vinyl and CD, and to be honest I prefer the vinyl version, the mix is better. That and there's a much needed pause after "Hot, Blue & Righteous" where you flip the disc over. I think that's one of the under rated masterpieces of ZZ Top.
I think the way this album takes you from the raucus foot stompin of "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers" to the really soft bluesy stuff that tugs on the heart strings was a sure sign that this was a band that'd go places, and places they have gone, and those places are good.
This is not just essential to a ZZ Top collection, but this album deserves a place in any rock & roll collection. If you have acess to a turn table it's worth getting the older ZZ Top stuff on vinyl too, if for nothing other than "collecting's" sake.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
In my opinion, this is probably their most consistant and musically strong record, despite being released only three years into their 30+ year career. Tres Hombres is half and hour of blues-rock classics, of which , 'Hot, Blue and Righteous ', 'La grange' and 'Beer Drinkers...', are especially good, displaying a perfect balance of consistancy and variety. The guitar work is excellent thoughout, and the album is without any of the electronic influences that appaear in their later (still very good) work. Overall, this is an album anyone who likes ZZ should own as a priority and will appeal to any fans of blue-rock/hard-rock.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
I've owned the vinyl version of Tres Hombres since it was first released. I never get tired of listining to this one. Later ZZ Top material started sounding tired but this baby just sizzles like the fajitas pictured inside the album cover. La Grange, Waiting for the bus and Jesus just left Chicago are the strongest tracks in my opinion. This is a must have for any blues-rock fans, the wonderful tones that Gibbons achieves against the solid backing of Hill and Beard is heaven sent. Cream, Taste, Groundhogs...however you like your trios you won't find better than the Top!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
“ZZ Top’s first major selling album has all the guts and hard nosed grunge of basic rock and roll. Released in 1973 when glam-rock was peaking, this trio knocked the glimmers on their butts with hard stompin’ rock and blues. Less refined in vocals and stronger in bass thumping and chord driven choruses, ZZ Top was just starting to show their stuff. The first three songs really pull the4 listener into what the group is all about. The toe tapping “Waitin’ For The Bus” is pure rock, segueing into the very bluesy “Jesus Just Left Chicago”. The single released form this album was also one of the best. “Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers” is a ZZ Top classic that still gets airplay. For just a taste of early ZZ Top with no frills and just basic Texas R & B, this album deserves a good hard listen.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
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.
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.... Read more ›
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.
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.... Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Early days of Sludge
On the whole I got the good ole sludge I was expecting, diluted inevitably by one or two later tracks.
Published 2 months ago by D. B. Walters
5.0 out of 5 stars
The way ZZ Top should be heard!
Forget all of those dreadful CD remasters from the 80s, this is how ZZ Top are meant to sound. This is a wounderful quality vinyl pressing that i would recommend any fan of the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr M.A.Heath
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant - a classic!
Just a brilliant ZZ Top album! Brilliant sound, great tracks and altogether a blast!
Glad I bought this version as the sound is much improved on some of the reissues of... Read more
Glad I bought this version as the sound is much improved on some of the reissues of... Read more
Published 4 months ago by james
5.0 out of 5 stars
Rawwcck an Rolllllll.
Just listen to the guitar solo on 'beer drinkers and hell raisers'...worth the price alone.
If you like Texas rock with integrity u gottit!
If you like Texas rock with integrity u gottit!
Published 7 months ago by Mr. K. Webster
5.0 out of 5 stars
Texan blues with extra fries!
Before they went "all commercial", ZZ Top put out some pretty nifty heavy blues. This album showcases that side of the band. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Eric Ian Steele
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finally
I was never impressed with this album, and now I know why. Thanks to previous reviewers, I realise my CD was the old version with the rotten mastering, leaving it sounding like the... Read more
Published 15 months ago by BrassMonkey
5.0 out of 5 stars
Te Hombre
Have only just re discovered ZZ in the last couple of months , this album really hits the spot , great lead in with " Bus" & "Jesus". BG is on top form with his playing . Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. F. Mills
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tres Bien
The best, most consistent album by the band. The songs are great, but the guitar playing is exceptional - not flashy and doodly, but fly away groovy. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Jimothy
1.0 out of 5 stars
NOT the first pressing at all
Tres Hombres was first released on LONDON records so this is not rare and the description is inaccuate.
Buyer beware.
Buyer beware.
Published 20 months ago by S. Cant
4.0 out of 5 stars
Short, Catchy, and Cool
With plenty of catchy riffs, "Tres Hombres" is undeniably cool to listen to. And at its 33 minutes, the album doesn't get tiring. Read more
Published on 15 May 2011 by Paperback Critic
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