In 1969, BFG formed ZZ Top with drummer Beard and bass-guitarist Hill, in Texas. ZZ Top still maintains the most consistently stable lineup in the history of rock music: Billy F Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. Cheap Trick and Southern rock stalwarts Lynyrd Skynyrd will also join the tour as it snakes through the country into late October. Kicking off the 50th Anniversary Tour August 16, the real Tres Hombres will play coast to coast and border to border. ZZ Top are celebrating their 50th year with a massive North American tour this summer. Fans have often told us that we’ve provided the soundtrack to their lives, and this is very much in line with that kind of enthusiastic thinking.” Our music is in very capable hands so we’re really looking forward to seeing the results of these collective efforts next year. Gibbons tells Variety, “We’re feeling very good about the efforts of our producers and our manager Carl Stubner in putting this together. Sharp Dressed Man is described as an “outrageous, bawdy musical romp” about a Lone Star auto mechanic who becomes a modern-day Robin Hood, “stealing hearts - and car parts - with the help of a merry band of beer guzzlers and hell raisers.” ZZ Top standards like “Legs”, “La Grange”, “Gimme All Your Lovin’” and “Cheap Sunglasses” will help tell the satirical saga. Members Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard are all serving as executive producers. Variety is exclusively reporting that ZZ Top and Caesars Entertainment are developing Sharp Dressed Man, a jukebox musical set to open next year in Las Vegas featuring the band’s greatest hits.
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