{"id":481451,"date":"2019-01-28T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T21:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=785576"},"modified":"2019-01-28T14:34:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T21:34:35","slug":"zz-top-tap-cheap-trick-bad-company-for-50th-anniversary-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/zz-top-tap-cheap-trick-bad-company-for-50th-anniversary-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"ZZ Top Tap Cheap Trick, Bad Company for 50th Anniversary Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_9714241ajW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/zz-top\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zz-top\" data-tag=\"zz-top\">ZZ Top<\/a> will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a \u201cTexas Bash\u201d featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cheap-trick\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cheap-trick\" data-tag=\"cheap-trick\">Cheap Trick<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bad-company\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bad-company\" data-tag=\"bad-company\">Bad Company<\/a>. The three bands will play a trio of shows in May: the 17th at Dallas\u2019 Don Equis Pavilion, the 18th at Houston\u2019s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and the 19th at Austin\u2019s Austin360. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 1st at 10 a.m. local time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s been five decades, and I think we\u2019re starting to get pretty good at this!\u201d ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re just as excited to be back in Texas this May playing our bluesy kind of rock as when started with in \u201969.\u00a0The beards, Frank excepted, are perhaps a bit longer, yet nothing else has changed much and we\u2019re keeping it that way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers saluted ZZ Top, \u201cthose three Texan hombres,\u201d in his own statement. \u201cBad Company is going to join them and the fans to mark [the anniversary],\u201d he said. \u201cHang on to your hats and heels!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">ZZ Top have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zztop.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">full touring itinerary<\/a> booked for the summer, preceded by a trio of dates (January 30th, February 1st and 2nd) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Following the Texas shows, the band will launch an international run on June 4th in Helsinki, Finland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gibbons released his second LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/zz-tops-billy-gibbons-releases-gritty-muddy-waters-cover-701771\/\"><em>The Big Bad Blues<\/em><\/a>, in September. ZZ Top issued their 15th and most recent album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/la-futura-249397\/\"><em>La Futura<\/em><\/a>, in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/zz-top-cheap-trick-bad-company-50th-anniversary-shows-785576\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZZ Top will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a \u201cTexas Bash\u201d featuring Cheap Trick and Bad Company. The three bands will play a trio of shows in May: the 17th at Dallas\u2019 Don Equis Pavilion, the 18th at Houston\u2019s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and the 19th at Austin\u2019s Austin360. Tickets go on sale Friday, February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 05:31:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}