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ZZ Top to rock The Venetian Las Vegas22 January 2018(PRESS RELEASE) -- ZZ TOP announced today its limited engagement at The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Las Vegas. The show will be held on 20, 21, 25, 27 and 28 April 2018 at 8 p.m. Tickets ranging in price from $59 to $299, plus applicable fees, go on sale to the general public Friday, 26 January at 10 a.m. A limited number of VIP packages starting at $350 will also be available. Tickets will be available for purchase at Ticketmaster, The Venetian's website, any box office at The Venetian or The Palazzo, or by calling 702-414-9000 or 866-641-7469. ZZ TOP fan club members will have access to a presale beginning Tuesday, 23 January at 10 a.m. PST. Grazie loyalty members and Live Nation and Ticketmaster customers will receive access to a presale beginning Wednesday, 24 January at 10 a.m. PST. All presales will end Thursday, 25 January at 10 p.m. PST. ZZ TOP, also known as "That Little Ol' Band From Texas," lay undisputed claim to being the longest running major rock band with original personnel intact and, in 2004, the Texas trio was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Of course, there are only three of them -- Billy F Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard — but it's still a remarkable achievement that they're still very much together after almost 50 years of rock, blues and boogie, on the road and in the studio. As a touring unit, they've been without peer over the years, having performed before millions of fans through North America on numerous epochal tours as well as overseas, where they've enthralled audiences from Slovenia to Argentina, from Australia to Sweden, from Russia to Japan and most points in between. Their iconography — beards, cars, girls and that magic keychain — seems to transcend all bounds of geography and language. ZZ TOP's music is always instantly recognizable, eminently powerful, profoundly soulful and 100% Texas-American in derivation. The band's support for the blues is unwavering both as interpreters of the music and preservers of its legacy. It was ZZ TOP that celebrated "founding father" Muddy Waters by turning a piece of scrap timber than had fallen from his sharecropper's shack into a beautiful guitar, dubbed the "Muddywood." This totem was sent on tour as a fundraising focus for The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, site of Robert Johnson's famed "Crossroads" encounter with the devil. ZZ TOP's support and link to the blues remains as rock solid as the music they continue to play. They have sold millions of records over the course of their career, have been officially designated as Heroes of The State of Texas, have been referenced in countless cartoons and sitcoms and are true rock icons but, against all odds, they're really just doing what they've always done. They're real and they're surreal and they're ZZ TOP. |