Put on “Your Cheap Sunglasses” and your “silk suit, black tie” ... ZZ Top is coming to Idaho Falls.
“It’s a beautiful day for another exciting concert announcement from the Mountain America Center in Idaho Falls,” Kelsey Salsberry said in a center news release announcing the May 2 concert date. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday.
“That Little Ol’ Band From Texas” isn’t a newcomer to East Idaho, having first played at Idaho State University’s Holt Arena in the ’70s and ’80s, but it appears (according to a Post Register archives search) that this show is its first in the region since a 2004 performance at the Eastern Idaho State Fair. It’s also the group’s first East Idaho performance since the death of bassist and founding member Dusty Hill, who died in July at age 72.
ZZ Top was enshrined in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
Idaho Falls will be one of many stops on the band’s “Raw Whisky Tour” produced by Danny Zelisko. The band has performed for well over half a century to people across the world.
Tickets will be available online at Ticketmaster.com or in person at the venue’s Bingham Healthcare Box Office at Mountain America Center during business hours.
“ZZ Top has been delivering rock, blues and boogie on the road and in the studio to millions of devoted fans” the release said. “With iconography as distinctive as their sound, ZZ Top is virtually synonymous with beards, hotrod cars, spinning guitars and that magic keychain, all of which transcend geography and language.”
The band was created in Houston in the last days of 1969. The members joined together from two rivaling bands, Billy Gibbons’ Moving Sidewalks and Frank Beard and Dusty Hill’s American Blues to create a band that would go on to play for hundreds of millions of fans on four continents, the release said.



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