ZZ Top Tribute coming to Loretto Tavern

On Dec 10,at Loretto Tavern,Canada’s top Tribute to ZZ Top had performed.

Triple X is an authentic tribute band, reproducing Billy Gibbon’s style and stage charisma with as much of a real experience as possible, all the way to the beards. They will give the closest reproduction of the real thing with the music, the look, the stage props and production.

ZZ Top rocks Odessa

On Thursday the rock band ZZ Top came to the Ector County Coliseum to play for the first time since 1999.

Each time they came, they bring something new to offer fans,They’ve played five times previously in the 1980s and early 1990s.

ZZ Top's Bass Guitarist Dusty Hill and lead singer Billy Gibbons played in concert at the Ector County Coliseum on Thursday night.

ZZ Top announce short tour of Australia

Next year short Australia tour has been announced by the ZZ top.

The Texan blues-rock band, which consists of Billy F Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, said that they will coincide their appearance at the Byron Bay Blues Festival in April with a five-date national tour.

Gibbons told AAP: "We're the same three guys, bashing out the same three chords. The band's mantra remains the same - Tone. Taste. Tenacity."

The group will perform at Melbourne's Festival Hall, the Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Sydney's Enmore Theatre and the Entertainment Centre in Wollongong.

The last time they performed in Australia was 10 years ago.

ZZ TOP AND GOOD CHARLOTTE SET TO ROCK ITM400

ZZ Top and Good Charlotte will join Kiwi V8 Supercar drivers, Fabian Coulthard and Shane van Gisbergen in Hamilton next April (15-17) for the new-look, new format 2011 ITM400 Hamilton V8 Supercar Championship Series street race.

On Saturday night following the day’s racing rock legends ZZ Top will take the stage at Seddon Park.

Life after 40 for ZZ Top

USA - After more than 40 years together ZZ Top continue to tour worldwide. In 2010 they continued the long tradition of Bandit Lites, also 40 plus years old, as their illumination supplier. Tour manager Pablo Gamboa, production manager Rob Kern and long time lighting designer Chris Stuba all worked with Bandit VP Michael Golden through the year to "deliver Texas to the world".

Stuba's design involves VL 3000 Spots, VL 3500 Washes, VL 2500 Spots, MAC 2000 Washes, Atomic Strobes, Color Blasts and Grand MA consoles. Bandit Jeff Archibeque travels the world keeping continuity to Stuba's crew, wherever the show may be.

PhotoShots of Recent Performance By ZZ Top In St Petersburg

MOSCOW, RUSSIA. OCTOBER 28, 2010. Members of USA's band ZZ Top Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill R perform at the Yubileiny Jubilee Palace of Sports. Photo ITAR-TASS/ Ruslan Shamukov Photo via Newscom

ZZ Top Working with Rick Rubin

Billy Gibbons has revealed that ZZ Top are working on their first studio album since 2003 and that it’s being produced by producer extraordinaire Rick Rubin. Gibbons told Spinner.com that his Texas trio will return to the studio following a small stint touring with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (who have also worked with Rubin).

“He’s very instrumental in striking a resonant chord,” Gibbons said. “He’s able to find ways to pull things out that you might not know were there in the first place.”

Although ZZ Top remain a popular band and a concert draw, they haven’t had a Top 10 album since 1990’s Recycler. Does Gibbons think that Rubin’s golden touch might return the band to the charts?

“There's more music now in every shape and form – something to please everybody,” he said. “I think the bigger challenge is: Where do you go to discover it? If you’re lucky, maybe word of mouth. Somebody will make a recommendation, and if you trust them, you might take the time to check it out.”

However, on the whole, he feels fortunate about ZZ Top’s standing in the music world.

“We’re kind of in the cat-bird seat,” Gibbons said. “We’re very fortunate that we’ve established a gangload of fans that may not have a place to go buy a CD but, by hook or by crook, they will either beg, borrow or steal it.”

ZZ Top lure peoples to fair

ZZ Top concert gates opened at 7 p.m. and people take their tickets from 5 to 8 p.m. before the concert began. At the gate Steve Bennett and they friends group take tickets ready.

Bennett said to a salem native, "My favorite song is ZZ Top 'Pearl Necklace".

Waiting to pick up tickets to Keith Watson of Salem, said he's been a ZZ Top fan "since way back." Although from the band he doesn't have a favorite song, he's appear them perform various times.

He said, "Haven't appear 'em in a long time and can't wait to see them again". "They've been nice and every time."

Vendor Jenny Armitage has art paintings and mud work set up in Artisan's Village.

She said about the performances at the village stage, "You never know what you're going to get. There was a good to combine of people, blues and Native American drumming.

He said, "At the fair this is our first time. But we're gettin' the same love we do at home."

Doing a little dancing to Ty Curtis' tunes, Jerry and Patty Hall of Keizer said they came to see ZZ Top.

