More more more...

...dates are being announced, including another in Brazil and an Argentina date. None of these new dates work for me yet, but let's wait and see!

ZZ to play Tampa May 1

The dates are coming in fast and furious. Next up is a show after the Tampa Devil Rays game on May 1. I am at the Olympics now and will update the full schedule when I get a chance.

ZZ Top to Play Finland!!!!!

Thanks to a tip from a reader, we can tell you that ZZ Top will be playing Finland this summer! More details to follow.

There will be a lot of Finnish fanzz who are happy about this.
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ZZ Top to Headline Rocklahoma

We hinted at it last night, but multiple sources are saying that ZZ will
headline one day at Rocklahoma this year over the Memorial day weekend.
Too bad the rest of the lineup sucks.

ZZ Top to Play Norway and Italy Summer 2010

Our friend Luca in Italy says that ZZ Top will be playing Rome sometime this summer, and lowpft.com has also listed a Norway blues festival date, which one of our commenters predicted a month or two ago. Good stuff.

New French dates

Also, lowpft.com has some additional French dates added for this summer.
We will update our calendar when we get a chance.

New dates in Florida

ZZTOP.com has just announced a few new dates in Florida--April 30
(Melbourne) and May 4 (Jacksonville). These look good as warm-up shows
for the South American dates. Hopefully there will be a few more and
we'll get some changes in the set list.

ZZ Top returns to Eric Clapton's Crossroads--in Chicago!

Just announced today: ZZ Top will be playing (with many others) at the 2010 version of Crossroads, this time at Toyota Park in Bridgeview (Chicago) Illinois on June 26.

ZZ Top to rock France in July!

More summer dates are leaking out, they are scheduled for a festival on or about July 16. Check prior posts for the tentative 2010 summer tour info.

Billy Gibbons to Guest Star on CSI: Miami

Rob Zombie is directing an episode of CSI: Miami which will have a number of cool guest stars, supposedly including the Reverend himself, Billy F. Gibbons. Should air on or around March 1, keep your eyes open for this one.

Thrill Seekers and Hell Raisers

That the was the ZZ Top-inspired title of this week's episode of "Psych" (one of my favorite shows) on the USA Network here in the States. The episode hs nothing to do with the band, though.

In other news, another rumored (NOT confirmed yet) date for the band is a spring date at the Tumbleweed in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Stay tuned...

ZZ Top Live Recordings (mainly video)

This post will list most of my ZZ Top live recordings. Right now I am not trading but hope that others who are keeping lists will find this useful, in case there is anything I have that is not known to other collectors. In chronological order:

1976-1983 "Old Stuff" Houba Houba etc DVD
March 16, 1977 Boston Garden MA (Audio) CD

Recycler Tour
??? 1990 Reno NV VHS Connecticut??? (confusion on date/location)
??? 1990 Toronto CN VHS
January 28, 1991 New York??? VHS
April 11, 1991? Lakeland FL VHS

Rhythmeen Tour
October 25, 1996 Radio City Music Hall NY VHS
1996? Johannasburg South Africa (interviews+clips) VHS
September 19, 1997 Phoenix AZ VHS

XXX Tour
October 19, 1999 Moline IL DVD
December 9, 1999 Tuscon AZ VHS
January 18, 2000 Wilkes-Barre, PA DVD
February 29, 2000 Peoria IL VHS and DVD

May 10, 2003 Charlotte NC DVD
November 11, 2005 Beacon Theatre NY DVD
??? Camden NJ DVD

unknown "Sharp Dressed Man" Special from Houston tv show
Have but currently lost" Milan DVD

Billy Gibbons on Conan O'Brien NOW...

...playing FreeBird with Will Ferrell and...can't exactly describe it, it will be all over YouTube tomorrow morning.

Rumor: ZZ to play at Moncton this year.

Rumor floating around is that ZZ may play (possibly with Bruce Springsteen) at Moncton in Canada this summer. Just a rumor at this point.

No ZZ at Houston Rodeo in 2010.

The headine says it all. The 2010 concert lineup for the HLSR has been announced and no ZZ. No rock at all, for that matter. Wait 'til next year.
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Houston Rodeo 2010?

The next big event to look for is the Houston Rodeo. It is our guess,
based on past experience, that ZZ Top will not be playing this year, but
at least one Houston-area music blogger has implied that they will. We
kinda doubt that since they usually don't play two years in a row and
there do not appear to be any "classic rock" days on the calendar, but
thye don't have anything else currently booked, you never know. We
should hear something either way in the next week or two as the Rodeo
makes their final announcements.

Mexican Blackbird in Japan!

Been quiet lately, but there is some cool video/photos of Billy showing
off his new car at a classic car show in Japan in December:

http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2009/12/29/703378.aspx

http://www.mooneyes.co.jp/hcs/09/report/e/index.html

ZZ Top to tour Brazil on May 2010

Well, someone at zztop.com has woken up and finally announced the High Voltage festival headlining date, along with the South American tour, which they list for May (not March) 2010. We only beat them to the scoop by a week, that's better than they have been.

Anywhooo since both of these tours are now confirmed we ask our readers to let us know when any new dates are announced in their areas.

New European Tour set for Summer 2010

OK, on the heels of the (unconfirmed) postponement of the (unconfirmed) 2009 South American Tour, our sources tell us that ZZ Top may be doing yet another European tour (weak dollar--let's go to Europe!) in the Summer of 2010. A London festival date is already rumored, who knows what else will be out there.

So the year for ZZ could look something like this:

March 2010--South America (rumored Sao Paulo [March 10, 2010])
July 2010--Europe (rumored London [July 24. 2010])
August 2010--USA (confirmed for Sturgis [August 9, 2010] and Wisconsin Dells [August 7, 2010])

ZZ Top Brazil and South American Tour Postponed?

Supposedly ZZ Top's (never officially announced) South American tour that was originally scheduled for December 2009 has been pushed back to March 2010 because their European set (which was going to be shipped to S.A. for the shows) was somehow damaged. Sounds funny but with this band you never know what's going on.