I obviously F'ed this one up. When I looked at the wavs I did notice that the front left and rear right had the drums. I thought this was either a case of the channels being mixed up at the reproduction plant or something else. Never did I even consider that the drums would be split like that. I will have to revisit this one and correct it.
That said, the best sonics I've ever heard for this album, FWIW!
Look forward to the adjusted edition.
As a side note...the early ZZ's didn't have much in the high end of the audio spectrum, except for your usual basic analog tape hiss. My guess is that if someone who had never heard (or heard of) the band (but was familiar with the basic '60s 'sound' of rock recordings done at indie studios) listened to this today, they would assume, at best, it was something recorded on 3-track in, say, 1963. The album was released a decade later, but you'd never guess that by the sonics, which are very confined and limited, not to mention the limitations of the band: three guys, but this was no Cream, no virtuosos here, just capable, basic players with a lot of enthusiasm and gonads. The songs and performance are as basic as a hamburger with ketchup and mustard, and appealing for that reason. If an album could be made without any pretense at bullshit, by talented yet obviously 'average' musicians, TRES HOMBRES would be my exemplar of such a beast (the other one would be Lonnie Mack's THE WHAM! OF THAT MEMPHIS MAN, which WAS recorded in 1963!). I like it a lot even while understanding just how rote and crude it is, like holding a handful of dirt, being a gardener, and enjoying just being able to grasp that dirt. This is an album that a part of me should dismiss, but never could. It's a noisy, raucous masterpiece of its sort.
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