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.
