ZZ Top is returning to South Carolina after canceling last scheduled appearance
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ZZ Top is scheduled to perform in South Carolina, and fans hope that this time the legendary rock band won’t have to cancel the concert, as has been the case the last few times the group has been slated to perform in the Palmetto State.
As part of their 50th anniversary, ZZ Top announced plans for a large world tour this year, and that will include a concert at Charleston’s Volvo Car Stadium on Oct. 9, according to the band’s website.
Although the group’s tour schedule lists the event taking place in “Charlestown,” it is definitely set for the venue that has seen shows by Hootie & the Blowfish, the B-52s and Culture Club, and will host performances by Kenny Chesney and Dave Matthews later this month.
“It’s been five decades, and I think we’re starting to get pretty good at all this!” singer and guitar player Billy Gibbons said of the tour that will also include performances by Cheap Trick, according to the website. “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 much and we’re keeping it that way.”
Now all the band has to do is make it to South Carolina in one piece. That has not been as easy as it might seem in recent years.
ZZ Top was scheduled to headline the South Carolina State Fair in Columbia in 2017 but canceled that show and the rest of the tour after bass player Dusty Hill suffered a stomach ailment, The State reported.
The group was also scheduled to play the state fair in 2014 but canceled that concert, according to The State. A Hill injury was also blamed for that cancellation, as he “injured his hip after he took a misstep on his tour bus,” the newspaper reported.
ZZ Top was formed in 1969 and includes Gibbons, Hill and drummer Frank Beard, according to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which the group joined in 2004. In addition to Gibbons’ and Hill’s signature long beards, the band is know for hit songs like “La Grange,” “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Cheap Sunglasses,” “Tush” and “Legs.”
Tickets for the Charleston concert will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m., according to the group’s website. Their tour will also include stops for shows at Raleigh’s Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre (Oct. 5), and Charlotte’s PNC Music Pavillion (Oct. 6).
This story was originally published April 8, 2019 at 8:13 PM.
