From Loudersound.
It’s been revealed today that there’s an official ZZ Top rock musical in the works.
It’s titled Sharp Dressed Man and will include the trio’s hits including Legs, La Grange, Gimme All Your Lovin’ and Cheap Sunglasses, and is expected to make its debut in Las Vegas in 2020.
ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard will serve as executive producers on the show, which is described as “an outrageous, bawdy musical romp about a Lone Star auto mechanic who becomes a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing hearts – and car parts – with the help of his merry band of beer drinkers and hell-raisers.”
Sharp Dressed Man is being developed by Caesars Entertainment’s team led by Michael Gruber and Jason Gastwirth along with lead producers Carl Stubner and Prem Akkaraju.
Gibbons says: “We’re excited about this fantastic project and look forward to hearing our music in a new innovative context. Fans have often told us that we’ve provided the soundtrack to their lives, and this is very much in line with that kind of enthusiastic thinking.”
Stubner, ZZ Top’s manager and executive producer of the documentary ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas, adds: “I know first-hand that ZZ Top is an enduring phenomenon; they’re now about to celebrate 50 years of rocking audiences around he world.
“The show that Prem, Michael, Jason and I envision will utilise the band’s music and tremendous energy for audiences in a new immersive realm.
“This, just like ZZ Top, is all about having a good time at a great party and telling fun stories through their music.”
ZZ Top are currently gearing up for their European tour, which will get under way in Helsinki on June 4. They’ll then head back across the Atlantic in August for further shows in the US.
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- ZZ Top - Tejas - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $25.20, €24.20 (New Item) (arrived 21-Dec-2024 18:00)on December 22, 2024 at 8:13 am
ZZ TOP Tejas (1976 UK first press 10-track LP on the silver & purple London label, featuring the original vinyl mix [long before it was digitally remastered on CD], housed in its matte gatefold picture sleeve with lyrics printed inside. The sleeve is graded Very Good [1" paper fracture in a top edge] with light shelf wear yet the vinyl still looks barely ever played, priced advantageously LDU1)
- ZZ Top - Afterburner - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $15.12, €14.52 (New Item) (arrived 06-Dec-2024 18:00)on December 22, 2024 at 8:13 am
ZZ TOP Afterburner (1985 UK/German-pressed 10-track vinyl LP with picture labels, their ninth studio album which includes the single Sleeping Bag. The glossy picture sleeve displays an illustration by Barry Jackson and shows light edge scuffing/corner creasing while the vinyl looks barely played WX27)
- ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin' - UK - 12" vinyl - £12.00, $15.12, €14.52 (New Item) (arrived 29-Nov-2024 18:00)on December 22, 2024 at 8:13 am
ZZ TOP Gimme All Your Lovin' (Classic 1983 UK 4-track 12" EP, also featuring Jesus Just Left Chicago, Arrested For Driving While Blind & Heard It On The X. The picture sleeve shows light wear with a scuff to the top corner & the vinyl has fewsigns of play W9693T)
- ZZ Top - Tres Hombres - VG/EX - US - vinyl LP - £75.00, $94.50, €90.75 (New Item) (arrived 30-Nov-2024 10:47)on December 22, 2024 at 8:13 am
ZZ TOP Tres Hombres (1973 US 10-track vinyl LP, the third album from the legendary Texan rockers, including the single La Grange. The gatefold picture sleeve with picture inner. The sleeve shows typical ringwear with a 2" split along the bottom and half the length of the top seam, the inner shows a little creasing and the vinyl is Excellent with very little sign of play XPS631)
- ZZ Top - Tres Hombres - VG/EX - US - vinyl LP - £75.00, $94.50, €90.75 (Back In Stock) (arrived 03-Dec-2024 18:00)on December 22, 2024 at 8:13 am
ZZ TOP Tres Hombres (1973 US 10-track vinyl LP, the third album from the legendary Texan rockers, including the single La Grange. The gatefold picture sleeve with picture inner. The sleeve shows typical ringwear with a 2" split along the bottom and half the length of the top seam, the inner shows a little creasing and the vinyl is Excellent with very little sign of play XPS631)
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