Friday 29 August 2008

ZZ Top strips down on 'direct' fall club tour

Bearded blues-rock icons ZZ Top [ ] testament head out on the road this fall, exchanging their customary arena crowds for a run of more internal dates in nightclubs and small theaters.

The band's forthcoming schedule is filled with the sorts of venues that ZZ Top outgrew decades ago, but the group says it's doing the tour--which kicks off Sept. 26 in Wichita, KS--purely for the