ZZ Top

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating

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Last 12 Months Rating

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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

Stuart Park, North Wollongong, NSW, Australia (May 4); Save On Foods Memorial Centre, Victoria, Canada (Jun 1); Prospera Place, Kelowna, Canada (Jun 3); Grey Eagle Event Centre, Calgary, Canada (Jun 4); River Cree Resort & Casino, Enoch, Canada (Jun 6); SaskTel Centre, Saskatoon, SK, Canada (Jun 7); Canada Life Centre, Winnipeg, Canada (Jun 8); The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Jun 18); The Arena at Pickering Casino Resort, Pickering, Canada (Jun 20); The Theatre at Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Jun 21); FirstOntario Concert Hall, Hamilton, Canada (Jun 22); Place Bell, Laval, Canada (Jun 25); L'Agora Port de Quebec, Quebec City, Canada (Jun 26); The Centre at Casino New Brunswick, Moncton, NB, Canada (Jun 27)

FESTIVALS IN 2025

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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

ZZ Top Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard's hard blues rock is alive and well at London's Wembley Arena.

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The Telegraph (UK)

July 12, 2024

The bearded rockers’ return to Wembley Arena wasn’t full of surprises – but it felt like a privilege to watch them play

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Chicago Concert Reviews (USA)

April 13, 2024

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

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Glide Magazine (USA)

April 8, 2024

ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Stone Cherry Give Biloxi A Fitting Southern Rock Showdown

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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

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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.

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