Early ZZ Top Nice & PURE !!!!

Exactamundo.

 

Haven't heard it in a long time, but I recall that tune being for real, absolutely.

 

Bears repeating. Listening to Kevin's work on Tres Hombres right now...powerful.

 

I've a mint looking and sounding Rio Grande Mud that kills the Warner issue when they're compared

 

That's a great b&w photos of the boys....

 

Really. How so?

 

Fair enough, but you've got to admit that was a pretty cool style concept they came up with. And nobody else could have done it like they did.

I mean, they gave us 6 killer rock/blues records before they tried something new. They didn't really owe us anything

I'm sure if you asked them, the MTV phase was the party time of their lives. That image brought them serious money and serious chicks. And they were having fun. Can you really blame them?

Also, it allowed them to play blues songs in concert for a new swath of fans who weren't going to find it on their own for a while yet.

I saw the Recycler tour, and it was a really fun show, with some great extended jams on old bluesy numbers. I would have liked to have seen them in the "shaven days", but they were also pretty good entertainers with the whole "concept show" skills.

ccm

 

'Recycler' wasn't a bad album at all. I'm burned out on 'Eliminator,' and 'Afterburner' is pretty lousy, imo.

 

They lost me when they did the beards, cars, chicks, mtv stuff. Love the early albums. Can't blame them for wanting to make some money, but I thought they got slick and cheesy.

 

ZZ Top's First Album on London is quite nice also!

 

My copy of the London sounds more dynamic than the Warner vinyl, imo.
And when there's practically NO surface noise on the London copy, that's another plus.

 

Ok, cool. Really. My experience with the Londons is more surface noise...so, you definitely have an exceptional pressing!

 

I think...no, I know I got lucky. I inherited mine from Dad

I must say the Warner vinyl is a very good alternative.

 

I don't think the old London label early/first pressings were particularly notorious for poor grade pressings. All mine are startlingly quiet. However, all my early ZZ Top Londons are Canadian black or red labels so I can't speak to the differences in a US London. I do think these issues tended fall prey to party abuse, kinda like finding a clean early RL Zeppelin II....

 

It took awhile but I managed to track down really good sounding copies of the early albums on London. None of 'em are noisy. I had to dig thru a lot of copies to find original pressings tho'.

Most recently I got a RL mastered copy of the "World Wide Texas Tour" promo that sounds really good too.

Nothing wrong at all with the Steve/Kevin remastered ones and probably a easier to find then the originals. I don't feel the need to get originals of those.

 

Just found this on a friend's FB page. Zee Zee at the prom.

 

Thanks for sharing ! Saved it.

 

I picked up Rio Grande Mud last weekend on CD after listening to Six Pack for the last 20 years. ZZ Top original mixes ROCK!

 

A great photo of Zee Zee

 

Where did you get this? I didn't realize the original mix was available on CD.

 

I thought the only ones re-issued with the orignal mix were Tres Hombres and Fandango.

 

I hate to ruin your day, but you still aren't listening to the original mixes.

 

Well I guess I needlessly spent $9. I thought since it was new and individually released it was the original mix.

 

I just pulled Rio Grande Mud out. The CD says CDD Pre Mastering by WCI Record Group. That's the only mastering info in the booklet, nothing on the CD.

I bought Fandango and Tres Hombres 2 months ago and figured this was part of that batch.