ZZ Top with Cheap Trick headed to Tinley Park for 50th anniversary tour

GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND – JUNE 24: (L-R) Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top perform on the Pyramid Stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 24, 2016 in Glastonbury, England. Now its 46th year the festival is one largest music festivals in the world and this year features headline acts Muse, Adele and Coldplay. The Festival, which Michael Eavis started in 1970 when several hundred hippies paid just £1, now attracts more than 175,000 people. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

ZZ Top is heading out on the road for an extended summer and fall run in celebration of the band’s 50th anniversary. Joining the band on the road for most of the dates will be old friends Cheap Trick, with the trek launching on August 16th in Ridgefield, Washington at Sunlight Supply Amphitheatre and wrapping on October 20th at West Palm Beach, Florida’s Coral Sky Amphitheatre.

Billy Gibbons reflected on ZZ Top’s incredible career, and said, “It’s been five decades, and I think we’re starting to get pretty good at all this!  We’re truly excited to be appearing across the continent this summer and fall, playing our bluesy kind of rock like we started in ’69. The beards, Frank’s excepted, are perhaps a bit longer, yet nothing else has changed.  We’re keeping it that way.”

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