"We're going to come back on Sunday with the grandkids," Patty Hall said. "Today we saw the dinosaur exhibit, the Timbersports, and, well, basically everything."

Also in town to see ZZ Top, Crystal Parman and her boyfriend, Kevin Halloway of Eugene, said they've seen the Ty Curtis Band a couple of times before.

"But I haven't been to the fair since I was 5," Parman said.

Just behind the Spirit of Oregon Stage, a group of girls tested their skills on the mechanical bull.

Amy Mattson Velansky of Vancouver said she brings her two daughters, Reese, 4, and Simone, 6, to meet friends at the state fair every year.

ZZ Top, Prince Albert of Monaco rocks to Iggy Pop

Front of the Royal Palace in Monaco, Prince Albert and his fiance rocked to Iggy Pop and ZZ Top in a rousing concert where everyone let down their hair, metaphorically at least.
In special, Albert's intended, South African Olympian Charlene Wittstock, and Albert's sister, Princess Caroline of Hanover seemed to be jumping around and dancing with joy, truly enjoying the tunes of these legendary musicians.
The gig was great for all involved as Iggy Pop and The Stooges as well as ZZ Top had the whole place hopping, including Prince Albert of Monaco. Enjoy the Associated Press photos of the European concert that actually did rock!

ZZ Top Four decades can't stop

ZZ Top guitarist vocalist Billy Gibbons (right) and Dusty Hill rock the MTS Centre Tuesday night.
Sure, you can play the blues with long beards, but when you actually want to get down and dirty, the right hat you still need.
And sunglasses. The cheaper the better.
Before ZZ Top launched into some authentic Delta blues at the MTS Centre Tuesday night, bearded guitarist vocalist Billy Gibbons changed into a fedora like his evenly hairy partner Dusty Hill in order to properly perform a cover of Willie Brown's Future Blues.
The shtick got a few laughs and added to the over all feel good vibe that the veteran Texas blues rock trio created during their 95-mintue set for a crowd of 4,000 fans.
The group -- Gibbons, bassist-vocalist Hill and drummer Frank Beard (you know, the one without any facial hair) -- mainly stuck to favourites from the 1970s and singles from the '80s, avoiding any material off their last studio album, 2003's Mescalero, and almost avoiding everything post 1983 entirely.
Not that anyone minded. It was the hits the audience wanted and the hits it got, along with a few covers from the likes of Brown, B.B. King and Jimi Hendrix.
The group took to the sparse stage and launched instantly into boogie-rocker Got Me Under Pressure, from 1983's Eliminator, ZZ Top's most successful album.
Next it was a double shot of tracks from 1973's Tres Hombres, with the mid-tempo Waitin' For the Bus and fuzzy sludge of Jesus Left Chicago, before 1994's Pin Cushion, a gravelly rocker that sounded like a Motorhead homage.
After four decades together, the band is perfectly in synch and there are no surprises. Gibbons and Hill even have some minimal stage moves down, moving their instruments and shuffling their feet together in time. They aren't the most dynamic group to watch, but it's about the music with ZZ Top, and these guys can still play -- Gibbons isn't considered a blues guitar God just because of his collection of customized axes.
The music isn't overly flashy and neither is the stage setup, which featured two sets of speaker cabinets strung together to look like they were tumbling, and a video screen behind the band showing a variety of images from car parts to girls.
The pace picked up during the end of the main set, when the trio of Eliminator hits -- Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man and Legs -- followed each other in quick succession, with Gibbons and Hill playing their famous furry white instruments during Legs.
They returned for a three song encore, throwing out a version of Viva Las Vegas before the one-two punch of La Grange and Tush.
Straight from the "Those-guys-are still-a-band!?" file, Saskatoon's Wide Mouth Mason warmed up the crowd with a decent, if pedestrian, set of funkified blues based rock highlighted by an electrifying mid set guitar solo from Shaun Verreault.
The frontman announced that the group was about to begin work on a new album with ex Big Sugar/Grady leader Gordie Johnson, who was handling bass duties for the trio.

