ZZ TOP “THE ELEVATION TOUR”
1ST SUMMIT ARENA
Tuesday, AUGUST 20TH @ 8:00 PM
VENUE PRESALE AVAILABLE THURSDAY, April 11th at 10:00 AM
TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY, April 12th at 10:00AM
Johnstown, PA – ZZ TOP will be LIVE at 1ST SUMMIT ARENA on August 20th for their Elevation Tour.
A Venue Presale will be available on Thursday, April 11th at 10:00 AM. Tickets will be On Sale on Friday, April 12th at 10:00 AM. Sign up for our newsletter or follow our Facebook page to find the promo code to unlock early access for presale tickets.
Special guests are yet to be announced
TICKETS: Starting at $49.75 and ranging to $99.75 (+additional fees). Day of show prices will increase. Tickets will be available for purchase on Friday, April 12th, online at Ticketmaster.com or the 1ST SUMMIT ARENA box office.
ABOUT ZZ TOP
“That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” has been around for over half a century, delivering rock, blues, and boogie on the road and in the studio to millions of devoted fans. 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.
It was in Houston in the waning days of 1969 that ZZ TOP coalesced from the core of two rival bands, Billy Gibbons’ Moving Sidewalks and Frank Beard and Dusty Hill’s American Blues. Their third album, 1973’s Tres Hombres catapulted them to national attention with the hit “La Grange,” still one of the band’s signature pieces today. Eliminator, their 1983 album was a paradigm shift for ZZ TOP. Their roots blues skew was intact but added to the mix were tech-age trappings that soon found a visual outlet with such tracks as “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Legs” on the nascent MTV. It was one of the music industry’s first albums to have been certified Diamond, far beyond Gold and Platinum, and a reflection of US domestic sales exceeding 10 million units.
As a touring entity, they’ve been without peers over the past five decades, having performed before millions of fans on four continents and have been the subject of their Grammy-nominated documentary titled That Little Ol’ Band from Texas. The band’s lineup of the bearded Gibbons and Hill and Beard, who ironically is clean-shaven, remained intact for more than 50 years until Dusty’s passing. When Dusty temporarily departed the tour in the summer of 2021, it was decided that Elwood would be the perfect choice to stand in for Dusty until he could return. But Dusty’s return was not to be, and Elwood continues to handle the bass duties for the band now and into the future.
The elements that keep ZZ TOP fresh, enduring, and above the transitory fray can be summed up in three words of the band’s internal mantra: “Tone, Taste, and Tenacity.” As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers. Their influences are both the originators of the form – Muddy Waters, B.B. King, et al – as well as the British blues rockers and Jimi Hendrix who emerged the generation before ZZ’s ascendance.
Tickets are available at the venue box office and ticketmaster.com
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