last ZZ Top album was excellent fwiw
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
Hallelujah, it's about time they finally got those early ZZ Top albums fixed.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
I thought they already dd?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:46 (eleven years ago) link
They only remastered a couple and some tracks for a boxset.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 12:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― If you tolerate Bis, then Kenickie will be next (ithappens), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
this is excellent news.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
Tejas sleeve is dope
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJ_vNPmfPONGekSWTcau7jzIzuw2Ekusqzaiw1P8LaHXO0BfKW5w
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
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
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
want a poster of the Tres Hombres gatefold, preferably wall sized
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wow:
http://addictedtovinyl.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/zz-top-tush.jpg
Want a t-shirt of this like yesterday.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2011/03/I_Thank_You_ZZ_Top.jpg
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
Here's a story about the closing of Leo's Mexican Restaurant, who provided the star features of the Tres Hombres inner sleeve.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Cool new interview w/Billy talkin' Memphis & such.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 May 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
La Futura is FAR better than expected. Put another feather in Mr. Rubin's cap.
― bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 3 May 2013 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 May 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
Also: Billy has over 450 guitars for stage use - just at ZZ HQ
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 May 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
Billy's one of a handful of people who has a (verifiable) Strat owned by Hendrix (likely verifiable because Hendrix gave it to him).
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
(.007 and 8? wow!)
That's completely nuts. As is the fact that he's never broken a string on stage!
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
ZZ Top interview/performance on Howard Stern Tuesday worth seeking out.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 16 May 2013 06:31 (eleven years ago) link
The box set is up for pre-order on Amazon for $42.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 June 2013 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
Box set in my hands, getting ready to dive in.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
think i need to get that...in other zz news, this is depressinghttp://zumic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/kid-rock-2013-tour-poster.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
yes. yes it is.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
But you know Billy will guest on Kid's set, and shred all over "Cowboy".
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
$20 is a good deal, ZZ is $54.50 in Minneapolis before "convenience fees."
― New Authentic Everybootsy Collins (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
oof.
Listening to ZZ Top's First Album right now and it sounds pretty damn good.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
Has anybody got the box yet? Amazon tells me mine comes next week.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
Box set in my hands, getting ready to dive in.― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:56 PM (34 minutes ago)
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:56 PM (34 minutes ago)
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
xpost I must have skimmed past your post. How's the packaging?
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
kinda a bummer there's no liner notes, Billy seems like a pretty good storyteller
― Bathory Tub Blues (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
I agree. But a minor quibble, all things considered.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
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).
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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.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 June 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 13 June 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
Jon Glaser - My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbUOm2Ewip4
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 13 June 2013 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
interesting as the drummer who does not have a beard is named beard.
― xzanfar, Thursday, 13 June 2013 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
and billy gibbons doesn't even own a monkey
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Thursday, 13 June 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
lol!
― New Authentic Everybootsy Collins (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Box on sale for the next 23 hours. $34.98, free shipping, no excuses.
http://www.popmarket.com/details/28725009?feature_id=28724986
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
I answer my own question from 10 months ago: the song I was seeking is "What It Is Kid" from Mescalero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl_ZdJrfAFE
― Byron E. Coli (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Just saw this on FB--A still from the TV expose aired roughly 40 years ago today that shut down a certain little shack outside La Grange...
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/971368_10151639324949342_824693440_n.jpg
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 August 2013 04:16 (eleven years ago) link