The blues have legs, ZZ Top proves

For all their simplicity and self professed lack of skill, pretty well manage ZZ Top.
It helps that their catalogue is among the best in the rock biz. Last night at the Save on Foods Memorial Centre, in what was their maiden Victoria appearance, the trio from Texas trotted out, among others, four hall-of-fame hits of their own, a pair of blues standards (Willie Brown's Future Blues and B.B. King's Rock Me Baby), an all-world classic (Jimi Hendrix's Hey Joe) and an Elvis tune (Viva Las Vegas).
Hard not to hit home runs with big bats like those.
The band, which frontman Billy Gibbons described last night as "three guys, three chords," uses every trick in the showbiz book, from jokes tailor-made for the host city to extending their big hit way past the point of usefulness (that would be La Grange, which fell flat).
In the hands of a lesser band, such sins would be unforgivable. But with ZZ Top, that little ol' band from Texas, it came across as canny craftsmanship.
There's something to be said for 40 years of service, and ZZ Top, which got its start so long ago that it can speak first hand about playing shows with Hendrix, has clearly learned how to perform during that time. That hard won experience covered up a few rough spots most of which revolved around Gibbons's at times frail voice and made the 19-song, 90-minute concert cook.
Power trios are driven by their rhythm section; without the bottom end locked and loaded, all the frontman firepower doesn't mean a thing. ZZ Top, which is anchored by bassist Dusty Hill, the band's secret weapon, and drummer Frank Beard, is proof of that. So, for argument's sake, is Wide Mouth Mason, which opened last night's concert. The group offered a 40 minute set that was both solid and solid sounding.
The latter was due to the band's killer bass- combo of Safwan Javed and Big Sugar's Gordie Johnson, who was sitting in for absent bassist Earl Perreira. The sound quality was great, unusual for a warm up act, and the songs were strong. All in all, a nice return to form for one of Canada's unsung bands.
The headliners had likely faced a similar situation before — solid opening act on its home turf before a favourable crowd — but seconds into ZZ Top's opening number, Got Me Under Pressure, the battle was over. Hill and Gibbons dropped their signature footwork, on cue and in time, and the crowd of 4,000 lost it. Game, set, match.
The fun never let up. As a segue into Future Blues, Gibbons was serviced with a "blues hat" by his "technician," who in typical ZZ style was a leggy dame in a cocktail dress. Never missing a step, he said, "This one is from1932. We wrote it."
The lead up to the encore was impeccable. A riff-heavy Just Got Paid was followed by two of the best songs of the night, Gimme All Your Lovin' and Sharp Dressed Man. Both sounded great, better than the recorded versions, which had a lot to do with Beard and the absence of electronic drums.
ZZ Top has brought its sound up through the ages. Remarkably, they're still like a little ol' band from Texas. And everybody knows you don't mess with Texas.

ZZ Top Opening Tom Petty's Texas Dates

Rocks Off has been sitting on this information pretty much all day, and after teasing you on Twitter all day, it feels so good to finally get it off our chests. That's it right up there in the headline, more or less - Houston's hometown boyz ZZ Top have been tapped "by special arrangement" (your guess is as good as ours what that means) to open Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Texas shows September 21 at Dallas' Superpages.com Center and September 24 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion.
This is the sort of double bill that Rocks Off spends most of our days dreaming about, especially in light of this past weekend's Saturday Night Live, where Petty & the Heartbreakers made their umpteenth appearance on the late-night comedy show (as did host Alec Baldwin, for that matter) with a pair of scorched-earth blues numbers from new album Mojo, which hits record-store racks June 15 (thanks, Greg). Tickets are on sale now at livenation.com, and can be yours without a service fee through midnight tomorrow.
Even though Petty, if not the Heartbreakers per se, has been heading in this kind of Hendrix/Zeppelin/Cream direction for a while - see "Saving Grace," from 2006's Highway Companion, and both "Cabin Down Below" and "Honeybee" from 1994's Wildflowers, Petty's nominal "solo" albums - he and the rest of the Heartbreakers are will have to really bring it to beat Billy Gibbons' boogie chillun, especially in the Top's own backyard. Rocks Off can't wait to find out.
In other Live Nation/Woodlands news, tickets for Christina Aguilera's August 16 show in the pines go on sale at 10 a.m. this Friday, also at livenation.com. Once she's done with the robo-Madonna phase of latest album Bionic and current single "Not Myself Tonight," Rocks Off would kind of like to see what she could do with "Honeybee" and "Tush." Just a thought...

Fair's stage adds Maroon 5, ZZ Top

Two-time Grammy award winner Maroon 5 and classic rockers ZZ Top and Mick Fleetwood Blues Band are slated to play during the 2010 Kansas State Fair.

Fair Manager Denny Stoecklein also announced three country acts that will grace the Sprint Grandstand stage: Rodney Atkins and Blake Shelton. Opening for Shelton is James Otto.

"We have some great variety," Stoecklein said Thursday morning. "And we still have two more nights left to announce that will add to that variety."

He said fair officials are excited about signing on Maroon 5, which will have a new album released in the next month and just announced a major U.S. tour.

The R&B-influenced Maroon 5 is scheduled for Sept. 16. Their first album, "Songs About Jane," contained four hit singles - "Harder to Breathe," "This Love," "She Will Be Loved" and "Sunday Morning." Ticket price for the Thursday concert is $39.

Country music star Atkins - best known for his No. 1 hit, "Watching You" - will perform Sept. 12. Atkins has had five No. 1 singles in all, including "It's America" and "Cleaning This Gun." Ticket price for the Sunday concert is $25.

