ZZ Top: C/D

Can any ZZ heads ID the track at 1:30 in this vid? The bass line sounds like "Is Chicago" by Soul Coughing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCgibhGRw38

Never thought you'd get to see Billy Gibbons' band before ZZ Top? Well guess what...

last ZZ Top album was excellent fwiw

Just got a press release from Rhino: On June 10/11, ZZ Top will be releasing The Complete Studio Albums 1970-1990, a 10-CD box containing all original mixes of everything from ZZ Top's First Album through Recycler for $60.

Hallelujah, it's about time they finally got those early ZZ Top albums fixed.

I thought they already dd?

They only remastered a couple and some tracks for a boxset.

Digital versions are all over the fucking place, too. The version of I'm Bad on the iTunes Deguello is a fucking duet with Dwight Yoakam.

this is excellent news.

Are these gonna be mini-lps like the Joni Mitchell box? Hopefully if so, they'll be able to carry over the inner sleeves this time. They had some cool ones. Take Deguello for instance:

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/Z/ZZ_Top/Deguello/zz-top-deguello-72.jpg

Tejas sleeve is dope

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJ_vNPmfPONGekSWTcau7jzIzuw2Ekusqzaiw1P8LaHXO0BfKW5w

Tejas inner sleeve:

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/Z/ZZ_Top/Tejas/IMG_9156.jpg

I miss these:

http://vinylrecords.ch/Z/ZZ_Top/Eliminator/zz-top-eliminator-127080.jpg

They're saying all gatefold art is recreated, so odds are good.

http://abcnewsradioonline.com/storage/music-news-images/M_ZZTopBoxSet630_042913.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1367286615494

want a poster of the Tres Hombres gatefold, preferably wall sized

Oh wow:

http://addictedtovinyl.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/zz-top-tush.jpg

Want a t-shirt of this like yesterday.

Key paragraph from the press release:

The set, including the albums initially released on the London label as well as the string of Warner Bros. Hits that followed, includes ZZ Tops’ First Album (1971), Rio Grande Mud (1972), Tres Hombres (1973), Fandango! (1975)*, Tejas (1976), Degüello (1979), El Loco (1981), Eliminator (1983), Afterburner (1985) and Recycler (1990). Each album is presented in a wallet sleeve that faithfully reproduces the original artwork, including the gatefold designs used for Tres Hombres and Tejas. The set presents, for the first time on CD, the original mixes for ZZ Tops’ First Album, Rio Grande Mud and Tejas that have long been on the wish lists of the band’s most fervent fans.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2011/03/I_Thank_You_ZZ_Top.jpg

Here's a story about the closing of Leo's Mexican Restaurant, who provided the star features of the Tres Hombres inner sleeve.

Cool new interview w/Billy talkin' Memphis & such.

La Futura is FAR better than expected. Put another feather in Mr. Rubin's cap.

Gibbons' guitar tech takes you through the guitar/effect/amp line. Biggest surprise: the light gauge strings (.007 and 8? wow!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6DrxfrbbF8

Also: Billy has over 450 guitars for stage use - just at ZZ HQ

Billy's one of a handful of people who has a (verifiable) Strat owned by Hendrix (likely verifiable because Hendrix gave it to him).

(.007 and 8? wow!)

That's completely nuts. As is the fact that he's never broken a string on stage!

ZZ Top interview/performance on Howard Stern Tuesday worth seeking out.

The box set is up for pre-order on Amazon for $42.

Box set in my hands, getting ready to dive in.

think i need to get that...
in other zz news, this is depressing
http://zumic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/kid-rock-2013-tour-poster.jpg

yes. yes it is.

though i have to hand it kid, $20 is a good deal as long as I can arrive after uncle kracker and leave before kid rock.

in Dallas there is an almost $10 service charge. Ticketmaster getting their piece of the action.

also, all that's left is lawn tickets. Yes, I checked.

But you know Billy will guest on Kid's set, and shred all over "Cowboy".

I would have been tempted if not for Uncle Cracker and the Kid Rock fans. I bet a ZZ Top & Kid Rock show would actually be pretty fun.

$20 is a good deal, ZZ is $54.50 in Minneapolis before "convenience fees."

oof.

Listening to ZZ Top's First Album right now and it sounds pretty damn good.

Has anybody got the box yet? Amazon tells me mine comes next week.

Box set in my hands, getting ready to dive in.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:56 PM (34 minutes ago)

I'm a bit surprised they didn't use the existing remastered Tres Hombres and Fandango! discs. They might have used the same master -- eventually I'll dig out Tres Hombres and check -- but the bonus tracks appended to those 2006 releases are not on the box set discs.

Not a big deal, I just find it interesting. The Judas Priest Complete Albums Box used the previously released remasters where they could, thus including the bonus tracks.

xpost I must have skimmed past your post. How's the packaging?

Skimpy. Cheap cardboard sleeves, and the two gatefolds feel tragically flimsy. Exterior box is strong. No book, no liner notes, just tiny reprints of the LP sleeves that border on illegibility.

Saying all that, I'm halfway through Rio Grande Mud and it's glorious. Absolute no brainer at the price.

kinda a bummer there's no liner notes, Billy seems like a pretty good storyteller

I agree. But a minor quibble, all things considered.

Sounds like the Joni Mitchell set. Those were all gatefolds, with For The Roses & Mingus also having little inserts as well. The Smiths box went above and beyond the call of duty, packaging-wise (detailed down to the original stickers on the covers).

kinda a bummer there's no liner notes, Billy seems like a pretty good storyteller

― Bathory Tub Blues (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, June 12, 2013 6:40 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Billy's book is alot of fun, if not a very detailed narrative. Lots of anecdotes, shout-outs to peers, influences, and venues, nice pix of cars, gear, girls etc.

I pre-ordered the box from Amazon, but opted for free shipping, so I should be getting it next week (along with the Van Halen first-six-albums box).

Jon Glaser - My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbUOm2Ewip4

interesting as the drummer who does not have a beard is named beard.

and billy gibbons doesn't even own a monkey

lol!

Box on sale for the next 23 hours. $34.98, free shipping, no excuses.

http://www.popmarket.com/details/28725009?feature_id=28724986