ZZ Top – Tres Hombres (Expanded 2006 Remaster)
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1973 album Tres Hombres (Expanded 2006 Remaster).
Music from Tres Hombres (Expanded 2006 Remaster)
Artists on Tres Hombres (Expanded 2006 Remaster)
Gear Used On Tres Hombres (Expanded 2006 Remaster)
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of ZZ Top – Tres Hombres (Expanded 2006 Remaster) (1973). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Billy Gibbons
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Guitars used by Billy Gibbons on Tres Hombres (Expanded 2006 Remaster)
Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar
Avg price: $622.79
In this video Billy Gibbons plays a Fender Stratocaster on the streets of Helsinki.
Billy discusses this guitar with Joe Bonamassa at 19:45 in this video saying:
The one regret was leaving that, as I remember it was a seafoam green Stratocaster. But I left and by the the time I remembered, gee whiz, maybe I should have made an offer to buy that thing from him, because it, as you point out, it had a sound man.
Gibson Custom Billy Gibbons "Pearly Gates" Les Paul Standard
Avg price: $17,661.52
"Here it is. The faifthful reproduction of the famous Pearly Gates 1959 Sunburst. Once again, this instrument has got the feel, has got the flavor, has got the finery, and it's probably the one that is most easily associated to ZZ Top from the early days when Pearly Gates really carved up the cornestones. This is a faithful reproduction that does the job," says Billy Gibbons about the Gibson Custom Billy Gibbons "Pearly Gates" Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar.
Billy Gibbons's guitar tech says in a different rig rundown that, "There's two Les Pauls with really high action tuned to open E with heavier strings for Billy, which is a gauge of eight. This is the first Pearly Gates that Gibson prototyped. This is the first one and we use it actually as the spare because it's very heavy. The main guitar is a Pearly Gates that has been hollowed out and uses new old-stock Gibson parts, old Gibson pickups, and had the headstock redone to read 'Gibbons Lucky Mojo' instead of Gibson Les Paul. And it's extremely light, but it started life as a normal Pearly Gates model."
Dusty Hill
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Bass Guitars used by Dusty Hill on Tres Hombres (Expanded 2006 Remaster)
Avg price: $1,285.37
In this photo, you can see Dusty Hill can be seen playing Fender Precision Bass in the early day of ZZ Top.
