capnreverb wrote:Speaking of drums sounds anybody notice the most horrible crime ever done by a drummer? Sometime in the 80's Dusty Beard went back and rerecorded all the drum parts for the early ZZ Top albums for the remastered cd's. Hearing those overly compressed drums dropped onto some the fattest boogies ever recorded is enough to make me want to phone bomb threats to classic rock stations that still play those remastered turds. What the fuck was he thinking. The drums sound more dated now than the originals done back in the 70's.
AH - thank you for pointing this out, now I know I'm not just crazy... it is the first time I've seen actual mention of it; although the last few times I have heard "La Grange" on the radio I knew that shit didn't sound right... and it was "the big drum fills" that sounded super compressed/reverbed and fucked compared to the rest of the recording... urgh.
See, my girlfriend, family, friends, etc. do not follow "The Rock" quite as avidly as I do... so when we hear something on the radio and I say "Man. someone's gone and fucking changed that!" then they look at me like I'm just having a paranoid conspiracy-theory moment...
"DO you know what the queers are doing to our soil, AND our ZZ Top drum fills??? They're building landing strips for gay Martians AND insecure drummers. I swear to God."
P.S. Last time I was in the fair city of Chicago that one classic rock station there played "Aqualung" and it was like 99% the exact same recording I have grown up with all these years, except the long guitar break was different, either an alternate take (maybe a fuckup on a remastered CD) or maybe again an intentional rewriting of history?? (And yes - I agree it is pretty sad that I should know that guitar line note-for-note and timbre-for-timbre...)
