ZZ TOP

When:
Pikes Peak Center, 190 South Cascade Avenue

Where:
Wednesday, October 12.

When: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 7:30 PM (Doors open 6:30 PM) Ticket Info: Tickets on sale now! Purchase Tickets From the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: ZZ Top plays red-hot Texas boogie and blues, and no one does it better - or has done it longer - than this "little ol' band from Texas." The trio's enduring appeal owes much to their mastery of and feel for rootsy forms. Guitarist Billy Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard were influenced by such blues masters as Freddie King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. From the beginning they took a hard-rocking power-trio approach to the blues, cultivating a new audience for it in the Seventies and Eighties with superior musicianship as well as attitude, style and some devilishly funny songs. The genius of ZZ Top is that they're reverential about the blues but loose and funny about the subject matter of their songs. Their songs are laden with pop-culture references, sexual double entendres and the determined pursuit of a good time. They have written about fast cars, fishnet stockings, sharp clothes, TV dinners, cheap sunglasses and "tush." They visually connected with the MTV generation by virtue of Hill's and Gibbons' long beards and fur-lined guitars. For many, ZZ Top have been the premiere party band on the planet. Certainly, they have been Texas's foremost cultural ambassadors. In 2004, ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their new album, "A Tribute From Friends" comes out on October 11 as well. For more information, visit http://www.zztop.com/.