ZZ Top live in concert.
ON TOUR

ZZ Top

137
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

73
%
Based on 
137
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
72
%
Based on 
15
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Based on 137 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that ZZ Top is rated as a watchable live performer, with decent shows overall. ZZ Top concert reviews describe live shows and performances as exciting, entertaining, dazzling, thunderous, and nostalgic.

ON TOUR

The Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, Tucson, United States (October 25)

FESTIVALS IN 2024

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Latest Release

From the Top: 1971–1976 (2 August 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Houston, United States (1969 - present)
Bio
ZZ Top is an American rock trio formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. The band has, since 1970, consisted of bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill, vocalist/guitarist Billy Gibbons (the band's leader, main lyricist and musical arranger), and drummer Frank Beard.
Has Performed With
Aerosmith, The Dead Daisies, Steel Panther, Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Fogerty, Jeff Beck, Brooks and Dunn, Willie Nelson

Critic Concert Reviews

Express (UK)

July 12, 2024
80
%
ZZ Top Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard's hard blues rock is alive and well at London's Wembley Arena.

The Telegraph (UK)

July 12, 2024
80
%
The bearded rockers’ return to Wembley Arena wasn’t full of surprises – but it felt like a privilege to watch them play

Chicago Concert Reviews (USA)

April 13, 2024
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Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top uphold legacies during Vibrant Arena’s “Sharp Dressed Simple Man” stop

Glide Magazine (USA)

April 8, 2024
%
ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Stone Cherry Give Biloxi A Fitting Southern Rock Showdown

The Santa Barbara Independent (USA)

October 26, 2023
%
ZZ Top, 54 Years On, Still Brings Its Special — and Tongue-in-Cheek — Power to the Stage, at the Arlington Theatre

Nippertown (USA)

September 11, 2023
%
Rock and Roll icons ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd brought their co-headlining “Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour” to the Broadview Stage at SPAC on Friday night. It was the trio from Texas who would close the night out in Saratoga.

The Aquarian Weekly (USA)

September 11, 2023
%
ZZ Top at the Capitol Theatre / September 6, 2023

Past critic reviews published in

Soundcheck SF (USA), The Aquarian Weekly (USA), Consequence (USA), Nippertown (USA), Local Spins (USA) and more

Image Credit

Alberto Cabello [CC BY 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons