old zz top recordings

go purchase the first six album box set on CD "ZZ Top Six Pack" sounds good to me. also try "Delguello"

NO! have mercy, you are not the Lone Ranger, I agree with you completely. The remasters suck bad compared to the originals, but then so does everything they have put out since the release of sixpack (Rev. Willie G. signed copy). I don't know about other CD's. I would love to get First Album and RIo Grande Mud in the nonremastered mode, my Sixpack version of these two albums has gone just about everywhere I have gone and no longer functions properly (e.g., 'Just got back from baby's' will not play past 2 minutes). It's hammered.

But Mejames is right too, you have to get DeGuello. It isn't on the sixpack because I think ZZ doesn't own the rights to it or something. There is something funny going on with it anyway, I had to buy a german import and it cost a bunch. Of all I got , it's my favorite *because* it hasn't been resampled. Try gemm.com, if there are original releases out there, someone on there will have them for sale.

You are correct, sir! The remasters sound terrible to me, the sound is not what we had and enjoyed back in the good ol' days. Unfortunately, when the cds were released, I remember reading a quote from Bill Ham (their producer) where he claimed the remaster sound was what they had originally intended, and they were happy to finally give us that mix. Say it ain't so! I can't believe that, something must have happened in the production. Of course, listening to their later music (i.e. anything after Deguello) which sounds like doo doo, they might be right.

That awful sound is one of my main driving forces in getting a table and seeing just how bad my original lps are. (You know what can happen with that beer drinkin' music.)

J_thunders> There is a product called "wipe out" which is supposed to fix scratched cd's. Might be worth a try.
http://www.cdrepair.com/