ZZ Top/WI, USA 1982

In the early 1980s, ZZ TOP introduced synths and took on the challenge of a new era. A masterpiece live album that allows you to experience the scene at its best is now available. This work includes “October 1, 1982 Milwaukee Performance”. It is a transcendental audience recording. ZZ TOP’s activities expanded rapidly in the 1980s, but the “EL LOCO-MOTION TOUR” was a huge world tour that lasted for about three years. First, let’s check the show’s position from its overall picture. 1981・May 29th – July 18th: North America #1a (30 performances)《“EL LOCO” released on July 20th》・July 22nd – September 11th: North America #1b (32 performances)・10 January 1st-26th: Europe #1 (15 performances) October 28th-December 31st: North America #2a (8 performances) 1982 January 1st-April 18th: North America #2b (26 performances) Performances)・May 28th-31st: Europe #2 (4 performances)・September 14th-October 2nd: North America #3 (12 performances)←★Coco★・December 28th-31st: North America #4a (3 performances) January 1st-9th, 1983: North America #4b (6 performances) [“ELIMINATOR” released on March 23rd] This is the whole story of “EL LOCO-MOTION TOUR”. The schedule includes four laps around the United States, the main battleground, while also visiting Europe. The Milwaukee performance of this work was the 11th concert of “North America #3”, which was nearing its final stage. This work, which records such a show, is a super-excellent recording that will blow you away with its unusual vividness. This is the latest work from “HOT OFF THE HEADS PRODUCTION” which has been dominating the headlines for the past few weeks, but it is still intense. If you look hard enough, you can feel the sound of an audience in the tone, but there is no sense of audience recording in the ultra-detailed details or the strength of the zero-distance core. Furthermore, audience noise is also extremely small. When I listened through headphones, I could see the tremendous excitement swirling around the scene, and it never stopped. However, the sense of distance is also strange, as it sounds far, far away from the solid core. If I had to compare it to this, it would be like closing the room in a hotel on the beach and playing a CD at full blast. If you concentrate as hard as you can, you can feel the swell of the ocean in the gaps between the sounds, but it’s on the other side of the glass window… The cheers of this work have such a balance, and even though you feel a huge super spectacle on the level of nature, it does not come between the performance at all (let alone an up-close scream). This is truly amazing. After all, the “Mecca Arena” that became the site is not an outdoor or anything, but an indoor multipurpose sports facility. Normally, it would be unavoidable that the performance sound would be far away, but it is a direct feeling like an FM sound board without feeling the hall sound. Moreover, in 1982. The more you investigate to find out the reason for the ultra-high sound quality, the more the mystery becomes deeper.It is an incredible miracle recording. What is depicted with such a miracle sound is a passionate performance that seems to be accelerating towards its peak. Speaking of the 1980s live shows that resumed their activities, there is also the official excavation board “LIVE IN GERMANY 1980”, so let’s compare and organize them here. LONDON RECORDS Era (7 songs) Tres Hombres: Waitin’ for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago/Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers/La Grange Fandango!: Heard It on the X/Tush Tejas: Arrested for Driving While Blind WARNER RECORDS era (11 songs) Elegy for Massacre: I Thank You/I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide (★)/Manic Mechanic/A Fool for Your Stockings/Cheap Sunglasses/Dust My Broom/El Loco: Groovy Little Hippie Pad (★) / Ten Foot Pole (★) / Pearl Necklace (★) / Party on the Patio (★) / Tube Snake Boogie (★) *Note: “★” indicates the official version “LIVE IN GERMANY 1980” A song that you can’t listen to in “. …and it looks like this. Roughly speaking, the balance is “LONDON RECORDS era = 1/3”, “DEGUELLO = 1/3”, “EL LOCO = 1/3”, and the main one is after the restart. From the opening, “Groovy Little Hippie Pad” with its strong synths pops out, and after that, there are plenty of new songs from “EL LOCO”. Furthermore, you can also enjoy “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide” which cannot be heard in “LIVE IN GERMANY 1980” even if it is a “DEGUELLO” number. In any case, the amazing quality overturns (significantly!) the common sense of audience recording. With that sound, it is a masterpiece of a live album that allows you to experience the best of ZZ TOP’s full show as they jump into their heyday. “HOT OFF THE HEADS PRODUCTION” has strong titles popping up every week, but this one is truly intense. Live at Mecca Arena, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 1st October 1982 ULTIMATE SOUND(72:12) 1. Intro 2. Groovy Little Hippie Pad 3. I Thank You 4. Waitin’ for the Bus 5. Jesus Just Left Chicago 6. I ‘m Bad, I’m Nationwide 7. Ten Foot Pole 8. Manic Mechanic 9. Heard It on the X 10. A Fool for Your Stockings 11. Pearl Necklace 12. Cheap Sunglasses 13. Arrested for Driving While Blind 14. Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers 15. Party on the Patio 16. Tube Snake Boogie 17. Dust My Broom 18. La Grange 19. Tush 20. Outro Billy Gibbons – Guitar & Vocal Dusty Hill – Bass & Vocal Frank Beard – Drums