ZZ Top - Tres Hombres (2LP, 45 tours, Coffret set, UHQR, 200g, vinyle translucide)
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Guitar – Billy Gibbons
Bass – Dusty Hill
Drums – Rube Beard
Written by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill (A1-3, C1 to D2), Rube Beard (A2-3, C2-3)
2LPs, Box set
Limited to 5,000 numbered copies
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 200g
Record color : Clear
Speed : 45 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Quality Record Pressings
Label : Analogue Productions
Original Label : London Records
Recorded at Robin Hood Studios, Tyler, Texas & Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
Engineered by Robin Brians (Robin Hood Studios) and Terry Manning (Ardent Studios)
Produced by Bill Ham
Mastered by Matthew Luthans at The Mastering Lab
Photography by Galen Scott
Album cover by Bill Narum
Originally released in July 1973
Reissued in April 2026
Tracks:
Side A:
- Waitin' for the Bus
- Jesus Just Left Chicago
- Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
Side B:
- Master of Sparks
- Hot, Blue and Righteous
Side C:
- Move Me On Down the Line
- Precious and Grace
- La Grange
Side D:
- Shiek
- Have You Heard?
Awards:
In 2000, the album was voted number 501 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums
Rolling Stone magazine's 500 greatest albums of all time - Ranked number 490
Reviews:
“ZZ Top's third, released July, 1973 was the group's breakthrough set, peaking at #8 on the crowded Billboard Top 200. "Boogie-Rock", flavored with Southern Memphisonian (is there such a word?) blues charm produced a unique blend of pulsating rhythmic drive and country charm . Perhaps that's why all these years later the album continues to find new audiences wanting to both "boogie down" and draw close to the southern ether. It's not the kind of record in need of analysis beyond that, though there's been plenty trying to understand its broad, ongoing appeal.
Tres Hombres has had tres relatively recent reissues and quatro over the last two decades if you count the 2006 Because Sound Matters Warner Brothers release, mastered at AcousTech Mastering by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman and pressed at RTI. That one has a median Discogs price of $55 and a high of $135.20, bought by someone who was. The last copy sold was April 19th of this year. Discogs lists 735 releases, with more than 200 on vinyl! Now that's a popular record!
The other recent ones were the VMP and the Rhino High Fidelity, part of the ZZ Top sold out box set but also available individually. The VMP was cut by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed oh "hot sauce" red vinyl at GZ Media. Kevin Gray cut the Rhino box version.
Of the aforementioned tres, the Gray/Hoffman sounds closer to this new UHQR than do the others, and that includes the Rhino Gray cut years later that sounds very different. The G/H cut has some bass "whomp", the RKS has the most neutral balance with a bit of warmth and for some reason the Rhino cut is surprisingly bright and antiseptic—almost as if the idea was to give listeners a document. Maybe that was the goal, but you can't turn it up or it gets bright.
And now we have the "ultimate" Tres Hombres cut by Matthew Lutthans from the original analog tapes on The Mastering Lab cutting system and pressed at 45rpm on two Clarity Vinyl UHQR flat discs. You know the process.
I wonder what confirmed audiophile Billy Gibbons would think listening to the quad four listed above, all of which sound different from one another. Which would he think correct? If there even is such a thing.
This new UHQR definitely pushes the mid-bottom end, which adds some warmth almost to the point of making the kick drum the star of the show. Matthew Lutthans is quoted in the annotation: "I tried to cut it so you can play it loudly, and not want to turn it down. Our version leans a little more towards the warm side than some others but not horribly so".
He ain't kidding! The louder you crank it, the better it sounds, but how it sounds will definitely be system dependent. If you like your Tres Hombres loud, this is the one you can turn up. Way up. The louder you play it, the better it sounds.
For people who complain about having to get up and turn over 45rpm double LP sets, that won't be a problem here. Once "Waitin' For the Bus"begins you're not likely to be sitting down until "Have You Heard?" ends!” Tracking Angle Review by Michael Fremer
“Tres Hombres is the record that brought ZZ Top their first Top Ten record, making them stars in the process. It couldn't have happened to a better record. ZZ Top finally got their low-down, cheerfully sleazy blooze-n-boogie right on this, their third album. As their sound gelled, producer Bill Ham discovered how to record the trio so simply that they sound indestructible, and the group brought the best set of songs they'd ever have to the table. On the surface, there's nothing really special about the record, since it's just a driving blues-rock album from a Texas bar band, but that's what's special about it. It has a filthy groove and an infectious feel, thanks to Billy Gibbons' growling guitars and the steady propulsion of Dusty Hill and Frank Beard's rhythm section. They get the blend of bluesy shuffles, gut-bucket rocking, and off-beat humor just right. ZZ Top's very identity comes from this earthy sound and songs as utterly infectious as "Waitin' for the Bus," "Jesus Just Left Chicago," "Move Me on Down the Line," and the John Lee Hooker boogie "La Grange." In a sense, they kept trying to remake this record from this point on -- what is Eliminator if not Tres Hombres with sequencers and synthesizers? -- but they never got it better than they did here.” AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
UHQR :
UHQR pressing is inspired from JVC Japan, which 30 years ago was the pinnacle of high-quality vinyl. Each UHQR vinyl is pressed, using hand-selected vinyl, on a manual Finebilt press with attention paid to every single detail of every single record. The 200-gram records feature the same flat profile that helped to make the original UHQR so desirable. From the lead-in groove to the run-out groove, there is no pitch to the profile, allowing your stylus to play truly perpendicular to the grooves from edge to center. Every UHQR is hand-inspected upon pressing completion, and only the truly flawless are allowed to go to market.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4.5 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.25 / 5 ; Tracking Angle : Music 8 /11 , Sound 8 / 11