Shelton, whose song "Hillbilly Bone" is currently No. 1 on the charts, will be appearing at the Sprint Grandstand on Sept. 17. Overall, Shelton has had 17 singles on the country charts, including "The Baby" and "Some Beach." Newcomer Otto is recognizable for his single "Since You Brought It Up." Ticket price for the Friday concert is $28.

Closing the 10-day fair will be performances by ZZ Top and Mick Fleetwood Blues Band on Sept. 19. American blues/rock group ZZ Top played at the fair in 2005, drawing 6,850 people to the more-than-9,500-seat grandstand. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

Opening for ZZ Top is Fleetwood's band - a tribute to the 1967 Fleetwood Mac. The group includes veteran bluesman and former Fleetwood Mac vocalist and lead guitarist Rick Vito and legendary Mick Fleetwood, the drummer.

These acts join the previously announced classic rock group Foreigner, performing Saturday, Sept. 11, and comedian ventriloquist Terry Fator, who takes the stage on Monday, Sept. 13.

ZZ Top tribute at the Square and Compass

FANS of stadium rock will not want to miss the ZZ Top when they perform at the Square and Compass, near Ashill, on Friday, April 2.

The Devon-based tribute act formed in 2007 to celebrate the music of legendary rock band ZZ Top.

Band members Franks Weird, Dusty Thrills and the Rev Billy F. Buggins strive to recreate the look, sound and overall vibe of the hairy Texan trio, with the beards, fuzzy guitars, outfits and all the moves.

The dynamic stage show will feature hits including Sharp Dressed Man, Gimme All Your Lovin’ and Legs

ZZ Top Plot Spring, Summer Road Plans

ZZ Top will get back on the road this spring and summer, with plans including several festival appearances, as the band continues to work sporadically on a new studio album.

The iconic Texas trio's spring schedule kicks off with an April 29 show at West Palm Beach, FL's Sun Fest, and continues through a May 14 show in Belton, TX, before scattered dates in June and July.

The group has also lined up several South American appearances, along with a July 24 slot at London's High Voltage Festival.

International dates can be found at the band's website and North American dates are shown at this location.

In the studio, the Texas trio continues to work with producer Rick Rubin on a long-awaited follow-up to 2003's "Mescalero." The band inked a deal in 2008 with Rubin's American Records label.

Weezer, ZZ Top, Shinedown, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Patti LaBelle, The B-52's, and The Charlie Da

SunFest, Florida's largest music, art and waterfront festival, announces several national acts scheduled to appear at the 28th annual event being held April 28-May 2, along one of the most scenic sections of Flagler Drive in downtown West Palm Beach. National acts scheduled to perform include Weezer, ZZ Top, Shinedown, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Patti LaBelle, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Flaming Lips, Rise Against, B-52's, Damian Marley, Nas, Five For Fighting, Flogging Molly, Sister Hazel, Better than Ezra, Marcus Miller, Classic Albums Live, and The Charlie Daniels Band. Additional entertainment announcements will be made as they are confirmed.
"We've put together a diverse and exciting line up," said Paul Jamieson, executive director of SunFest. "We know our fans feel the setting is as important as the music. One of the magic ingredients that makes SunFest unique is the waterfront setting. We are looking forward to bringing festivalgoers out to experience the festival in a whole new way. I don't believe there is a more spectacular place to enjoy a music festival than the new West Palm Beach waterfront."
Alternative Rock group Weezer will perform Opening Night, Wednesday evening April 28. The band is best known for their successful singles "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To, " "Buddy Holly," "Undone - The Sweater Song," "Island in the Sun," "Beverly Hills," "Say It Ain't So," and "Pork and Beans."
Blues-rock group ZZ Top will perform Thursday evening, April 29. This hard-guitar-sounding blues group has been together and playing for almost 40 years and in 2004 the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band's hit list includes "Rough Boy," "Gimme All Your Lovin'," "Cheap Sunglasses," "Sharp-Dressed Man" and "Legs."

ZZ Top, Godsmack set to rock Oklahoma

ZZ Top and Godsmack are among the rock bands scheduled to perform at the revamped " Rocklahoma" festival, set for Memorial Day Weekend (5/28-30) in Pryor, OK.
"Rocklahoma," which was established in 2007 as a classic-rock festival, has broadened its focus and this year, will feature a mix of rock bands from the '80s and '90s as well as current recording artists, according to a press release.

In addition to ZZ Top and Godsmack, the festival will feature performances by Tesla, Buckcherry, Cinderella, Chevelle, Theory of a Deadman, Saliva and Saving Abel. The fest also has booked Stone Sour, Janus, Burn Halo, The Glitter Boys, Within Reason, Adelitas Way, Aranda, Firstryke and Year Long Disaster, among others.
Three-day passes will go on-sale Feb. 27 at the event website.