ZZ Top, Cheap Trick

press release: Rock and Roll Hall of Famers ZZ Top are celebrating their 50th year with a massive North American tour this summer. Kicking off the 50^th Anniversary Tour August 16, the real Tres Hombres will play coast to coast and border to border.   Cheap Trick will join them on stage at the BMO Harris Pavilion.

ZZ Top still maintains the most consistently stable lineup in the history of rock music: Billy F Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. In 1969, BFG formed ZZ Top with drummer Beard and bass-guitarist Hill, in Texas.  15 studio albums, 30 million record sales and five decades later, “That Little Ol’ Band From Texas” is still going strong, playing timeless hits like “La Grange,” “Legs,” “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Tush” to audiences the world over.

Billy Gibbons looked back at the history of the band, while also looking forward to the 50^th Anniversary tour dates. “It’s been five decades, and I think we’re starting to get pretty good at all this!  We’re truly excited to be appearing in Texas this May playing our bluesy kind of rock like we started in ’69. The beards, Frank's excepted, are perhaps a bit longer, yet nothing else has changed.  We're keeping it that way.”