ZZ Top to play Amsterdam October 10, 2009

ZZ Top will be bringing their Double Down Live tour to Amsterdam at Heineken Hall (great name!) on October 8, 2009!

ZZ Top to Tour Asia in 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It looks like ZZ Top will be playing at least a few shows in ASIA this year---when was the last time they played there????

The first date is allegedly in Singapore (!) for an F1 Festival on or about September 25, 2009.

Double Down Live indeed!

ZZ Top returns to the U.K.!!!!!

Some dates with Steel Panther!

October 27 2009 Birmingham
October 28 Wembley Arena London

Next stop: Romania

It looks like the next stop to be announced on ZZ Top's Fall 2009
"Double Down Live" tour of Europe will be Bucharest on October 20.

New ZZ Top concert date announced for Budapest

Well, this makes perfect sense, schedule/routing-wise, as it looks like
ZZ Top is scheduled to play Budapest (one of our favorite cities in the
world!) on their Fall 2009 "Double Down Live Tour." The tentative date
is October 15, 2009, but as always, it's not confirmed until the band
confirms it:

http://www.showtimebudapest.hu/event_details_en.php?eid=309

Antenna Head News

Hey, check out the new blog by ZZ Blues:

http://antennaheadnews.blogspot.com/

ZZ is a big enough band (still) that I'm surprised there aren't a few more sites like this. Other than the LOWPFT and the ZZ Top Live Collection site I don't think there are really that many sites that are being regularly updated with news/rumors/gossip etc. BTW, although our YouTube channel (along with ZZTOPFIN's channel) was shut down by ZZ's publishing compnay, I think that you might find some of TOPFIN's stuff now at Daily Motion, while we may wade back into the YouTube waters in a bit.

Anyway, good luck to the Antenna Head News, let's hope there is some new info for all of us to talk about (more European dates, new album, whatever).

More Fall 2009 European dates to be announced

We're getting a lot of questions about where ZZ Top will be playing when
they return to Europe this fall. We really don't know as we have very
little inside info but we can make a few guesses. They're most likely
to play places they didn't play in the summer of 2009, places they
either cancelled before (in 2007), or places they have not played in a
long time, or have never played.

If German shows are October 9-10, Bratislava is October 14, and Athens
is October 24 (have they ever played Greece before???), I think you can
assume that there will be dates between October 14-24 in places in
between Bratislava and Greece. Good guesses would be Croatia,
Bulgaria, and Romania, and we are getting lots of traffic from those
countries, so that's sometimes a clue. And rock music is getting huge
in Turkey, they may even give that a shot. And they haven't played a
proper UK or Italian tour in a long time, and Poland could use a few
shows. But since none of these dates have been "officially" announced
by the band, you never know.

If you hear anything about local dates in your area, please let us know
by leaving a comment or by e-mailing us at:

zztopeurope2007@yahoo.com

ZZ Top to re-tour Europe in October 2009

The title says it all! Dates are slowly being announced for the Top to
return to Europe just a few months after the early summer 2009 tour. I
think this is probably due to the earlier tour being cut short due to
hooking up with Aerosmith for the rest of the summer.

The important date right now is ZZ's return to the scene of the
Rockpalast show in Essen Germany. Also on tap so far are dates in
Mannheim Germany, Bratislava Slovakia, and Athens Greece. They are
headed to some parts where they ain't been for a long time, if ever.

This should be fun.

ZZ Top to host WWE Raw this Monday night!

Looks like the Boyzz will be doing a lil' rasslin' while waiting to see if the Aerosmith tour will resume:

http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/articles/9678798/10853082

First clip up from ZZ Top: Storytellers!!!

VH1 TV Shows | Music Videos | Celebrity Photos | News & Gossip

Some dude just leaped off the stage

Into the pit during Under the Blade.
--------------------------

Saw a bit of Keel's set...

Somebody was actually crowd surfing during I Want A Woman. Never seen that at a Ratt concert before.
--------------------------

Extreme announced they are touring with Ratt...

...This summer, not sure if that had been publicly announced yet?
--------------------------

KIX killed, saw a bit of Phils LA Guns

Now Extreme is on main stage
--------------------------

Dokken was good,

Caught a bit a of Steel Panther, and now, what we've all been waiting for:

KIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
--------------------------

Bulletboys just finished

On the side stage and Dokken is on the main stage. The main and side stages are clashing, had to miss most of BB during Jani's set and when they were done Dokken was already on. Stages are pretty close, though.
--------------------------

Jani Lane on main stage...

Only seems to be half drunk, that's a big improvement, his band includes Kerri Kelli and James Kottak.

Jani is smoking onstage and they put this message on the screens that smoking in this county is a $250 fine. We all laughed. Jani lights his cigarettes with $100 bills.
--------------------------

Nice sets from Y and T and XYZ

Up next is Slaughter (first time we've seen them in a while) with the always-great Jetboy on the side stage.
--------------------------

M3 update

Y and T onmain stage now, clashing with XYZ on sidestage. Pretty damn big crowd for 12:30, lawn is filling up already too.
--------------------------

M3 Festival

Well, the Top is in Europe, and we are not. More on that later.

Today we are headed to the M3 Festival in Maryland. Should be a blast.
--------------------------